Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House and the second-most-senior reporter on the beat, was bypassed today at the daily news briefing with press secretary Robert Gibbs.
Kinsolving, who has been at the post since he began covering the executive branch during the Nixon administration, reports that he has been excluded from daily access to the White House more under President Obama's spokesman, Gibbs, than during the tenures of any of the 14 other press secretaries with whom he has worked.
However, Fox News was allowed to pose 10 questions, NBC six, the AP five and CNN, Reuters and Bloomberg each four.
Only one-third of the 63 reporters present were allowed to participate with questions.
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Kinsolving was prepared to ask: "Does the president think it was right – or wrong – for the authors of Medicare to exempt Congress?" and "Does the president agree or disagree with officials of the Health and Human Services agency advisory committee on blood safety and availability, who in a 9-6 vote decided against allowing MSM (men who have sex with men) to donate blood?"
Another subject on which Kinsolving sought executive comment was a New York Times report about concern expressed by Democrat governors about Obama's lawsuit against Arizona over its attempt to uphold federal immigration standards.
Fox News was able to ask a question on that subject:
"The New York Times reported this morning that Democratic governors privately expressed some anxiety about the lawsuit against the Arizona immigration law in meetings with two senior White House officials. They were anxious about the climate economically, the issue of immigration, the timing of the lawsuit. Has any of that been conveyed to senior administration officials here or the president? And what's your reaction to that level of anxiety?" was the question.
"I will say from the reading that I got from the individuals that were at the meeting, that this came as a fairly small part at the end of a meeting," Gibbs responded. "Look, our reaction is that we understand the frustration of all of those involved, Arizona included, in the federal government's inability to comprehensively deal with the problem of immigration. The president believed, and the Justice Department believed, that you could not have 50 states piecing together patchwork immigration laws. And that's what the suit was – that's why the suit was filed."
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