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Typical: WH won’t answer questions on broken C-SPAN promise

Posted by: ST on January 7, 2010 at 11:27 am

This will surprise no one (via Memeorandum):

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president’s campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span. Gibbs said he had not seen a letter from C-Span’s Brian Lamb to congressional leaders requesting the coverage and thus could not comment on it.

On Wednesday, Gibbs was asked again about the C-Span commitment. The story had gotten pretty big in the intervening time, and presumably Gibbs had had a chance to familiarize himself with it. So reporters tried for a second day to get him to comment on the president’s commitment to holding televised health-care talks. Gibbs’ answer? “We covered this yesterday.” Gibbs referred reporters to the transcript of Tuesday’s briefing and said, “The answer I would give today is similar.”

But of course, he hadn’t answered the question at all.

Click the link to read the brief transcripts of the numerous times reporters have brought this issue up to Gibbs in the last two days, and note how many times he gave a definitive answer: none. Video here.

This is about par for the course for the administration that promised “change you can believe in” and “historic transparency.” They’re “transparent” alright.

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    • 7 Responses to “Typical: WH won’t answer questions on broken C-SPAN promise”

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    1. bill glass says:
      January 7, 2010 at 11:51 am

      they know it looks bad, but know that: 1. the more they respond, the more it will be a huge subject for the media which could impact the voting…. 2. they have no defense because it’s easy to see the many lies…. 3. they have more than enough votes, and barry made the openness promises mostly before they came to realize that they didn’t need to have any transparency.

    2. Bill says:
      January 7, 2010 at 12:15 pm

      Obama, Comrads Reid and Pelosi really are quite stupid. They’ve been claiming for months that all the negativity about the healthcare issue coming from the Republicans (and the vast majority of Americans) has been intentional misinformation put out by Obama critics. So what do they do to clear that up? Oh yeah, they go underground and have secret negotiations on the healtcare bill so no one will have ANY information about what the final bill will contain.

      That’ll fix that misinformation problem won’t it? Brilliant! And these are the political Einsteins who are supposed to fix the economy and protect us from terrorists?

    3. your mama says:
      January 7, 2010 at 2:27 pm

      well what did you expect from the most transparent administration,haha

    4. Carlos says:
      January 7, 2010 at 6:59 pm

      Gomer hasn’t read it probably because, if he can read, he reads very slowly, and I mean VERY slowly, like a first grader just learning and sounding out each word.

      Kinda like Duh-1. Also explains why neither has read the Constitution or, if they did, don’t have a clue what “shall make no law” means.

      And why they don’t get what his oath of office means, either. You know, the “defend and protect” portion…

    5. Marshall Art says:
      January 7, 2010 at 11:32 pm

      The left has a terrible problem of forgetting their public utterances are recorded. Gore was famous for this. But what I especially like is Gibbs (who looks a lot like my wife’s ex–gives us both the creeps) saying he hasn’t seen a letter requesting coverage from C-Span. Why would he? It wasn’t their idea, it was Barry’s! “We’re gonna do in on TV as soon as they ask us if they can cover it.” Is that what their saying now? What loons. How about as press secretary you meet with the press to set it up??!!!

    6. Brontefan says:
      January 8, 2010 at 7:59 am

      No, let’s be totally transparent about what we will do for National Security and remember–CIA agents are in danger of being arrested [a far cry from JFK days when they were out of control!]—but keep the Health Care bill top secret [even from themselves] so that it can be inflicted on the American public. Give terrorists the same rights as American citizens and allow the US government to take over ever aspect of our lives? Why in God’s name would we elect a Marxist, world citizen to the WH?