White House: Obama Will Not Answer Questions On Terror Incident
Q: He has spoken quite a bit on the Christmas Day incident but he hasn't opened himself up to questions from the media. Do you think he might entertain some questions on that --
MR. GIBBS: No.
Q: and isn't it unusual that on an event this big that he would not open himself up to questions?
MR. GIBBS: I don't want to speculate. He's not taking questions today.
Q: Well, Mr. Knoller, I think, will back me up on this. He hasn't had a press conference since July at the White House. Why can't we get him to respond to questions rather than just give statements on issues like this?
MR. GIBBS: We did this before. I think the last time we did -- we talked about the President's media schedule, and here you all, to a person, reminded me of our dramatic overexposure.
Q: No, I certainly don't feel that way.
MR. GIBBS: You don't now.
Q: Well, that was then. (Laughter.)
MR. GIBBS: I appreciate at least that we've isolated the flip-flop, and now we can just --
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