Lynn Sweet: Gates Question Was Not Planted

Politics Daily:

Coulter said on FOX News that Obama "had that question planted." She added, "I do have proof." On NBC's "Today Show" on Wednesday morning, host Matt Lauer, asked Malkin, "Do you think this was a planned question?" Replied Malkin, "Absolutely do."

You are both wrong. The Obama White House did not have a clue what I would be asking. (And why again would they want to plant a question that would take him off his health-care message, a question that was likely to get him in hot water, and did?)

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Comments

[toggan]

Thanks for nothing, Ms. Sweet, with your gonzo-style journalism. Serious Health Care Reform reporting via media was given a serious setback for at least one week. There are still remnants of this story still making headlines. Aren't you proud of your question, Lyn Gonzo Sweet?

[Dbos]

She played gocha. She appears on ultra conservative radio station WLS.Soul selling former journalist.

[LetsGetToWork]

How soon do you think it will be before allowed to ask a question again? My guess is looooooong time.

[jimrs6]

It clearly was not planted, as Obama clearly had not rehearsed the answer and had to go out on his own.

[MontanaBlue]

I have no problem with the question, and think my president's answer to the question was spot on. I only wish he hadn't backtracked. The police department did behave stupidly. Arresting a man in his own home because he yelled at a cop? Poor white man Crowley ... you are so oppressed.

[sueno]

I like Ms. Sweet,
but I thought that the question
was out of place, given the topic
of the evening. I felt that she sabatoged
the whole event with her 'out-of-bounds' inquiry-

[faith2hope]

Ms. Sweet I don't care for your type of journalism, its clear that you're not interested in facts and important news, or you would have never asked the question. It was not the time or the place. It may not have been staged but it tastless and you show no class whatsoever in asking, trying to make the media top ten list at any cost is low.

[Redheadwithopinions]

Why is it that anyone pays attention to that string bean in a dress?

[rshrink]

10 posts under scrutiny. What is this, Homeland Security now?

[IDIOTA]

I just heard Richard Wolffe and Joan Walsh say things on Countdown that I can never say here at HP.

[rshrink]

I see HuffPost is doing some creative restrictions of freedom of speech again.

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

If the question was planted, it would have been by the repubs. Nothing could have side lined the health care issue as well as this self admitted off topic questions. Thanks for nothing Lynn. Just trying to get some attention.

[IDIOTA]

Lynn Sweet asked a typical Sweet question, one that stirs the pot.

[JustMe133]

Who cares what those twits think? I do know when the questions was asked though, I was taken back! I was like now all these questions about the health care and this ones got to ask about this now, why? But it's done now. That's the media for ya!

[shamroc02]

Her question is the reason why no one takes the White House press corps seriously. They sat in silence for years while Bush ran the country into the ground...t­ehn wanted to act all outraged when Hurrican Katrina hit. Please. If Obama wasn't bi-racial this broad would have never asked the question in the first place.

[dennissinned]

As we all know, Dubya had used at least one plant in the Press Corps who sidelined as an e s c o r t. The GOP card girls would like to think their party is not the only one that's capable of this modus operandi. Misery, as they say, love company. But when it comes to sinister actions, the GOP is alone.

[judesuper]

I just have to say. If any cop showed up at my door demanding ID. And once given they still cuff me and take me to the station. There would definitely be a lot of screaming and swearing going on. OH, and also a lawsuit.

They didn't have a warrant. The professor didn't break any laws. And he was in his own home. I got to say that I think that cops over stepped their bounds. I mean to drag a guy out of his own home. All because the home owner was pissed off? That's not right.

[judesuper]

Of course it was planted. But not by the President.

You have to wonder why any reporter covering the health care news briefing would ask a question other than about health care. Um.... makes you wonder.