Call the Hypocrisy Police: Michelle Obama Praises Free Speech on China Trip That Banned Journalists
IJReview.com | 3/23/14 | Michael Hausam
The White House banned journalists from accompanying Michelle Obama on her trip to China and explained that it was because the purpose of her trip is not political. Some news outlets even repeated the White House’s assertion of the non-political nature of the visit without mentioning that the press was not allowed to accompany them.
But in a speech that sounded at times to be extremely political, she also said the following:
“And that’s why it’s so important for information and ideas to flow freely over the internet and through the media; because that’s how we discover the truth.”
So Michelle Obama lectures a communist police state about free speech standards, while the White House is spying on journalists and restricting access to information in the U.S..................... Double-standard much?