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Posted by CrazyFool 2011-05-18 09:04|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 In keeping with the Obama regime's long-standing ignorance of historical American culture, I guess they never heard of the old adage:

"Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel."

But - I bet they'll come to reach that conclusion on their own, before the Boston Herald is finished with them.

Heh, heh.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2011-05-18 09:44|| 2011-05-18 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 this is soft pressure

it's very corrosive to journalists

this is even worse when they target individual reporters not whole newspapers

when they target individual reporters who are often low paid and are easily marginalised

they will just try to destroy reputations, marginalise and complain about them to their bosses

they will go behind their backs and destroy their careers if they aren't good little boys and girls

it's worse than cancer

Posted by anon1 2011-05-18 09:48|| 2011-05-18 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not the first time. The Obama admin tried to ban FOX News from the White House press pool. Obama is just now used to anything less than Stalinesque devotion.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-18 09:50|| 2011-05-18 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Really, is there any need in these times for a 'White House' reporters or sitting around a press room on Pennsylvania avenue? This tool provides the means to reach unfiltered far more than the over 50 crowd that bitterly clings to their dead tree and evening news feeds. By reducing the very limited integrity of the old institution, they'll make its demise that much simpler for the next administration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-18 12:11|| 2011-05-18 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't have much of a problem with this, actually. The whole issue is very subjective of course, but if GWB had thrown out the slandering jerks from the NY Times I would have given him a high five.

I do think it is bad form for Obama in particular to do this sort of thing. The press has given him a nearly free ride over the last 3 years (counting the election campaign) and he has no business complaining.

Posted by Chris W. 2011-05-18 13:10|| 2011-05-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

#6 "President" O'Bumble and the parasitic leaches that work for him are so thin-skinned anything not glorifying the "Won" is "hate speech". The sooner the entire lot are flushed from Washington, the better. Personally, I'd like the whole lot to be exiled to Johnson Island and supplied once a month with MREs and bottled water.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-05-18 15:01|| 2011-05-18 15:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I hear Rikers in NYC is becoming real popular with the socialist elite crowd these days Old Patriot. Just ask the head of the IMF.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-05-18 15:56|| 2011-05-18 15:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Transparency

Posted by Bertie Hupusosing8507 2011-05-18 17:08|| 2011-05-18 17:08|| Front Page Top

#9 What is so wonderful about all of this is that the junior senator from Illinois has banned reporters from two of the most liberal areas in the US, San Francisco and now Boston. Areas that considered him the new messiah 2 years ago.

Posted by Bertie Hupusosing8507 2011-05-18 17:13|| 2011-05-18 17:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Honest journalism in the MSM has been dead for quite a awhile. BHO saying who can report and who can't is along the lines of Joseph Goebbel's propaganda machine. Add into the mix that George Soros is spending somewhere around $48 million in trying to control the message, you have a real assault on freedom of the press. Thank goodness for the internet, blogging, a few newspapers, and Fox. The rest is crap.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-05-18 18:29|| 2011-05-18 18:29|| Front Page Top

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