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Army Keeping Media From Palin Event (at Fort Bragg; Afraid of Obama's Wrath)
AP via Denver Post ^ | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | Mike Baker

Posted on 11/19/2009 11:46:53 AM PST by kristinn

Army officials plan to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg on Monday, saying they fear the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.

Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum told The Associated Press on Thursday that Army officials had decided to keep media away from Palin's book promotion at the North Carolina base.

SNIP

McCollum said the Army did not want the event to become a platform for Palin supporters to express political opinions "directed against the commander in chief."


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To: carjic

This book signing is to benefit the survivors and their
families, do these people think Sarah is so clueless
and cruel as to use this for her own political ends?

More projection from the Usurper in chief.
Hello EVERY AMERICAN, can you not see the
wrongness of this manipulation!!!


21 posted on 11/19/2009 11:56:15 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kristinn

Then Sarah can have it just outside the gate


22 posted on 11/19/2009 11:56:20 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Army officials....Zero supporters

Only at the very top.
The politician-"warriors."

At the pointy end of the business, there is only silence. A good thing.

23 posted on 11/19/2009 11:56:24 AM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: kristinn

If only the Pentagon had paid as much attention to Nidal Malik Hasan and banned him from base.


THANK U!! Post of the day!
But But, you gotta be politically correct when your dealing with Muslims, especially muslims carrying SOA cards around, but when your Sarah Palin, standing up for our military and for our Constitution, yeah that’s considered a bad thing


24 posted on 11/19/2009 11:56:31 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: kristinn

McCollum said the Army did not want the event to become a platform for Palin supporters to express political opinions “directed against the commander in chief.”


Sure - good luck with that. Members of the military are not to oppose the CIC, but others absolutely can. And should, according to “dissent is patriotic” Hilary Clinton. Looks like the obama camp continues to be frightened of Sarah. :)


25 posted on 11/19/2009 11:56:45 AM PST by ElayneJ
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To: kristinn
Exactly.

A muslim terrorist has more rights and freedoms on an Army facility than an American patriot.

26 posted on 11/19/2009 11:56:48 AM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: kristinn

Yeah, it’s not like this is a free country or anything....

/s


27 posted on 11/19/2009 11:58:49 AM PST by Mac from Cleveland (Dreams from My Father--food, shelter, and education from some typical white folks)
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To: kristinn

>McCollum said the Army did not want the event to become a platform for Palin supporters to express political opinions “directed against the commander in chief.”<

I guess they don’t know the media will edit that stuff out and do everything in their power to hide it.


28 posted on 11/19/2009 11:58:53 AM PST by Califreak (Obama's Purple Reign must be stopped!)
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To: kristinn

“There are Army regulations that basically prohibit military reservations from becoming political platforms by politicians.”

Yeah we wouldn’t want someone using our military for a “photo op” now, would we?

I’ll bet this order came from way up high. Someone doesn’t want to be upstaged by our military showing unsolicited enthusiasm for Sarah Palin.


29 posted on 11/19/2009 11:58:58 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Genoa
It's hard to blame the brass. They're between Barack and a hard place.

Sad but true.
On the other hand, under extreme pressure, when all seems hopeless, is when character counts.

I have known many Marines, Air Force, Army and Navy types.
I'm not in the least worried.

30 posted on 11/19/2009 11:59:56 AM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: kristinn

I think you guys are reading this wrong.

They are NOT saying the troops can’t express their anti-Obama sentiments. They’re saying they don’t want the press reporting it.

The brass is protecting their soldiers from retaliation by the administration.


31 posted on 11/19/2009 12:00:09 PM PST by Terabitten (Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
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To: pgyanke

The Commander in Chief has more resentment for Conservatives than he does for Islamic terrorists.


32 posted on 11/19/2009 12:00:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: Abathar
In a way, this Army "leadership" decision stinks of a Berlin Wall style scenario.

The "leadership" have constructed a barrier between the Soldiers and Governor Palin.

Therein is the freedom and liberty of American patriotism on one side, and there are those who seek the message on the other.

The Army "leadership" is the barricade that prevents the message from being heard.

33 posted on 11/19/2009 12:00:43 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: GI Joe Fan

Will Obama have the Army keep the Media away from the 2012 Republican Convention?


34 posted on 11/19/2009 12:00:44 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: kristinn

Gee where is the diversity that Gen. Casey is so worried about?


35 posted on 11/19/2009 12:01:25 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer.)
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To: kristinn

Exactly.


36 posted on 11/19/2009 12:02:17 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is Americas First Failed Black Pres-dent.....)
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To: Terabitten

It also eliminates “compare and contrast” photos between Obama meeting with our troops and Palin meeting with them.


37 posted on 11/19/2009 12:02:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: kristinn

Utter nonsense.


38 posted on 11/19/2009 12:02:42 PM PST by sarasota
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To: kristinn
If only the Pentagon had paid as much attention to Nidal Malik Hasan and banned him from base.

Right on!


39 posted on 11/19/2009 12:03:56 PM PST by B-Cause (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: kristinn
Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has already agreed not to give a speech at Bragg, McCollum said. But he worried that Palin's supporters might make the event political and use the media to express opinions from the base.

So in other words they are worried about "us," not "her."

 

 

 

 

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

40 posted on 11/19/2009 12:04:05 PM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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