Fixed Noise: Washington Times Kicked Off Obama Plane

[L. Coyote]

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October 31, 2008 News Corp

[icnorth]

1. Excellent. What took you so long? n/t

[ihavenobias]

14. I agree, but the Fox spin is SO painfully hypocritical in light of what the McCain campaign has done

Anyone remember the Maureen Dowd story?

McCain and Palin have repeatedly intimidated or locked out various people in the media! The fact that Fox would feign shock and disgust with Obama over this is laughable!

If this story is covered other networks I hope someone points this out. And Obama's surrogates better be prepared to say what I just said (albeit with more details of the McCain stuff).

[wtmusic]

2. Megyn, again, desperately trying to arouse indignation

If Obama's campaign is such a PR fiasco, why have so many newspapers endorsed him?

Why are all the other channels biased in his favor, as you claim?

[bluestateguy]

3. Look out Fox News! You're Next!!

Report whatever you wish. Free speech. First Amendment. Have at it.

But there is no constitutional right to have close access to the people you are covering. They allow you the privilege of access at their discretion.

[ann_american2004]

4. FAUX seems SHOCKED.

too funny. well if all 3 have backed McCain, why the hell should they be on the plane? I'd kick them off too. Big deal

[Flagrante]

5. These hypocrites didn't have a problem when BushCo stacked the press corps

with a softball throwing gay hooker, and pushed Helen Thomas to the back. Now they are suddenly worried about even handed press access? The nerve of these pricks! How's it feel, Fox? Learn to enjoy the back of the bus, you'll be there for a few decades.

[Hutzpa]

6. Sign O' The Fuckin Times

Fix Noise...


Days of your baised reporting and distortion are over.... hear me....


OOOVEERRRR!

[keepCAblue]

7. "nation's leading newspapers" ??? the times is one step above the Nat'l Enquirer.

[carnie_sf]

12. Just what I was thinking

[daggahead]

8. One of the "Top newspapers?"

The Washington Times isn't even in the Top 100 newspapers in circulation ...
http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0004420.html

What a friggin joke! It is a Moonie paper!!!

[desktop]

9. I hate watching any FOXnews, but I had to see this 3 propaganda outlets get the boot

Two Rupert Murdoch publications, (FOXnews), and a Texas Bush loving newspaper get booted off a plane. Good work. This is what all Democrats should do with FOXnews and their media counterparts. Refuse to go on their network, kick them out of the room and off the plane. Freedom of the press is one thing, propaganda is another. This will be a big story...on FOXnews, where no one by the rightwing cares.

[EnviroBat]

10. Awwww booo hoooo.

The RW propagandists aren't getting their asses kissed anymore.

Fuck them.

[blossomstar]

11. Oh sweet victory, I can just smell it in the air.

Why would Obama cart around McCain's endorsers? That's a no brainer.

[desktop]

13. Dallas Morning News says it had nothing to do with bias, FOXnews lying again

The Dallas Morning News and the Obama campaign
9:29 AM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Ryan J. Rusak E-mail News tips

By now you may have seen the Drudge Report item indicating that the DMN and two other papers who endorsed John McCain are being booted off the Obama campaign. Here are the facts as we know them.

It's true that our reporter, Todd J. Gillman, has been told that there's no space for him after Saturday. Obama aides told the DMN last Saturday that the paper would lose its seat on the plane on Wednesday. Within a few hours, that moved to Friday. And by midweek, traveling press secretary Jen Psaki had told us that Saturday night's final flight would be the last leg available. We protested then and continue to do so now, arguing that a paper of the DMN's size and stature should be on-board.

But we don't have evidence that the newspaper's endorsement of Sen. McCain had any bearing on the campaign's decision to boot us from the plane. No one from the campaign ever mentioned it to Todd. (And for the record, he as a reporter, and I as the editor in charge of political coverage, had absolutely no input or knowledge of the endorsement. That's handled by a different department on a different floor. I didn't even know about the editorial board's choice until I read it in the paper a couple of Sundays ago.)

We think the Obama campaign's decision is to some degree more a function of limited seats, and while we're a large regional newspaper, we're not national and we're not in a swing state. We've been on the road with them at key moments, but we've not been along for the entire ride, like, say, The New York Times and The Associated Press.

For what it's worth, we've had the same trouble with the McCain campaign. One of our reporters dropped off earlier this week when space became an issue, and we're only getting back on with McCain tomorrow for the final weekend because they, unlike the Obama campaign, are adding a second plane.

[Maestro]

15. One of the few editors from DMN

that sounds reasonable unlike the DMN's board!

[Number23]

26. Thanks for this, desktop

You would think Fox had more time to devote to real stories about real issues instead of constantly stirring up this home-made crap. And they have the nerve to wonder why no one EVER takes them seriously.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

16. "One of the nation's leading newspapers"?

Did she really say that about the Washington Times?

Just listen to that righteous indignation- How soon they forget that it was their boy, George W Bush who set this precedent. And what does 'treating reporters shabbily' mean? Does it mean actually mistreating them, or does it just mean not treating them like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphLyz4kx_k

[Hulk]

17. Maybe they should have kicked off his wife and kids to make room???

Sorry folks...but ask yourself....if you had to reshuffle to make room for a documentary crew.....WHO would you move first?....the supportive, or those who have been critical and endorsed your opponent?...hmmmm, tough question, huh?

What an ass hole this blond bitch is. she fits right in, and I'm sure when vannity and bor are washed up (day after the election, if not sooner), she'll screw her way into the warm, cozy seat of the absent swine.

[DRex]

18. "the journalistic equivalent

of redistributing the wealth"

Do these people listen to themselves when they talk? Do they know how stoopid they sound?

[D23MIURG23]

19. Will this hurt Obama with moonies in critical swing states?

:crazy:

[kmac3]

20. Karma shows it's face again . . . .

Journalists have primarily supported the McCain campaign because they are owned by Republicans. Obama has graciously put up with this factor .... bearing that in mind the fact he needed to remove a few because of space requirements selecting those who have openly supported McCain isn't too hard to understand.

Come on people ......

[Heather MC]

21. Wait a min. Where was the Outrage when McLame left a reporter stranded????

It sounds like this was well negotiated, and they weren't stranded.

What about when McLame shut out CNN because Coleman Brown made Tucker B. look like the moron he is.

And what about how None of McLames people come on KO??? and only one came on Maddow

Phoney Outrage blah blah blah

[sallyseven]

22. That bitch is such a tool

Fox is such a fraudulent pretend network

[Jack Rabbit]

23. Anything about this story from a reliable source?

That would eliminate FoxNews, the Washington Times and the New York Post.

[MrsBrady]

24. dallas morning news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha

on edit:
that's not even really a NEWS paper.

I use it in my cat boxes.

[ksimons]

25. 'former employee' HO HO HO Merry Xmas - join the ranks of the real Americans

who are out of work buddy - enjoy!