Posted on 03/26/2011 2:52:57 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
*** REPORTER CONFINED IN CLOSET DURING VEEP'S FUNDRAISER ***
Sat March 26 2011 17:04:37 EDT
Staffers with Vice President Joe Biden confined an Orlando Sentinel reporter in a closet this week to keep him from mingling with high-powered guests gathered for a Democratic fundraiser.
Reporter Scott Powers was the designated "pool reporter" for the vice president's Wednesday visit to the massive Winter Park, Fla., home of developer and philanthropist Alan Ginsburg. The veep hadn't arrived yet but most of the 150 guests (minimum $500 donation) had. They were busy noshing on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese and bacon deviled eggs, before a lunch of grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps.
Not so for Powers. A "low-level staffer" put Powers in a storage closet and then stood guard outside the door, he told the DRUDGE REPORT. "When I'd stick my head out, they'd say, 'Not yet. We'll let you know when you can come out.'"
And no crustini for Powers, either. He made do with a bottle of water to sip as he sat at a tiny makeshift desk, right next to a bag marked "consignment." Powers was closeted at about 11:30 a.m., held for about an hour and 15 minutes, came out for 35 minutes of remarks by Biden and Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, and then returned to his jail for the remainder of the event.
Powers' phone didn't work in the closet, but his Blackberry did, so he fired out a picture of his impromptu prison to his editors, who posted a short blog item on the lack of freedom of the press under the veep's control.
Powers didn't mention his confinement in either of his pool reports that day, saying only that "press coverage was limited to a single pool reporter, filing on behalf of all local media, who was allowed to listen to the remarks but not given an opportunity to talk with anyone at the event."
On Friday, Powers said, the home's owner called him. "He said he had no idea they'd put me in a closet and was very sorry. He said he was just following their lead and was extremely embarrassed by the whole thing."
The enemy (RAT supporters of means) do not wish to be identified, for fear of the unwashed (US)!
‘If it was Cheney, it would have been .... put on the front page of the NYTimes.’
exactly...and the lib TV media would have talked about this for days. When are ‘everyday’ Americans going to wake up to the hypocrisy of this Administration and their cronies?
I do wonder, however, WHY didn’t this reporter refuse to be.. and remain.. confined...??
The Main Stream Media reporters have long been "out of the closet" in their support of Democratic Fund Raisers!
I talked to an ER doctor who was asked to attend a function where the President was going to attend. They put him in a room and told him if he opened the door without being called, they would shoot him. He would not see the pres unless there was an emergency.
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Beats working.
College football coach, Mike Leach, was fired from Texas Tech for doing this to one of his players.
The ER doctor was fibbing. In the bubble - the security apparatus that surrounds the president - there is always a military physician that accompanies the CIC, always. This physician is a member of the White House Medical Unit.
DUH!
Maybe they didn’t want the Media Friendly Reporter picking up on all the Anti-American Chitchat by the Attendees? and they let him/her out of the cage to report on the carefully scripted teleprompter read Propaganda by Dingbat Biden?
Hello? Are You on Planet Earth, or on Obozo’s Birth Planet of PUTZ?
They were just playing a friendly game of "hide & seek".
(sarcasm)
Technically that’s kidnapping. Any “ordinary” American would be looking at serious criminal charges. Biden and his staff are, of course, immune since Holder controls the FBI.
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It sure is ,, I was on a jury once and convicted a man who held a young woman in a similar way until her sister paid for the drugs. $600 got him a few years.
Why thank you for your very mature response.
Sounds like charge of kidnapping/holding under duress might apply.
Since it was done to a member of the media, by a staffer of the VPOTUS, it could be considerably worse - official oppression. Not that anyone will likely do anything about it though. At worst, the staffer gets fired.
His whole team was lying, then.
Just another objective Journ-o-list who willingly allowed himself to be jailed by Obama's group because the "reporter" thought that was the best way he could help Obam/Biden. After all isn't that what "journalism" is now in Amerika? -- supporting and protecting Obama?
He probably spent most of his childhood stuffed into a locker so it was second nature to him...
Dude...if it was Cheney, at a fundraiser hosted by the Koch Brothers, and they locked the pool reporter in a closet...it would be a bigger scandal than Watergate!
But since it's Joe Biteme, a liberal in good standing, you will only hear/read about it in Conservative media.
When POTUS or VPOTUS is speaking at a large event, it is not unusual to have local doc there to attend to any medical emergency among attendees.
The Prez’s doc stays with Prez, for security purposes. Used to usually be a Navy MD.
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