Politico Calls Foul on Pres. Obama, I call Foul on Them

I have said if Pres. Obama did something wrong I would be after him. So reading the headline on Politico.com and others about Pres. Obama being upset and angry about being asked questions I thought..hmm now we can't have that..

He said he would be open and transparent and if he is already starting to fuss with the media about questions then we are going to have a real problem. Here is the headline in question:

Obama flashes irritation in press room

So, I went to find the video. Well, the video on Politico is only like 48 seconds long and it really doesn't show anything, but from what I could see it didn't look like he was angry. or miffed or irritated.

So, I did a search to find another look. And I found one at MSNBC that is 5 minutes long. He comes into the press area of the White House, meets with the reporters, talks with them about Gibbs, his press secretary and the 1st presser and is just having a general chit chat.. Then Jonathon Martin asks him a question and the Pres. tells him no, I just came to say hi...not to answer questions...if we do this I won't come down to visit...this is informal...let's wait.. But Martin wants to push.. everyone else is telling him to stop..The Pres. pats him on the arm...is nice about it I think...and they go on their way..

So, why the headline?? Just to garner attention is my opinion. To try to make Pres. Obama look bad, maybe. I have thought several times that Jonathon Martin has done this. He is like David Gregory, Ed Henry and a few others in the media, I think he leans a little to the right. That's fine, I don't have a problem with you being that way, but do you have to let your bias show when you are trying to tell the world you are a member of the Main Stream Media?? If you are going to report fairly, you should at least be impartial.

At least that is my opinion. Maybe I am letting my favoritism show, but then I have never claimed to be impartial. So, I think I can do that. But if you claim to be an independent or impartial reporter you shouldn't let your bias show.

Watch the video, see what you think....

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One of the things I find maddening is we have no one in the media who tries to hold our elected officials responsible. We allow them to say what they want, do what they want and just be irresponsible with no cares about the consequences of their statements or actions may have.

Even the so called "Hardball" with Chris Matthews doesn't always get to the meat and potatoes of the matter. Oh he likes to say he holds their feet to the fire, but he doesn't. And, David Gregory, on Meet the Press, well if you are on the R side, you get the puff ball, do you need a pillow interview, while if you are on the D side you might get a little tougher, do you think you were too hard on President Bush and do you regret saying he is the worst president ever. That's what he asked Sen. Reid last week. Not that I watched it, just read about it. I said when NBC named him as host I would never watch it again and I won't.

So, far I haven't seen anyone really force someone to answer the tough questions here in the US. But, I have hopes. Maybe one of these days, some reporter here will take lessons from the guy on this video. He is interviewing 2 of our congressmen. Watch this, it is a little long, but it is worth the watch, especially the last half of it. It is about the War in Gaza, the fact they are using weapons we (the USA) has supplied them, Israel I mean, and Dennis Kucinich, (D,OH) is not happy about that. I am not sure what Eliot Engel, (D,NY) is there for, but he gets grilled. It is worth the watch. He has no good answers and can't even argue well. Oh I wish this reporter worked for one of the MSM here and could have held Bushes feet to the fire.