Obama umbrella marines, Via Greg Hengler,
I’m sure this has been done before by other presidents, simply because
the optics are sufficiently bad that Team O wouldn’t have tried it
without precedent to cite in its defense. Free advice to future
administrations, then: Discontinue this practice. These guys aren’t
valets. The slogan is not “The Few, the Proud, the Umbrella Stands.” The
good news is, we live in a golden age of technological progress where
all manner of standalone head coverings are available in case the skies
look cloudy for the next Rose Garden press conference. Imagine a small,
thin, clear plastic tarp raised a few feet above the podiums, out of the
camera’s line of sight, shielding The One and America’s Hamas-supporting Islamist cretin “ally” from nature’s wrath. Magical.
As for the substance of the presser: He makes no apologies
for vigorously investigating national-security leaks, even if that
involves a de facto dragnet of 20 reporters’ phone records; and he has complete confidence in Eric Holder. Basically what you’d expect.
