issues and it would be nice if he answered these questions. bill: we heard that a lot from the right. doug, is the right about this. i think the right is correct in the sense that given the challenges of things like sequester, it s a little disturbing that the president is limiting his access to local media who asks him questions about golf with tiger woods. however, interesting it may be. but there really are important questions we have to deal with. now bottom line, bill, this is successful media manipulation by the white house, make no mistake. when i worked for bill clinton, we did the same thing. we wanted to bypass the national media. bill: this is local television. you did not have google hankouts, facebook online town hall meetings. seems like that is their strategy lately, to go around the press corps in washington and another example here in san francisco. but, doug, there are stories being written about the dangers of overconfidence. when you win a second term and you begi
politico stories yesterday up in arms feel like they re being shut out. a lot of them. we had four or five in the piece that went on the record with very critical comments on the white house. they re saying it is different this time. the obama white house is taking this predictive set of tools for media manipulation whether controlling where you re going or who you re talking to or limiting access the president has and with his staff and then putting it on steroids, using social media and taking their own photos and what gets released to the mass. the combination of this has made this white house much more controlling of his image than even george bush, who was accused of freezing out the press. for republicans complaining president obama is not working with them. how much of this goes back to the early days of his presidency where he feels he did reach out on stimulus and health care and didn t get anything back and
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do you like your chicken with a side of opposition to same-sex marriage? that is what you re getting at chick-fil-a whether you know it or not. president and ceo dan cathy ignited quite the controversy this past week in an interview with the baptist free service when asked whether his company supports traditional families as opposed to same-sex marriage, here s what he said. i m going to quote him. guilty as charged. we are very much supportive of the family the biblical definition of the family unit. we are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. we give god thanks for that. certainly not something you would hear out of ronald mcdonald anytime soon. but dan cathy and his chick-fil-a executives have never shied away from religion and here s what cathy said to cnn more than a year ago. the real reason why we re here in this business is to glorify god by being a faithful steward of all that s entrusted to us and have a posit