This time, at his a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062301656.html"White House presser on Iran/a, he asked Nico Pitney from Huffington Post a question a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html"co-ordinated in advance/a.br /br /Allegedly, the White House. Via Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton called Pitney in advance, and “invited” him to ask an Iran question Here’s Burton:br /blockquote"We did reach out to him prior to press conference to tell him that we had been paying attention to what he had been doing on Iran and there was a chance that he’d be called on. And, he ended up asking the toughest question that the President took on Iran. In the absence of an Iranian press corps in Washington, it was an innovative way to get a question directly from an Iranian.”/blockquotebr /Indeed, Obama violated normal WH presser protocol by bumping Pitney all the way up to No. 2 after Helen Thomas on the list of questioners, ahead of Reuters as leader of foreign press.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-5193556927967051091?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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