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Related: About this forumWhite House pressed on Michael Flynn, Roy Moore
Dec 5, 2017
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders answers questions about the arrest of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, President Trump's support for Roy Moore, and the decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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White House pressed on Michael Flynn, Roy Moore (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Dec 2017
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Reporters rebel as White House spokesman refuses to answer questions on the record
L. Coyote
Dec 2017
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L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1. Reporters rebel as White House spokesman refuses to answer questions on the record
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/5/1721282/-Reporters-rebel-as-White-House-spokesman-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-the-record
The White House doubled down on its opposition to transparency and its war with the press on Monday when a White House spokesman refused to take any questions on the record from reporters who had traveled to Utah with Donald Trump. On days when the president travels, a formal press briefing is usually replaced by an informal gagglebut reporters still get to ask questions. Not this time.
Gidley read reporters a brief series of statements on a few news items of the day including Trumps endorsement of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and a Supreme Court decision to allow his travel ban to be enforced for now.
Good for these reporters:
Pretty sure Donald Trump tells the press about their job All. The. Time. He tells themand the entire countrylies, but hes definitely into talking about what the media should and should not be doing. (Praising him and challenging him, respectively.) But not even taking questions to give the traditional Trump administration lies or evasions for answers? That really is refusing to do the job, and showing contempt not just for reporters but for anyone in the country who might want more information than is included in a White House press release or a Trump tweet.
Gidley read reporters a brief series of statements on a few news items of the day including Trumps endorsement of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and a Supreme Court decision to allow his travel ban to be enforced for now.
Then he announced that he would be declining to answer any questions on the record.
Reporters traveling with the president declined his offer to entertain off-the-record questions.
Good for these reporters:
Q: "We have to ask the questions--"
A: "I understand that, you have a job to do and so do I."
Q: "You're not doing your job. Your job is literally to take questions from us. That's the whole point of this." If you don't want to do that, "you can release paper statements if you want."
A: "Please tell me more about my job if I get to tell you more about yours..."
Pretty sure Donald Trump tells the press about their job All. The. Time. He tells themand the entire countrylies, but hes definitely into talking about what the media should and should not be doing. (Praising him and challenging him, respectively.) But not even taking questions to give the traditional Trump administration lies or evasions for answers? That really is refusing to do the job, and showing contempt not just for reporters but for anyone in the country who might want more information than is included in a White House press release or a Trump tweet.
ffr
(22,674 posts)2. I remember a time when we valued honesty and liars were scorned
I have a feeling a return to that is just around the corner.