...and probably won't be welcome back at the White House - even though he's the White House Correspondent for CBS.
The reason? Garrett dared to ask President Obama direct questions about his knowledge of the problems and shortcomings of Obamacare and asked the President if he knew about them ahead of time. Garrett used to be a top notch, unafraid reporter when he worked for FOX News. I've had doubts about him since he moved over to CBS and became a part of the great, main stream media cheer leading squad. But it seems Garrett hasn't forgotten where he came from. Rather than leave his cojones at the door to the White House press room (like most of the other "journalists") it seems he smuggled them in this morning.
"Do you not believe, sir, that the American people deserve deeper, more transparent accountability from you …?" Garrett asked of the President. "Do we deserve more detailed explanations of whether you knew people would lose plans? And didn't you know website would fail?"
You can bet President Obama isn't happy about being put on the spot like that. Of course, he denied knowledge of reality once again, pretending he didn't know about these things until after the fact. I ask once again - if President Obama is always the last person in the White House to know anything why do we need him there? He didn't know about Benghazi. He didn't know about the IRS. He didn't know about the NSA spying. He didn't know about the Justice Department spying on the Associated Press. So the bigger questions are "What does the President know, how long did it take him to find out and how long will he continue to deny knowledge?"
Congratulations to Major Garrett for asking real questions - you know - actually being a journalist. Nothing against the current FOX guy but I wish you'd come back, Major. I always enjoyed watching you grill Obama, Robert Gibbs and Jay Carney. Wait - I know... tag team!!
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