White House Correspondents' Association: Daily Caller heckler 'discourteous'

[ailsagirl]

Last edited Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:41 AM - Edit history (2)

The president of the White House Correspondents' Association has called today's "rude interruption" of President Obama by a Daily Caller reporter "discourteous," but said that the Daily Caller's status as a member for the White House in-town press pool is something that would need to be discussed by the WHCA board, of which she is a member.
"It was discourteous. It's not the way reporters who cover the White House conduct themselves," Caren Bohan, the current WHCA president and White House correspondent for Reuters, told POLITICO today, shortly after DC reporter Neil Munro shouted a question at the President while he was delivering remarks in the White House Rose Garden.

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More here:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/06/whca-pres-daily-caller-heckler-discourteous-126329.html

(IMHO, 'discourteous' is putting it mildly.)

[FirstLight]

1. oh lord, the comments

scary..

I have to ask, do most RW trolls hang out at politico? or is this a middle road news outlet? because the percentage of comments that are negative about our pres makes me nervous...

[ailsagirl]

2. I generally try to avoid the comments...

because I'm never sure when it's from a troll with horribly hateful rhetoric until it's too late.

I'm not sure about politico-- I just noted the headline and wanted to share it here. I read Chris Wallace and some host from Fox also were angry over this upstart's interrupting the President. Things seem pretty topsy-turvy right about now!!

[monmouth]

11. Politico is a daily guest on Morning Joe for about four minutes. That should tell ya..LOL..n/t

[annabanana]

17. There is a heavily Koch funded troll brigade at ALL the major outlet

comments pages. That is why they don't sound like most of America.

[MADem]

3. Not especially a POLITICO fan, but I like the first two paragraphs very much indeed!

The president of the White House Correspondents' Association has called today's "rude interruption" of President Obama by a Daily Caller reporter "discourteous," but said that the Daily Caller's status as a member for the White House in-town press pool is something that would need to be discussed by the WHCA board, of which she is a member.

"It was discourteous. It's not the way reporters who cover the White House conduct themselves," Caren Bohan, the current WHCA president and White House correspondent for Reuters, told POLITICO today, shortly after DC reporter Neil Munro shouted a question at the President while he was delivering remarks in the White House Rose Garden.

[ailsagirl]

4. So tell me about Politico

You said you weren't esp. a fan-- just wondered why. I don't really know anything about it.

I notice a lot of the comments are very neocon-ish.

[MADem]

6. It is the "hip internet" arm of Albritton Communications, Inc.

Albritton were the far-right-wing assholes who shut down Bill Maher for saying that he didn't approve of the 911 hijackers but no one could say they were cowards, as it takes a bit of moxie to fly a plane into a building, or words to that effect. They took his show off the air in Washington DC, and of course, the currency of the program was politics, which is why he lost his gig at ABC.

They thought they shut him up for good, but he came back bigger, badder and with more profanity directed against those intolerant fuckwits, on HBO.

Anyway, POLITICO purports to be unbiased, but when the rubber meets the road, I trust them about as far as I could toss them. Regard their output with a somewhat jaundiced eye.

Some ancient history: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1475273&mesg_id=1476525

[ailsagirl]

7. Many thanks for the info

Sometimes it's easy to get lost in the morass of media outlets. For instance, I read that none other than BILL 0'REILLY expressed anger over the frisson in the Rose Garden today, clearly chastising the boor who interrupted the President. Also, Chris Wallace said it was 'outrageous.' Go figure!

[MADem]

8. Happy to be of help! nt

[DCBob]

10. Yeah, Politico leans right a bit but in the world of Faux news, Drudge, etc..

they arent that bad in comparison.

[MADem]

14. The OWNERS of Politico are to the right of Drudge. That is why they are dangerous.

It's not a consistent skewing, it's just occasional enough so that the uninformed reader misses the bias completely.

[DCBob]

15. Drudge always skews its headlines unless it a non-political story.

I have seen many "normal" un-baised stories on Politico.

[annabanana]

18. When they first came online they were described as "the broadcast voices looking

for an online presence" . .That should just about tell you all you kneed to know. It's CorpoMedia©.com

[brewens]

5. They love to show disrespect/contempt for the President. It's their way of pandering to

the racists. When Obama went on FOX "News", I think it was Chris Wallace, obviously interrupting him evey chance he got to be as disrespectful as possible. Then the Superbowl Sunday interview he gave Billdo O'Reilly. He should have passed on that. I don't care if other Presidents had granted the same interview with the Network showing the game. He should have just came right out and said, no way. FOX blew their chance at anymore interviews. O'Reilly came in with the same plan.

[ailsagirl]

9. kick

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. Disrespectful

a foreign born person complaining about foreigners?

[ailsagirl]

13. kick

[Blue_Tires]

16. I covered a Bush speech on NCLB for my paper, and even though

I was a DUer back then, I had the professionalism to keep my mouth shut...

There's no excusing what this jaggoff did

[ailsagirl]

19. This kind of BS needs to be nipped in the bud, else it will mushroom

Get rid of the guy

Oops--I'm mixing my metaphors!