40 journalism and open-government groups sent a letter to the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, in response to his Aug. 31 letter to the editor calling for journalists to give President Obama credit for improvements in government transparency.
Mr. Earnest highlighted some of the ways the Obama administration has improved transparency in the White House. Yet, over nearly the past eight years, the Society of Professional Journalists and other groups have repeatedly outlined to the administration various ways in which transparency has gotten worse, including:
■ Officials’ blocking requests by reporters to talk to specific staff people.
■ Excessive delays in answering interview requests that stretch past reporters’ deadlines.
■ Conveying information “on background,” and refusing to give reporters what should be public information unless they agree not to say who is speaking.
■ Federal agencies’ blackballing of reporters who write critically of them.
■ Lack of meaningful visual access to the president by an independent press pool.
Last December, a delegation representing 50-plus organizations met with Mr. Earnest at the White House to urge greater openness and transparency. Despite promises that the White House would follow up with us, to date we have heard nothing.
We were hoping we could point to this White House as a shining example of how it should be done. Unfortunately, we can’t do that and will have to start over with the next administration.
We vow to the American people to keep fighting to protect their right to know what their elected officials are doing.
PAUL FLETCHER
President
Society of Professional Journalists
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So what did Josh Earnest JUST whine about yesterday???
Washington Examiner: White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest expressed annoyance that President Obama doesn’t get enough credit for being the “most transparent” president in history.
I realize you’re supposed to be paid whores, but c’mon. This is absolutely ridiculous. It’s worse than Baghdad Bob.
Holy shot is this jackass for real? 🙄
Deceit, deception and lies = Transparency in Earnest’s alternate universe.
Disgusting, dishonorable, traitorous liars, all of them.
Intelligent people on the right saw through that arrogant jack-ass from the start. Everybody else should have listened to people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
You know they’re running a subversive, nefarious Communist agenda when you hear preposterous shit like this!
I think he’s very transparent as regards his love of islam, his hatred of Israel and the U.S., and his utter racism.
Less than 30 days to go. I’m shooting off fireworks on January 20.
How does this jerk even sleep at night? Let alone keep a straight face every time he speaks for barry.
Ernest certainly earns his money.
The Jedi mind tricks don’t seem to be working anymore.
Pick up the phone josh, Hell is calling to confirm your reservation.
I hope someone hires this piece of shit and makes his life worse than Hell. I would support cutting off his nads, hanging them around his neck, and tattooing “I hate ALLAH n FUCKIN MUSLIMS across his forehead, back, chest, and ship him to Qatar. Add “Hey buddy, want a bj?” tatt down his arms, in Arabic and English.
There has never been a more appropriately named White House press secretary.
Earnest. Serious. Faithful
Faithful.
Josh. To kid or humiliate
For many years he’s been earnestly joshing us.
So, every day he’s been seriously kidding us.
And don’t forget BO’s continuous
claims of; “I didn’t know about
this until I read it in the newspaper”.
Our media companies are full of baghdad bobs.
So the reporters should get the ‘lyin ted’ treatment. Yell ‘baghdad bob’ at them repeatedly. I like it.
The only way he could be transparent would be if somebody beat the shit out of him.
Does he actually believe his own shit? Or is he afraid of retaliation for not lying for the Kenyan commie?
There’s a special place in hell for this Uber Weasel. Also, plenty of room for the fawning imbeciles in the press who made him what he is today.
MKULTRAed.
Most of the DC jackasses are.
Joshy Boy is just using the official Obama OPPOSITE DICTIONARY. Up is down, transparent is muddied, keep your insurance, BAHHHAAAAAAHHHA.
How do people like Earnest or politicians face their
neighbors each day? OH, just figured it out-they don’t
care.(was gonna say-they don’t give a chit, but we have ladies in the room) 🙂
Yeah but the pay was good!
I’m so tired of watching them on TV and yelling, ARE YOU HIGH?!?!?!
ugh.
The most annoying liars are the ones that keep an expression of sincerity on their while they look you in the eye and say something that everyone one in the room knows is not true, and never was.
JoshE is like the kid with chocolate smeared face & fingers who denies ever sticking his hand into the cookie jar. Going on to deny ever seeing one before or having any knowledge where one might be found.
He and Obama are two identical peas in the same pod.
The “Foul Mouth of Sauron” had nothing on Earnest.
(Josh Earnest, not Ernest T. Bass)
People who knowingly lie for money – isn’t there a word for that?
izlamo delenda est …
They’re called presstitutes.
This guy busted my Ass-Hole Meter about a year and a half ago… right after I got it back from repair from sploding all over the basement after seeing Jay Carney’s Kommunist Kitchen pictures!
PHenry is dead on, Such is the problem with being Earnest. He can’t possibly be paid enough to mouth this idiocy!! Not to mention looking at himself in the mirror every day and asking, “What the HELL am I doing????”
ell it is transparently obvious that Obama is as queer as a nitpick basket.
Well it is transparently obvious that Obama is as queer as a picnic basket.
Obama is transparent. I’ve seen right through him from the beginning.
Wait…what?…huh?
Josh, why don’t you go perform self-actuated coitus on yourself. History will judge Obama extremely fairly.
Bizzaro land.
And aside from the Josh-ing not-so-Ernest being as transparent as a pool of oil, next they’ll have a new thing to worry and bitch about when Trump is sworn in…..the press, and the WH press pool, will be completely irrelevant. Trump will do daily tweets, bypassing the press and their lying agenda driven biased spin. Anything longer or more complex then that, and there may be a press conference, but I’m thinking that the usual old-school presstitutes won’t be invited; NYSlime, WaPo, LASlime, etc, etc. You get the picture. It will be interesting to see who is given passes to the WH press corp pool (and by extension, who is NOT).
Or maybe Trump will give the old school reporters a royal black-and-blue dressing down, in front of their own cameras. He’s already done that before.
We live in interesting times…….
Earnest and Obama are probably giving each other the D.