Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back (Did anyone catch this last week..I think it's huge)

The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative.

They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.

Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly agree. After the interviews, they review their notes, check their tape recorders and send in the juiciest sound bites for review.

The verdict from the campaign — an operation that prides itself on staying consistently on script — is often no, Barack Obama does not approve this message.

Does this really surprise anyone. We live in a pre-packaged society where everything fits into a nice little bundle. Everything is scrubbed, sanitized, vetted and rescrubbed. This practice is now common place because The New York Times, The Boston Globe, MSNBC and a multitude of other news organizations favor a specific political group but mask themselves as news outlets. Once you have a news organization on your side you can dictate to any other news outlet, specific conditions on an interview or you simply don't allow the interview because "your news network" has your back. They will print a story favorable to you and they carry the weight of a legitimate news organization.

Hey cut the media some slack. They are undermanned as sending 1000+ investigative “journalists” to Alaska to dig up dirt on Sarah has stretched them to the limit. Even 4 years after the fact.

I am sure once they find every black who was offended by the Mormon religion and every black who is still waiting for their money from the black farmer reparations scam (thanks to BO) they will start vetting the president.

I am sure they will find at least one person in the USA or the world for that matter who knows why BO and the first wookie were forced to surrender their licence to practice law.

It would seem that the media would jump right on such a FACT to find the reason would it not?

Maybe every Freeper could call/write their local media outlets and ask the question of why these two were forced to surrender their licenses we might just find that one person who knows why. It is not a big thing to ask of the Freeper community as it would take less time than we spend on the FR everyday.

Does the Romney campaign do this?

I think Fehrnstom made his infamous “Etch-A-Sketch” remark in a live on-camera interview, so it couldn’t be edited out — but if Romney staffers are going to say things as damaging as that one, then Romney should be policing their quotes as much as possible.

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