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Palin Bans Reporters From Meetings With World Leaders (Only TV Crew/Photographers Allowed)
AP (no link)

Posted on 09/23/2008 8:22:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

This came down as an "alert" from the AP...the latest whine from the Drive Bys.

Palin, while in New York, is meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The meetings are scheduled for Tuesday.

The press was told photogs and a camera crew could go in, but no so-called journalists who pretend to be reporters.

Can someone post the crybaby picture?


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foreignpolicy; hockeymom; mccainpalin; media; palin; palinping; sarah; sarahpalin; ungeneralassembly; whiners
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To: Petronski

You used that same graphic quite a bit after Super Bowl XL.


61 posted on 09/23/2008 9:05:34 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: GitmoSailor
Thank you Lord for the Palin family!!!..

I believe this is literal.

62 posted on 09/23/2008 9:05:47 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

May she never set foot on the stage of Ophrama either.


63 posted on 09/23/2008 9:06:09 AM PDT by NoLibZone (Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' Barney Frank 9-10-03)
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To: SoFloFreeper
"Palin Bans Reporters From Meetings With World Leaders"

So? Is there a problem?
64 posted on 09/23/2008 9:06:31 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let's get serious - there is only one choice - McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: Lions Gate

Lord, please, please let it be your will that this woman gets elected.”

My family is claiming the above statement. That will be the only way we win, with God intervention.


65 posted on 09/23/2008 9:06:38 AM PDT by JFC (The libs fear us Republicans.. wait until JUDGEMENT DAY!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

A more recent version which has been blocked from replies says that CNN has decided to pull its photographers, to avoid giving Palin any “exposure.”

I’d say they are biting off their noses to spite their faces, since this would have been good for their declining ratings.

But in the new left media, politics as usual evidently comes before survival.


66 posted on 09/23/2008 9:07:13 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The NY TIMES is disappointed because they will not be able to reveal secrets that would harm our country.


67 posted on 09/23/2008 9:08:25 AM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: PurpleMan
These are not members of the press, they are Obama supporters that want to embarrass her in any way they can. Press do not have the right to be part of a private meeting as they long ago proved they will make Clymers of themselves with some of the stupid questions they ask.

Freedom of the Press also carries with it the obligation to report the facts not spin or their own opinion. The media covering the campaign has crossed and line and wouldn't know Ethics in Journalism if it hit them in the face. Let's put it this way, my daughter is a reporter but unlike the media that is in the tank for Obama, she plays it down the middle. At her graduation in May of 2007, the Dean of the Journalism College said he would hunt down any graduate who didn't report the facts, used their own agenda for news, or spun a story. He told them they had been taught Ethics so use them or answer to him.

68 posted on 09/23/2008 9:08:49 AM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER -- VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN2008! LetsGetThisRight.com)
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To: TChris
Thanks for that great image!
It's a keeper.

I have a feeling it will get lots of use for the next four years...

69 posted on 09/23/2008 9:08:51 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: SoFloFreeper; All
Here is the link from yahoo/ap news. The media is so upset that, like babies, “CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_el_pr/palin_leaders

70 posted on 09/23/2008 9:09:33 AM PDT by bobsunshine
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To: mainepatsfan

I remember.


71 posted on 09/23/2008 9:10:48 AM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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To: PurpleMan

These people were kicked out because they were NOT members of a “free press”; they were Obamahacks who get their paychecks from media organs who are trying to manipulate this election through intimidation, vile smears, and illegalities. (Sorry, Obama, that won’t work outside of Chicago.) The real, free press are the brave men and women who dare to go against Obamania and actually investigate and print the truth. When we hear as much about Obama’s laughable policy flip-flops, Biden’s son’s lobbying, Rezko, Ayers, Johnson, Raines, and Wright as we’ve heard about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy or Sarah Palin buying a used tanning bed with her own money, or the Palin dog pooping in the neighbor’s lawn, I’ll believe in the so-called “free” press again.

The media is trying to steal this election for their hand-picked messiah: we can either allow it or fight it. It is your choice.


72 posted on 09/23/2008 9:10:49 AM PDT by alwaysconservative (I think, therefore, I vote Republican. McCain-Palin 2008)
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To: PurpleMan

She needs to show the leftist media that she is the alpha dog. Training a dog is sometimes difficult. Confidence and firmness are needed, and in stubborn cases you might need to spit in the dog’s food to demonstrate who is the alpha dog. This gains the dog’s respect and makes it much easier to manage.


73 posted on 09/23/2008 9:12:17 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: 1035rep

I was at an air show Saturday in Martinsburg, WV. Not surprisingly both parties had tents sent up and local pols there shaking hands for votes. The GOP tent had a cardboard cut out of McCain but no pictures of Sarah!!! I pointed this out to one of the ladies and she told me I was the 100th person to give them that same complaint.


74 posted on 09/23/2008 9:12:55 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: JFC
Palin is smart to do this. Were she to let the reporters in, they would be barking questions at her planted by the Obama Campaign.

As she goes forward, she does need to open herself up more to her traveling press pool after this, but she must avoid the mistake that McCain made in 2000 when he believed he had coopted the press. Sarah doesn't want to have a Nixonian relationship with the Press, but she does want to have a correct relationship with them.

Best,

Chris

75 posted on 09/23/2008 9:14:15 AM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: dragnet2
So are these closed door meetings in which only the insiders are privy? If I had it my way, I'd monitored every phone call and rip the doors off every office in D.C. There should be no closed door meetings. Closed door meetings involving government officials has brought us nothing but disaster.

Did you read the article? Did you even read the headline?

There will be photographers and television crews in the room. Does that qualify as a "closed door" meeting?

76 posted on 09/23/2008 9:14:41 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mtairycitizen
Love it!

Sarah Palin We Cab Do It - small
77 posted on 09/23/2008 9:15:45 AM PDT by crop circles
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To: SoFloFreeper

In one day, Palin will have matched Obama’s so-called foreign policy experience.


78 posted on 09/23/2008 9:16:12 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: dead

I don’t recall any press or camera crews covering Obama’s meeting with the PM in Iraq.


79 posted on 09/23/2008 9:16:29 AM PDT by AU72
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To: alwaysconservative

“Lighten up, Francis.”


80 posted on 09/23/2008 9:18:00 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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