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NancyII - > Things that interest ME -> Reporters kicked off Obamas plane?
Reporters kicked off Obamas plane?

Anyone hear anything about this?  Well, besides a few of us here.

 

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posted by NancyII on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 03:56 PM
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posted by sagefever on Oct 31, 2008 at 04:10 PM

Politico has a news item on it,"kicked off" is one way to describe it.


posted by nooneisabovethelaw on Oct 31, 2008 at 04:28 PM

Reporters have also complained mightily about their lack of access to McCain on his plane, in recent months, in stark contrast to the 2000 campaign.

posted by dgrealish on Oct 31, 2008 at 04:39 PM

Kicked off was how I heard it.  They were reporters from newspapers backing McCain.  Maybe "asked to leave" sounds a little better, but no matter what you call it,  The result is the same.

posted by FloridaStateGrad on Oct 31, 2008 at 04:49 PM

Notice how it's usually the McCain supporters who make these posts throwing mud without admitting their candidate has done many of the same things.

posted by Ray_Harwick on Oct 31, 2008 at 05:06 PM

That's now all Obama is doing.

Rejected McCain Robocall:

"Hello. I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has not accepted Joe the Plumber's friend request on Facebook. We know he's logged on, because we saw he changed his status on Monday. On Tuesday, he joined the group Art Historians Are Saucy. But he still won't accept Joe the Plumber's friend request. He knows it's Joe. Joe uses the screen shot of the two of them together as his profile picture. That's not a uniter. That's the same old liberal-elite politics as usual."

posted by TSM on Oct 31, 2008 at 05:54 PM

Tell us, Nancy, were you as upset when Maureen Dowd was kicked off of McSame's plane?

Or is your outrage as selective as your memory?

 

posted by drilnliftcrude on Oct 31, 2008 at 07:43 PM

Kicking off reporters from newspapers that endorsed McCain should come as no surprise.  The Obama campaign has a history of using tactics previously thought to only occur in places like Hugo Chavez's Venezuela or Mugabe's Zimbabwe

There were multiple signs before The Washington Times, New York Post and Dallas Morning News got the boot. Hugo Chavez has long used mob intimidation to pressure opposition forces into submission. Obama has made a limited use of the same tactic, as when National Review's Stanley Kurtz began some potentially damaging reporting about the Democratic nominee's long relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist bombers William Ayers and wife Bernadine Dohrn.

In retaliation, the Obama campaign issued a call-to-censor alert to its supporters, especially against Milt Rosenberg, a long-time and highly respected Chicago radio host who invited Kurtz to discuss his reporting on air. The Obama campaign declined to provide an official to share the program and rebut Kurtz. Instead, hundreds of callers did what they were instructed to do by the Obama campaign - they jammed the station's phone lines with protest calls demanding that Kurtz be silenced and accusing the show's host of lowering journalism standards.

 

posted by NancyII on Oct 31, 2008 at 08:36 PM

Ah TSM, you folks sure do like to distort and exaggerate.  You assume I'm outraged because I posted a story?  Goodness,  is that outrage YOU'RE exhibiting?

I'm neither angry nor am I outraged, I'm merely passing on information.

posted by anglo1 on Oct 31, 2008 at 09:34 PM

The report I heard today on the MSM was that room was made for the folks from Ebony mag. and BET.  Who would have thunk it.  Nobody is surprised but the liberals will excuse it no matter how wrong it is. 

posted by ALICEN on Nov 1, 2008 at 08:46 AM

NancyII, yes, I heard about it.  But why am I not surprised about the replacements?  As anglo1 stated, its, Ebony and BET.  There's another one, but I can't remember its name.  Why doesn't the B.O. campaign just come right out and say that they simply have no tolerance for reporters from conservative newspapers?  The ones replaced were reporters, not journalists, and therefore had nothing to do with the editorializing in which their employers engaged.  Sounds a little like retaliation.  Whatever could give me that idea?

posted by theColorNine on Nov 1, 2008 at 10:54 AM

I also heard there was a documentary crew being added; can't confirm it, though I wouldn't be surprised by "His Arrogance" to do so.

 

Edit:  And that they decreased the amount of space on the plane for the media and increased the amount of space for senior campaign personnel.

 

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