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AMERICAblog: McCain campaign kicks press out of Palin meeting with world leaders, CNN says f-you and pulls cameras ending TV coverage of Palin publicity stunt

  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    eggselent
  • Freedomboy · 1 year ago
    Oh, boy can we get Jesse Ventura to provide color on this stuff??, get the popcorn ready folks the folding chairs are coming out next!!
  • AlGoretex · 1 year ago
    Some more from the article. Priceless:

    CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew from the first meeting, with Karzai, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought. But after the campaign agreed to let CNN's producer in as well, the CNN camera crew joined the session.

    According to the CNN producer who was let into Karzai's hotel suite with the photographers just before noon, Karzai was talking about his son. Palin was nodding, and asked what his name is. Karzai replied his name was Mirwais and explained that it means light of the house.

    The media were escorted out after about 40 seconds.
  • JustAnOldLady · 1 year ago
    McCain/Palin is an embarrassment to thinking people........ I have relatives/friends in Germany/UK/The Netherlands and they are unanimous in their thinking that the American people have lost their minds........ 2 terms of Bush and now to even consider the comedy team of McCain/Palin to lead the free world.........
  • luvboxer · 1 year ago
    MCCAIN IS NUTS...THIS IS CRAZY...WHAT ARE THEY HIDING.THIS WOMAN REALLY MUST BE A NUT CASE. MCCAIN HAS TOTALLY LOST IT AND NO WAY WILL HE WIN THIS ELECTION. EVERYTHING COMING OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS ARE LIES...LIES AND MORE LIES. I AM HOPING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAS FINALLY WOKE UP TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY..EIGHT YEARS IS ENOUGH!!!
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    "In what respect, Hamid?"
  • PatogTX · 1 year ago
    HA!
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    OS! I am still cracking up from the dialog MrsKarenLoydRichards did a couple of days ago.


    What the devil do they have to talk about. I told a friend yesterday that this is just a op. photo she has nothing of substance to say.


    as I told another friend...Sarah is a whole lotta crazy wrapped in a pretty package.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    Yes! if all McCain wants is a couple of no content photo ops, then he should hire his own photographers and publish them himself... and yes, the silent treatment is what the press should give them...
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Good for CNN, let's hope they stick to their guns. This meeting of the hockey mom and world leaders is nothing more than another gimmick. Like ONE meeting is going to really give the woman a handle on foreign affairs?

    I say no more coverage for McCain or Palin. Let's see how far it will get them in winning an election. If the press freezes you out you lose all that FREE publicity and become a nonentity.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Pity poor Ron Fournier: all that on-his-knees mediawhoring for McCain over the years and to have the AP treated like the shoeshine boy.
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    I think CNN caved already-they got Palin to agree to let one of their producers in for her meetings. Naturally, being a victim of the worst case of the Dumbs I've ever seen,she asked Karzai what his kid's name is. That's what she thinks is the first question to ask the President of a country we've been fighting and dying in for years-Jesus Christ!
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    She was talkeen to Humid Cars-Eye parent-to-parent as a way of breakeen the ice.
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    How do you think the rest of the conversation went? "Hey there, Hammy, why don't you love Jeebus? What kind of critter is that there on yer haid? I like to shoot me some moose! And woofs, from my flyin muchine that I sold on the E-bay!"
  • brb915 · 1 year ago
    .........just got here..............are you kiddin????
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    My friend provides this video which says Fed has lent out $600 billion of its $800 billion balance sheet.

    http://video.msn.com/...

    and concludes a follows:

    Real question in my mind is whether the $1 trillion from the Paulson Plan goes to recapitalise the Fed as I suggest, or whether it goes into offshore flight capital before the criminal mafia in Washington and Wall Street flees the jurisdiction.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    OT

    CNN airing a segment about Palin charging for rape kits. It is a meeting to decide if they should run the story. Hahahaha In other words they ARE airing the story in a round about way. Sneaky but good.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Right after showing the CNN staff meeting they are now airing the story. Bummer, CNN is saying they can show no evidence that Palin KNEW about charging for rape kits.

    Oh well, at least the story is out there.
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    liars avalanche of emails
    WHY DOES CNN HATE WOMEN
  • JohnInTexas · 1 year ago
    She was the friggin mayor, it doesn't make her look any better NOT knowing about charging for rape kits.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    I call BS. it was a small town with a high sexual assault rate. EVERYONE would have known that. They did it for years, this is the kind of thing that would come up in city council meetings, meetings with the police chief, etc.
    any woman who was assaulted would have know it, would have mentioned it to someone.....it is a small town, people talk. someone sane individual would have mentioned it to the mayor.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Just think....now even Fox TV won't have video...and there will be none for GOP commericals.
  • tommytoonz · 1 year ago
    Good for CNN, the media should have pushed back against this no access/no interviews/no questions crap 2 weeks ago (if not the 2 days after her announcement). It's unfathomable the McCain campaign will not allows the country to get to know who this person is. Hopefully the photogs/producers that they do "let in" (what's up with that?) are smart enough to carry tape recorders.
  • downindixie · 1 year ago
    Well,someone has cameras there I am now watching video of Phalin and Karsi.
  • bluestockton · 1 year ago
    Wonder if she asked Karzai what the moose hunting is like in Afghanistan?
  • LeeFromHamburgNY · 1 year ago
    The "panel" on Fox News admitted that the MacPac only wants the photos. They said that the American people don't really care what's talked about in the conversations... Yeah, right. Maybe they should have her unbutton one more button on her blouse for the next photo shoot...
  • naheiser · 1 year ago
    It's about damn time the media gets with the program. Palin has been yanking everyone's chain for a month. I think Vegas should start taking bets on whether she'll actually show for V.P. debate. I would bet against it. And if she does debate, I hope Joe doesn't hold back at all so we can all listen to her whine afterward about how sexist and unfair the questions were. She doesn't deserve a damn bit of coverage - I wonder if her daughter is even really pregnant...
  • Plisko · 1 year ago
    The real story here is that a Vice Presidential candidate is going to foreign policy school right in front of our eyes in the last weeks of a Presidential campaign.

    Will we be bringing cameras to her civics and economics classes too? Will there be an oral exam on how much she has learned before or after the election?
  • inwhatrespectcharlie · 1 year ago
    Where is the OUTRAGE...wake up America before the rest of the world owns us too!
  • scytherius · 1 year ago
    The press is PISSES and it's only going to get worse for the Repubs. And Palin is about the most useless candidate for any office I have EVER seen in my 60 years. If McCain wins, especially if he dies, it's time to pull a Founding Fathers and start all over again.
  • DCinDC · 1 year ago
    This was all about getting photos. McCain does not want her to speak because it will become clear she is incompetent. Vote the BUms out!
  • janeinhouston · 1 year ago
    This Palin woman is such a nightmare. I can't believe she is being shielded from the press like this. I can't believe people think it's okay that she's just too dumb to take any questions from reporters and journalists.
  • brooklyn1935 · 1 year ago
    The media is being used and it;s not doing it;s job.They are worse than WHORES. At least a whore gets something in return.