Obama gets anti-secrecy award

[The Straight Story]

President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.

This time, Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.

“Our understanding going into the meeting was that it would have a pool photographer and a print reporter, and it turned out to be a private meeting,” Bass told POLITICO. “He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us, it is baffling why he would not want that message to be more broadly heard by reporters and the public interest community and the public generally.”

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0311/not_a_secret_anymore_a00ccd98-0d9e-4822-8936-168f3a51b959.html

[johnroshan]

1. "transparency" ??

wow... the dudes raking in awards that he has no credentials for!

[LaurenG]

2. LOL accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed,

undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

Awesome...

[ixion]

5. LOL... yeah, gotta love the irony in that

:rofl:

[Tatiana]

3. More and more of late, the stories about the administration and WH seem to come from the Onion. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

6. The Onion - satire or reality ?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nuclear-energy-advocates-insist-us-reactors-comple,19740/

[piratefish08]

4. it can go over the fireplace, next to the Peace Prize.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Hugabear]

7. Do we really need to repost anti-Obama crap from Drudge?

There's plenty to criticize Obama for without having to irrelevant partisan crap like this from the Drudge Report

[The Straight Story]

8. Ummm didn't find it at drudge, have not been there in months (his site sucks)

Same stories for hours, never change, usually behind my usual sources.

Also - is it a true story or not?

[Hugabear]

10. It's been on his site for a few days

I apologize if you found it elsewhere. However, I just don't really see the relevance of this. It seems more of a minor right-wing nagging point. There are plenty of more serious issues to criticize Obama for without stuff like this.

[The Straight Story]

11. I wasn't aware I was criticizing him

He's the prez, what he does/gets makes news.

[LaurenG]

13. It's funny to some of us - the irony is great

transparency award given behind closed doors isn't at all funny to you?

[joeybee12]

9. Gotta be The Onion! knr

[NightWatcher]

12. to be fair, he did get the Nobel Peace Prize.....then sent the CIA in Libya for regime change

so this is nothing new really

[GeorgeGist]

14. The Onion lives.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. Kinda like Greenpeace giving the Japanese Whaling Industry for protecting whales.

[Safetykitten]

16. You see the RW is not the only entity that will perpetuate a lie till it seems like a fact.

[Chris_Texas]

17. In other news... Hannible Lecter was awarded the culinary arts prize

[walldude]

18. LMAO a closed, undisclosed, secret presentation

for Transparency. The jokes write themselves.

[bvar22]

19. You can't make this shit up.

Just when I think we have reached rock bottom,
the bar gets lowered again.