Posted on 10/21/2008 1:12:41 PM PDT by VideoPaul
(Crain’s) — The best-funded political campaign in American history says news organizations will have to pay—in some cases almost $2,000 each—if they want to cover Barack Obama’s election-night celebration in Chicago.
A memo sent to news organizations on Tuesday by the Obama campaign says credentials will cost $715 to $1,815, depending on whether electrical and phone lines are needed and whether an indoor or outdoor seat is requested for the event, which is expected to be held outside the evening of Nov. 4 in Grant Park.
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The only good news out of this is that the lap-dog media that has done its level best to turn this form an election to a coronation is now seeing exactly what is about to happen: You have all the access you want as log as the money changes hands at the time and in he amounts we demand.
I wonder out loud: Does this money go to the Obama campaign or to the messiah himself? How is this legal--corporations cannot donate directly to campaigns. And it this is not a donation, it's simple fee-for-service. You pay us, you have access to this man.
Welcome to the post-Obama world: A government of one person, for the people who pay for access, by the people who are dumb enough to believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHRkOipLoXQ&feature=related
Obama and his brother - See how Obama treats his own family
Chicago rules.
Front row seats for the freak show are expensive, you know.
I wonder if the fee includes priority access to the emergency exits, which will be necessary when FNC calls PA for John McCain before the dinner hour has passed...
It will be worth the price of admission to watch 0bama cry.
Heck, after the election’s over it won’t matter if he’s President or not. He’ll have enough money from the campaign to start his own country.
They already sold their souls. What’s a few bucks?
This is unreal. I hope there is a severe backlash against Obama over this.
How, again, does this fit in with the share-the-wealth stuff?
Thank you Obama! What a dumba$$! If I were the lame stream media, would tell the moron that we don’t pay to film losers. We are going over to the McCain/Palin HQ to interview the winners!
Nope, the leftover campaign $ will funnel mysteriously to “various groups doing good for America” (read: ACORN).
0bama will go “Odinga”
KILL WHITEY! KILL WHITEY!
0bambi is just like Jesse Jackson, a Chicago shakedown artist.
“This is unreal. I hope there is a severe backlash against Obama over this.”
Why would there be? The MSM is clearing the path for him. A few hundred $ is nothing to them.
Obviously election-night events must be planned in advance but the classy way to handle that is to make arrangements discreetly. The Obama campaign is almost flaunting their election-night celebration planning process.
So, when he isnt busy spreading the wealth, he’ll be hoarding the wealth?
You betcha!
Reading this over for a second time, it doesn’t make much sense. Are they charging to just get in the door? Or for communications facilities? Every reporter I know has a cell phone, most have a wireless laptop; TV and radio equipment has self-contained battery packs, and works through wireless links to a satellite truck parked outside of the venue. No news organization worth its salt needs any help from the facilities, except in the case of, say, a national convention where they might want to set up fixed cameras and have an anchor booth. Maybe they are charging for access to telegraph lines? Or maybe they are offering the media that has so far provided them with so many freebies a chance to donate hard cash as well.
If they do that, then may they all get a whiff of the grape.
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