The Longest Day

[Scairp]

Have I mentioned today how much I loathe Jodi Wilgoren? I really hate that bitch (it's okay for me to call her that cause I'm a woman too).

June 21 is well-known as the longest day of the year, when the sun far outlasts the darkness as spring becomes summer. But Monday was also the longest day in recent memory on the campaign trail with Senator John Kerry.

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The planned 7 a.m. departure was delayed until 7:34 because Mr. Kerry arrived a bit late. His red, white and blue Boeing 757 campaign jet touched down in Denver just after noon Eastern time — 10 a.m. local — leaving reporters and aides confused about whether to eat a third breakfast or move on to lunch.

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Then, suddenly, came word of a new schedule. Instead of flying on to Albuquerque, N.M., Monday night for a university campus speech on technology and then a fundraiser, Mr. Kerry had decided to head back East to Washington, D.C., for a possible vote on veterans' health-care funding.

It was the first time in months the candidate had scrapped his schedule to do his day job, despite criticism from Republicans about hundreds of missed votes, including a call for him to resign his Senate seat by the lieutenant governor of his home state, Massachusetts. Aboard the press bus, speculation was rampant that the vote was actually a cover for Mr. Kerry to conduct secret meetings with potential vice presidential candidates.

In any case, the entourage headed back to the Denver airport, now aiming for an 8:45 p.m. (Mountain time) departure. That would get Mr. Kerry and the crew into Washington around 2 a.m. Eastern, with hope for a tuck-in by 3 — a 22-hour workday.

And to make June 22 last as long as possible, Mr. Kerry was scheduled to fly to San Francisco Tuesday evening.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/politics/trail/22TRAIL-LONG.html?pagewanted=print

[WilliamPitt]

1. If you don't like the hours, Jodi

I suggest a new line of work.

[Scairp]

2. Well Pitt

I write, I call, I urge others to do the same, what the hell will it take to make the Times get Wilgoren off of this story? She despises Kerry, she ridicules and belittles his aide as a "glorified valet", she clearly hates the inconsistency of traveling with a campaign, yet they continue to keep her "On the Trail". All I get from Okrent is "I'm planning to write a column between now and the election, and I will take your comments into consideration". Swell. What about now? The damage is being done NOW. I don't get it. Others are writing about how slanted her reports are and the Times seems to take no notice whatsoever.

[Scairp]

3. This is so important

I wish people would read what Wilgoren is writing and do what I do, yell at the Times about her and her crap reporting. But it seems like everytime I post about her it is ignored in favor of endless threads about Clinton, whom I love, don't get me wrong, but there are so many each day, and this is just too important to let slide.

[Scairp]

4. I keep trying anyway

So BUMP.

[Beetwasher]

5. It's Obvious This Reporter Friggn' HATES Kerry! WTF?!?

How absurd...

[StopThief]

6. Just bookmarking this thread. . . .

so I can look later to see if you have more posts when you finally let it die than every other poster combined.

:evilgrin:

[Scairp]

9. What is your problem?

I think I am doing a good thing by trying to bring this to the attention of as many posters as possible, and all you can do is post a snide remark? Blow it out your rear, and if you can't add something constructive and related to the subject, go spread sunshine someplace else.

[ArkDem]

7. I thought June 6 was the 'longest day'.

[doni_georgia]

8. She's a Harpy! I'll write a LTTE

[Scairp]

10. That's great

I wish that every adult member of DU would write a letter to the editor. It's numbers that make a difference, so if they only have handful of readers writing and complaining, it won't affect them at all. Thank you for caring. I think everyone should. This kind of reporting impacts the electoral process, and if you don't think so, then think back to the last presidential election, about the lies perpetrated by NYT reporters, lies that most certainly made the election much closer than it should have been. Al Gore should have won without any controversy with a fairly comfortable margin, but since the Times set out to cast him as a liar just like Clinton, it wasn't to be. If you think I give them too much credit, try reading the archives at http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh062204.shtml. They documented it all contemporaneously.