Journalist asks FBI director hard-hitting question: ‘So I can’t ask you to be my Facebook friend?’
By on May 16th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Journalist asks FBI director hard-hitting question: ‘So I can’t ask you to be my Facebook friend?’
Today, FBI director Robert Mueller spoke at the National Press Club. The journalist hosting the event asked Meuller if he had ever posted anything on the Internet. When Meuller said that he had not, the journalist replied, “So I can’t ask you to be my Facebook friend?:
Q: Have you ever posted anything on the Internet?
MUELLER: That is a very good follow-up question to which the answer is no. […]
Q: So I guess I can’t invite you to be my Facebook friend?
[LAUGHTER]
MUELLER: No. I will go look you up on facebook now.
Q: You’ll love the picture!
Watch it:
When face-to-face with Washington’s leaders, the media sure knows how to ask the most important questions.
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Sadly, J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t around to enjoy all the benefits of Facebook. Imagine the pretty outfits he could model for us.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:39 pmI can only imagine elected officials and the Poke feature, especially Craig.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:41 pmBadmoodman; if j. Edgar were alive today, he’d have files on all posters here.
That means you, buddy.
And me.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pmNot journalists…STENOGRAPHERS!
I can count on one hand true journalists that are worth their salt, TWO OF THEM HAVE A COMEDY SHOW!
May 16th, 2008 at 2:44 pmWho is this supposed “jounalist” anyway?
May 16th, 2008 at 2:44 pmThis sounds like a question from a junior high schooler
I don’t have a problem with journalists sharing a light-hearted moment with public officials.
It only becomes a problem when that’s ALL they do.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:44 pmJournalist asks FBI director hard-hitting question: ‘So I can’t ask you to be my Facebook friend?’
Just who was it who let Jeff Gannon in to the Press Club, anyway?
May 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pmJesus, I thought she was going to jump his bones right then and there. Is there any way of finding out who this inane nitwit “journalist” is? The whole world ought to know her name and who she works for. Whatever she’s getting paid, it’s far too much. She’s more qualified to cover the society news for the local Podunk News-Courier.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pmGet in the zone, mushbrain. We’re in a crisis in this country bound to get worse without leadership with a spine.
Be happy: Go shopping, log into MySpace (A Place for Mushbrains), or go to drinking parties.
But don’t read the constitution. The longer you hold off, the longer you’ll support Republicans.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pmI still don’t understand the obsession with these websites to the point where they seep into the workplace. Our democracy is slowly being ruined. Send that reporter back to school.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:57 pmThat’s like asking Dana Perino if she still streetwalks.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pmI’m wondering when the press is going to start asking McCan’t some serious questions.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:06 pmLike…
-You flip flopped 4 times on this, how many more can we expect?
-Do you want to stay in office for 100 years, or just in Iraq?
-Was the land deal you set up in AZ more lucrative for you, or the realtor?
-Did you only crash 5 planes, or were their more?
-When you dumped your disabled wife, did you take her social security check, too?
-How many Vicadin a day is your wife down to now?
-Do you change positions with your wife as often as you do on issues?
Prytania Says:
I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking Obama some serious questions. Like, “If you could have a discussion with the Iranian Predsident as you say you would like to, what would you say to him about the Iranian weapons that are reaching al-Qaeda in Iraq?
You mean the weapons that were first claimed to come from Iran, then proven they did not come Iran under closer inspection.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:07 pmI knew this was a joke as I saw the word “Journalist”
RIP
May 16th, 2008 at 3:07 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Prytania — I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking Obama some serious questions. Like, “If you could have a discussion with the Iranian Predsident as you say you would like to, what would you say to him about the Iranian weapons that are reaching al-Qaeda in Iraq?
When Obama claims he’s going to negotiate with a rogue leader, why do you think he’s doing that? To plan an attack on the country he’s leading? Because that’s what the right seems to think. You take up a skill with words before a skill with weapons. That’s the smart thing to do.
As for Iran, the U.S. could have finished neutralizing Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, therefore limiting Al-Qaeda’s expansion to other territories. But Georgie just had to invade Iraq and lure Bin Laden’s cohorts onto the Iraqi people, didn’t he? If the U.S. wasn’t in Iraq, we wouldn’t have to speculate about Iran.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pm.
Not Diamonds or Pearls…?
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May 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pmZimzone Says:
I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking McCan’t some serious questions.
Like…
“When did you stop beating your current wife?”
May 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pmI gave Prytania the benefit of the doubt when she dropped in at the tail end of the Ellen Degeneres thread, but this post above proves that she’s simply a new troll name — my guess is Trajan in new outfit.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
I gave Prytania the benefit of the doubt when she dropped in at the tail end of the Ellen Degeneres thread, but this post above proves that she’s simply a new troll name — my guess is Trajan in new outfit.
Not even new, Ralph. This name has been around before and not that long ago. Spelling is too good to be Trajan, though.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:13 pmI stand corrected, gum. I really need to get me one o’ them “Troll Scorecards” they sell outside the stadium.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pmRalph, don’t try to score with a Troll. STD, you know…
…on the other hand, they do come cheap, nowadays.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pmI went to the National Press Club website to find out who that “Journalist” ( I use that term very loosely) was. They didn’t have anything.
But guess who they are going to have there on June 2nd? Vice President Dick Cheney will address the National Press Club on Monday, June 2, during an annual journalism awards presentation luncheon for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.
Vice President Cheney will present Foundation awards for outstanding coverage in 2007 of the presidency and national defense. The Vice President, who served as President Ford’s chief of staff, will be accompanied by Jack Ford, President Ford’s son and chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.
Cheney passing out awards for outstanding coverage of the presidency and national defense, are they kidding!!! I just lost all respect for the NPC, If that is the best that they can do.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
I really need to get me one o’ them “Troll Scorecards” they sell outside the stadium.
The way they change names, like they change sock(puppet)s, a scorecard wouldn’t help much.
I just assume all trolls are Mr. Pee, chances are I am right 80% of the time LOL
May 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pm‘Scuse me, Ralph? Would you please pass me my “Unknown American” bag…?
Thanks.
~ A
May 16th, 2008 at 3:44 pm“… Foundation awards for outstanding coverage in 2007 of the presidency and national defense.”
Their are actually three NPC separate awards President Cheney will be handing out:
• “NPC Foundation Award for Outstanding Stenography”
(last year’s winner: David Broder)
• “NPC Foundation Award for Superior Sycophancy”
(last year’s winner: William Kristol)
• “NPC Foundation Award for Embarrasingly Servile Questioning” (new category; current favorite is Mike Allen, Politico)
May 16th, 2008 at 4:28 pm