Friday, April 29, 2011

Did White House use birth certificate to distract press?

Did White House use birth certificate to distract press?
The Daily Caller ^ | 04/28/2011 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 6:56:04 AM by Scanian

When he released his long-form birth certificate on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama gave into pressure put on him by potential 2012 presidential candidate Donald Trump, seemingly playing right into the real estate mogul’s hand by addressing an issue he had so steadfastly avoided. But, indirectly, Obama is benefiting from giving in to Trump as the mainstream media’s focus isn’t on the major storylines that would usually dominate the headlines, like the Federal Reserve press conference, unfavorable economic numbers and all-time-lows for Obama in polling results.


Obama’s rapid shift on the issue raises some questions. Even the day before the White House released the birth certificate, press secretary Jay Carney ripped CNN’s Ed Henry for asking about it. In his briefing room appearance on Wednesday, though, Obama said he’d made the decision to release his long-form birth certificate a couple weeks before.
Did Carney know about the president’s plan?

If not, why not? If so, why disparage a reporter for sullying the briefing room by asking a question about the birth certificate one day and the next day have the president give a press conference in the briefing room to talk about the very same birth certificate the reporter was supposedly sullying by bringing up?

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank questioned Obama’s swift jump into the birther story, too, and points out that NBC opted to go live with the president’s birth certificate statements only because it had previously expected a national security announcement.

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