{"id":240782,"date":"2016-04-29T12:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/creepy-mysterious-noise-interrupts-white-house-event-video-poll\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:16:41","slug":"creepy-mysterious-noise-interrupts-white-house-event-video-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/creepy-mysterious-noise-interrupts-white-house-event-video-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy, mysterious noise interrupts White House event (VIDEO, POLL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.04\/thumbnail\/5723421dc361880a148b4569.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        A strange and unexplained loud noise interrupted a White House press briefing on Thursday, minutes before a group of student journalists met with the President.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"53.105647840532\">\n<p>Press secretary Josh Earnest was fielding questions from college journalists when a deafening droning sound started buzzing in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The ear-splitting noise grew so loud that a startled Earnest had to stop mid-answer.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat seems like a bad thing\u2026 That\u2019s never happened before,\u201d<\/em> Earnest said, as White House staff rushed to tone things down.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCjf_fiCVlY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The strange hubbub was most likely caused by audio feedback. However, it is conceivable that Earnest\u2019s electric razor was the culprit, given his recent shaving insights on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" readability=\"5.2213114754098\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.8196721311475\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fact: I refuse to shave on AF1 during a redeye flight. So sometimes I spend a workday overseas w\/ a 5 o&#8217;clock shadow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/internationalincident?src=hash\">#internationalincident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Earnest (@PressSec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/725803531299524608\">April 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back on track and with an air of quiet, the students faced another surprise &#8211; this time in the form of President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI hear there are some hotshot journalists here,\u201d<\/em> Obama said, unexpectedly strolling out from behind the curtains of the James S. Brady press room.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the mystery sounds that dogged the earlier portion of the student press meeting did not return while the President was at the podium &#8211; but what on earth caused the noise?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/341351-obama-white-house-noise\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange and unexplained loud noise interrupted a White House press briefing on Thursday, minutes before a group of student journalists met with the President. Press secretary Josh Earnest was fielding questions from college journalists when a deafening droning sound started buzzing in the background. The ear-splitting noise grew so loud that a startled Earnest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}