Obama, liar, Tony Rezko, felon

President Obama uttered at least two lies to the White House press corps on Monday:

Lie 1) "If you look at the overall trajectory of our campaign and the ads that I've approved and are produced by my campaign, you'll see that we point out sharp differences between the candidates, but we don't go out of bounds."

No need to regurgitate the scurrilous and vicious attack ads aired by the Obama campaign against Mitt Romney. Anybody who's seen the ads knows full well that the Obama campaign went completely out of bounds, to say the least. And, contrary to the President's claims, it wasn't only the Obama PAC's that produced these despicable ads; the Obama campaign produced similar vile and detestable ads. But sadly, the White House press corps will never, ever call Obama out on his lies.

Lie 2) The President also falsely asserted that "nobody" in his campaign "had ever accused Mr. Romney of being a felon."

However, as the RNC noted, Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, spoke to reporters in July and accused Mitt Romney of committing a "felony, or... misrepresenting his position... to the American people."

In truth, it is Mr. Obama, who is craftily misrepresenting the facts to the American people. Apparently all those years that Obama spent in the company of convicted FELON, Tony Rezko, has had a detrimental effect on him: The shady house purchase; the letter that Obama wrote to [Chicago] city officials urging them to provide huge subsidies to assist Rezko in developing his low-income apartments, which soon deteriorated to the point where they were no longer inhabitable; the $250,000 Rezko donated to Obama's political campaigns - perhaps all of this has had an adverse effect on Obama. Or, more likely, Obama was not the least bit affected by Mr. Rezko, but rather he gravitated toward Mr. Rezko and other crooked and loathsome individuals because - as everybody knows - "Birds of a feather flock together".

It should also be noted that last week, members of the White House press corps - a predominantly Liberal group of reporters - complained that Obama hasn’t formally taken questions from them in more than two months. But ironically, on the rare occasions that the President actually speaks to the press pool reporters, they refuse to rebut him and to call him out on his lies. Which raises the following questions: Why would these reporters whine about a lack of communication with Obama, when they are unwilling to have a back and forth discussion with him and are disinclined to refute his lies? Could it be that all they really desire is an opportunity to share the limelight with the President and to appear on camera with him?

Update: The aforementioned questions boggled my mind yesterday after I had heard the President's press conference, but I'm in good company; Rush Limbaugh made a similar observation today:

"Now, notice, folks, what prompted Obama to hold a so-called impromptu news conference. The Akin comment. Obama hasn't talked to the press other than People magazine or George Clooney or Entertainment Tonight in two months. The Akin comment prompts Obama to go to White House pressroom for 22 minutes. Not the unemployment rate. Not China's threats to Japan or Iran's threats to Israel. Not economic misery. Not the future of America. No, Akin. Todd Akin is what prompted Barack Obama to summon the courage and the fortitude to go face his slavish White House press corps.

"Why in the world be afraid of your stenographers? But Barack Obama is acting scared to death of his own press corps, and they are essentially his stenographers... The press corps does whatever Obama wants. When you see the press corps whining and moaning that Obama hadn't come and spoken, it's not because they're trying to learn anything. It's not because they want news to be made. It's they want their buddy to come talk to 'em. They want to be validated. They're loving Obama. They love themselves some Obama. They're doing everything they can to get Obama and Biden reelected. They want some love back. They want Obama to come tell 'em how much he loves 'em and how much he appreciates 'em."