White House mad at British press - because they can't control them!

Drudge linked today to a report from Politico that described Press Secretary Gibbs attacking the British press:

“I want to speak generally about some reports I’ve witnessed over the past few years in the British media. And in some ways, I’m surprised it filtered down,” Gibbs began. “Let’s just say if I wanted to look up – if I wanted to read a writeup today of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champion’s League cup, I might open up a British newspaper. If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I’m not entirely sure it’d be in the first pack of clips I’d pick up.”

“You're not going to find very many of these newspapers and truth within 25 words of each other,” Gibbs continued.

I suspect he was talking about the fact that the British papers in some cases chose not to print stories that were either too inflammatory (prisoner abuse photos) or were not sufficiently loose toward the release of information that might endanger secret government programs aimed at keeping US and British citizens safer. The real joke in this story is that it is pretty clear to me where his real issue resides.

He doesn't like that the British press will not accept the Obama White House narrative without question. That is his version of "truth". It's also why I read a lot more of the British press the the US press anymore. When US journalists talk about the tingling up their leg when Obama talks, it is really hard to take the seriously at all.

So keep at it British press!

Read the Politico story here.

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