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UserRemoved1
10-31-2008, 10:51 AM
I'd walk off with a certain digit in the air. :bshake:


PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE
Fri Oct 31 2008 08:39:55 ET

NY POST, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, WASHINGTON TIMES TOLD TO GET OUT... ALL 3 ENDORSED MCCAIN

**Exclusive**

The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states -- and all three endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!

The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/31/washington-times-kicked-obama-plane-finale/) and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs -- and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines, ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Despite pleas from top editors of the three newspapers that have covered the campaign for months at extraordinary cost, the Obama campaign says their reporters -- and possibly others -- will have to vacate their coveted seats so more power players can document the final days of Sen. Barack Obama's historic campaign to become the first black American president.

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Some told the DRUDGE REPORT that the reporters are being ousted to bring on documentary film-makers to record the final days; others expect to see on board more sympathetic members of the media, including the NY TIMES' Maureen Dowd, who once complained that she was barred from McCain's Straight Talk Express airplane.

After a week of quiet but desperate behind-the-scenes negotiations, the reporters of the three papers heard last night that they were definitely off for the final swing. They are already planning how to cover the final days by flying commercial or driving from event to event.

Developing...

MAC
10-31-2008, 10:56 AM
Essence, Jet magazine....What are these:rollem:

Raven
10-31-2008, 11:21 AM
the begining of a media extravaganza
their gonna milk it for all it's worth

slapshot
10-31-2008, 11:43 AM
maybe the plane will crash

JohnnyD
10-31-2008, 01:18 PM
Seems completely within his right. By formally endorsing the opponent, they've declared that they are not biased. The McCain campaign should do the same thing.

FishermanTim
10-31-2008, 03:26 PM
Seems completely within his right. By formally endorsing the opponent, they've declared that they are not biased. The McCain campaign should do the same thing.

If the McCain campaign did anything remotely similar to ANYONE that endorsed Obama, you can't tell me that there would be much more hoopla raised in that case. Then there would be the whackos that would pull the "racially motivated" card and make some outlandish claims to the media, which would spin it into a half hour "news break" because we all know that the media is comlpletely unbiased:bs:.

As for hoping that the plane would crash is just cruel.
Think of how much fuel would be lost!:bl:

striperman36
10-31-2008, 04:25 PM
I'd walk off with a certain digit in the air. :bshake:


PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE
Fri Oct 31 2008 08:39:55 ET

NY POST, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, WASHINGTON TIMES TOLD TO GET OUT... ALL 3 ENDORSED MCCAIN

**Exclusive**

The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states -- and all three endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!

The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/31/washington-times-kicked-obama-plane-finale/) and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs -- and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines, ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Despite pleas from top editors of the three newspapers that have covered the campaign for months at extraordinary cost, the Obama campaign says their reporters -- and possibly others -- will have to vacate their coveted seats so more power players can document the final days of Sen. Barack Obama's historic campaign to become the first black American president.

MORE

Some told the DRUDGE REPORT that the reporters are being ousted to bring on documentary film-makers to record the final days; others expect to see on board more sympathetic members of the media, including the NY TIMES' Maureen Dowd, who once complained that she was barred from McCain's Straight Talk Express airplane.

After a week of quiet but desperate behind-the-scenes negotiations, the reporters of the three papers heard last night that they were definitely off for the final swing. They are already planning how to cover the final days by flying commercial or driving from event to event.

Developing...


Those newspapers endorsed McCain. They can fly with him