All the president's women

[superbeets]

[h=1]All the president's women: Obama only calls on female reporters to ask questions in his final press conference of the year[/h]

• President Obama prepares a list of names to call upon in the last press conference of the year - and this year he chose eight women
• None of the women were TV reporters and instead work for publications including Bloomberg, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal
• The White House said the list recognized the 'many women from a variety of news organizations who day-in and day-out' cover the president
• Twitter users celebrated the move

dancing-santagif

 

[superbeets]

President Obama has finished the year on a memorable note - by only answering questions from female reporters at the final press conference of 2014.
In a presidential first, he called upon eight women in the last press meeting of the year and fielded questions about Cuba policy, the Sony hack and the state of race relations in the U.S.
Reading the reporters' names from a pre-prepared list, he called upon Carrie Budoff Brown from Politico, Cheryl Bolen from Bloomberg, Julie Pace from Associated Press, Lesley Clark of McClatchy, Roberta Rampton from Reuters, Colleen M. Nelson of the Wall Street Journal and Juliet Eilperin from the Washington Post.


christmas-bulbsgif

+9


Historic: In his press conference on Friday - the last of the year - President Obama only called on women to ask him questions. His press secretary said they wanted to give a chance to reporters less often heard

+9


All smiles: President Obama first called upon Carrie Budoff Brown from Politico and joked about her up-coming move to Belgium, saying that they made very good waffles there

 

[superbeets]

Making history: Next he called upon Cheryl Bolen of Bloomberg and Julie Pace from Associated Press, right

 

[superbeets]

Although he had said Eilperin would ask the last question, reporters continued to shout out more - as is tradition - and Obama clearly ignored a question from a male reporter about his new year's resolution.
Instead, he called upon one more woman - April Ryan of American Urban Radio.
The move, which Politico called 'clearly intentional', set Twitter into a frenzy, as users commended the president for spotlighting the smarts of the women.


banana-santa


'Wow,' Jennifer Bendery of the Huffington Post tweeted. 'Obama just said last question. That's seven questions to seven female reporters. Surely a first.'
'No male reporters get to ask a question AND The Interview got canceled. Sorry bros,' journalist Allison Kilkenny added.
CNN's Brenna Williams quipped: 'Briefings full of Women > Binders Full of Women.'
Of the eight women he called upon, none were television reporters.

Speaking out: Lesley Clark of McClatchy (left) and Roberta Rampton from Reuters (right) also quizzed Obama

He called upon Colleen M. Nelson of the Wall Street Journal, left, and Juliet Eilperin from the Washington Post

+9


For one final question - as men tried to shout out questions - President Obama called upon April Ryan of American Urban Radio. She quizzed him about race relations in the U.S. at the end of 2014

 

[superbeets]

In response, CBS News' Mark Knoller tweeted they had been advised before the press conference that Press Secreatry Josh Earnest wanted to call upon reporters who were more rarely heard from.
Earnest confirmed this in a statement about the list.
'The fact is, there are many women from a variety of news organizations who day-in and day-out do the hard work of covering the President of the United States,' the press secretary said in a statement about the list.
'As the questioner list started to come together, we realized that we had a unique opportunity to highlight that fact at the President's closely watched, end of the year news conference.'


peanuts-christmasgif

 

[Michelangelo]

Nothing like being a white male these days. When are we going to march on Washington for equal rights?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

My lord, they're all ugly.

 

[mountain]

No need to check out any porn, just looking at those hotties is good enough for me. You average them all together and you will see a picture of Rosie O'donnel.

Nothing finer than an angry, ugly, fatass, horn rimmed glasses, man hating wench to get me fired up. Now wonder Dafinch is always pissed. If I had to hit one of those I would be tossing cartoons after my response too.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Memo to Fox News, get this fox a White House pass:

 

[mountain]

Memo to Fox News, get this fox a White House pass:

She's a conservative, you have to get married or engaged to hit it. Progressive chicks are ugly as hell but you can get it the first night as long as they think they control it.