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So much for transparency

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Can you imagine how much media this would have gotten had the most pro-gay Vice President in U.S. history done this: Vice President’s staff lock journalist in a closet for hours during a fundraiser to stop him talking to guests:

The White House website proudly says ‘President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history.’

But try telling Vice President Joe Biden’s staff that, after they held a local reporter in a closet for hours after he was invited to cover a Florida political fundraiser because they did not want him talking with the guests.

As the unaware $500-a-head invitees dined on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese, grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps, veteran reporter Scott Powers was locked away.

Doug Powers reminds us that it “wasn’t even two weeks ago that White House spokesman Jay Carney said journalists should be protected and allowed to do their work.”

Comments

  4. Auntie – would this be the same National Enquirer that exposed John Edwards?

    Just because it’s not in the New York Times doesn’t mean it didn’t happen (in fact, there’s a lot that happens that never makes the Times). You should get out more.

  7. The hypothetical question of how the media/Left would have reacted to Bush or Cheney doing it, is an interesting one.

    We know that the media/Left had already long since played the “Nazi” card on BushitlerCheneyBurton. So, where do you go from there? How do you escalate your outrage when *finally*, one single reporter is *actually* locked up?

  10. When you can’t dispute the facts, attack the source, I guess.

    FWIW: ABC News is reporting the same story, and that Biden apologized. So, I guess this means that Auntie Enema is a complete frakking idiot.

    Which we already knew, of course.

    Which brings us to the third step in arguing like a liberal — if attacking the source doesn’t work, disappear! (that is if you can’t boycott, beat-up, or otherwise try to silence the messenger)

  12. Anit-Dogma, do you just spew nonsense before or after you read this blog? Do you read this blog? I think you don’t. You’re a mindless organic Leftist robot.

  13. What do you think Auntie Dogma does when she can’t even think of a lie or insult to counter what was presented?

    I let me mind contemplate the matter for a few minutes till it drifted to images of the local connivence store shelves being devoid of batteries….then decided it was best not to pursue certain trains of thought.