A Taste Of Things To Come - Obama Campaign Boots Papers That Endorsed McCain
The Obama campaign has notified three papers, the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Times, and the New York Post, that , sorry, we just don’t have room for you on our plane anymore.
Why those three?
They all three endorsed McCain. But, of course, the Obama campaign says that they’ve run out of room and that demand for seating motivated the heave-ho.
The Washington Times had this response::
“This feels like the journalistic equivalent of redistributing the wealth, we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars covering Senator Obama’s campaign, traveling on his plane, and taking our turn in the reporter’s pool, only to have our seat given away to someone else in the last days of the campaign,” said Washington Times Executive Editor John Solomon.
“I hope the candidate that promises to unite America isn’t using a litmus test to determine who gets to cover his campaign.”
The Obama campaign’s take?
“Unfortunately, demand for seats on the plane during this final weekend has far exceeded supply, and because of logistical issues we made the decision not to add a second plane. This means we’ve had to make hard and unpleasant for all concerned decisions about limiting some news organizations and in some cases not being in a position to offer space to news organizations altogether,” wrote Obama campaign Senior Advisor and Chief Communications Officer Anita Dunn in an email.
“There are simply no more seats on Senator Obamas plane,” she added. “There are press seats available on Senator Bidens plane for travel this final weekend and the Washington Times is encouraged to include our Vice Presidential nominee in your coverage plans for this final stretch.”
Begone, peasants. We will accept those who will worship the messiah accordingly and without question.
Drudge is calling it what it is - a purge. Not only that, they’re naming some names of possible replacements:
The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs—and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines, ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The Fairness Doctrine comes early.
