http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/12/wsj/Glenn Greenwald
Wall St. Journal Editorial Page, today:
About half-way through President Obama's press conference Monday night, he had an unscripted question of his own. "All, Chuck Todd," the President said, referring to NBC's White House correspondent. "Where's Chuck?" He had the same strange question about Fox News's Major Garrett: "Where's Major?". . . .
The President was running down a list of reporters preselected to ask questions. The White House had decided in advance who would be allowed to question the President and who was left out. . . .
We doubt that President Bush, who was notorious for being parsimonious with follow-ups, would have gotten away with prescreening his interlocutors.
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Deliberate deceit or complete editorial recklessness from The Wall St. Journal Editorial Page? And which is worse? Are there any limits at all to the factually false claims newspapers can spew without correction? We'll see. And of all the canards filling the overflowing canon of self-pitying right-wing grievances, the complaint that the Beltway media was unfairly and excessively critical of the Bush presidency has to be the single most laughable (as even Bush's own Press Secretary will tell you).
Perhaps most pitifully of all, the WSJ Editors end with a condemnation not only of Obama for pre-selecting the reporters, but also of other newspapers for failing to make an issue of it:
Few accounts of Monday night's event even mentioned the curious fact that the White House had picked its speakers in advance. We hope that omission wasn't out of fear of being left off the list the next time.
This -- from the same newspaper Editors who are either dishonestly concealing or never bothered to notice that the former President, the one who served their ideological agenda, did exactly the same thing.
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