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Home Front: Politix
MoDo Bounced From McCain-Palin Plane
2008-10-02
Add aging teen queen Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer-winning shopaholic columnist for the NY Times, to the list of media types who have fallen out bitterly with John McCain. The McCain campaign has barred her from flying in the McCain and Palin press planes, even though major media outlets routinely pay thousands to the campaigns every day for travel and expenses (and also begs the question, why didn't her media colleagues Man Up and get her aboard anyway?)
Uhh...maybe they can't stand her, either?
It all started when Maureen covered an Aug. 30 McCain-Palin rally in Washington, Pa., then wasn't let on the McCain plane afterward, forcing her to overnight at a Pittsburgh airport hotel while the traveling press went on without her.
"OMG! I couldn't find a single store with Manolo Blahniks in that town!"
"I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicole Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane," Dowd wrote in an email. "It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney."
Quagmire!
It bears mentioning that the McCain camp has declared all-out war on the Times, and is being protective of Palin with everyone in the media, but especially someone as adroit and experienced at answering late night drunken booty calls as Maureen.
Wonder if she broke a bottle and threatened to cut somebody?
Posted by:Cornsilk Blondie

#14  Somewhere in Pennsylvania, lord
Old Johnny slipped away
While I was working on my fifth glass of wine...
Posted by: Pappy   2008-10-02 22:37  

#13  Bias is just another word
For lying 'bout the truth
Lying, cause you know that's what we do-oo
And lyin's easy when we do it, 'cause our hearts are true
And helpin' Dems win is good enough for me-ee
Good enough for me an' my Howard Dean!
(this is too easy)
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-10-02 18:26  

#12  I'll have to read the constitution again - didn't realize the first amendment requires politicians to fly journalist around the country.
Posted by: DMFD   2008-10-02 18:24  

#11  Rex to GulfBravo: outstanding!
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2008-10-02 15:13  

#10  Busted by McCain in Pittsburgh, headin for the planes,
Feelin nearly faded as my jeans.
Bobby found a charter plane just before it rained,
Took us all the way to New Orleans.
Took my iPod out of my Gucci handbag
And was blowin coke while bobby sang the blues,
With them engine props slappin time and
Bobby clappin hands we finally sang up every song
That pilot knew.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2008-10-02 12:55  

#9  1. her NOT here.
2. McCain has decided NOT is has.

PIMF
Posted by: Minister of funny walks   2008-10-02 11:47  

#8  "forcing her to overnight at a Pittsburgh airport hotel while the traveling press went on without her. "

LOL That's a straight up Foxtrot Uniform in any language! Between this and just about goading Gwen Ifill to do here damnedest tonight it seems like McCain is has decided to run against the media as much as Obama. May he win, and we get a twofer.
Posted by: Minister of funny walks   2008-10-02 11:44  

#7  yeah the Times has never been biased
Posted by: sinse   2008-10-02 11:00  

#6  "the McCain camp has declared all-out war on the Times"
That's reason enough for any intelligent person to vote for McCain.
Posted by: Darrell   2008-10-02 10:16  

#5  "I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney."

Yasss... Not giving you a free airplane ride just destroys the First Amendment...
Posted by: Parabellum   2008-10-02 09:27  

#4  I love the tone of it. 'They stranded me! In Pittsburgh'

That'll go over well with the bitter-clingers in Yunzville, PA.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2008-10-02 08:47  

#3  That would be so unfriendly to anyone/anything below. "Sorry Bill, will be late for work this morning cause I found MoDo all over my car in the driveway and have a devil of a time explaining it to the insurance company. They claim it was an act of god, but I pointed out that Obama was on the left coast last night."
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-10-02 06:57  

#2  Why didn't they wait until plane was at 30,000 feet?
Posted by: JFM   2008-10-02 06:28  

#1  If any of you haven't believed in the great diminishment of the MSM's reach, believe it now.

Good for McCain/Palin! This is long overdue for the lefties. If they won't factually cover the news, don't give them any access. At least that way conservative candidates can indisputably argue that the libs cut their arguments from whole cloth. All talking to them now does is give them cover for their lies and spin.
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-10-02 02:48  

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