During yesterday’s press conference on Iran, President Obama had an exchange with Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney that seemed to be pre-arranged:
“Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?”
Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.”
He then noted that the site had solicited questions from people in the country “who were still courageous enough to be communicating online.”
Heavy reliance on the teleprompter is already lame, but this is really lame. Looks like our President does not like surprises.
