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CBS' Mark Knoller Does Senseless Investigative Report On White House Calling On Nico Pitney


Crossposted at The Whole Delivery 
After Obama called on Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post today in the press conference, the elite media have been going bonkers over that (and will continue to). Hackio's doing their best to help fuel their anger
In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran. "Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we've been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran," Obama said, addressing Pitney. "I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?" Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: "I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian."
Then Calderone writes this
CBS Radio's Mark Knoller, a veteran White House correspondent, said over Twitter it was "very unusual that Obama called on Huffington Post second, appearing to know the issue the reporter would ask about."
Yup, Knoller said this: Geez Knoller, maybe the reason why is because he READS him. You know the President can read whatever he wants to read, just like you Knoller. It gets better ladies and gentleman. Now Knoller has HIS GREAT PROOF Ooooooooooo, Obama called on a Huffington Post writer after they talked to him this morning. What offensive propaganda. These blogs and new journalism sites are bias I say, bias. No wonder why CBS is a thousand shades what it use to be, outside of 60 Minutes.

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Her question was of much more interest than the gotcha smoking query. Geez, with all that's going on, this was really newsworthy and needed? I think not.

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Doesn't everyone miss Jeff Gannon, the gay stud patsy masquerading as a reporter that GW Bush and Rove planted in press conferences with a White House pass, to ask questions about why Democrats were unpatriotic?

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CBS, or any MSM, never caught on to the Gannon scam, of course, when do they ever do their job?. He was identified by a blogger.

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Great point Nole, I'm putting it on The Whole Delivery for certain and giving you credit

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Wait. This is not a secret or supposed to be a secret, or a conspiracy or anything else.

Nico writes today how it came about:

A few words about how this came about for those who are curious: as readers know, I've spent a lot of time writing and debating about the President's reaction to the events in Iran. Last night, after emailing with a few people about Obama's press conference and what he might say, I decided to throw it open to our readers. I received a call from White House staff saying they had seen what I'd written and thought the President might be interested in receiving a question directly from an Iranian.
The White House didn't guarantee that I would be able to ask a question. But I decided that if there was even a chance, I should try to reach out to as many Iranians as possible. With the invaluable help from some readers -- Chas, Chuck, and other Iranian Americans I wish I could name because they deserve the credit -- I was able to post a message in Farsi on Twitter and have my request for questions posted late last night on Balatarin. I ended up choosing the question I did because it was one of the consensus questions that many people had suggested.

You can find that and more here. Anything else is GOP bs. Get this word out, not theirs.


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Nice work 'shell.

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This is great publicity for Huff Po!

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