Tag: press

So, basically, Barack Obama is now TROLLING the press over the IRS thing.

Well, he’s not trolling either myself, or the PJ Tatler:

Steven Miller, the now resigned acting commissioner of the IRS, is telling staff that the abuse scandal is not the reason he’s leaving.

It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June,’ Miller wrote. “This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency.”

 Basically, he’s saying that he’s just leaving a couple weeks early, no big deal. Incredible.
…after all, neither of us are particularly surprised anymore at the insufferable pap that this administration considers to be Deep Thinking.  But if I was a mainstream media personality I’d be deeply, deeply insulted…

Note to press: Barack Obama is HIDING from you.

Specifically: when Barack Obama closes the signing ceremony for the designation of five new federal monuments (which, as House Natural Resources committee chairman Doc Hastings apparently put it, is a case of “the government spending money it doesn’t have on properties it doesn’t own”), it’s because he’s scared.  He thinks that somebody will ask awkward questions.  He doesn’t know how to handle a press that doesn’t worship him.

If the press ever wonders why it’s despised so, this is why.  Three weeks’ worth of a 24/7 full court press by the journalist corps and the Obama administration would abruptly stop their strategy to give the news media the mushroom treatment.  I know this, Obama knows this, the media knows this… but apparently journalism is a remarkably masochistic field to work in, these days.  So this will just fade into the background, too – and, what the hell: it’s not like I’m the one who’ll be looking in the mirror every morning between now and 01/20/2017 and asking myself what went wrong with my life…

Via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.

Gibbs’ contempt for press a marvelous thing.

You cannot command respect from others if you will not demand respect from yourself.

(Via AosHQ) Excuse me while I give a measured, well-thought-out response to this bit of news:

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs approached White House reporters earlier this year in an attempt to end the long-standing practice of sourcing claims to anonymous administration officials, he told CNN on Sunday.

During that meeting with the press corps, Gibbs offered correspondents a no-background policy, in which the White House would only give on-the-record interviews if reporters promised not to cite unnamed sources, he explained to host Howard Kurtz in an interview on “Reliable Sources.”

HAHAHA… (repeat for five minutes, interspersed with multiple pauses for breath, attempts to regain composure, and resumption of laughter) Continue reading Gibbs’ contempt for press a marvelous thing.