Posted on 03/26/2011 12:06:10 PM PDT by MindBender26
An incident at a Florida Democratic political fundraiser this week should be front page news in every paper in the country, and the lead story on TV newscasts, but it has been virtually buried…. until now
Here are the details.
On Wednesday morning, Vice President Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. The event was at the home of billionaire real estate developer Alan Ginsberg, a long-time Dem supporter. Ginsberg’s enormous lakefront home is in an exclusive section of Winter Park, an uber-upscale Orlando suburb. To give you an idea of the size and opulence of the home, it was originally built for Orlando Magic and NBA superstar Horace Grant.
The Orlando Sentinel assigned longtime reporter Scott Powers to cover the event. But when he arrived, Biden staffers decided they didn’t want him mingling with the 150 guests who had forked over $500 to meet Biden, so they locked him in a closet! A member of the Biden advance team even stood guard outside the door to prevent Powers from escaping.
Powers has all the details, even pictures of the inside of the closet where he was held; but it appears the Sentinel editors have refused to let him report on all the details of what some are calling a kidnapping! There was a very brief, and very “vanilla” mention of the incident in Thursday’s paper. One attendee later emailed the Sentinel to say “I was in attendance at the Fundraiser and enjoyed a nice lunch. If I had known there was a reporter stuffed in the closet, I would have been compelled to stand up and demand answers. I would also like to know if this is actually legal to treat people like caged animals. I’m disgusted by these actions.”
Despite this outrage, Sentinel editors have dropped the story.
Some longtime journalists are furious with Biden’s team over the incident. Some are more angry at Sentinel editors for downplaying the story. Others are asking “where was the Secret Service when a crime was obviously being committed?” Others appear to have no problem with it, since it involves their “Administration that can do no wrong.”
So far, none of the DC papers or TV networks has covered the story, but of course, they are the first to cry in outrage when dictators imprison reporters overseas. What have we become: Cuba, Iran, Libya, or Stalinist Russia, that we would allow such police-state tactics to muzzle the media?
Does the “Free Press” still exist in America? Or are we relegated to the status of a Banana Republic where the media approves anything Team Obama does?
Some people saw this coming when then-Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden exploded and flatly refused to answer the insightful questions of an Orlando television reporter when she asked about Obama’s connections to ACORN, socialism and his “spread the wealth” comments to Joe the Plumber. Since then, Biden’s mandate seems to have changed from refusing to answer embarrassing questions, to imprisoning reporters who might ask them.
It's his own fault. He should have announced loudly that he "Can't believe the deep crap we're in thanks to Bush", and "Thank Gawd President Barack Hussein Obama is doing something about Libya, in spite of delaying tactics by the Republican Congress".
He could have sat on Joe The Doorknob's shoulders for the entire event.
This regime doesn't like, want, or recognize reporters. It only tolerates mouthpieces. Fortunately, mouthpieces is all the journalism programs in American colleges graduate now. If it wasn't for Beck and Breitbart, the species would be extinct.
I’ll cool off, too..thanks.
An Admin Moderator with scruples. I like that.
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Good job! Woo hoo!
There are people alive right now that would pay $500 to meet Joe Biden? Seriously? That in itself is disturbing.
There are still Obama bumper stickers on some cars.
Rent-a-Wrecks and Volvos.
A caged- area designated for organized protests appears enclosed by mesh and chain link fencing near the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, in Boston, Wednesday, July 21, 2004.' (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
A man named Barrack Huessein Obama delivered the keynote address at the DNC in Boston back in 2004.
Bet the talkers have it Monday.
Come on - if Dick Cheney had done the same at a fundraiser, we all know the press would have hidden the story.../s
You left off your sarcasm tag...
How many years did O.J. got for closing the doors at a hotel with people who had stolen his own stuff as kidnapping???
Now, now give the fella a little slack, you know he was conspiring with our two faced Senator how to impeach Barry Soetoro!!!
There were probably also Alan Grayson and other dems critter involved???
Looks like it’s not gated???
House is gated. Winter Park is also VERY well patroled by local PD. At one time WPPD drove Volvos!
House is gated. Winter Park is also VERY well patroled by local PD. At one time WPPD drove Volvos!
Also: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/alan-ginsburgs-house/
You can see gate on right side (eastern) driveway.
Thanks for getting the scoop. Your work is appreciated. :-)
Thanks. If we all work together, it will be Adios, Barry! :)
Yeah, right. I also say had Cheney or Rick Scott's team had done this the Sentinel would be plastering it all over the front page.
Curious. The reporter stayed to hear the remarks (he says). Did he report on those remarks?
This is the way the “Slantinel” rolls! Great catch...
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