So right wing radio host Lars Larson and Jeff Jobe, who runs a community newspaper in Kentucky.... [View all]

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.....are now given time at White House press conference to ask softball questions about "returning National Forest land to the public" and allowing more coal mining, respectively.

This takes over time and precedence from reporters from actual legitimate and respected news organizations.

And their faces via Skype are plastered front and center for everyone next to Shouty Spice as they ask "questions" which serve more as sycophantant words of encouragement.

This is a charade. This is shit. This is absolute shit.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/31/media/jeff-jobe-press-briefing/

On Wednesday, Jobe will become one of the first four journalists to participate in the White House press briefing via Skype. The other participants, as announced by Spicer, are Natalie Herbick of Fox 8 in Cleveland, conservative talk radio host Lars Larson of "The Lars Larson Show," and Kimberly Kalunian of WPRI in Providence, Rhode Island.

The addition of outside questioners has unnerved some members of the existing White House press corps, who fear the Trump administration is using the initiative to dilute critical questions from veteran journalists with softballs from supportive outsiders.

Jobe describes himself as a Trump supporter -- "Absolutely, I endorsed him," he said. And he has run for elected office as a Republican twice, once in 2008 and again in 2014. But he stressed that his only intention is to serve his readers: "I want it to be of value to my state and to South Central Kentucky," he said. "I want to bring it home, if I can."

So the President won't talk to CNN, but he will talk to the publisher of the weekly Hart County News Herald, whose lead headline this week is "Car vs. Lawn Mower".