Gibbs hammered over planted questioner

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 25th at 06:01 AM  | 

President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was beat up by the White House press corps over the “planted questioner” at Obama’s press conference. At Wednesday’s White House briefing, Gibbs insisted over and over again that Nico Pitney from the Huffington Post was not a planted questioner. When it was suggested, as I did yesterday, that the Obama plant was similar to the Hillary campaign planting | Read More »

The Obama news conference – desperate to control coverage Obama plants questions

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 24th at 09:18 AM  | 

Remember last November, when, during the heat of the battle for the Democrats’ presidential nomination, the Hillary campaign created a scandal by planting a question at a campaign “town hall” meeting? At yesterday’s press conference, President Obama, desperate to turn the tide on recent negative news coverage, reverted to the discredited and disreputable practice of planting questions. Dana Milbank describes Obama’s plant in the clever, | Read More »