The Anonymous Obama Official Fight: Not AP Hypocrisy ... White House Arrogance?

Oh Dorfy of SC, I couldn't have said this better myself. What a magnificent comment! I am soooo sick and tired of the MSM trying to "make" the news instead of "reporting" the news!! Please, and you people call yourselves journalists? REALLY?

DCH of TX 3:20PM May 27, 2009

Gibbs and all the rest of the administration have to be exhausted with the constant and repetitive questions about the same things over and over.

I listen to these briefings, and I find the reporters expect detail that is totally unreasonable in that forum. Often the president is working through something - and does not want to have the media second-guessing him all along the process. He will have specifics - but may not yet. The reporters act as if he is "hiding" something, when in actuality it is not completed enough to disclose yet. If Obama says that, then the press harangues about how he says he'll do something "without a plan".

Look at the Gitmo conversation - what nonsense. He said he would close it in a year. Everyone screamed because he did not have every detail completed....This didn't mean he would act before all was ready, or that he would lay out some sloppy process...but from what the media said - they made it all seem so odd. Haven't you said you want to vacation in the Bahamas this year before you made all the plans?

The press seems desperate to have a story where often there is none. I hear them often asking Gibbs to foretell the future, tell them what the president "really" thinks, trying to get him to project what "might" be. They need to do some real research, and quit relying on the Press Secretary for all their material.

They follow the Press Secretary around and the President like frustrated groupies. Go back to your journalism folks. Do some serious writing, and stop the White House "what if" machine. The public needs information, not high level gossip.

Maybe more than two or thre stories running at a time would also be helpful. You all pile on, bury the public in fluff information for three days, then off to the next onslaught. Tell us what the Israeli opposition party is doing. What the Iranian opposition party is doing. What the Agriculture Secretyary's projects are. What the Attorney General's projects are. Where is the Secretary of State? What is the status of the road-building and infrastructure projects? There SO many stories associated with the White House to explore. Are you guys lazy or unable to multi-task?

Dorfy of SC 12:00PM May 27, 2009