Correspondent Shut Out Of Questions, Again

"In view of the president's moving statement regarding Holocaust Remembrance Day, does he believe it is right for the Washington Post's columnist, Robert McCartney, to compare the Confederate States of American to Nazi Germany?"

That was one of two questions prepared by Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, to ask at Wednesday's daily press briefing with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

The second question was, "Is the president aware of Frederick Douglass' statement of "many colored men in the Confederate Army … real soldiers, having musket on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets."?

But Kinsolving was allowed to ask neither question, as Gibbs declined to recognize him. That was while he was recognizing Urban Radio for five questions and NBC, the New York Times and Fox News for four each.

Kinsolving, who ranks third in seniority on the White House beat, reports Gibbs has declined to allow him to ask questions more times than any of the other 14 White House press secretaries he's covered since he started the beat during the last year of the Nixon administration.

He had wanted a White House reaction to McCartney's statement: "The Confederacy ranks a few notches down from Naziism in the hierarchy of immoral regimes. ..."

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