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Old 10-31-2008, 07:29 AM
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I just saw this on FOX NEWS. Obama has publicly complain about the coverage on said network, yet Fox news is still on the plane.
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Dang it! I was about to post this too....lol.
What's stopping you? Same **** different day.
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Old 10-31-2008, 07:34 AM
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Heh, heh... beat me to it.
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Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Drudge's report that two right-leaning papers, the Washington Times and the New York Post, have lost their seats on the Obama plane, along with the Dallas Morning News.

"We're trying to reach as many swing voters that we can and unfortunately had to make some tough choices. but we are accommodating these folks in every way possible," he said.

The Post and the Morning News are both read primarily in states that aren't in play, but the Washington Times is read in Northern Virginia.

Burton said the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times had returned to the plane, and confirmed that Ebony and Jet magazines have seats on the plane. (The Tribune has had a reporter on the plane for most of the cycle, but recently added a photographer.)

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said in an email that, contrary to Drudge's suggestion, she won't be on Obama's plane.

"I'll be at Saturday Night Live covering Tina Fey's Sarah Palin and possibly the real John McCain," she said.

Burton said the campaign was making space for the dropped outlets on the campaign bus where possible, and that they were encouraged to travel with Senator Joe Biden. He also noted that Fox News, whose schedule includes perhaps the most openly hostile programming to Obama, has a seat on the plane.

McCain barred Dowd and Time's Joe Klein, two columnists seen as leaning toward Obama, from his campaign plane, and space has grown very tight on Obama's in recent days. But Obama aides have also been heard to complain about the coverage from the New York Post and the Washington Times, if not as vociferously as they have about Fox News's coverage.

The Times took an ideologically-charged shot at Obama in response to its barring, a reminder of the political undercurrent to the choice.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...e.html?showall

What we can expect from an Obama Administration? Is that what he means when promising to "bring the country together"..you just won't hear the voices of anyone who may not agree with him?
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Typical Obama control the media crap. He needs to write the book:

How to purchase an election!

Or, actually, have it written for him.
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Such hyperbole. Not giving a media outlet a seat on your campaign plane is hardly "silencing" opposition. Get a grip.
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I misread the title as Papers (are) Endorsing McCain Thrown Off Obama's Plane....

Get a grip, Groky and Hat. Not bringing all newspapers on the plane is not suppression of the press. Last time I checked, Obama and his staff lived in America and were allowed to choose their own reading material freely.
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Heard the whole story on XM over lunch. It was a total bush league move. Some of the reporters have been there since 2007. All the people kicked off were from papers that endorsed McCain, although there are still reporters on board from papers that did the same. So he didn't kick them all off. But it was still bush league.
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It's about time all the GOP press got blacked out. They don't have anything worthwhile to say anyways.
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