Dispatch From Wasilla-The Clouds Descend-FULL STORY-How Maureen Dowd Got BANNED From McCAIN PLANE

[kpete]

Yesterday we wrote about Kurtz aside on Maureen Dowd getting banned from the McCain plane. Now the full story emerges:

It all started when Maureen covered an Aug. 30 McCain-Palin rally in Washington, Pa., then wasn't let on the McCain plane afterward, forcing her to overnight at a Pittsburgh airport hotel while the traveling press went on without her.

"I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' (Then McCain spokeswoman) Nicole Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane," Dowd wrote in an email.

"It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney."

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/331
http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/earlyreturns/archive/2008/09/30/maureen-dowd-kicked-off-campaign.aspx

[billyoc]

1. I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney.

Oh, I did.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Well, why wouldn't he be? It's working well for Cheney.

[musette_sf]

2. who was it who said that

McCain would make Cheney look like Gandhi?

[Pirate Smile]

4. Pat Buchanan.

LOL

[musette_sf]

5. well, HE would know, then.

yikes.

[cui bono]

3. Maybe she can tell this story on Letterman tonight.

:evilgrin:

[EV_Ares]

9. I take it, she will be on Letterman tonight because if so, I am watching because that will get David

started again.

[medeak]

14. she's not on schedule?

Tuesday, September 30
Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Josette Sheeran (UN World Food Programme)
The Virgins (CD, "The Virgins")

[cui bono]

23. No, I was just hoping she would get invited.

[Kdillard]

6. Is she kidding me John McCain has shown himself all through

out his campaign and even before this capable of this type of behavior. He is a jerk and holds a grudge.

[Bucky]

15. I dunno, he sure had plenty of pals in the press 5-8 years ago

Media types are shallow and want someone to kiss they're butts. McCain used to, but surely that must get tiring over the years. Maybe he just ran out of pucker.

[Supersedeas]

29. you have to earn that seat on the Free Ride Express

[pleah]

7. So, have a few more scales fallen from a few more eyes?

I certainly hope so.

[EV_Ares]

8. Gloating about it? Who are these people? I don't see how the press can have any

respect for them and continue to a certain extent still do their bidding.

Christ, can you imagine if one of our dems pulled some of the stunts McCain has.

Unbelievable, K&R.

[Arugula Latte]

10. I think it's safe to say that the press is no longer his "base."

[Canuckistanian]

11. Foolish, foolish move

Dowd had a major role in the downfall of Gore because (for whatever reason) she disapproved of Gore and slandered him at every opportunity.

"practically lactating" are the exact words Dowd used to describe Al Gore.

She's scum.

But she's scum that can be used to defeat McCain.

[1corona4u]

19. She had a major role in bringing Biden down in 1988 too.

[crazylikafox]

13. What exactly did she say that offended McClueless so much???

[mitchum]

21. It's what she didn't say...

"Barack Obama is a Communist Mooslim who is going to take all of your stuff and give you the gay!"

[Bucky]

16. Look at this woman

I would ban her from my plane too

[Zomby Woof]

17. You live by the scumbags

You die by them too.

Fuck Dowd. She's the one who pushed the whole "Biden's a plagiarist" bullshit back in 1987, and the rest of the media toads ran with it. I learned this little tidbit from reading Biden's memoir.

[Mariana]

18. Maureen, have you ever heard of McCain-Feingold?

He has a history of being dismissive of the First Amendment!

[Cha]

20. Think again, modo...there's no daylight between the dick

and mcpalin. They're all fucked up zombies.

[intheflow]

22. I think McCain may have had some modicum of integrity once upon a time.

But Cheney and Rove have been dosing him with high levels of their evil alien brain waves as he sleeps for at least the last decade. You can see the tragic effect this has had on both his and Cindy's looks over the years as they've turned into the undead. But in the end, what's the diff? A zombie's a zombie.

[No Elephants]

24. I think that, at one time, McCain found it expedient to SEEM as though he had a modicum of integrity

[Kahuna]

28. Right. IOW, he's been a big fat phony all along and is only now..

revealing his true self.

[political_Dem]

25. Wow. He's not being a media darling, is he? /eom

[snake in the grass]

26. Serves her right.

I don't feel sorry for this piece of shit at all.

[Heather MC]

27. He certainly has a history of being extremely Crude to Women

Jack ass

[olegramps]

30. Maureen Dowd and Ann Coulter are soul mates

I can't understand why they kicked her ass off the plane. This bitch is as vile as Ann Coulter and should have been a big asset for the McCain Forked Tongued Express. He probably found out that she's a rotten lay.

[GalleryGod]

31. Not good to p.o. MoDo.

Now, lets see ? HMMM? Who in the cast of SNL can play Mo Dowd???
:rofl: :patriot: :rofl: