Peeling back the curtain hiding the incestuous relationship between the mainstream media and the White House, Arizona reporter Catherine Anaya revealed that “President Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, receives questions from the press in advance of his daily press briefing.”  She found it very interesting that Mr. Carney “knows what he's going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they're producing their reports for later on.” This is not surprising.  NY Times reporter Peter Baker wrote in 2009, “Here is the dirty little secret about White House news conferences: The president almost always knows the questions in advance.” What is interesting is that the Arizona reporter within hours retracted her story, saying, “My mistake and I own up to it” – like Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather 2...(Read Full Post)