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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."


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agenda; censorship; chicago; democrats; democratway; fascism; fortbragg; goingrogue; military; obama; obamacare; palin; pc; politcalcorrectness; sarahpalin; stalinists; waronsarah
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To: 100%FEDUP; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ~Vor~; A2J; a4drvr; Adder; Aegedius; Afronaut; alethia; ...
Okay you rabble rousers, try not to stir up an insurrection at Ft. Bragg next Monday...

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61 posted on 11/19/2009 12:22:52 PM PST by MitchellC
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To: kristinn

this was orders straight form the top and the top is Emanual, Axelrod , Michelle obama and yes bozo


62 posted on 11/19/2009 12:23:35 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: jrolfedrev
The Diversity Czar will not allow pro-American people to speak to the Troops.

...But he will allow muslim terrorists to infiltrate the ranks without issue.

63 posted on 11/19/2009 12:23:44 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: bvw

RE: “Obama is NOT Commander-In-Chief, his is a illegitimate usurper.”

***************

...and Obama would NOT occupy the White House now if he were not a slick half-black guy with low-life and/or socialist connections — appealing to blacks looking for their first Pres., as well as libtards of all varieties hell bent on a huge ‘change’ after the Bush years.

Add to that the ACORN voter fraud and here we are.

But WE knew this well before the election. Now WE need to step in and reverse the horrid course we are on —


64 posted on 11/19/2009 12:25:41 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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65 posted on 11/19/2009 12:26:16 PM PST by devolve ( "I would caution you against saying 10.24% unemployment!" - Barack Hasan Osama Junior mmm mmm mmm)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

so bozo can go and say to them you make a great back drop for a photo op.

Sarah goes who the military loves more and the top brass under orders from the white house say no media please.

Well this is easy, military takes video camera’s and then gives it to fox and local stations.
No point giving it to MSNBC, NBC as they are not an news organisation but an arm of GE which is also a propaganda arm for the white house


66 posted on 11/19/2009 12:26:18 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Terabitten

Well said, and true.

Don’t make the boss look bad, especially when he is a vindictive, petty b@stard.


67 posted on 11/19/2009 12:28:23 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: BertWheeler
The Army is keeping the media away because the cameras would show a very enthusiastic and energetic crowd greeting someone who loves the troops and doesn’t view them as a photo op.

The grunts on the ground know intuitively who is on their side.


68 posted on 11/19/2009 12:30:10 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: MitchellC


69 posted on 11/19/2009 12:35:45 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: kristinn

i expect to be blasted for this but i agree with the commanders. no matter who the president is (mmm-mmm-mmm)he IS the commander in chief. PERIOD. it is not a soldiers place to attack him politically or otherwise.

Folks like us are left to blast him. and blast him we shall thanks to those very soldiers who protect our freedom to do so.


70 posted on 11/19/2009 12:37:51 PM PST by lonster
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To: kristinn
Oh heavens no, no politicizing the Pretender in Chief on a military base...

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z36/AlecRawls/Obama/ObamaSupriseVisitToIraq2.jpg

71 posted on 11/19/2009 12:39:56 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: ScottinVA

“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.”

McCollum stepped WAY out of his lane to say this.


That’s what I was thinking. I interpret it as rope-a-dope: 0 and his buttboys will approve of the statement, too stupid to realize Sarah is about to galvanize the whole base, and Ft. Hood, too.

Put another way, McCollum is ordering about 500 youtube clips covering their howling approval of Sarah.


72 posted on 11/19/2009 12:41:07 PM PST by txhurl (Go Rogue or Go home!)
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To: Terabitten

Agreed- The way I see it, the Military knows something is going down. They arent stupid.
When Sarah Comes to town ,they protect her FROM the media.
They release forward statements like this as a psyop- and to cover themselves and the troops.
Talk all you want.
This means Sarah gets to speak plainly without media twisting whats being said.
:-)


73 posted on 11/19/2009 12:42:49 PM PST by humantech ("No one wants to live to see such evil times. Its what you do with the time you are given")
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To: The Comedian

You will notice that all of the troopers in the photo at 71 have the same digital camera.

Now, how do you suppose that happened?


74 posted on 11/19/2009 12:45:27 PM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Beckwith; maggief; autumnraine; Allegra

Excellent observation! How DID that happen!?!?


75 posted on 11/19/2009 12:49:20 PM PST by txhurl (Go Rogue or Go home!)
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To: sanjuanbob
“The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin’s appearance at Fort Bragg...”

Figures. We can't have any fair and balanced coverage can we? Crap, we can't have any coverage AT ALL.

We now have the full force of the US Army suppressing the US news media. The America I was born in has ceased to exist.

76 posted on 11/19/2009 12:50:12 PM PST by Gabrial (ObamaCare: The efficiency of the Post Office, the compassion of the IRS, the costs of the Pentagon)
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To: Beckwith

No names on any of those BDA’s either....


77 posted on 11/19/2009 12:50:19 PM PST by mo
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To: The Comedian; Prole

Prole, lookit how the troops happen to be holding the same camera.


78 posted on 11/19/2009 12:53:30 PM PST by txhurl (Go Rogue or Go home!)
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To: kristinn

Contradiction?

Sarah Palin rolls ‘Going Rogue’ book tour to Fort Hood, will donate royalties to victims’ families

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11/19/2009-11-19_sarah_palin_rolls_going_rogue_book_tour_to_fort_hood.html#ixzz0XLD6TnNW


79 posted on 11/19/2009 12:57:09 PM PST by camp_steveo
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To: kristinn
It sucks, but it's a valid position by Army brass...

Decorum dictates you not sponsor an event on an Army base that CERTAINLY would be anti-Obama.

80 posted on 11/19/2009 12:58:52 PM PST by Mariner
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