Mr. Transparency and Openness

Hmmmm…

Let’s see…it sounds – in this article – like the Bush administration treated the press more thoughtfully and professionally than the Obama administration does.

Unlike President Bush’s White House communications team, which usually timed press conferences abroad to coincide with the U.S. morning programs, the Obama operation kicked off the president’s first day in Britain while most Americans were still asleep. What’s more, the president banned most reporters from nearly every event he held on a day busy with bilateral talks with foreign leaders, and even held cameras at bay for his visit to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen.

And NY Times doesn’t want to make a fuss, but they can’t help wondering, please, if maybe, just maybe, President Obama is trying to muzzle the press, “not that we’re keeping score,” they breathe in cowering tremble.

Ah, well, this is the thing about being a lapdog, your owner can sometimes contemptuously kick you aside, because he knows you’ll always come yapping back to him.

Many people mistreat their lapdogs. For company’s sake they may allow the pet to nibble a treat from the star-dusted fingers, but once the entertainment is complete, they send them away.

Oh. And Treasury is not going to give details on the banking bailouts.

Why should they? Who the hell are you to want to know? You just shut up and stop asking so many questions – about things you don’t understand and your betters, and don’t complain. Stop acting like vulgar peasants, all of you.

Observe the elegance. On the cheap.

Now living in the UK, Rachel Lucas – who knows from lapdogs – is watching it all unfold with distinctly American eyes.