Well ... one slight edit ... Barry Soetoro is more "the goosed," than "the goose."
Media Outrage over White House 'Exclusion' is Fake News
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/02/24/fake-news-media-outrage-white-house-exclusion/
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Dean Baqeut, executive editor of the New York Times, said: "Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties."
However, as the New York Times itself reported in 2015, President Barack Obama met privately with liberal reporters and columnists frequently throughout his tenure in office - "more than a dozen" times. And although he occasionally invited conservative columnists, "Liberal-leaning columnists from newspapers tend to dominate at Mr. Obama's secret sessions."
Obama's private briefings for liberal members of the media, which excluded conservatives, were well-documented. A few:
* December 2012: Several journalists reported that MSNBC hosts were meeting privately with President Obama to discuss the impending "fiscal cliff" fight.
* May 2013: NPR's Ari Shapiro reported that President Obama was meeting privately with "lefty columnists," but hastened to add that there was "nothing nefarious" about it.
* November 2013: President Obama met again with liberal journalists, as Obamacare struggled with the failure of healthcare.gov and other problems.
* March 2015: Politico's media reporter, Hadas Gold, reported that "a group of journalists and columnists," all on the left, met privately with President Obama, but the White House refused to say "who else was at the meeting or what was discussed."
On Friday, CNN media reporter Dylan Byers expressed concern at the alleged exclusion of left-leaning media outlets. Yet in 2015, he wrote about the frequency of Obama's private meetings with journalists. Byers noted that President Obama "holds the occasional meeting with conservatives," but the list of "regulars" included a roster of prominent liberal journalists.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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