Obama didn’t call on Fox at presser! So what?
April 30th, 2009 at 06:18pm Pat Cunningham
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 Much has been made in some quarters today about President Obama’s failure to call on anyone from Fox News during his press conference last night.
 The silliest critics have held that Obama is either afraid of reporters from Fox or miffed at the network’s vaunted dedication to fairness and balance.
 Of course, anyone who pays attention to how presidential press conferences actually work knows that even the most illustrious of media hotshots occasionally get passed over at these affairs. For example, The New York Times and the Washington Post both failed to get the nod at a conference just last month.
 Fox News White House reporter Major Garrett (pictured above with the president), who’s been called on at several news conferences this year,  CONFIDED to colleagues last year that it was nonsense to suggest that Obama tries to avoid Fox.
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Billybeermonicagar | April 30th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I agree, so what. Rarely does a reporter get an answer to the question he asked anyway.
2. porky | April 30th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
cunning………ham:
you just love this idiot in the white house. watch him raise your taxes
and ruin this country. your daughter’s grandchildren will pay for his
foolishness.
3. Michael Jessen | May 1st, 2009 at 7:17 am
Obama’s ratings slide: press conference down 29%..It was nothing but a love fest.
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/04/obama-press-conference-draws-288-million-viewers.html
4. Stephanie | May 1st, 2009 at 7:43 am
Michael, don\’t you mean enchanting?
5. Nelson | May 1st, 2009 at 8:09 pm
What difference does it make?
Fox News will just make up a story, like they always do.
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