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Standoff in China over White House Press plane- Not being allowed off
KNX 1070 ^ | 8/7/08 | KNX 1070

Posted on 08/07/2008 2:02:50 PM PDT by dragnet2

Radio report, broke this as breaking

Mark Knowler with KFI is stuck on the aircraft...Not being allowed to be left off the aircraft.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; bushvisit; china; geopolitics; kfi; letoffnotleftoff; olympics; redchina
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To: dragnet2

Kinda hopes this blows up and we just back up our team and leave.

-— Mainly because NBC would be screwed.


41 posted on 08/07/2008 2:21:18 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan ("Jesse Jackson was an important figure; paving the way for Osama bin Laden to appear" -- Dan Rather)
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To: Cementjungle

Maybe a suitcase of payoff $$$ from the Clintons didn’t get to its intended recipient.


42 posted on 08/07/2008 2:21:50 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Cementjungle
Now being reported those on board the aircraft are being allowed off the plane.
43 posted on 08/07/2008 2:22:25 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: VOA

“and surf Free Republic”

They have been here for years 0_o


44 posted on 08/07/2008 2:22:39 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: DoughtyOne

If the Chinese don’t allow those Americans off that plane, The President should leave.
He should invite all American athletes to leave with him.

I know, they are MSM, but they are still Americans. ;-)


45 posted on 08/07/2008 2:23:35 PM PDT by fanfan (SCC:Canadians have constitutional protection to all opinions, as long as they are based on the facts)
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No word if they and their luggage/equipment are being searched as apparently the Chinese were demanding.


46 posted on 08/07/2008 2:23:39 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: All
Flash presentation: 2001 Disgrace Odyssey (Al Gore, Tipper, Buddhist Monks, and the Clintons)
47 posted on 08/07/2008 2:23:42 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: dragnet2

Wow.


48 posted on 08/07/2008 2:23:42 PM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: dragnet2
Chinese authorities have demanded to search all the luggage and equipment on the aircraft

All they will find is a little doobie, loads of locally manufactured Birkenstocks, and well-thumbed copies of "Earth in the Balance".

49 posted on 08/07/2008 2:23:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: GoCards

I wish he would turn those planes around, get back home and do the job he swore to uphold instead of watching games in the enemy’s playground while this country is in need!


50 posted on 08/07/2008 2:24:22 PM PDT by RS_Rider
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just hope the airconditioning is off and the heads are full. Drinks are locked up..and yes..it would be great if they hauled a few in for narcotics. They are rough on drug smuggler there.
Bush will be blamed..they’ll say he wouldn’t lift a finger to save them.
Why to bad things happen to bad people?


51 posted on 08/07/2008 2:24:36 PM PDT by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: dragnet2
(CBS)—CBS News Correspondent Mark Knoller reports via e-mail that “something of a standoff” has developed between the U.S. and China over the White House press plane.

I bet I know why the Chinese are freaked out!

"..discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have its challenges as well.

The world's largest retailer, whose July sales results were slightly below Wall Street estimates, said that it's seeing customers increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday. It also predicted that August's sales pace would be slower than July."

Target reports similarly.

People may have stopped buying rubber sqeaky toys, and that's the end of China's economy.

52 posted on 08/07/2008 2:25:01 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: dragnet2
Mark Knowler with KFI is stuck on the aircraft...
Not being allowed to be left off the aircraft.


If this is the same Mark Knowler of CBS, all I can do is...
LOL!!!
I remember his barely-contained rage at reporting on Dubya's suprise
trip to Baghdad (Thanksgiving?) a few years ago.
You could hear the edge in his voice at how P-SSED-OFF he was
at having been fooled about Dubya's covert operation and being
"left behind" with virtually all of his fellow-traveler "journalists".

One other possible reason the ChiComms won't let him off the
plane...
If he eats...probably five to ten Chinese will go hungry for
the next couple of weeks!!!
(yes, Knowler is "a man of substance", so to say)
53 posted on 08/07/2008 2:25:29 PM PDT by VOA
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To: NormsRevenge

Greatest Olympics since 1936 anyway, hell, everybody knows they’re going to roll into Taiwan as soon as the games are over just like Hitler rolled into the Sudetenland, and we’re gonna wring our hands and send the striped pants diplomatic corpse to make veiled threats and then we’ll let them do it, why? Because they frickin’ pw3n our @$$es, and we’ll let them do what they demn well please, in the end.


54 posted on 08/07/2008 2:25:38 PM PDT by ichabod1 (If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it, and if it stops moving, subsidize it.)
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To: fanfan

I agree. I think it has already been smoothed ever. The press reminded the Chinese they were there to make China look better than the U.S., and the Chinese realized they were right.


55 posted on 08/07/2008 2:26:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We're a non Soros non lefitst supporting maverick Gang of 2, who won't be voting for McCain.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This was apparently a White House chartered aircraft....Lets hope everything is above board here.

They have confirmed those on board are being allowed off the aircraft....But still no word on if the search of their equipment/luggage is being conducted...What is being reported is that the Chinese were demanding everything be searched.


56 posted on 08/07/2008 2:28:37 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: JennysCool

Damn I didn’t know Mike Carona has friends in China LOL!


57 posted on 08/07/2008 2:28:55 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: fanfan
If the Chinese don’t allow those Americans off that plane, The President should leave.
He should invite all American athletes to leave with him.

I know, they are MSM, but they are still Americans. ;-)

I think this is a GREAT idea. Too bad Bush does not have the testicular fortitude to face the Chinese down like he did with Saddam.

And I will gladly eat these words with a side of crow if I'm wrong.

58 posted on 08/07/2008 2:32:29 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
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To: BooBoo1000
A short Chinese citizen saw the plane coming and yelled, “Deplane, deplane.”

The Chinese authorities heard him say that, noted who was on the plane, and yelled, “Deplane,” you say—”Like hell they will!”

59 posted on 08/07/2008 2:33:43 PM PDT by GOPologist (Illigitimi non carborundum.)
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Chinese authorities were demanding everything be searched. Apparently the Chinese were going back on an agreement where it was agreed it would not be searched.


60 posted on 08/07/2008 2:33:45 PM PDT by dragnet2
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