Obama Hides from Press: No Conference Since July
By Newsmax
Observers couldn’t help but notice the irony: President Barack Obama on Monday signed the Press Freedom Act, then refused to take any questions from members of the press.
In a broader sense, the event was another demonstration of Obama’s standoffish relationship with the news media — despite his campaign vow of a “transparent” administration.
Obama has not fielded questions at a full-blown press conference since way back on July 22, 2009.
President George H.W. Bush had nearly three press conferences a month. Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson convened an average of about two a month, Ronald Reagan had less than one press conference every two months, and Richard Nixon averaged one every seven weeks.
Obama lags behind both Nixon and Reagan: He called five press conferences during his first six months in office, and none in the 10 months that followed, the Huffington Post reported.
As for less formal short exchanges with reporters, Obama has had 47, compared with 147 for George W. Bush in his first year and 252 for Clinton, according to figures compiled by professor Martha Joynt Kumar of Towson University in Towson, Md.
Reporters were on hand in the Oval Office when Obama signed the Daniel Pearl Press Freedom Act, which expands the State Department’s annual human rights reports to include a description of press freedoms in each country.
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he needs to go to a mental ward he is acting crazy.
He is also antichrist not the antichrist. He also lies like his father. He needs prayer and delivered or be Impeached. AMERICA needs a quick answer God allowed him to be our president so it must be a picture of us all. We voted him is as a Nation.
What shall we say?? He loves our enemies, and hates our friends.
Obama believes he is above the press, the people and the truth. It's very evident he is mentally ill.
That's pretty scary for America. Dangerous actually.
Obama is at a loss without his telapromter and he can't have one at a press conference. That's the whole problem in a nutshell…he breaks down with ah's and uh's and stammers and makes no sense. So you tell me what's going on in his head? It must be a mess is all I can say!
OBAMA, The PRESIDENT Who Does Not KNOW HOW TO BE ONE !!! HE IS Really TRAGICK !!
so is your spelling