The secret service at Palin rallies, who keeps reporters from interviewing people in her crowds. You're believing THEM?
"Dana Milbank of The Washington Post writes that the Secret Service has been preventing reporters travelling with Sarah Palin from entering the crowd at her rallies to interview attendees. http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13653 Then comes Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan to protest that it's really not so. But now, it seems, even the Secret Service, of all respected organizations, is infested with Orwellian spin. Because right there in the interview he gave to ProPublica, Donovan admits that the Secret Service does *exactly what Dana Milbank accused them of*: It refuses to let reporters out of their Secret Service pen, into the audience, at Palin rallies. ProPublica writes, paraphrasing Donovan, "Donovan said that at rallies for all the candidates, the Secret Service sometimes separates the press corps that is credentialed to cover the event— known as the pool—from the general public. That is for logistical and security reasons, he said." --------------------------------------- "The reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.) http://tinyurl.com/3wmg4c "Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience." ----------------------------------------- "I have to say the Secret Service is in dangerous territory here. In cooperation with the Palin campaign, they've started preventing reporters from leaving the press section to interview people in the crowd. This is a serious violation of their duty -- protecting the protectee -- and gets into assisting with the political aspirations of the candidate. It also often makes it impossible for reporters to get into the crowd to question the people who say vulgar things. So they prevent reporters from getting near the people doing the shouting, then claim it's unfounded because the reporters can't get close enough to identify the person." http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=152411 On Oct 29, 2008, at 7:58 PM, justifiedright wrote: > The "kill him" incident has already been debunked by the secret > service. The issued a report after an investigation. > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" <hinge98@> wrote: > > > > > > You are wrong. > > > If you don't believe me, i'll be happy to post a video in which an > > elderly white man, outside > > > a Palin rally, calls Obama a "n" word. > > > > > Jack, > > I saw it on TV too. I also saw the guy with the Curious George doll > > labeled "Obama". There was also one where someone yelled "kill him" > > during a Palin rally. I think McCain started to feel his conscious > > bothering him over these things. Inciting people to feel they can be > > openly hateful is dangerous. It brings out "crowd psychology" where > > people start to feel like everyone else in the group feels like > they do > > and it is okay to act out. When its about hating a presidential > > candidate that is scary. > > Jennifer > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
