Testy? I Think Not

A little peek behind the curtain. The press and the President spend many, many long pressured filled hours together. The relationship is adversarial by nature, professional by necessity. The press on one side of the podium needing as much information as they can get to feed the 24/7 beast that is the news industry and the White House on the other, hopefully this time around, trying to keep us as well informed about the doings of our government as is reasonable. Knowing when to press and when to back off can go a long, long way. Here we see Johnathan Martin of the Politico ziging when he should have zagged by pressing the new President about policy during a situation that was little different than a social call. President Obama's handling of the questioning has been described as "testy". I think not. More like a firm and plain explanation that he was not there to answer questions. Perhaps the compulsion to pounce is a left over knee-jerk reaction the Bush administration when even when reporters got answers to their questions the answers weren't always the truth.


The gist @ 3:30