Comments on: Palin staff keep journalists locked inside press area to prevent them from writing ‘negative things.’

By: judyinnm

judyinnm — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:47:21 +0000

Now that the press is receiving the same treatment from politicians that non-republicans have been receiving from the Bush administration for the past eight years, maybe they’ll start reporting on the demise of Amendment Number One, in this country.

As long as it was just protesters, or suspected non-bush-supporters who were being sequestered in out-of-the-way holding pens (or being arrested for trespassing in public places) nothing was reported about it. But, just as Bush has made younger people (who never cared about politics before) wake up and get involved; maybe reporters will start taking umbrage at the errosion of rights, now.

By: shaker o salt

shaker o salt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:06:30 +0000

Funny, isn’t it, how the McManiacs want to demonize the press while using them to help spread their bile? I think it’s time for the press to say goodbye to the McCain campaign by getting off the bus and departing the plane. Let McCain/Palin campaign in media silence. No news reports, no tv cameras.

As Dear Abby always said, nobody can take advantage of you without your permission.

By: GL2814

GL2814 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:34:20 +0000

One night in Sarah?

Or perhaps Sarah, Plain and Sprawled

By: GL2814

GL2814 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:20:53 +0000

I’m waiting for the inevitable Palin sex tape to surface. Won’t that be a hoot! Kind of like the Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson tape from years ago.

What would be a good title for a Palin sex tape?

By: theswan

theswan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:09:10 +0000

The “liberal press” got a little “free speech zones” treatment. Shut out by Sarah? The press sure has its troubles digging up her dirt. I have a feeling they don’t want that story anyway.

By: trollsbwild

trollsbwild — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:56:59 +0000

Supression of information and spreading of propaganda that were total lies. Sounds familiar- didn’t they do the same thing in Germany in the 1930’s?

By: progressive homeschooler

progressive homeschooler — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:08:13 +0000

joe cantwell Says:
i was going to mention something
about constitutional rights.
but what good would it do?
if you ask sarah about that they’d
just call it another “gotcha” question.

In Palin’s world they’re privileges, not rights.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:07:58 +0000

So much for transparency. But then if you ever believed that McCain or Palin were ever truly for transparency I got some land in Florida that should interest you.

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:45:22 +0000

Chocolate Jesus Says:

these people obviously know that only frighteningly deluded people could be capeable of continuing to support sara palin, and they dont want the world to see what these people are actually like…
October 6th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
________

…or find out that they’re all paid extras.

Just a theory, but it’s totally plausible. It’d be like the Nanny Laughers. Only these are the Palin Clappers.

By: hauksdottir

hauksdottir — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:24:51 +0000

Why are the members of the press bleating and mewling and acting all helpless?

THEY ARE SHEEP!!!

The reporters could have left their area AS a group if they were individually afraid of some unnamed aide’s diapproval. If they couldn’t get near enough to question supporters or ask questions, they should simply have left. NO coverage. NO photo ops. NO grip & grins. Just walk away from an untenable situation.

Do any of them have pride in doing a job?

Reporting? Or sitting in a corral waiting to be fleeced!

Furthermore, those aides are hiding in anonymity. Pictures can be taken and they can be identified. Nametags and badges can be read. If they don’t produce identification, don’t listen to their blather.

By: LibertyLover

LibertyLover — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:30:20 +0000

Hmmm. Negative things had been written… like the TRUTH?

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:16:18 +0000

Q U E S T I O N:

How does one bar “Freedom of the press”?

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:15:32 +0000

… Because nothing says “FREEDOM of SPEECH and the PRESS” like cages and barriers.

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:54:09 +0000

So my question is, why do the press still follow her around like puppy dogs. Why don’t they just tell her if she won’t talk to them, then they won’t cover her. How humiliating it must be to tag along like a puppy and put in your place.

By: wiley

wiley — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:39:01 +0000

Can’t have the press messing up the rallies, can we? What if someone felt like burning some books, or a couple of witches? Group-think can’t bloom fully in the face of questions and things that remind people of normal life. To get a really effective, subservient, and angry mob going you need a LOT of CONTROL.

Curiosity kills the trance.

It’s not easy to whip up a critical mass of the national hysteria necessary to make it plausible that McCain-Palin and their endless wars has a following sufficient to constitute a majority of Americans who are ready to kill anyone who wants a recount or a real and binding investigation of vote fraud when the election is called.

Look at it from THEIR point of view. The McCain-Palin campaign has some serious challenges. Of course, they can’t have the press wandering around asking their followers (who may have signed a loyalty oath) questions that might make their followers ask questions about themselves.

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:31:50 +0000

Chicken $hit Sarah and her handlers are scared as hell of her making a huge blunder…….Once again it shows me that the press is BRASSLESS.

By: SKdeA

SKdeA — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:23:21 +0000

vat694848, please don’t spell her name without the H, you make this Sara really uncomfortable being associated with her!

How come the reporters don’t just say – “no, sorry, you don’t have the right to keep us out”? Don’t they want a scoop?

Bunch of lily-livered cowards.

By: bigeugene

bigeugene — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:44:34 +0000

What a bunch of CHUMPS the press are. Leave her campaign and don’t write about her. You have the ability to make her more irrelevant.

Too bad they can’t resist the urge to be the first fly to land on that turd.

By: Cats r Flyfishn

Cats r Flyfishn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:44:11 +0000

Isn’t this what they do in Communist countries? The turn the press around if they wonder into areas that the government doesn’t want to show to the public?

By: vat694848

vat694848 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:39:28 +0000

You can wrap turd in a pretty package, but it’s still turd. We have your number Sara, and the rose is off you, and the GOP bloom.