GOP covention tries to bar the press!!!!!

[Ernesto]

Stay classy repubs or: what are you trying to hide?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/03/20/MN1Q1IF9PR.DTL

[DBoon]

1. This is just too amazing!

Crippled by declining registration and frozen by intraparty battles, California Republicans are in such disarray - and so apparently nervous about their prospects - that they attempted to ban the media from a luncheon keynote speech of a nationally known pollster laying out the party's future challenges.

The move to eject the media from the speech delivered by Fox News contributor Frank Luntz didn't please many Republicans - and embarrassed a state party that, for the second time in its three-day convention, had attempted to bar media from reporting on the ordinarily mundane gathering of 1,000 party faithful.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/19/MN1Q1IF9PR.DTL#ixzz1HATCG4bT

[KamaAina]

2. "This happens in Iraq, Iran, or the old KGB when they were in control."

The KGB was a country? Positively Palinesque. :dunce: