You Only Hurt The Ones That Adore You Ceaselessly
By Mitch Berg
After promising the most open, accessible Administration ever, Obama is strictly cutting his media face time:
The president, whose job-approval ratings have been on a steady slide, hasn’t held a formal news conference in 19 weeks, since July 22. That one ended badly, when Mr. Obama waded into a racial controversy by saying a white police officer “acted stupidly” when he arrested a black Harvard professor.
“It can’t be a total coincidence that the last time he faced the press corps, we ended with beers in the Rose Garden with Henry Louis Gates and James Crowley, when the focus was supposed to be health care,” said Julie Mason, a White House reporter for the Washington Examiner who also covered the Bush administration for the Houston Chronicle.
“It does seem like they are responding to the overexposure argument and trying to exert more control over his appearances,” she said.
I could see that backfiring; there is nobody in the world more petulant than a reporter who has, and then is denied, access to something.
