White House Correspondents Association symposiums aren’t exactly moments of high comedy, but one line about the Obama administration got plenty of laughs during a weekend gathering in the nation’s capital.
The “most transparent administration” line is a laugh line at today’s WHCA event.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) October 25, 2014
The reference is to the Obama White House claim that it’s the “most transparent administration in history.” That really is laughable light of the stream of scandals that has run through it since its earliest days, almost all of them involving an administration deliberately withholding information under legal claims.
Soon-to-be-gone Attorney General Eric Holder is locked in a court fight with Congress over Fast and Furious documents he’s afraid to release, for instance, and then there’s the IRS’s “dog-at-my-homework” excuses about being unable to find Lois Lerner‘s emails. And on, and on.
A Washington press corps that seemed so enthralled with President Barack Obama six years ago seems finally to be waking up. (Or maybe it’s just getting more transparent about its own unhappiness with a White House stumbling into its final two years.)
. @AnnCompton laments: “The distance between the president and the press pool…it’s as if we were all carrying the Ebola virus“
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 25, 2014
But what’s also laughable is how little sympathy the correspondents can expect from the American public.
@ZekeJMiller @AnnCompton Been true since day 1. Why whine 6 years in? cc: @ron_fournier @SalenaZitoTrib
— Holly (@HollyASwanson) October 25, 2014
@ZekeJMiller @AnnCompton How about lamenting the distance between Obama’s actions and the reporting thereof?
— Dan Randolph (@danrandolph10) October 26, 2014
.@ZekeJMiller @AnnCompton Oh, boofreekinhoo. Where the hell have YOU guys been? #bootlickers
— Screaming Eaglet (@ScreaminEaglet) October 26, 2014
@ZekeJMiller@AnnCompton Lots of people noticed this in 2009. You called us racist for pointing it out. Welcome.
— Cindy Bis (@cindybis) October 26, 2014
What’s really interesting about this is how little the mainstream media understands how badly it damaged itself when it went into the tank for the Obama White House in 2008. American conservatives have long known that the mainstream media is not to be trusted — that evening television news programs are as reliably liberal as late-night comedy.
Now, the rest of the country knows it too.
@AnnCompton @whpresscorps It’s hard to feel sorry for WH correspondents. You all supported Obama in 2008 and 2012. Backfired!
— DanME (@DanME) October 25, 2014
@ZekeJMiller @Minizorg @AnnCompton Oh Ann. Boo hoo. And we’re supposed to feel sorry for you after you shit on us? Hell we’re enjoying this. — CarolK (@FlyoverRed) October 26, 2014
@StevenTDennis@Keethers Because you guys were to busy carrying their water when it mattered. Why should they respect you now?
— Donavon Pfeiffer JR (@Bastiat_Discipl) October 26, 2014
That’s the biggest question of all.
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