Good one. You made the front page with that one. Virgil http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com
On 4/14/2010 4:24 AM, Publius Maximus wrote: > http://bit.ly/cPsiqC > > - - - > World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear > Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been > transported to Soviet-era Moscow. > > They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with > camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to > make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a > bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck. > > In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once > informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic > for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free > press. > > The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news > conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute > opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that > we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first > session." > > Reporters for foreign outlets, admitted for the first time to the > White House press pool, got the impression that the vaunted American > freedoms are not all they're cracked up to be. > > Yasmeen Alamiri from the Saudi Press Agency got this lesson in press > freedom when trying to cover Obama's opening remarks as part of that > limited pool: "The foreign reporters/cameramen were escorted out in > under two minutes, just as the leaders were about to begin, and Obama > was going to make remarks. . . . Sorry, it is what it is." > > Alamiri's counterparts from around the world wrote of similar > experiences in their pool reports. Arabic-language MBC TV's Nadia > Bilbassy had this to say of Obama's meeting with the Jordanian king: > "We were there for around 30 seconds, not enough even to notice the > color of tie of both presidents. I think blue for the king." > > The Press Trust of India, at Obama's meeting with the Pakistani prime > minister, reported, "In less than a minute, the pool was asked to > leave." The Yomiuri Shimbun correspondent found that she was "ushered > out about 30 seconds" after arriving for Obama's meeting with the > Malaysian prime minister. A reporter with Turkey's TRT-Turk went to > Obama's meeting with the president of Armenia, but "we had to leave > the room again after less than 40 seconds." > > Even the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, was more talkative with the > press than Obama. Michelle Jamrisko, with Japan's Kyodo News, noted in > her pool report that Hu, at his session with Obama, spoke to the > Chinese media in Chinese, while Obama limited himself mostly to "say > hello to the cameras" and "thank you everybody." > > Obama's official schedule for Tuesday would have pleased China's > Central Committee. Excerpts: "The President will attend the Heads of > Delegation working lunch. This lunch is closed press. . . . The > President will meet with Prime Minster Erdogan of Turkey. This meeting > is closed press. . . . The President will attend Plenary Session II of > the Nuclear Security Summit. This session is closed press." > - - - > > Our African Colonial is feeling his oats, I'd say. > > - Publius > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2809 - Release Date: 04/13/10 > 15:22:00 > > -- Virgil Bierschwale Vets Finding Vets <http://www.VetsFindingVets.org> Keep America At Work <http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
