Spokesman skips over Obama scholarship question

By WND Staff
Published April 26, 2011 at 9:14pm

There'll be no answers right away to questions about the scholarships that Barack Obama was given during college.

The question had been prepared for White House spokesman Jay Carney at today's briefing there, but he declined to allow Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, to ask it.

In fact, Carney allowed only 17 reporters – of the 60 in attendance – to ask any questions at all, giving the reporters on the first three rows time to ask 46 questions.

Carney refused to acknowledge WND's Kinsolving for the second week in a row.

He had planned to ask: "Since the president publicly stated on the Facebook forum that he went to college on scholarships, could you tell us precisely what were those scholarships?"

He also planned to ask about comments from Stanford economics professor John Taylor. He noted at that forum, President Obama sometimes referenced $4 trillion in savings, and sometimes referenced $2 trillion. He also switched back and forth between savings over 10 years and savings over 12 years.

Kinsolving wanted to ask, "Does the president envision saving $4 trillion or $2 trillion…?"

Kinsolving, who has covered the White House since the days of President Richard Nixon, confirmed he's been denied the opportunity to participate in the daily White House briefing more under Obama's White House tenure than under any other president.

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