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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Tess Anderson on September 30, 2008, 03:49:48 PM
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McCain's, of course. His purge of the NYT continues, and it's well-deserved IMO:
Add Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer-winning columnist for the NY Times, to the list of media types who have fallen out bitterly with John McCain. The McCain campaign has barred her from flying in the McCain and Palin press planes, even though major media outlets routinely pay thousands to the campaigns every day for travel and expenses (and also begs the question, why didn't her media colleagues Man Up and get her aboard anyway?)
It all started when Maureen covered an Aug. 30 McCain-Palin rally in Washington, Pa., then wasn't let on the McCain plane afterward, forcing her to overnight at a Pittsburgh airport hotel while the traveling press went on without her.
"I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicole Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane," Dowd wrote in an email.
"It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney."
It bears mentioning that the McCain camp has declared all-out war on the Times, and is being protective of Palin with everyone in the media, but especially someone as adroit and experienced as Maureen.
from: HERE (http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/earlyreturns/archive/2008/09/30/maureen-dowd-kicked-off-campaign.aspx)
"Adroit and experienced" as Mo.... :mental: This has nothing at all to do with the 1st Amendment, she has the same right to write Barack Hussein Obama propoganda as she did before, but now McCain doesn't have to look at her.
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Mo Do was the snake on the plane. McCain was not being dismissive of the first amendment, he was protecting it from being used to spread lies.
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I've read her articles before. I'm guessing this isn't the first time she's been kicked out of places before.
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I've read her articles before. I'm guessing this isn't the first time she's been kicked out of places before.
They run her lousy articles in our lib rag, the STL Post-Dispatch. I don't waste the time reading them anymore. They just get me off to an angry start to the day.
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They should have asked her to exit at 35,000 feet. :fuelfire:
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They should have asked her to exit at 35,000 feet. :fuelfire:
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:evillaugh: :evillaugh: :evillaugh: :evillaugh: :evillaugh: :evillaugh:
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They should have asked her to exit at 35,000 feet. :fuelfire:
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...And without a broom.
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Well the 1st amendment might allow you to say or print alot of things but it doesn't provide you the cover to not suffer from the consequences of being a full out loon.