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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 691865" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanation here todayBy <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/staff/joseph-curl/" target="_blank">Joseph Curl</a>&nbsp;President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor&#039;s record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference. President George W. Bush&#039;s longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days - stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio&#039;s veteran reporter Mark Knoller. The president has seemingly shunned formal, prime-time sessions since his last disastrous presser, when he said police in Cambridge, Mass., &quot;acted stupidly&quot; by arresting a Harvard professor who broke into a home that turned out to be his own. The off-the-cuff comment took over the news cycle for a week, overshadowing his push for health care reform, and culminated in a White House &quot;Beer Summit,&quot; where the president hosted white police officer James Crowley and the black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr.<a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/obama-tops-bushs-record-for-putting-reporters-on-h/?feat=home_headlines" target="_blank">http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/obama-tops-bushs-record-for-putting-reporters-on-h/?feat=home_headlines</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 691865, member: 12952"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] By [URL="http://washingtontimes.com/staff/joseph-curl/"]Joseph Curl[/URL] President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor's record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference. President George W. Bush's longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days - stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio's veteran reporter Mark Knoller. The president has seemingly shunned formal, prime-time sessions since his last disastrous presser, when he said police in Cambridge, Mass., "acted stupidly" by arresting a Harvard professor who broke into a home that turned out to be his own. The off-the-cuff comment took over the news cycle for a week, overshadowing his push for health care reform, and culminated in a White House "Beer Summit," where the president hosted white police officer James Crowley and the black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. [url]http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/obama-tops-bushs-record-for-putting-reporters-on-h/?feat=home_headlines[/url] [/QUOTE]

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