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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 04:05 PM
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Press kept under a watchful eye at Palin rally(can't ask supporters questions either)
CLEARWATER -- Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?'' and turn the person around.

When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility Monday.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2008/10/under-the-watch.html
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 04:12 PM
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1. BREAKING NEWS: Palin's rallies feature escorts!!!11!!!!!!!!1
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 04:12 PM
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2. That has got to be the most incredibly stupid, self-destructive PR policy
I have ever heard of. It has to come not only from Rove, but from a Rove who fails to comprehend that he an no longer order a totally compliant press around.

I would by no means suggest that the press is totally fair at this point; they're still 60/40 McCain, but they're no longer 100% in Rove's little whorehouse doing tricks for him like they were until maybe March of this year.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 04:15 PM
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4. and we've got four more weeks to watch it backfire.
Hell hath no fury like the media scorned.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 04:14 PM
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3. They probably went to freeperville and bused them in...caught a
goodly amount of KKKers and they don't want the press to know..
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