Posted on 03/27/2011 1:45:13 PM PDT by maggief
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A statement from the VP's office noted that "It is standard policy for the Vice President's office that a print pooler cover the speaking program at fundraisers. This has been the consistent policy throughout the Administration. At times, these fundraisers are at private homes and 'hold rooms' are provided for pool reporters to wait for the speaking program to commence. A hold room, however, should not be a storage room. This was the unfortunate mistake of an inexperienced staffer and the Vice President's office has made sure it will never happen again."
Biden's office added that in this particular occasion, "half of the hold room was used for storage by the home's owner and the other half was open space. A table and chair were set up for the reporter to allow him to file his story afterwards and work while he waited for the speaking program to begin. It was designated as the hold space because of its close proximity to the event room. The speaking program began approximately one hour after the reporter arrived, which he covered as the pool reporter, and he departed the home as soon as the motorcade left (about 15 mins after the speaking program ended)."
Alexander's note to Powers ended: "Thank you for your patience and flexibility."
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Eh, so what. As other posters have pointed out, if Dick Cheney had done such a thing, we'd still be hearing about it to this day. Maybe the reporter will get a clue and report it as such.
Leftist Biden, leftist newspaper, leftist reporter, so all is well.
me thinks they are in pure coverup mode: over past, present and future CONSPIRACIES!!
I’m more curious about what they felt that they needed to hide from the reporter.
“half of the hold room was used for storage by the home’s owner and the other half was open space.
At least they didn’t give him a wedgie and hang him on a uniform hook.
and the MSM sees nothing wrong........I could just see Nixon’s staff stuffing a reporter in the closet and MSM not caring. The MSM is and always has been a Statist pile of crap.
He was confined for a period of time. What if he had to go to the bathroom, what would they have done?
I see they gave him a napkin to place his bottled water on-in the closet.
They should be sued!
Heh... those are the risks that come with putting on that press pass!
Yep and looks like he had a window view also.
This kidnapping deepens the mystery of the press’ infatuation with Obama. The record clearly shows nothing but contempt towards and mistreatment of reporters at every turn by his regime.
Why do they love him so much?
I have never seen that part of the first amendment that allows reporters to cover certain speech and to ensure that the reporter is shunted behind closed doors for that part of speech that someone does not want him to see.
I am disappointed that the reporter took it so well. Someone should be fired and a major lawsuit needs to be filed.
I think its funny because its a known fact that all the DBM are always on his side 24/7 and its just another typical Biden fiasco which he is so famous for to lock one of them up in a broom closet.
Looks like a great space for filing a story...
As long as they are sorry everything is cool.
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