President Obama doesn’t like follow-up questions:
President Barack Obama’s first prime-time press conference was most remarkable for how he borrowed a page from his predecessor, refusing to accept follow-up questions. It might seem like a petty issue, but it was significant and telling that George W. Bush would not allow follow-up questions in his sessions with reporters. . .
In last night’s press conference, Obama cut off any attempt by reporters to follow up his answers to their questions. If he intends to maintain this Bush policy, reporters must work together and agree to ask the obvious follow-up to the previous question as they take their turns. Otherwise, these press conferences are nothing but one-sided speeches.
(Via LGF.)
The problem with this plan is it requires not just one journalist willing to ask a question unfavorable to President Obama, but the entire press corps to collaborate to ask a question unfavorable to the president. That seems very unlikely ever to happen.
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