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Arianna also went through her site's recent criticism of the Obama administration on everything from the economy to torture.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffingto...
I agree with jchem that this is just the old media (and rags like the Politico) getting mad that someone has sneaked into their good ol' boys club.
To make matters worse, the question wasn't even from him, it was from an actual Iranian. So a random Iranian dude is better than our "professional" media.
And to that I add: "Where's his birth certificate?"
The "logic" of your allegation is self-refuting.
Why would the White House plant a question that was tougher than any of the other questions being asked that day? Then why would Obama proceed not to answer a question he supposedly knew was coming ahead of time?
I get the impression that the old media is just a bit jealous that the new media is now being taken more seriously. Perhaps if the old media did their job better, we wouldn't have any controversy about who is asking the questions.
And Hannity? That guy is Rush Limbaugh on steroids. I don't know what's worse, him being on the air or the fact that he actually has an audience that wants to listen to him.
Again, there is no logic to the idea that it was planted to help the president. It was a tough question, and he didn't respond well at all. In all seriousness, did you think it was a bad or inappropriate question?
As Arianna Huffington admitted, they were informed they would be called upon by the president. That in itself is unusual, but it doesn't seem to cross the line into insidious propaganda considering they weren't told what to ask the President.
For some context, go review the types of questions Jeff Gannon, a real White House plant, would ask: http://mediamatters.org/research/200502020014
Agree DaGoat, Obama hardly nailed that response. If it was a plant, it came back and bit them a bit in the ass.
I'm not even bothering to click on the Hannity link, who cares, the guy's a kook.
Spare me the jealousy angle. I expect clean govt., and yesterday was dirty govt. Joe knows this is a very legitimate concern about a press conference so he dismisses it by attacking the messenger. Accusing the White House Press Corp of complaining about a plant because they are envious of the Huffington Post is a silly cheap shot at the press corp.
Why should the Huffington Post get a free pass for serving as a plant because it chose to prostitute itself to the Obama White House? Have people forgotten it was the Huffington Post that repeatedly made (unproven) planted question accusations of the Bush White House? Now Huff got caught. That's hypocrisy in my dictionary.
We don't really know what the reality of the situation is because we don't really know the facts. We don't know whether the question posed by the Huffington Post reporter was truly a question posed an Iranian in Iran, or in the US or in the UK or from within the White or was posed by Rahm Emanuel. What we know is that Mr. Obama has lost some credibility with this little stunt and it is therefore impossible to believe any statements from the White House regarding this matter.
If the White House would have just come out and explained their motivation behind the planted question, something to the effect of, "we just wanted to make sure that we received a question from the Iranian viewpoint and so we enlisted the support of the Huffington Post etc.... Now, they have to take the heat for their actions and the resulting loss of credibility; and so early in Mr. Obama's term too.
I've read this post and all responses twice. Where exactly is there proof that this was a planted question? If we don't have the smoking gun to prove the allegation, perhaps we just seeing more BS from right wing crackpots and a fading traditional media.
There is no proof that the question came from an 'actual iranian'.
I don't think it'll be long before all the questions are plants. After all, it worked for the town halls, why not go to it for news conferences, too?
Or he could just do a weekly TV show like Hugo.....
I put here in the same category as Anne Coulter...just on the other side of the spectrum.
"If the Obama admin was going to plant a question, the HuffPo would be the perfect "media" outlet to use."
Your personal feelings aside concerning the "scarred" Ariana, why would those "facts" about her life be grounds for making her a perfect conduit for a "planted" question? I believe her website has been communicating with Iranians on the streets in Iran, so maybe THP was just a logical place to get a question for that country.
What I don't get is the "planted" part of everybody's criticism. A planted question is one designed by those being asked so that they may make a particular political point, and it's pretty clear there is no good motive for Obama to want this particular question asked. It in fact has a landmine quality to it that I would expect from Fox news.
I'd say there's a 50/50 chance that the Iranian asking the question was an Iranian government agent. Mousavi supporters certainly are not interested under what terms the US would accept Ahmadinejad's election. The ham-fisted supreme council, however, would love to know what it would take to make this all go away.
Huffington is just a simple way to deflect the origin of this question.
I don't think it'll be long before all the questions are plants. After all, it worked for the town halls, why not go to it for news conferences, too?"
Manipulating public opinion (and the many manipulable who at least still caress their Presidential knee pads fromtime to time) is nothing new, nor has managing the media with this Obama group.
It does make you wonder once more (after observing how Chrysler and GM bondholders were treated, in contrast to the cronyish paid-back UAW, an effective auxiliary Dem federal stake in the Detroit companies earlier) exactly what Obama learned and brought back with after, indeed, meeting with Hugo Chavez.
Now for the kicker: the liberal media has adored Obama and is already prostituting itself with hype and alarmism and willingness to advertise on behalf of government health care (rushed to give to the childish); I would definitely expect one or more extended press conferences on this issue before too much longer.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/statecraft_vs_stage...
This is a concern. I believe the so called "new media" only works when their is freedom to comment on the posts. Why? Because, too many people today, read only that news that agrees with their already made up mind. Unless one can comment, there is no opportunity to offer corrections, or vet the often inacurate info in the post.
Interesting to nore, Al Jareexa English, on Youtube, used to allow, even welcome comments, but now comments are not permitted.
BTW: I have been banned from commenting on Huffington Post. It happened just like a missle attack. One moment I was pressing "post comment" the next min I was informed that I was not allowed to post, then my whole "profiel" was blown off the site, completely! The tryany of the majority rules at HP?
In my opinion the "free press" is under attack, and that makes it difficult for those who wish to live in a democratic society to do so, because they are being robbed of their "mind."
It becomes more and more difficult to personally "vet" MSM. How can anyone believe what is in the media about Iran, today? Change is on the way? I wonder?
http://shoe08.blogspot.com/2009/01/change-is-on...