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Obama stages question to cover his inept handling of Iran?

by AlexinCT

STAGED! But why the surprise? I can’t say I did not suspect this was going on with these media driven people.

In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran. “Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney.  “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?”

Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.” He then noted that the site had solicited questions from people in the country “who were still courageous enough to be communicating online.” “Under which conditions would you accept the election of Ahmadinejad, and if you do accept it without any significant changes in the conditions there, isn’t that a betrayal of the — of what the demonstrators there are working towards?”

Reporters typically don’t coordinate their questions for the president before press conferences, so it seemed odd that Obama might have an idea what the question would be. Also, it was a departure from White House protocol by calling on The Huffington Post second, in between the AP and Reuters.

What? The change & hope president, after bombing on Iran, is using his media stooges to stage faux-questions that can make him look like he didn’t flub Iran, and flub it badly, already? I mean, even other reporters were struck about how obvious this staged stuff was.

CBS Radio’s Mark Knoller, a veteran White House correspondent, said over Twitter it was “very unusual that Obama called on Huffington Post second, appearing to know the issue the reporter would ask about.”

Goody goody! We are about to get even more of this, too. You can not make this tuff up man. Nixon is starting to look good next to these people. Oh, the hope and change…

Cross posted at Wasting time with Alex

Comments

Posted by wetsprocket on 06/23/09 at 05:50 PM from

It seemed a little awkward, to be sure.  But probably what happened was someone told the President that there would be a HuffPo guy there who have questions coming from actual Iranians.  It demonstrated to me that this administration is trying to include as many perspectives in this as they can and they are trying make better use of the Internet.  The clunky setup was probably more for the benefit of the other reporters in the room who were wondering why a group-blog was going before them, lol.

Posted by HARLEY on 06/23/09 at 06:40 PM from

yeah right,.thats the ticket!

Posted by InsipiD on 06/24/09 at 01:35 PM from

Wag the dog.

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