Shock me that Obama is thin-skinned

Even with the White House press corps.

I mean, his pledge to transparency was bullshit long before he was elected, but you have to be deliberate and intense on stiffing the press to the point of Obama personally talking with the stenographers even less than Shrub Bush did!

And, no, as that lengthy and in-depth Politico story above makes clear, this isn't just Rahm Emanuel's no-prisoners style as White House chief of staff. Nor is it Robert Gibbs' distance as WH press secretary.

Rather, it's The One himself, from whence the attitude toward the press starts. Sarcastic, snide and sneering.

And, some of other things in the story, like the WH stiffing pool photographers and instead cranking out staff pix and videos?

Hey, Talking Points Memo and Josh Marshall? You dumb-ass suckers. Politico is talking about YOU, the way you fawningly plaster that shit up as slideshows about once a week.

Former Politico staffer Michael Calderone, now at Yahoo, confirms the bare bones of the Politico story, too.

And Steve Clemons weighs in with how some of this relates to highly centralized, somewhat micromanaging leadership by The One himself, sounding more like Jimmy Carter by the day at times.

I'm sure the ranks of "see no evil" Obamiacs will continue to dwindle.