The Daily Caller has learned that at least one federal agency - The Centers for Disease Control -- is willing to lie to conservative media in order to avoid interviews. The DC obtained a series of emails through an FOIA request showing that a senior press official "gets very worked up" when conservative media contacts the press office. The freeze-out came in response to an inquiry into a study released in February by the CDC, which found a drastic, 43-percent decline in obesity rates for children between 2 and 5 years old. The New York Times touted the findings in a front page article, and both the CDC and first lady Michelle Obama tied the results to her Let’s Move! anti-obesity campaign. “Karen gets very worked up whenever conservative outlets want to do interviews,” wrote Jeffrey Lancashire, a spokesman for the National Center of Health Statistics, a part of the CDC, in an email to Cynthia Ogden, the lead scientist on the study. Lancashire...(Read Full Post)