President Obama to the press, "I did your job for you."

[thelordofhell]

Will the press ever be competent again in this country?

:argh:

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. That is very well said.

Why didn't the press find a way to get a hold of his birth certificate? This is outrageous. Such shoddy investigative research on their part.

[closeupready]

3. Agree.

:hi:

[frazzled]

4. The state does not release the certificate

Many journalists, however, verified its existence in Hawaii--two years ago. And have repeated this often.

The president himself had to make a special request--one that would not be granted to an ordinary citizen--to get a copy of it.

[kestrel91316]

21. IIRC any person can request a certified copy of their original birth

record. Here in CA, however, if you are not said person or a parent or child of theirs, all you can get is an "informational copy". I do not know it said informational copy is like the abbreviated BC Obama first provided, or if it's a photocopy of the original minus the certification stamp/signature. Every state is different, and in this day and age of digital records, original paper copies are going the way of the dodo bird.

[kestrel91316]

17. Only certain people can legally request and obtain a CERTIFIED copy of

a birth or death or marriage record, depending on the individual state's laws.

Most places, you MUST be the person on the cert, or a parent or child of the person to be permitted to have one.

Certified copies of birth records are a free ticket to identity theft and so are very sparingly doled out.

[closeupready]

2. Did he say that?

If so, that alone gets a K&R. Can you post a link if you have one? :)

[frazzled]

5. No, he did not say that.

[tridim]

8. Not directly, but it was directly implied.

Anyone with a brain understands what he was saying.

[thelordofhell]

12. Beat me to it tridim

It's obvious to me that President Obama was chastising the fourth estate

[frazzled]

15. No, it was not even implied

He chided them for giving attention to an issue they had already settled (the entire press, sans Fox, agrees that Obama's birth certificate existed and proved him a citizen), and for making this the story as opposed to budget issues, deficit, etc.

He had no need to say he was doing their job: they'd already proven he was a citizen, but they kept the Trump story alive for .... unknown reasons.

[thelordofhell]

19. And if the press ever bothered to do their job

They would have shown the BC to Trump on the air and stick a copy of it on top his head to cover his horrendous combover. It has been clear to me that the press was complicit in this birther nonsense by promoting it to the hilt.

[Blue_Tires]

26. +1000

this was my point from the very start!

[calimary]

18. And therein lies the rub. You're not talking about people with brains.

[tularetom]

6. He makes them all look like incompetent fools

Not that it's especially difficult but it's fun to watch.

[freshwest]

23. Everytime he talks to the GOP, he does the same. Remember the whines when he destroyed their points?

They said it was 'unfair' that he talked to them in public. So they've been doing their stupid whispering campaign for years.

And sadly, because he's busy working and not doing press conferences to massage the minds of the masses daily, Democrats think that he's cozying up to them in private.

I doubt he's any different with them then that when he took them to the woodshed early on.

[tridim]

7. Tweety was on with Mrs. Greenspan.

He got it, she didn't. Big surprise.

It went in one ear and out the other, no resistance whatsoever.

[ecstatic]

11. Maybe journalists should, in addition to learning

communication skills, be forced to have an in depth knowledge of the topics they would cover--especially when it comes to history and politics. Tweety can be annoying at times, but he is one of my favorite anchors because he actually knows history quite well.

[spanone]

9. the media was happy promoting trumps 'concerns' as legitimate political discourse

our media is BEYOND broken

[malaise]

10. The producers at M$Greedia loved this racist story

and so did the owners.
It is all about challenging the legitimacy of a black president by any means necessary. And don't forget that Kerry swiftboating either.

Only ReTHUGS have the right to rule.
They'll try something else shortly - they'll even attack the kids.

[HughBeaumont]

16. They'd NEVER pull this bullshit with a Panamanian-born President McCain.

Wouldn't even be an issue.

This is ALL about playing to the P.O.S. "President Ni**er" crybabies.

[freshwest]

24. Yep. Been sparring with 'em for years. They of the 'pray for Obama' and 'get a rope' klans. Eff 'em.

[Blue_Tires]

27. it has gotten them a lot of viewers and web clicks...

[Scuba]

13. They're very competent. They're paid to spread disinformation, and look at all...

....the folks who are "negatively informed".

[gratuitous]

14. NBC understood that, if only for a moment

In the immediate aftermath of the press conference, Matt Lauer was chatting with Chuck Todd about the nontroversy. Todd mentioned that the President had been forced into addressing the issue because of polls showing a plurality and nearly a majority of all Republicans thought he hadn't been born in the United States. Todd made a passing reference to some complicity by the media, and Lauer quickly went to David Gregory, who gushed about what a swell visual it had been to have the President on the split screen opposite Donald Trump in New Hampshire. Really, Fluffy? This whole sideshow produced a good visual, so you're satisfied with your somnambulent response and NBC's relentless flogging of Trump's wild speculations?

But by the end of the segment, Lauer and Gregory had mutually absolved each other for their sloppy "journalism" and by extension had let the rest of the popular media off the hook, as if all those people in the polls had just spontaneously formulated a lie that they all believed in, without any assistance from anybody, and certainly not from anyone drawing a paycheck from 30 Rock.

[undeterred]

20. Stephanopoulos did show the BC on air the other day.

I think it was on GMA to Michelle Bachman last Wednesday. That should have been enough to make this press conference unnecessary. But of course some people don't trust him either.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/stephanopoulos-bachmann-obama-birth-certificate_n_851529.html

[shamocrat]

22. Obama Releases Long Form Birth Certficate talks at Press Conference

What will the birthers do with their lives now?

Probably demand Bush release his long form birth certificate.

Obama did indeed do his job

http://americanintelligencereport.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-releases-long-form-birth.html

[safeinOhio]

25. The press had no problem obtaining

the one from Kenya.
:rofl:

[Kurovski]

28. They won't ever be competent again. The only good thing will be when everyone

can deiscern what propoganda and facts actually are, and observe how the media operates to benefit the media's uber-wealthy owners.

Actual News gathering is a fulltime job for the average citizen, thanks to fuckbags like Ailes.