Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell. Don’t Criticize the Leader.
The most transparent government in….oh, the heck with it. Who, exactly does Robert Gibbs think he’s fooling?
That wasn’t a rhetorical question, by the way. If the administration’s stunning stifling of free press and dissent today is any indication, we know one group of people the administration is playing for a gang of fools.
Police chased reporters away from the White House and closed Lafayette Park today in response to a gay rights protest in which several service members in full uniform handcuffed themselves to the White House gate to protest “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Here’s the video. Note that there isn’t a particularly large crowd, by White House Protest standards, nor are the protesters threatening anyone or anything. So why chase the media away?
I love the comment from one of the reporters right at the beginning. He says, to the police officer rousting everyone from the park, “If you want to keep the public out, that’s fine, but let us do our jobs.”
Welcome to hope and change, Mr. Important Media Guy.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Barack Obama vs Freedom of Speech
- Free Speech? Not if You’re a Republican in Congress
- What Do I Know About Free Speech? I’m Not Linda Douglass.
Category: Free Speech (?), President Barack Obama, The Social Issues
