Maureen Dowd Banned From McCain Campaign Plane

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from National Ledger: http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272622972.shtml


Sep 30, 2008

The New York Times and John McCain really don't seem to like each other all that well and it appears the disagreement may have spilled over into a campaign plane ban for Times columnist Maureen Dowd. McCain Campaign chief Steve Schmidt scalded the New York Times just last week in a conference call where he ripped the paper and screamed bias.

Now a nugget buried deep in a Washington Post column from media critic Howard Kurtz has this, "Outside, on a summerlike evening, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs held forth for the likes of NBC’s Chuck Todd and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who was wearing an Elvis T-shirt. (The company may have been more pleasant than that of McCain aides, who have barred Dowd from the candidate’s plane….)"

So is she off? The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this from Dowd, "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."


link: http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272622972.shtml

[cui bono]

1. Yeah, that'll help him with independents.

[sharp_stick]

Dowd may be a vapid idiot

but what the hell will this do? I really have no idea what the McLame campaign is doing anymore, they seem to be flapping around like a bass in the bottom of the boat.

[mcctatas]

2. well they finally got something right...

MoDo makes me hurl :puke:

[maseman]

3. I Love Maureen Dowd

[FSogol]

4. All of the press should get off. Why do they get to influence the press

Journalism needs to take a stand.

[Fleshdancer]

5. So they want vengeful Dowd coverage then? Is that their goal?

I LOVE the McCain campaign!!! Their stupid decisions just keep coming. :bounce:

[madmax]

6. MoDo!!

:rofl: :applause: :woohoo:

She must be doing somthing right. Can't wait to read her next article.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. The StraightJacket Express

McCain's temper at work again and he's still his own worst enemy.