Jon Stewart: Obama and Transparency

On the campaign trail, one of Obama's promises was transparency. He was going to make government more transparent. His White House would be the most transparent ever.

He broke that promise. He smashed that one into a trillion pieces.

Video, from Breitbart:



Transcript

JON STEWART: When you (Obama) were running for the White House, you wanted to look at what the White House was hiding. Now you live in the White House and you want everyone to stop being so f---ing nosy. When you don't live in the White House, sunlight is the best disinfectant. When you live in the White House, disinfectant stings.

In fact, since taking office, this has been the administration that's prosecuted more whistleblowers in two years than in the preceding 40 years; that meets with lobbyists across the street from the White House so they don't have to disclose they're meeting with lobbyists; and - this is true - censored nearly 200 pages of internal e-mails about their efforts to make government more transparent.

Unless they're hiding the fact that they've made government completely transparent because they wanted to surprise us.

How weird has this administration's record on transparency gotten?

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CHRIS WALLACE: President Obama received an award for transparency Monday.

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BROOKE BALDWIN: That meeting was completely closed to members of the media.

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JOE JOHNS: They not only closed the meeting to the media, they didn't even put it in the president's public schedule.

Maybe Obama will actually make good on his promise and achieve the transparency he brags about when he closes Gitmo.

Never.