How does the WH Press Corp Like Being Talked At Like Idiots?

Terry Moran asks the Moran-in-chief about the lies leading up to war, and bush starts in on a fantasy-based lecture that includes all of the lies. And the press corps just sits there. Are they really that stupid? It's like a 2nd-grader lecturing his parents.

I can't understand why they don't do that. He's just a sock puppet, after all. Nothing to be afraid of.


Cher

they eat it up, STS

How the hell do intelligent people sit through that bushit?

n/t

the first question Bush doesn't answer and goes into the "freedoms, democracy, terror" cliche mode.

Get some balls, guys, like HELEN THOMAS!!

.....because the correspondents allow themselves to be intimidated in order to retain access:


The Peoples' Bill of Rights for White House Transparency

1. The White House Correspondents Association shall be the sole credentialing authority for entry to press events and briefings.

2. The president shall appear before the White House press corps for a regularly scheduled monthly conference of no less than two hours.

3. Questions will be asked of the president in an order to be determined by the White House Correspondents Association.

4. No questions will be submitted in advance to White House employees. No suggestions for questions will be communicated from the White House to reporters.

5. No credentialed members of the press will be denied access to any press event except by the decision of the White House Correspondents Association.

6. Members of the White House press shall not accept faxes, phone calls, e-mails or other communications from the political office of the WH, from political campaigns, from the RNC, the DNC, or lobbyists or other politics-based agents, unless the reporter has initiated the contact. Such entities may provide copy of any background material to a WHCA library where it will be available for reporters.

7. There shall be no contact between political advisors to the White House and reporters for the purpose of punishing members of the press for their coverage. If the White House has a complaint, it shall be made in writing by the press secretary and submitted to the White House Correspondents Association, with any remedy or admonishment to be made by the Association to the correspondent in question.

http://webdems.blogspot.com

the faux ruler speaks before the faux press.

they know that they are just props in a play.

...just after he was asked about the complete lack of WMD?

So even though Bush lied about WMD in Iraq, we were justified in invading because Iraq was full of WMD.

Huh?