Here are a couple of excerpts from a story about how one reporter was treated by Republican caucus voters in Nevada. It isn’t pretty. The words “GOP paranoia” come to mind.
After about 10 speakers touted their presidential favorites – most of them backed Mitt Romney – the caucus chairwoman, whose name I didn’t catch, announced that no reporters were allowed in the room. [...]
“You’re a bunch of liars!” someone shouted.
“Spy! She’s a spy!” someone else said.
A woman waved a button at me, which said: DON’T BELIEVE THE LIBERAL MEDIA. [...]
Then a man walked over to me and said if I didn’t leave, he’d call security. So I left the room while voters cast their ballots.
Another word that comes to mind: “Extreme”.
Did I mention “WTF”?
I wonder… if Powers had been wearing a button that said, “I work at Fox,” would she have been allowed to stay?
So much for freedom of the press. Hey Nevada GOP, how’s that Constitution thing workin’ for ya?
You can gripe about the media but sometimes the reporters come thru.
ara Logan and her crew have been released from custody one day after being detained by the Egyptian military. Logan was questioned and then detained while outside Israel’s embassy in Cairo. CBS was not commenting yesterday, but in an internal email obtained by TVNewser this morning, CBS News D.C. bureau chief Chris Isham writes:
Lara, Don and Max were released from Egyptian military custody early this morning and are now enroute back to Washington via London. They are scheduled to arrive at Dulles this evening.
New York Times’ Brian StelterreportsBrian Williams and Katie Couric are also returning to the U.S. amid heightened concerns for the safety of all journalists. Couric was in her New York studio last night for “Evening News.” Williams returns
“Meet & Greet #Joe #Miller OCT 21st 5:30 – 8:30pm 607 W. Northern Lights BLVD Right after Vahalla Shopping Center Come out and bring friends.”
What an inclusive, friendly invitation that is! “Bring friends”! What could be more open and neighborly than that?
Why, after such an overture, one might conclude that one could take it literally… that Joe wants to meet people and greet people, that one could bring pals along, kibbitz, chat, maybe even ask a few questions.
Joe must have had a change of heart about all that secrecy and hiding from the press stuff.
But it said on Twitter anyone could come, I said. It was a “meet and greet,” I said.
That was a mistake, she said.
How could that be? What about all the people who weren’t reporters who read Twitter and came over?
The event got changed at the last minute, she said. It was only for volunteers. It was private, she said. She ushered me to the door. If I had questions, she said, I could call the campaign’s press person.
I didn’t want to talk to the campaign’s press person, I said. I wanted to talk to voters.
The voters thought the event was private and that news media wouldn’t be there, she said.
There is more. “Dropzone Security Services” is not just a company run by people who are not very clever, but the company is also right at the heart of the “Alaska Citizens Milita” – a group commanded by Norm Olson, who once rose to “fame” as the founder of the Michigan milita. Part of Norm Olson’s history are also contacts to Oklahoma bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who trained with the Michigian Milita in the past…
As they always do, Palingates has lots more. Please pay them a visit here.
Lolly Symbol says she drove in from Big Lake with her two young sons because she was a staunch Miller supporter and wanted to ask him a question about his stance on gun control. [...]
Symbol said Miller became angry with an elderly woman who asked him about his military background. “He ended up getting really huffy with her,” Symbol said.
Then along came Tony and his big, evil, threatening camera, and Joe skedaddled out as fast as his little cowardly legs could carry him:
She said Miller tried to get away from the reporter and in doing so put his hand on her arm and pushed her aside. Her 8-year-old son, Vincent Mahoney, was standing right behind her, and Miller bowled him over in his attempt to get away. “I don’t know if [Miller] didn’t see him or didn’t care, but he didn’t say ‘excuse me’ or ‘I’m sorry’. He didn’t even turn his head,” Symbol said. “He simply did not care at all.” [...]
“I do not believe that [Hopfinger] did anything wrong,” she said. “He was rude and he was aggressive but that’s just what the press does. Legally he did not do anything wrong that deserved to be put in cuffs.”
“The whole thing just made me sick,” she said.”I was a big supporter of Joe Miller, I really was. But not anymore.“
Wait. Just. A minute. Miller pushed her aside? Isn’t that what he accused Tony Hopfinger of doing? Isn’t that why Miller’s (unlicensed) goons cuffed him?
This part of the story was overlooked yesterday… at least I don’t recall anything being mentioned about it. It’s just one more piece of the Miller Is An Ass puzzle, and it fits so perfectly.
Actually, I don’t blame him for running. After all, he had to be aware that it was time to stick a fork in him, and he knew how painful that would be. He was simply trying to get away before that could happen.
Earlier I posted about howJoe Miller security guards handcuffed a journalist. Yes, Joe’s private cops cuffed journalist Tony Hopfinger, detained him for 25 minutes for asking something that Miller didn’t like, and all this occurred at a public event at a public place. Hopfinger was no threat, unless of course, a camera and a question are particularly worrisome to the Miller campaign.
He’s also not a “liberal blogger”. I heard Tony Hopfinger on a radio interview, and he said he works for a news site that is neither liberal nor conservative.
According to his opponent in the Senate race, Scott McAdams, this kind of thing is unheard of. We really didn’t need anyone to tell us that, but McAdams said that and a lot more on MSNBC’s The Ed Show.
Miller also pre-taped an interview with CNN’s John King that will air tonight, in which he reportedly says: “The behavior that was demonstrated (by the reporter) while I was there was assaultive,” Miller said. “This was a professional team… I’m sure that they did the right thing.”
Professional teams renew their licenses before manhandling a U.S. citizen (with or without cause).
“I’m not going to answer them, I’m not,” he said of requests for personal information.
Yes, Joe must really hate the first amendment. He refuses to answer questions from pesky reporters, and now he’s cowering at the biggest ol’ nastiest, scariest threat of all, a “liberal blogger” with a camera. Oh noes!
The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller’s private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release Hopfinger. [...]
After Miller walked away, Hopfinger said, he was surrounded by Miller supporters and security guards and felt threatened, so he pushed one of them away. [...]
Fulton said the man shoved by Hopfinger was not hurt.
I wonder how Joe the Lumberjack feels about bullying. We could ask, but he’d only refuse to answer. He must have gone through that prestigious school of Angle/O’Donnell/Palin media training.
Ironically, the Miller gang called Hopfinger an “irrational” blogger. Pot, kettle, black much guys?
Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. It was probably a private gathering, and Hopfinger was intruding. Why, I bet friends, colleagues, family, acquaintances, and neighbors were all forbidden to attend.
It was hardly a private gathering. In a Facebook message, the campaign urged Miller supporters to bring their “friends, colleagues, family, acquaintances, neighbors.”
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