Former Obama Spokesman Threatens Trump Over Media Access…

[livingston]

Former Obama Spokesman Threatens Trump Over Media Access…
In the continuing media saga/melt-down over President-Elect Donald Trump’s audacity to eat a meal in a restaurant with his family we find the following quote from former Obama administration spokesperson Tommy “Dude” Vietor:

Former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor emails:

The White House Correspondents Association has to be ready to respond much more forcefully if Trump continues to ignore long-standing traditions of press access. That’s especially true for the five network bureau chiefs who hold most of the power.

I’d like to see them publicly detail their expectations as well as the potential repercussions if those demands continue to be ignored.
Former Obama Spokesman Threatens Trump Over Media Access…


This is too important, and the Trump campaign learned all the wrong lessons during the campaign when they faced no penalty for blacklisting reporters.” (link)

Oh noes, the dreaded double-dog “potential repercussions” threat…. What’s the media going to do Tommy, stop reporting on Trump? Ignore Trump? LOLOL… that’s not exactly a threat. Tommy is so going to be riding his bicycle in slow circles in front of the White House…

 

[livingston]

It's a steak out! Trump hoodwinks reporters and sneaks out of Trump Tower to eat with family at famous 21 Club - and promises diners 'we'll get your taxes down' before taking his favorite table

• Trump slipped away from his press entourage Tuesday evening
• Told spokesperson he was staying in for the night after apartment party
• Spokesperson relayed this to the press pool who made their way home
• He, Melania, Ivanka, Jared, Eric, Lara, Don Jnr., Vanessa and Tiffany all took motorcade to upmarket Manhattan steakhouse 21 Club five mins away
• Spokesperson promised the confusion was not a sign of things to come, but a small blip while they sorted out Trump's permanent press pool

By James Wilkinson and Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com and Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com

Published: 21:09 EST, 15 November 2016 | Updated: 06:39 EST, 16 November 2016


Donald Trump broke with presidential protocol and ditched his press entourage Tuesday night to eat dinner with his family at famous New York steak house 21 Club - where he was met with a standing ovation from stunned diners.

The mood, however, was not so cheery among the press pool employed to follow the President-elect, as they waited outside his Fifth Avenue home.

They had been told by Trump's press liaison, Hope Hicks, at 6:14pm that he would not be leaving Trump Tower for the rest of the night and that they might as well go home.

Unbeknownst to Hicks, an hour and 15 minutes later, Trump - along with his wife Melania and his four grown up children with their respective partners - emerged from the apartment block and took a motorcade - with at least a dozen vehicles and an ambulance - to the very same restaurant where he enjoyed his wedding reception with Ivana in 1977.

Hicks told the reporters that she was as unaware of Trump's dinner plans as they were, and promised that this was not a sign of things to come, but a small blip while they sorted out his permanent press pool.
Donald Trump ditches press to eat at famous New York steak house 21 Club | Daily Mail Online

 

[Truebeliever]

It's funny that the guy talks about reporter punishing Trump for breaking "tradition " of letting the press follow the candidate everywhere.

Clinton ditched her press corps a few times. They didn't do much when Eric Holder tapped reporter James Rosen's phones and computer. Holder lied about it to Congress. Nothing done

 

[ProgSpear]

Presstitutes forgot all about Clinton's imfamous "rope line". And then they wonder why she lost.

Hillary Clinton campaign uses rope to corral media in New Hampshire
Clinton campaign corrals media - CNNPolitics.com
Clinton campaign corrals reporters at July Fourth parade

 

[Calculon]

What a bunch of whiny crybabies. Trump campaigned on his disdain for the media and their relentless biased attaches and now they want him to play nice with their traditions? He's gonna burn them all down. FUMM!

 

[livingston]

 

[livingston]

Meanwhile, when it came to Hillary Clinton who actually avoided questions from the press for hundreds of days, set up a private server to avoid FOIA, and deleted thousands of emails, they were just hunky dory with the ‘transparency’ of all that.

Trump isn’t even president yet. Guess who ditched the press in 2008 to go to a waterpark with his daughter in December 2008? You got it, Barack Obama. But apparently that wasn’t an ‘affront’ to transparency, but just evidence that he was a ‘private man’.

From the New York Times on 12/26/08:

In the news-free zone that is Barack Obama’s preinauguration Hawaiian vacation, this passes for a bulletin: The president-elect ditched his “press pool” of media minders to take his daughters to a water park on Friday morning.

In making his dash — with his Secret Service security detail, to be sure — Mr. Obama drew attention both to the seemingly odd but important rituals of the presidential (and prepresidential) bubble and to just how much this very private public man chafes under its constraints.

NBC: Trump Shows ‘Lack Of Transparency’ By Going Out To Dinner Without Press | Weasel Zippers

 

[Steal2B]

Former Obama Spokesman Threatens Trump Over Media Access…
In the continuing media saga/melt-down over President-Elect Donald Trump’s audacity to eat a meal in a restaurant with his family we find the following quote from former Obama administration spokesperson Tommy “Dude” Vietor:

Former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor emails:

The White House Correspondents Association has to be ready to respond much more forcefully if Trump continues to ignore long-standing traditions of press access. That’s especially true for the five network bureau chiefs who hold most of the power.

I’d like to see them publicly detail their expectations as well as the potential repercussions if those demands continue to be ignored.
Former Obama Spokesman Threatens Trump Over Media Access…


This is too important, and the Trump campaign learned all the wrong lessons during the campaign when they faced no penalty for blacklisting reporters.” (link)

Oh noes, the dreaded double-dog “potential repercussions” threat…. What’s the media going to do Tommy, stop reporting on Trump? Ignore Trump? LOLOL… that’s not exactly a threat. Tommy is so going to be riding his bicycle in slow circles in front of the White House…

Hey MSM snowflakes you were giddy when you were priviliged to be herded up in a rope pen for Ms. Hillary. So sorry but the America I know thinks it may be time for you privileged jesters to Suck it up Buttercup.

 

[C3D]

CRAP. I have reservations there for tonight! Why didn't I go last night?

 

[Deplorable Me]

It's not like Trump burnt 650,000 e-mails and bleached his server.

 

[JohnD13]

Keep them at a distance and let them howl. They not going to report anything close to the truth anyway.

 

[Koz]

Perhaps the media could meet President Elect Trump (and I do enjoy saying that) half way and afford him some of the same "meaningful, fair and courteous coverage" they continuously gave soon-to-be former president Barry (and I really enjoy saying that) during his legacy-less debacle as POTUS.

The MSM has made it their mission to destroy those on the right with whom they disagree. They have relentlessly savaged Trump, his family and team for the past 18 months. Now they want a maya copa? Further, they have the nads to issue demands and idle threats. I know Trump will do the right thing and handle it presidential and with deplomacy.

I on the other hand, would gleefully tell them to screw off and die and double up on my single finger salute. Then drop trou, turn and tell them all to "kiss my lily-white ass". But that's just me.

 

[GOPerfect]

I do not care about what The Hildabitch did or didn't do, she means nothing to me.

As for Mr. Trump, I think we are going to see more and more of this during his time in office,

The media deserves all that they get.

I say snub the living shit out of them.

Only invite to press conferences, those whom he wants.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Hey, MSM. You reap what you've sown. Go pound salt.

 

[GOPerfect]

Hey, MSM. You reap what you've sown. Go pound salt.

You said that much better than I did.

 

[soylentBlue]

The media has made their bias clear. The are out to dissect every innocent gesture or word and twist it to suit their designs.
"He smiled at the waitress! Sexism!" - "He didn't smile at the waitress! Misogyny!"
Why make their smear job easy?

 

[kev74]

What else does the media think they can do?
What ever repercussions they have in mind can't be worse than the biased coverage that they've already shown they're ok with.

 

[Koz]

Thrump should use Breitbart to provide the MSM with all of the White House press releases.

 

[turbobike]

Thrump should use Breitbart to provide the MSM with all of the White House press releases.

Great idea, only pick the media outlets that were favorable to him before the election...other MSM...kiss my a$$...

 

[livingston]

 

[MoMan]

Screw the MSM, they will just twist shit up anyway.
They would make a huge deal out of the fact the Trumps ate steak! I can hear it now: This is CNN, the Trump Family ate steak and lobster tonight... WHAT DID YOU EAT!!