Marathon Pundit: More on Obama's press conference lie

Monday, March 14, 2011

More on Obama's press conference lie

For the most part, mainstream media reporters take in President Obama's press conference pronouncements as if they were leg-tingling love sonnets. But as Hugh Hewitt notes this morning in the Washington Examiner, the New Orleans' Times-Picayune's Washington correspondent, Jonathan Tilove, didn't swoon at Friday's event. Domestic oil production was a main topic of the press conference.

Tilove did his job and sought reaction to Obama's remarks from Louisiana members of Congress.

"The gap continues to widen between what President Obama claims to be true about domestic energy production and what Louisianans know is true," said Sen. David Vitter, R-La.

"With prices at the pump climbing toward $4 per gallon, the president is asking us to believe that his administration supports expanded drilling off the Gulf Coast," Vitter continued. "I guess that's true only if you don't actually need a permit."

"Someone should tell the president that April Fool's Day is still weeks away," said Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., told Tilove. "Today's news conference is another example of the president misleading the American people regarding his energy policy.

Tilove got similar quotes from Louisiana Republican Reps. Charles Boustany (the "president's remarks ... are wholly untrue"), Rodney Alexander, Bill Cassidy and Steve Scalise. They all provide variations on the same theme: The president isn't telling the truth about oil production and his administration's war on new supplies.