Posted on 09/16/2016 1:48:59 PM PDT by Pinkbell
In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of the campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour.
According to members of the traveling press pool, after it was made clear that only still photographers and video cameras would be allowed on the pool, the Washington bureau chiefs of the various television networks convened an emergency conference call and agreed to pull the network camera and erase the footage of the tour.
"The pool rules state any event that is pooled with cameras, there has to be a pool producer. Due to the fact we were not granted editorial access, as is customary, that decision was made and the footage was erased," a member of the Trump traveling press told POLITICO.
The tour of the hotel was to take place after Trump made remarks finally admitting that President Barack Obama was, in fact, born in the United States. For years, Trump has suggested that Obama was not born in the U.S., and that his birth certificates may have been fraudulent.
But though the event was billed as a news conference to set the record straight on Obama's birthplace, Trump ignored reporters standing on their chairs, shouting questions. He also made only a brief statement of a few sentences on the controversy, spending much of the time being boosted by campaign surrogates and touting his hotel.
And then, when Trump was supposed to take the press on a tour of his new hotel, the editorial producer for the network pool was physically detained.
"As the designated pool producer; attempted to go on pooled tour, as is customary. Was physically restrained from accompanying the camera," tweeted ABC producer Candace Smith.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
A point of reference from Candace Smith who the article says was restrained. She first tweeted:
Candace Smith @CandaceSmith_ 5h5 hours ago Washington, DC
As the designated pool producer; attempted to go on pooled tour, as is customary. Was physically restrained from accompanying the camera.
She later adds:
Candace Smith @CandaceSmith_ 5h5 hours ago
Candace Smith Retweeted Candace Smith
Blocked is perhaps better term. Tried to go through the door, was gently pushed back as door was closed.
“According to members of the traveling cess pool...”
Trump could run his entire campaign with a webcam
I had a thought that Trump should tweet out a link to a video tour of his hotel - Trumping them again.
Just attach Go Pros to the heads of the Cesspool
Gee, next the media will say their producer was violently thrown to the ground and kicked half to death. The Leftish hatred for Trump oozes from every word.
Who cares about the Clinton/Obama press media?..........no one!!!
The clientele of Trump hotels do not need a tour of the Trump hotel.
It would have been eye candy for the masses, and a petulant media could have used it to suggest that Trump was really an elitist who is out of touch with the people who could never afford to stay there.
-PJ
How childish. LOL he didn’t need them to do a tour of his hotel.
Now they were invited on his plane last week...and that's over.
Like you and me, Trump likes nice people.
Dear Miss Smith...Private property is private property.
I want to see a video of the media stomping their feet and holding their breath.
The network pools didn’t refuse...TRUMP refused...ROFL
Trump stopped them from entering...It was his choice, not the MSM idiots...
I’ve been to the site a few times. That’s what I want for my next Birthday....a room at the Old Post Office Hotel in DC. It’s magnificent.
The MSM are a bunch of compromised petulant fools. I laugh at their weakness, their idiocy, their whining and their pouting. What an embarrassment they are to the freedom of the press.
Trump is the junk yard dog that makes the fleas and ticks jump off his back.
Their egos know no bounds, that’s for sure....
They keep deleting the footage of Clinton falling down so this is nothing new.
Trump then barred reporters from joining a tour of his new hotel,
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3470152/posts
Is Politico distorting facts again? or are they just LYING??
At least they knew where he was.
As opposed to Mrs. Clinton’s missing 90 minutes.
If Hillary could get a large group of Medal of Honor winners, Generals and Admirals to support her in person, I doubt that the media would describe them as simply "campaign surrogates." Up to now I thought a campaign surrogate was someone who went on shows and spoke for the candidate. Today's military heroes spoke of why the country needs Trump as its leader.
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