Interrompre le Président des États-Unis: un manque de respect?

 Généralement, personne n'ose interrompre un Président américain pendant une allocution. On considère habituellement que c'est un manque manque de respect pour la fonction, peu importe l'identité du Commander-in-chief. Un journaliste l'a fait hier et ce n'est pas la première fois que Barack Obama est confronté à cette situation. Son prédécesseur avait lui aussi essuyé un ou deux de ces "affronts". L'article de CNN fait le point sue les "nouvelles pratiques". Le journaliste impliqué dans l'incident d'hier semble aussi douter du travail de ses collègues des médias.

 "President Barack Obama's angry response to a reporter who interrupted his Rose Garden remarks Friday was the latest salvo in what some political experts see as an era of incivility.

 Neil Munro, a White House correspondent for the Washington-based website The Daily Caller, asked the president about his administration's dramatic policy shift on immigration while the president was in the middle of delivering prepared remarks. "Excuse me, sir. It's not time for questions, sir," Obama fired back. "Not while I'm speaking."

 Munro later told CNN's Brianna Keilar, "I have to ask the questions you all won't ask," referring to the reporters gathered who regularly cover the White House.

"I always go to the White House prepared with questions for our president. I timed the question believing the president was closing his remarks, because naturally I have no intention of interrupting the president of the United States," Munro said in a statement on the Caller's website. "I know he rarely takes questions before walking away from the podium. When I asked the question as he finished his speech, he turned his back on the many reporters and walked away while I and at least one other reporter asked questions."

The president and journalist's terse exchange reflects the heightened polarized climate, political experts say.

 "We are in an era of incivility," said Andra Gillespie, an associate professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta. "There's been an erosion of respect for government officials post Watergate."

That erosion of respect also extends to the media.

 "Part of the reason journalists have a bad reputation is that we're seen as rude and pushy, but in general you probably don't interrupt your mom if she's talking and you probably don't interrupt the president," said Jerry Ceppos, dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/15/politics/obama-interrupted/index.html