THE PRESS ISN'T FAWNING ENOUGH. Our President had a little list.

The White House had decided in advance who would be allowed to question the President and who was left out.

Presidents are free to conduct press conferences however they like, but the decision to preselect questioners is an odd one, especially for a White House famously pledged to openness. We doubt that President Bush, who was notorious for being parsimonious with follow-ups, would have gotten away with prescreening his interlocutors. Mr. Obama can more than handle his own, so our guess is that this is an attempt to discipline reporters who aren't White House favorites.

Well, he did play basketball. Perhaps the next step will be to issue credentials to sports reporters, who don't even have to pretend to be objective.