WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama called Friday for greater control and more oversight of America's extensive press, including newspapers, websites and Costco flyers, acknowledging that recent disclosures have eroded public trust, while defending the National Security Agency's telephone and e-mail surveillance programs as legal, necessary evils.
When asked about Obama's proposed new policy, the President's Press Secretary, Jay Carney, replied "What new policy?"
He added "President Obama has determined that while the press did an admirable job installing him as dictat... err... President, it is now a dangerous pseudo-terrorism organization that must be crushed to protect the American people from finding out facts that may be undesirable to the President's agenda..."
