White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

That's not the role of the White House press corps. They cover the president. They also haven't had much, if any, direct access to the president. They get his surrogates, spinners, who tell them what the president is doing, what he's feeling. Their job is not to be stenographers, but to ask questions, test the information that is coming out about policies and decisions and actions by the president in order to report it to the president's 'employers', We the People.
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