Transparency For Thee, But Not For Me

The mainstream media's double secret lunch with Barack Hussein Obama.

OK -- just to be perfectly clear: We were not among the dozen or so White House reporters invited to a private, off the record lunch with the president today.

Would we have gone? Probably -- but we would have copped to it after the fact!

So far only the New York Times is saying it declined the invite -- a droll bit of high-mindedness, considering Obama mostly loves the NYT and they get tons more access than most, anyway. So refusing to have an off-the-record lunch with the president in company with 11 or so other filthy scribes in soiled ties, rumpled jackets and scuffed heels does what?

Still (grudgingly) -- it's important to remind the president that we want to hear from him on the record, so it's helpful for the NYT to take that stand, even if it costs them nothing.

But there is another uncomfortable issue to be addressed here: The press is constantly pushing for more transparency from the administration, demanding to know who he meets with and who comes and goes. So when it's us he meets with we suddenly get all shy and private?

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Examiner-takes-principled-stand-Skips-OTR-lunch-with-Obama-100578529.html#ixzz0wUYqlOFO