The Obama administration did a Friday afternoon news dump of the names of 500 visitors to the White House spanning the time period from January 20 to July 31, 2009. And almost no one from Hollywood showed up to meet the president or his family or his aides. Weird, especially since so much of Hollywood was supporting the Obama campaign. But the list is not comprehensive, just a response to specific disclosure requests. So who stopped by? George Clooney who once visited Vice President Joe Biden; Denzel Washington, twice, as part of a group tour; and Oprah who came by twice -- once for a reception, and once to conduct an interview with Michelle Obama. Also, Jeff Immelt, chairman of GE which owns NBC/Universal, 4 times. And a guy named Michael Moore who visited 8 times and isn't the Hollywood documentary maker.
H'wood Hardly Visits Obama White House
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Wow! I can’t wait for the next list of names to be published.
Immelt was probably begging for bailout $$$.
yep its far from comprehensive, more from MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33556933/ns/politics-white_house/
“Obama names 110 White House visitors
Most guests still hidden; list shows Bill Gates, Oprah, bank CEOs, Gingrich”
“The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January, including lobbyists, business executives, activists and celebrities.”
“No previous administration has released such a list, though the information out so far is incomplete. Only about 110 names —and 481 visits —out of the hundreds of thousands who have visited the Obama White House were made public. Like the Bush administration before it, Obama is arguing that any release is voluntary, not required by law, despite two federal court rulings to the contrary.”
true no admin has ever done this but there are still “hundreds of thousands” that were not released.
Change you can depend on i guess…wasnt that the mantra & slogans this past presidential election? hmmm???
I don’t think Denzel Washington would go to the White House as part of a group tour.
If one looks more closely, it turns out that both entries don’t have “his” middle initial, so I think it’s one of those kids that was oh so cleverly named after him. There are quite a few.
What worries me a lot more are those repeat offenders aka lobbyists, e.g. both Podestas or George Soros.
I believe the Michael Moore is a senior WTO official