Plotkin Calls for WH Press Corps Rebellion

Yesterday morning, on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, WTOP’s Mark Plotkin ripped the President and press secretary Robert Gibbs for calling on their “front row favorites,” saying that “all the press people sit there as mannequins” to ask “questions of the day and never ask any surprising questions.”

He goes on to say that Gibbs only calls on the TV people who are enablers in allowing President Obama to dictate the topic of the day.”

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