White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill

Newsbusters ^ | 7/3/10 | Noel Sheppard

[Sub-Driver]

The Regime.........

[Vaquero]

He is in good company

[Vaquero]

[skeeter]

As the segment continued, Cooper expressed disgust with this rule repeating several times, "We are not the enemy here"

You helped get this petty dictator elected so, yes, you are the enemy here.

You're also not very bright.

[FrankR]

[Vaquero]

[Mr. Mojo]

Cooper expressed disgust with this rule repeating several times, "We are not the enemy here"

What a naive little boy. ...not recognizing a third world dictator when he sees one. Just because he's a member of the media-favored party.

[God luvs America]

Transparency in government!!! Change you can believe in!!!

[Sunshine Sister]

I don’t know why Anderson Cooper is mad. He asked for this didn’t he? Didn’t most of the so called media vote for the usurper?

[mewzilla]

Is the no-fly zone over the area still in place as well?

[GOPJ]

Anderson, to this administration, anyone trying to tell the truth to the American people is the enemy.

CNN's Anderson Cooper's getting mugged by ugly liberal reality. Good. Let the effing jerk know what it feels like...

[rolling_stone]

I don’t know what Anderson Cooper is complaining about we/he hasn’t gotten within 65 feet of Obama’s real birth certificate yet....what did he expect, transparency?

[Wings-n-Wind]

The Regime.........

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Now we'll find out if the (pansy MSM) Fourth Estate has any grit left...

[GOPJ]

...this was an eminently foreseeable consequence of the media treating candidate Obama like a rock star. If they had acted like journalists back then instead of groupies, maybe they'd be treated with more respect today.

Thanks CNN, New York Times, and Washington Post - thanks for all the totalitarian crap you've brought to our country.

[AndyJackson]

The Coast Guard today announced new rules keeping photographers and reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches -- 65 feet."

I hate to take an adverse position here, but I think folks are hyperventillating over a non-issue. With modern photographic equipment you cannot hide much at 65 ft. and for anyone who has spent time at sea, a 65ft. stand-off distance for paparazzi and pleasure gawkers is, I would regard in my professional judgment, a bare minimum acceptable standoff distance from working boats that are attempting to maneuver and work with loads.

While certainly some of what the Coast Guard has done are politically driven, come-on guys, the Coast Guard is an honorable branch of uniformed public service made up of highly skilled and dedicated professional men and women.

[Rome2000]

Awwwwwww, poor AC is upset her President is treating the press like Chavez, Castro, and Putin does.

Just wait until Hussein starts making examples of a few of them, the propagandists for the regime will fold up like cheap suits and get back to toeing the party line.

[70th Division]

So let me understand this. We can inbed reporters in a war zone where real bullets are fired but we can not look at an oil spill? Oh THAT makes sense.

[9YearLurker]

Even if he’s only right one out of fifty times I’ll acknowledge that one time. How many of ‘our’ media guys are speaking out so forcefully?

[dead]

I'm with you, 65 feet is plenty close enough. It's practically in the red zone in football! Even I could take a nice picture of an oily bird in the endzone from the 23 yard line.

I still hate Obama and his Administration though. Just to be clear.

[The Theophilus]

...a new a rule announced today backed by the force of law and the threat of fines and felony charges...

I can see the necessity of keeping interfering interlopers away from working crews out on the open water. Sixty-five feet is the difference between forever losing one's voting, 2nd Amendment rights and possibly their anal virginity though? Sixty-six feet, and all is well?

So much for 'let the punishment fit the crime'