[MindBender26]

This story is now released to all other media.

[Tribune7]

bump

[exPBRrat]

HOLY COW! I’m in shock.

[Baynative]

...media matters

[davisfh]

Interesting, and if can be verified/supported, I hope that it goes viral. Thanks for posting.

[nerdwithagun]

Security could and should have escorted him out. You're allowed to hold trespassers like that I believe, depending on what state you're in. Considering no one has made any kind of legal allegation that the reporter was trespassing, I would say this reporter should sue if he can.

[Dante3]

Interesting.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm sure I could come up with something much more creative to do to captive journalists. Like making them learn the difference between a clip and a magazine, or mm vs caliber. Shock collars and waterboarding figure heavily in my scenario.

I'm gonna give Plugs a pass on this one.

/johnny

[Carley]

Maybe they noticed he didn’t have the requisite knee pads on when he attempted to cover the event.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

If you can verify this it needs to get to Drudge, Gateway Pundit, the Bigs, Ace of Spades, etc.

[Repeal The 17th]

How you know this?

[dead]

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?

Our media went ballistic, calling Bush a fascist, because some of his supporters decided to stop buying Dixie Chick records! They considered this some form of government sponsored censorship!

They even made an Oscar-nominated documentary to highlight how the fat chick suffered under the fascist regime.

[smokingfrog]

I thought Biden was on vacation in FL to see some baseball spring training while Barry was in Rio and Libya was being bombed, but I guess he was really there to raise some cash.

The reporter is lucky he wasn’t run over by the VP’s limo. It’s been known to happen.

[detective]

“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?”

The MSM is simply the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party and only repeat the same leftist talking points ad nauseum. The “reporter” was lucky he was just locked in the closet. He will probably lose his job if he says anything about it.There are no journalists, just shills for Obama.

[jrcats]

So what was Bill Nelson & the others talking about that they didn’t want a reporter to hear. I’m all for getting rid of Nelson along with the imposter in chief & his crazy sidekick.

[gaijin]

Kidnapping —and if the paper keeps it mum, I think it may be a tort.

A crime has been committed, and a tort has been committed, sure, but it’s more and more clear that we need an entire parallel media apparatus.

[VeniVidiVici]

This story is now released to all other media.

And we'll never hear another thing about it.

[Palladin]

This story needs to get legs.

Biden shows himself to be a totalitarian tyrant here. No free press for him!

And, yes, their actions do fit the legal definition of kidnapping.

Remember when OJ and his thugs did this to the baseball collector guy in a hotel room in Vegas? The charges stuck!

[Never on my watch]

I would also like to know if this is actually legal to treat people like caged animals.

My jaw dropped when I read that. It sounds like something Biden would say.

[lonestar]

...have we become: Cuba, Iran, Libya, or Stalinist Russia...

We're on the fast track, IMO.

The MSM is aiding and abetting their demise.

[NWFLConservative]

I'm not a loyah, and I did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night, but this sure sounds like kidnapping to me.

Section 787.01 of Florida's Revised Statutes sets forth a basic definition of kidnapping. Specifically, it entails "forcibly, secretly or by threat confining, abducting or imprisoning another person against her or his will and without lawful authority."

And last time I checked our FL laws, kidnapping was a CLASS B (2nd degree) FELONY. It is one thing to have a couple of Bobo's thugs escort him to the gate, another entirely, to lock him in a closet. Suppose, just suppose, this person was prone to extreme anxiety attacks brought on by claustophobia?

What then, Bobo? Are you goin to foot the bill to pay for the ambulance and treatment at the hospital if the guy could not calm down on his own?