During an appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources last Sunday, CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante told host Howard Kurtz that the Obama administration is bordering on “state run media.”
“Here’s the nub of it, Howie. This administration has the tools to reach people on their own. They don’t need us as much. And to the extent that they are able to do that they are undercutting the First Amendment, which guarantees a free press through many voices. If they put out their own material, it’s state run media.”
CBS Newsman Accuses W.H. of “Undercutting the First Amendment” [:47]
Now that Obama has won reelection, the White House press corps is not as important to his political strategy as it had been in the past. One wonders if getting shut out completely will FINALLY make these slobbering lapdogs do some actual First Amendment JOURNALISM?
Meanwhile, at Twitter, #ThingsYouWillNeverHearObamaSay is trending. My picks:
- My fellow Americans, I’m sorry.
- I take full responsibility for the four Americans who died in Benghazi.
- Wait, slow down, that doesn’t sound constitutional to me.
- My birth certificates are all fake.
- I love America.
- God bless the Tea Party.
- Merry Christmas.
- My skin color is not important.
- We’re going to make real spending cuts, starting with Michelle’s and my vacations.
- Yes, we cheated. Romney actually won the election.
- Turn off the teleprompters.
- America has a spending problem.
- I just saw a story on Fox and Friends …
- Y’all need Jesus.
- I pledge allegiance to the flag …
- Let’s have an open press conference where anyone can ask me anything.
- It’s my fault.
- I am not going to golf until people are back to work.
- I get paid too much and do way too little.
- The sequester doesn’t cut spending. It just slightly reduces the increase.
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