Check out my newest posting at BigJournalism. Here’s a sample:
Now I don’t really get into the whole “shouting down the President” and “handcuffing to the White House gates” approach to things. But it is very disturbing that Obama’s people are using the District police to prevent reporters from doing their jobs and covering an act of peaceful civil disobedience. I can only imagine the breathless and shrill outrage by network news anchors tonight if Bush-Cheney had kept the press away from the White House during an anti-war protest in 2005? Surely the Bush Press Secretary would be “The Worst Person In The World” tonight on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. So why shouldn’t Robert Gibbs be tonight?
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Not surprisingly, the demonstrators [in Los Angeles on Monday night] have not received much national media attention despite the shocking rebuke to the President most favored by gay rights groups in recent years. I do seem to remember that during the 2003-2008 time period, network news reporters and camera crews seemed to be just a phone call away for even the smallest chance that a Code Pink or Cindy Sheehan appearance might interrupt then-President Bush or then-VP Cheney.
It seems King Barack I doesn’t like protests, especially from his left flank.
Please read the whole thing so they keep me over at BigJournalism!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
King Barack I. Priceless!
Surely, you jest! (And don’t call me Shirley) They won’t even cover it. As the Huffington Post is dutifully ignoring the story. Oh, they covered the protest, since so much of their readership is gay, but they refused to report that the Obama White House threw the press and public out of Lafayette Park. Can’t speak ill of the boss man.
was there much of the story of the CHoi folk chaining themselves again?
Try going to a little site called http://www.yahoo.com and you’ll see its the lead story.
Hmmm….The headline of the lead story reads:
Mystery creature sightings create stir
Nothing about il Douche, the State-run media, the WH or the gypsies in the palace. Maybe it got moved down to allow for the hugely important Yeti story:
# Threat of new, larger Icelandic volcano eruption looms
# Kyrgyzstan police ‘will use deadly force’ if necessary
# Republicans soften opposition to financial reform legislation
# 14 reputed Gambino family members charged in New York
# Energy-intensive Pentagon making effort to go green
# ‘Harold & Kumar’ actor Kal Penn robbed at gunpoint in D.C. (Ed. HA!)
# Dorothy Height lived a life of service- Washington Post
# House punts on D.C. voting bill- Washington Times
# Weary Travelers Arrive at Dulles- NBC Washington
Not seeing it. Maybe your smart assery can point the way?
I admire those people who chained themselves to the fence. They handled themselves admirably.
Anyone know anything about the group itself. Never heard of them bgore. GetEQUAL.