Cracks in the Love Affair between Obama and the Press Corps

Chip Reid and Helen Thomas take White House spokesman Robert Gibbs to task

Courtesty of RealClearPolitics through http://nicholasjacob.wordpress.com: “CBS’ Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the “tightly controlled” town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of “controlling the press.” She said almost all White House/Obama events are “prepackaged.” She accused the White House of not “having any answers.”

PS. Multiple incidents of cardiac arrest would occur throughout the pro-family movement were a “mainstream” reporter actually to ask tough question on the homosexual issue (i.e., not one sympathetic to the “gay” movement). — Peter LaBarbera