But even back before the election, there were
some in the media who had not drunk the KoolAid ..
curious piece, the subject of which some blogs out
there wondered what the 2 hr. Miami ‘idling’ time
was all about.
FR thread - Post #120:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104014/posts?q=1&;page=140
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Somewhat tongue-in-cheek piece:
T’S A HARD KNOCK LIFE
Warning: readers may find some of the details in this story distressing
A CBS reporter complains about Barack Obama’s smelly campaign plane
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/oct/09/uselections2008.barackobama3
Dean Reynolds
It’s important to remember that this election isn’t just about the glitz and the glamour of the conventions and the debates, or the self-indulgent speculations of the punditocracy: it’s about real people — real people who are suffering. And few can be suffering more acutely than award-winning CBS Evening News correspondent Dean Reynolds, who’s been putting a brave face on things for months, but who now finally lets his anger and frustration erupt all over the CBS From The Road blog:
The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about.
Baggage calls are preposterously early with the explanation that it’s all for security reasons.
If so, I would love to have someone from Obama’s campaign explain why the entire press corps, the Secret Service, and the local police idled for two hours in a Miami hotel parking lot recently because there was nothing to do and nowhere to go.
It was not an isolated case.
If you’ve recently received a home foreclosure notice, or you can’t afford to fill your car with gas, you’ll certainly sympathise with the appalling experiences Reynolds has been enduring as one of the downtrodden reporters forced to occupy a seat on Obama’s press plane:
Nor is there much sympathy for those of us who report for a newscast that airs in the early evening hours. Our shows place a premium on live reporting from the scene of campaign events. But this campaign can often be found in the air and flying around at the time the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” is broadcast.
Hard to believe, I know, but it gets worse. Reynolds recently spent a few days on the McCain plane, and the contrast was so stark that it made him feel even more upset, frustrated and depressed:
The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
For a moment towards the end of his tale of woe, Reynolds seems to waver, as if wondering whether, in this harsh world, anyone will take any notice of his cry for help:
Maybe none of this means much.
But it lasts only a moment. Then he picks himself up, takes a deep breath, rediscovers his courage, and reminds himself that one day — maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday — the law of Karma will catch up with Barack Obama, and the horrors he has inflicted will be met with an equal and opposite retaliation:
...in politics, everything that goes around comes around.
This is undeniably true:
justice will triumph in the end. And this is what allows us, even in our darkest hours, to stay hopeful and strong.
Because no matter how much pain and misery may be inflicted by those in power upon those they oppress, the indomitable human spirit will always win out eventually, especially when it is the indomitable human spirit of the award-winning CBS news reporter Dean Reynolds.
If he’s the most brilliant President ever he should be proud to release his transcripts like GW did.
Pray for America’s Freedom
May God give us the strength to prevail.
Oh yeah! It hopefully will happen at the polls, and if not, then it will happen some other way.
The nation has had its fill of Barak Hussein Obama.