Posted on 04/10/2009 12:56:12 PM PDT by VideoPaul
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has not released a memory card containing audio interviews conducted by a local radio reporter four days after federal employees and security officers detained the reporter and seized his equipment.
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Obama administration thugs strongarm a radio reporter into giving up an interview of comditions in the VA hospital that would embarrass the O-Vomit administration. IF THIS DOESN’T BOTHER YOU IT SHOULD! O-Vomit is now trampling the bill of rights, and the ACLU is strangely silent!!!
Soon all negative news about the Chicago street thug in the White House will be handled this way.
Sounds like the reporter violated clear-cut rules.
Since when does the first amendment include permission forms?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Public Radio reporter? Should have waterboarded him..../s
This is BS. I can go on any VA property and have a picnic all the while videoing my family having fun. Is that illegal? No.
there is more to this story and someone is not telling the truth.
This is what is so funny...the NPR types thought they had a free ride with bam-bam...they are now finding out that he will squash them with an iron fist. Dummies, dummies, dummies. I’m in the broadcast industry and it’s LOOOOOADED with far left liberals who are slowly and in shock and awe, finding out that their messiah that they fawned all over is just a street thug in an expensive suit who will s**t all over them if they dare qustion his administration.
They get what they deserve...but WHERE IS THE ACLU? I thought their job was to defend the bill of rights...this is a clear infringement on FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Just like the feminists all looked the other way when Sharah Palin was attacked!
Idiots.
Rush was right—the second amendment is there in cast the governemnt stops respecting the first amendment.
Are there any specific incidents you are privy to at your end?
I have been wondering about MSM types suffering buyer’s remorse...
What happens is that on day one, they were absolutely apoplectic with glee. They had a week long emotional bender when they were floating 6 inches off the floor of the newsroom. The few conservatives at a station would needle them and get a full throated HAHAHAH WE WON in the face. Now as stories like this come out and you needle the liberals they look at the floor and change the subject. If you push the issue they get nasty. Assignemnt editors and news directors threaten you if you don’t stop pushing reality in their faces.
Pointing out that this will, not could, WILL be them evntually makes them walk away angry. Seems Bush wasn’t the devil after all...
Yes, reading about lefists getting disillusioned with 0bama would be very cheering.
Back to the story at hand...if the technicality of a release is all that was missing, why wasnt he given the form, asked to sign it and allowed to leave with his audio? Because they don’t want the story benig told is the answer.
The MSM failed to ask ANy Illinois legislators who voted to impeach Blago if they voted for him. The same MSM will not ask this reporter if he voted for O-Vomit.
—PP
I look forward to your continued reports!
The question remains of course: when is the worm going to turn?
I keep hearkening back to a book I read as a youngster, Carter Press Secretary Jody Powell’s 1984 “The Other Side of the Story” wherein he recounts the treatment ol’ Jimmah got from the “liberal” media.
Powell was remarkably candid about his own mistakes as well as savaging his media colleagues for their egotistical shallowness and pique. Basically, he admits that Carter treated the MSM with coldness and disdain and it wasn’t long before the MSM (which had always considered him a hayseed from the first, but had begun his administration with high hopes) began giving it back to him in spades.
Quite unlike Halberstam’s portrayal of FDR’s masterful manipulation of reporters (compliments, ego-stroking, access), Carter kept them at arm’s length and that was all (combined with his incompetent flailing and national humiliations) that it took, soon they were pounding on him and manufacturing scandals and pratfalls with a vengeance.
They’ve openly played kingmaker with Obama, but from what little I can tell from where I’m seated, the Big “O” is treating them like servants. All his minions’ networking and Monday morning conference-calling exist soley to give them marching orders. Meanwhile, they can’t possibly be unaware of the terrifying possibilities inherent in such things as the upcoming Cyber Security Act and what this trashing of the Constitution will mean to them. Strong-arming an NPR reporter is pretty much adding insult to injury as far as I can see. As it does not seem that Obama has any intentions of putting them all on the payroll and saving their jobs it looks to me that sheer self-preservation, never mind outraged ego must eventually cause them to turn on him.
Are there any insider’s blogs and websites you know of where these types do their commiserating?
Of course, I’ve been maintaining that liberals are starting to realize that they’re not recession-proof either and that joy in a leftist president is not going to pay their rent any more than the less spiritually elect among us. How long Obama can get away with focusing public anger on the evil bankers and capitalist Monopoly Men is debatable.
He’s trying to come up with his “I inherited this mess” angle on it, before he has to comment.
Does this surprise anyone at all?
It will only get worse. Like a child who tests their parents, if they get away with one thing then they try another. Each time progressively becoming more bold.
This is the first step to controlling the media.
I believe that this isn’t going to happen very soon if at all, because any attempt to turn on O-Vomit by his complicit mainstream media will be met with howls of RACISM that will effectively squelch the media.
In most circles, you can silence the most righteous and truthful immediately by simply calling them racists, even without a shred of evidence or cause to do so. Few have the testicular fortitude to stand up to this namecalling for reasons I have never understood. If you dont like what someone is saying, call them a racist and they will run screamig from the room withtheir tail tucked. We have been trainted like pavlov’s dogs to back down rather than defend what we are saying as truth or opinion which we are entitled to.
Example: Here in Chicago, Walgreen’s just removed the Barack Obama Chia Pet from their shelves becuase someone called this terra cotta bust of the messiah “racist”.
—PP
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