Obama - What The Hell Are You Reading?

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/26/obama_columnists/index.html

Gibbs, like Obama, hates the press. Which is fair enough, because the arm of the press they have to deal with -- the Beltway political media -- is fairly awful! But despite his hatred for the press, Barack Obama does respect certain members of the commentariat.

Relations, in any event, are not good. Obama incessantly refers to "the cable chatter" with palpable disdain, and he frequently grumbles to his aides about the media's coverage of his presidency. His press conferences are fewer than Clinton's (though more than Bush's) at the same stage of their presidencies—and, says Clinton's former press secretary Mike McCurry, "I feel sometimes when I watch Obama do these that he looks like he'd rather be having a root canal." Obama does reserve a certain respect for opinion writers such as Tom Friedman and David Brooks of The New York Times, Jerry Seib of The Wall Street Journal, E. J. Dionne of The Washington Post, and Joe Klein of Time. "My impression is that he reads a lot of columnists," says Brooks, "and therefore he sort of cares about what they say."

Friedman?, Brooks?, Klein? :shrug: :banghead: :cry: