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So much for transparency

March 27, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

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.”

Filed Under: Biden Watch, Democrats & Double Standards

Comments

  1. Heliotrope says

    March 27, 2011 at 1:58 pm - March 27, 2011

    Is there a connection between Joe Biden and being in the closet?

  2. Auntie Dogma says

    March 27, 2011 at 2:13 pm - March 27, 2011

    The Daily Mail? You really ought to start vetting your sources.

  3. Auntie Dogma says

    March 27, 2011 at 2:16 pm - March 27, 2011

    Quoting the Daily Mail is like quoting the National Enquirer.

  4. SoCalRobert says

    March 27, 2011 at 2:33 pm - March 27, 2011

    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.

  5. Sebastian Shaw says

    March 27, 2011 at 3:02 pm - March 27, 2011

    President Obama’s thin skin remains ever so transparent.

  6. Heliotrope says

    March 27, 2011 at 3:07 pm - March 27, 2011

    Anti-Penis @ #2,3: Try this source

    http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2011/03/waiting-for-joe-and-bill.html

  7. ILoveCapitalism says

    March 27, 2011 at 3:30 pm - March 27, 2011

    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?

  8. V the K says

    March 27, 2011 at 5:52 pm - March 27, 2011

    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.

  9. TnnsNe1 says

    March 27, 2011 at 6:22 pm - March 27, 2011

    A.D. was wrong? Really?

  10. American Elephant says

    March 27, 2011 at 6:56 pm - March 27, 2011

    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)

  11. V the K says

    March 27, 2011 at 7:23 pm - March 27, 2011

    Or, in Dogcrap’s case, just go to another thread and continue to spew deranged nonsense.

  12. Sebastian Shaw says

    March 27, 2011 at 7:36 pm - March 27, 2011

    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. Nathan says

    March 27, 2011 at 8:05 pm - March 27, 2011

    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.

  14. ThatGayConservative says

    March 27, 2011 at 8:27 pm - March 27, 2011

    To it’s credit, at least Dogshit doesn’t whine about growing up black before disappearing.

  15. Gene in Pennsylvania says

    March 27, 2011 at 8:49 pm - March 27, 2011

    I saw tape of a female journalist being harrassed slugged and a sheet thrown over her head to shut her up as she screamed for help. I thought it was tape from Libya or Syria. Who knew it was Bidens gang of SEIU goons, roughing up a journalist. wow.
    http://www.euronews.net/2011/03/26/woman-dragged-away-after-tripoli-rape-claims/

    Is this what Bidens team did to the American jounrnalist?

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