Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama to media: pony up for election night access
Crain's ^ | October 21, 2008 | Gren Hinz

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; arrogance; election; elitism; limousineliberal; obama; payforplay; potus
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-69 next last
To: VideoPaul
They're gonna need some of this there...


41 posted on 10/21/2008 4:14:32 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (A plumber is just what we need to deal with that cesspool up on Capitol Hill...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: windcliff; onedoug; raven92876

ping


42 posted on 10/21/2008 4:19:11 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul
He sure his confident isn't he? Friggin.....


43 posted on 10/21/2008 4:27:28 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ScottinVA
Why would there be? The MSM is clearing the path for him. A few hundred $ is nothing to them.

Exactly the will feel honored to pay up --Probably frame the ticket and hang it on their wall
44 posted on 10/21/2008 4:30:19 PM PDT by uncbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul; Fred Nerks; LucyT
MAKE THE RICH PAY!!!!

Thats the logic. Whether its a campaign donation, fee for service. or an Obamination "donation" really doesn't matter anymore.

You are looking into the mirror of the Nationalist/Socialist witch, and seeing exactly how our nation will be run.

And the media must PAY to exercise its skewed for Obama 1st amendment rights!

Good. I hope Obama makes them pay MILLIONS.

And when he loses I hope they get to broadcast Obama's "Kenya Template" riots.

Our nation has ALREADY had enough of Obama.

Watch some in the MSM turn on Obama these last few weeks of the campaign. They suddenly will "GET" what Obama really is.

A NArcisstic petty tyrant who means to traduce all of Freedom loving AMerica, and reduce us to living in a Chicago like burrow with nothing but hope and change to chew on, eat, and work at, and inflate the body of a fascist Republic with all in "lock step."

Thats ALL Obama knows how to do. Just examine what happened in Kenya, and at the Dem convention, and Acorn. You will get the picture if you have not already.

45 posted on 10/21/2008 4:32:59 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul

Incredible.


46 posted on 10/21/2008 4:42:08 PM PDT by dr_who
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

Some small stations should request he spread the wealth around have nbc, cbs, cnn, msnbc, abc and fox pay their fees.


47 posted on 10/21/2008 4:50:36 PM PDT by Terry Mross (O)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Candor7

Looks like Biden finally realized that he's running with a pack of dogs...

48 posted on 10/21/2008 4:51:27 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul

Witness The second coming for less than $1,000 WOW


49 posted on 10/21/2008 4:53:13 PM PDT by Cheerio
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AnglePark

“He’ll have Stormtroopers with real power, once they have enough funding.”

Really?

I suppose he’ll send a brigade of New York City metrosexuals down south to hit Texans over the heads with their purses. I kinda hope that’s on pay-per-view.

Or maybe we’ll see little yellow school buses with hip-hop rappers disembarking in a rural hunting communities, going door to door asking heavily armed combat veterans to turn over their money and guns.


50 posted on 10/21/2008 5:05:22 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul

IF he is elected, I can’t wait to see the auction for the White House Press Corps seats, with the highest bidders winning the front row.


51 posted on 10/21/2008 5:16:16 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fred Nerks
Yes my FRiend Fred. Joe Biden just WOKE UP and realized he is playing in a very deadly game in which there will be a distinct possibility of getting his ass handed too him, because there will be no Gunslinger to rescue him.

Joe finally has remembered the face of his father.

And Joe is the only one who can try the fast draw. No one else will be able to if Obama wins. The Dems will have no "Roland the Gunslinger" for America.

Man, Joe is popping his hair plugs these days!

Great graphic. It likely has a prescience about it.

52 posted on 10/21/2008 5:16:46 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Brown Deer

THAT’S Obama’s house? Wow, he really got ripped off.


53 posted on 10/21/2008 5:18:33 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Virginia Ridgerunner
with the highest bidders winning the front row.>>>>>>>>>>>

You mean the White House press Corps will not be seated by seniority?

Helen Thomas will sit at the back?

Hell I would donate to make THAT happen.

54 posted on 10/21/2008 5:19:32 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

“How, again, does this fit in with the share-the-wealth stuff?”

Easy. He will share the wealth of people who work and save with people who do neither.


55 posted on 10/21/2008 5:24:35 PM PDT by reaganaut1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul

If he needs to charge the media to see his losing party, then perhaps his campaign isn’t quite as wealthy as it has been represented. Maybe the foreign contributor are starting to fall back...


56 posted on 10/21/2008 5:30:05 PM PDT by meyer (We are all Joe the Plumber)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul

Does the media get a refund if he loses?


57 posted on 10/21/2008 5:31:59 PM PDT by maxter (McCain/Palin 2008!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VideoPaul


58 posted on 10/21/2008 5:35:45 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Issaquahking

Unfortunately, the media will pay the fee and continue to follow Obama around like a puppy dog.


59 posted on 10/21/2008 7:25:24 PM PDT by Pinkbell (”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: NOBAMA in 08

LOL! I was thinking the same thing.


60 posted on 10/21/2008 7:33:56 PM PDT by Pinkbell (”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-69 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson