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Capitalism (not Socialism) any Republican would approve of or an easy way to keep the riff raff away? It’s pocket change to the networks, but to a blogger or freelancer for a free, local publication who might ask tough, real questions the about to be elected guy might not want to answer on a cold, windy Chicago November night…
If a reporter wants access to the file center–which will be the best place to find Obama officials and spokesmen–be prepared to write a check for $935. The cheapest place a reporter could stand on a riser with a view is $880.
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This is an outrageous pay to play plan that caters to national elite outlets with deep pockets.I am not asking for a free ride–news outlets pay for plane seats, other transportation organized by the campaign, hotel rooms, plus associated costs for filing centers.
But this Election Night list is pricey and does not take into account some reporters won’t need power, cable, internet or food but will crave the access more than the food.
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The campaign could not have made going to the free space more unappealing. If will be “outdoors, unassigned and may have obstructed views. General Media Area credentials do not include access to riser positions, satellite truck parking or the press filing center.”
The article lists all the assorted services for which one may order. I wonder if McCain will do something similar.
#32 grog
You might want to consider the Betty Ford Clinic. Maybe they can help you with those delusions you are experiencing.
#33 heh.
the fact that you’re trying to discredit me proves that you have nothing else to come back with.
to come back on me with ideas and not slander, you’d have to say that the liberal media does not control the american agenda.
i have you in checkmate, sir.
We need a few TAGS on the side to monitor the Election results from ALL the major concerns..
And compare WHO miscalculates the best..
Isn’t this in keeping with the suggestion floated here to charge for these political events?
John – you still insist on using a Nazi mobile artillery piece when writing about Obama.
I don’t see why you have to.
#37 Todd
Because the image fits nicely with the Juggernaut that rolled over Europe. You couldn’t figure that out?
#6, benson,
The Messiah works by his own rules. Remember his “temporary” promise to follow the Campaign Finance Laws and then rejected public campaign funds.
No I don’t. Refresh our memories. Please show us some documentation where Obama promised to not follow Campaign Finance Laws or has promised to take only public campaign funds.
#39 ROFL
#29, brenda,
Nice list of bullshit.
Obama has sicced his lawyers on TV stations airing NRA ads critical of his Second Amendment record
No, his lawyers sent cease and desist letters to the broadcast outlets letting them know they could be sued for broadcasting libelous ads. The stations made heed the warning or continue to broadcast them and risk being sued.
he’s called on the DOJ to shut down the American Issues Project for airing ads highlighting his relationship with Bill Ayers,
Again, more libelous ads being broadcast. Telling the truth is permissible. Lying about someone can be a tort act.
his ACORN-styled “action wire” regularly calls on its foot soldiers to bombard any radio station brazen enough to invite on Obama-skeptics like David Freddosso and Stanley Kurtz,
Say what? Obama calls all his friends to call the radio stations in turn and complain? Are you suggesting these callers couldn’t call in on their own?
his “truth squads” has recruited government prosecutors in states like Missouri
That would have been the local District and City Attorneys. Unless you have evidence that Obama “recruited them”. That is libelous.
And now the latest: the campaign’s general counsel Robert Bauer is demanding the DOJ punish McCain and certain surrogates for raising objections to ACORN’s flagrant and wide-scale voter fraud.
No, you are wrong again. The DNC and Obama campaign is asking the DOJ to investigate Republicans interfering with the election process. That includes the illegal use of specific government documentation to deny people’s right to vote.
In an Obama administration, there would be no hesitation to use the forces of government to suppress speech and thus solidify Obama’s power.
Brenda, you are such a tool. I could just as easily write how McCain will do something ridiculous. That won’t make it true. You though, have no such compunction, you just go ahead and write it.
I want to hear you cry when Obama wins.
#40, Cow-Paddy,
Are you finally seeing the FUD the right wing nuts are putting up?
#42 ROFL! X2
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/us/politics/02fec.html
#39, You’re kidding, right? Every time some one falls for that trap of yours, we end up with 75 messages arguing about how biased the writer was or how he was simply misunderstood. And no amount of evidence to the contrary will convince you. You have not only drank the kook-aid, you bought shares in the company that produced it.
If you were perhaps a little more balanced in your opinions, people would take that kind of statement seriously.
Curious George has flipped so many times he looks like an IHOP sign.
You know it. We know it. Everybody knows it.
BTW . . . have you read “Free to Choose” yet?
The cheap seats will be just fine everybody…The One will levitate above the crowd and ascend to his throne. In a frenzy, the reporters will join the rapture, if they haven’t already, and broadcast live from the heights of Valhalla, where Obama will perform a healing miracle or two to the sound of a 1,000,000 man choir singing ‘I Like Big Butts’ while Joe Biden performs a frenzied tap-dance on the highwire.
#43, Cow-Paddy,
OK, so you can read the NY Times. But where is the documentation that Obama said he would only accept public money? Remember, my question in #39 was explicit,
Please show us some documentation where Obama promised to not follow Campaign Finance Laws or has promised to take only public campaign funds.
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In 2007 Obama completed a questionnaire. One question, requiring a yes or no answer inquired would he accept public campaign financing. He answered yes and added he would pursue the point with a suggested plan for all candidates.
After McCain and Obama had sewed up their nominations, Obama’s camp approached McCain about campaign finance.
ABC News: Political Punch, June 19, 2008
So how does checking a YES box of some political questionnaire make it a promise?
And to leave you with some pleasant comment,
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Newsweek, June 19, 2008
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#44, Loser,
You really should quit listening to Rush and Michael on the radio. Try coming upstairs and get outside.
Man, look at the paranoia! I _knew_ it was a mistake for Reagan to shut down all those asylums!
#46, Loser If McBama gets elected, that will be all of our names.
Hmm. Rush and Michael. I don’t list to them. But I am curious as to how you know what they say that is so bad.
BTW . . . thanks for proving my point in that post.
#48 . . . I need to learn to turn OFF the bold on occasion.
#49,
I need to learn to turn OFF the bold
Ya, don’t you just hate it when that happens? But it’s a blog. Minor grammar and spelling errors can be overlooked. Unless I’m really pissed off, then I notice them.
8)
#50, It’s what I get for typing before I’ve had my morning coffee 🙂
#46 – read it and weep:
http://www.linearpublishing.com/orsonscottcard.html
Great article. Card is one of my favorite authors.
Brian Wiliams said:
Wow man, success has changed you. Used to be all I had to do was be your butt-boy and I was on the “A” list.