Battered by outrageous questions such as , “what took you so long” , in a desperate effort to show the world that he can indeed string together a few sentences without reading the TOTUS or without Axelrod’s hand stuck up his, well you know how hand puppets work , Obama, pulled out the newest trick in what seems to be an endless bag.
This particular news conference is held in the midst of events that could easily be the defining moment of his sham of a presidency and possibly the key development for the next half century. As such one would think that Obama would be prepared and would call upon some of the best journalists (OK, OK, the one or two journalists still left) in the nation in order to have honest solid debate. Ha! You know better than that right!
Not only was the press conference held at just the optimum time to ensure the fewest number of viewers but tired of the the White House Press corps, Obama brought in his very own press. A young blogger form that bastion of objectivity, the Huffington post ( You know Ariana Huffington, she’s the former Republican who finally learned enough English to figure out that she was in fact a liberal) was brought in, ushered to the front of the room and picked upon by Obama to ask a question. OK I may be exaggerating a bit here. He wasn’t exactly “picked to ask a question” he was “picked to answer a question”. I kid you not ! Obamba apparently tired of being on the receiving end of the hand puppet decided that he would like to switch places and feel what it would be like to be on the giving side and found a young Huffingtonite to accommodate him.
I think that this might be the first time ever that a US President actually knew what the question would be, had memorized the answer- barely- and told a reporter when and what to ask. On the other hand don’t be all that shocked, this happens all the time in Venezuela, and it used to be SOP in Hussein’s Iraq ( not this Hussein, the other one) , Nazi Germany and the former USSR , get used to it.
Here is a video of the scripted performance.(Doesn’t the dye job look natural)