Posted on 03/26/2011 12:06:10 PM PDT by MindBender26
An incident at a Florida Democratic political fundraiser this week should be front page news in every paper in the country, and the lead story on TV newscasts, but it has been virtually buried…. until now
Here are the details.
On Wednesday morning, Vice President Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. The event was at the home of billionaire real estate developer Alan Ginsberg, a long-time Dem supporter. Ginsberg’s enormous lakefront home is in an exclusive section of Winter Park, an uber-upscale Orlando suburb. To give you an idea of the size and opulence of the home, it was originally built for Orlando Magic and NBA superstar Horace Grant.
The Orlando Sentinel assigned longtime reporter Scott Powers to cover the event. But when he arrived, Biden staffers decided they didn’t want him mingling with the 150 guests who had forked over $500 to meet Biden, so they locked him in a closet! A member of the Biden advance team even stood guard outside the door to prevent Powers from escaping.
Powers has all the details, even pictures of the inside of the closet where he was held; but it appears the Sentinel editors have refused to let him report on all the details of what some are calling a kidnapping! There was a very brief, and very “vanilla” mention of the incident in Thursday’s paper. One attendee later emailed the Sentinel to say “I was in attendance at the Fundraiser and enjoyed a nice lunch. If I had known there was a reporter stuffed in the closet, I would have been compelled to stand up and demand answers. I would also like to know if this is actually legal to treat people like caged animals. I’m disgusted by these actions.”
Despite this outrage, Sentinel editors have dropped the story.
Some longtime journalists are furious with Biden’s team over the incident. Some are more angry at Sentinel editors for downplaying the story. Others are asking “where was the Secret Service when a crime was obviously being committed?” Others appear to have no problem with it, since it involves their “Administration that can do no wrong.”
So far, none of the DC papers or TV networks has covered the story, but of course, they are the first to cry in outrage when dictators imprison reporters overseas. What have we become: Cuba, Iran, Libya, or Stalinist Russia, that we would allow such police-state tactics to muzzle the media?
Does the “Free Press” still exist in America? Or are we relegated to the status of a Banana Republic where the media approves anything Team Obama does?
Some people saw this coming when then-Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden exploded and flatly refused to answer the insightful questions of an Orlando television reporter when she asked about Obama’s connections to ACORN, socialism and his “spread the wealth” comments to Joe the Plumber. Since then, Biden’s mandate seems to have changed from refusing to answer embarrassing questions, to imprisoning reporters who might ask them.
Thank you, Barbara West! :)
I cannot look at "big media's" faces without laughing at the self-deluded idiocy of these fools.
Didn’t look at all the posts, but ping to you if you haven’t seen this yet.
Post 27 has the FL law concerning kidnapping.
[Mr] T
Vice President's staff lock journalist in a closet for hours
Mistaking the liberal democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson with a photo of Florida State Senator (RINO) 'HAD BY THAD' Altman!
The party was being held for Democrat senator Bill Nelson. Powers emailed from inside the closet: 'sounds like a nice party'
This is the democratic Dufus Bill Nelson...
bttt
Looks like a window there to me. Seems an easy out. I think I might have set the closet on fire on my way out, too.
I “get” that but wonder if the Sentinel requested and/or was issued a press pass. The host/organizer doesn’t have to offer press passes to a private event.
If I host a fundraiser at my home, I can choose NOT to allow the press to cover it. Then, if a reporter shows up, I’d have him/her escorted out of my home and off my property. Not so sure about the closet business. And, more likely than not, this home is in a gated community or its equivalent. So that alone should have kept out any unwanted media types. Who would want to cover Biden anyway ;)
Which means that the reporter was not an intruder, but held “hostage”!!!
Thanks! :o)
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