Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia

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  1. julius

    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Trump isn't going to run for President. He's a self promoting sleeze hound, who is only doing this to pad his pocket-book. But I think you're right about the R's.

    Their base is DESPERATE for someone to cling too, much like the D's were in 92 (Mondale and Dukakis? more like Boring and Bland) and got Clinton, and the D's were in 2008 (Gore and Kerry? More like Snore and Snorry) and got Obama.

    The R's had Bush for 2 terms, and like him or not, he was at least a memorable candidate. McCain had Palin, but she was memorable for the wrong reasons. So far, their candidates scream "milquetoast" and desperate. You'd almost think they were taking advice from the 1984-88 and 2000-04 Democrats.
     
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    You could be right, but I'm not so sure. I'd guess he doesn't actually want to be president, but I'm not so sure he doesn't want to run for president. That's a whole nother year and a half of self-promotion - why wouldn't he?

    I think he's going to run in the R primaries, not win, and then run as an independent in the general - and not win. ??? Profit!

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    Uh, they did. For 8 years.
     
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    I'm kind of a political neophyte here, but is there anything behind the fact that these two complaints came in Boston and SF, two of (if I understand correctly) the most "blue" places there are in the US?
     
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    The Herald is a right-wing paper, just as the Globe is left wing. So, it's not surprising that the Obama Administration would ban the Herald.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: Richard Milhous Obama.
     
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    Meanwhile, BushHitler McFlightsuit the Terrible Tyrant allowed Alexandra Pelosi (Nancy's daughter) to follow him throughout the 2000 campaign while she filmed the documentary Journeys with George.

    You're right in that the Obama/Nixon parallels in terms of paranoia and trying to control the message at all times is a bit creepy.
     
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    richard nixon was a great bowler, and used a black ball, a clear metaphor for "blackballing" members of the media

    clearly obamas black balls tell us the same thing
     
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    How Obama supporters can continue to defend these actions baffles me. It's none of the government's business where employees of a company spend their money, let alone on which political candidates. This is as close to fascism as I've seen so far from this guy.
     
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    “If you voted for Hopey McChange in 2008 to prove that you were not a racist, you will have to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove that you are not an idiot.”

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    I'd say that if you did the former, you're automatically the latter, regardless of your political views.
     
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    Nonetheless, it is a matter of fact that democrats get free passes on things like racism and this type of stuff. Reid has made numerous out and out racist comments and it gets virtually no ink. And it is a matter of fact that if a republican did even one of those things they would be hounded indefinitely. There clearly are two sets of rules in play in the national media.
     
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    Children are always exactly like their parents...

    Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian... Whoops!
     
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    Alexandra Pelosi is a liberal and a Democrat, yet Bush didn't banish her, and instead let her film a documentary about his campaign. Dumb example. Even dumber considering you used sexual preference as some sort of political barometer. All in all, just a dumb post.
     
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    It was a fluff piece. If she got annoying or started causing problems Cheney probably would have sent her to Syria for some waterboarding.

    It wasn't meant as a political barometer, but more as a barometer on humanity itself. Republicans have gay children. Liberals have liberal daughters who like to ham up Bush documentaries. In other words, Cheney's daughter doesn't have exactly the same values as he does, nor does Pelosi's daughter have the exact same viewpoints or positions that her mother does. I am sure Alexendra made it clear that the documentary would be "light" and "fluffy" and nothing that would skewer his image, if it was otherwise his camp would have never allowed her near the campaign.

    I am not sure why I had to "dumb it down" for you to understand... ;) har har...
     
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