{"id":23945,"date":"2014-12-20T02:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=23945"},"modified":"2014-12-20T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T16:57:13","slug":"obamas-press-conference-makes-news-for-letting-women-ask-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=23945","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s War On Men: Media Rattled By Women Reporters At Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama held his last press conference (CSPAN video here<\/a>) for 2014 on Friday. It being a volatile time in the world there were questions that reflected the many serious issues facing the nation and the world. They spanned from North Korea to Cuba to tax reform to Keystone XL to race relations. But you’ll never guess what the media focused on at the conclusion of the affair.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Apparently, the breaking news that sprung out of the press conference was that Obama only called on women journalists. That fact trumped everything else that was said about the other major issues of the day. The very first comment by Gretchen Carlson of Fox News after the event ended was about the gender makeup of the questioners. She also found it curious that Obama didn’t call on any reporters in the first row where the TV network correspondents sit.<\/p>\n

Funny, I don’t recall ever hearing anybody take note that only men asked questions in prior press conferences. Particularly back when there weren’t any women at all in the White House press corps (with the exception of Helen Thomas). But for some reason this was regarded as newsworthy and even historic.<\/p>\n

There was a clear implication that Obama had deliberately orchestrated this in order to advance his “War on Men.”<\/em> Plus, the pundit class seems to believe that women would ask less confrontational questions. That’s an opinion that also extends to the reporters sitting behind the network stars in the first row.<\/p>\n

To be fair, it wasn’t just Fox News. Other networks and numerous print news outlets made the same observation. But what sets Fox apart are the comments on their Fox Nation website that castigate this “gender discrimination”<\/em> as more proof that Obama is weak, or gay, or committed to destroying God’s natural order of white, male, Christian supremacy. And that ugliness ought to be more newsworthy than the gender scoring that the self-obsessed media is engaging in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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