White House spokesman refuses to answer questions on the record from reporters

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Read the story — no one did.

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Shame on any reporter who agreed to this stipulation. Just retire now.

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A White House spokesman today said he would only take questions off the record. Think about that for a moment.

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DEC. 4, 2017, 3:46 P.M.

White House spokesman refuses to answer questions on the record from reporters

Noah Bierman

President Trump has called the news media “the enemy” and routinely labeled reporting he dislikes “fake news.” On Monday, the White House broke another precedent in limiting the press’ ability to ask questions about the president’s decisions. ... On a day filled with news, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told reporters traveling with the president aboard Air Force One that he would not take any questions on the record.

While returning from Utah, where Trump announced a rollback of protections for national monuments in the state, Gidley read reporters a brief series of statements on a few news items of the day – including Trump’s endorsement of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and a Supreme Court decision to allow his travel ban to be enforced for now.

Then he announced that he would be declining to answer any questions on the record. ... Reporters traveling with the president declined his offer to entertain off-the-record questions.

The refusal to take questions on the record broke with longtime custom on such trips, when informal press “gaggles” take the place of more formal, televised White House briefings. ... Why was the White House refusing on-the-record questions? Gidley said he would not answer that question on the record.

[Me.]

1. Need A Better Link

[underpants]

2. Hogan Gidley?

Where'd he come from?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. "I know nothing, N-O-T-H-I-N-G." NT

[underpants]

5. YES!

[czarjak]

6. Had no idea either...

Just when you think they'd scraped the bottom of the barrel.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I agreed with Keith Olbermann from 6 months ago

When he said that all reporters should boycott all of the presser since it is all lies and BS. Let Fux Ruse, Sinclair/Circa and RT go in there and spread the propaganda.