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White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill
Newsbusters ^ | 7/3/10 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 07/03/2010 9:03:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Lazamataz

Let’s see if any media challenge this in court. It seems like another unfounded edict from dear leader e.g. the drilling moratorium...


161 posted on 07/03/2010 7:21:26 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Hoodat
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Obama orders evacuation from the Gulf Coast of all "non-essential" personnel AND impose safety restrictions, aka "martial law" inland for a few hundred miles?
It accomplishes several government goals:
1) Preventing "the people" from being in danger from the oil, and
2) Preventing "the people" from being in danger from hurricanes, and
3) Preventing "the people" from seeing too much and asking too many questions, and
4) Preventing "the people" from being too vigilant of their government and voting against the government's interests.
And since such evacution would have to be done with government "persuasion", the more goals are accomplished:
5) Disarming all who resist or question the government's efforts to protect them, and
6) Uncooperative people (Tea Party, Conservatives, and those who cling to guns and religion) are "relocated" to camps "for their own protection", and
7) Uncooperative people in the camps have to vote by absentee ballots--which, like military ballots, are not counted.
8) Republican, conservative, and Democrat resisters become felons not allowed to vote.
9) Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Lousiana, Alabama, and Georgia vote Democrat for Congress and President.

They also include the border states of Arizona, New Mexico, and the Republican California (southeast of LA) for their protection from border violence, guns, drugs, kidnapping, etc.

And if other southern States such as South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas or upper south states such as Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Missouri or conservative plains and mountain states such as South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming object, then just declare them insurrectionist and put them under martial law too.
Gee, does this sound familiar?

162 posted on 07/03/2010 7:23:16 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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65 ft does not seem particularly far away- cameramen will just have to drag out the big zoom. Furthermore, TV folks wading around in muck then sensationalizing the images are not helpful. I’ve seen some dunk their bare hands into goop. Wonder when they’ll sue for damages for a rash.

We know estuaries are in trouble. What I would really like is honest, impartial reporting- not a competition to see which media outlet can ‘capture’ the most pathetic oiled bird image.

Cripes, all of the networks, including Fox ran footage of what I believe to have been from the Valdez accident- heavy, black crude lapping on the shoreline, while talking about the BP situation. Shameful.

I detest Zero and his administration, but the media are whores and Cooper is just getting his panties in a twist for the theater.


163 posted on 07/03/2010 7:23:56 PM PDT by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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To: Solitar

The seeds for a new American Revolution.


164 posted on 07/03/2010 7:31:27 PM PDT by Biggirl (AZ Is DOING THE JOB The Feds Should Be Doing, ENFORCING The Southern Border! =^..^=)
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To: Sub-Driver

Anyone wonder why/if the media shouldn’t actually be invited on the vessels themselves!

Regarding no negative coverage of the Undocumented one, they are afraid to report negative stories on him as they will lose their main base, colleges students and the majority of certain ethnic voters.


165 posted on 07/03/2010 7:50:00 PM PDT by Varsity Flight
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To: Sunshine Sister

and he never will give the blame to the One to whom it belongs


166 posted on 07/03/2010 8:15:57 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: FrankR

It would be more effective if you simply put this Obama quote:

“he day in which the earth began to heal and the oceans recede.”


167 posted on 07/03/2010 8:20:09 PM PDT by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ha! Evr wonder what’s going on in South Africa? How about Haiti? Wonder what the noble savages are up to. Go cover that rich kid


168 posted on 07/03/2010 8:26:10 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: jersey117

No news from Haiti in months


169 posted on 07/03/2010 8:27:12 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: Sub-Driver

To Anderson Cooper...

Now you know how us gun owners have felt for the last 40 years. Deal with it. You propagated the BS that we have to deal with and now that it’s turned on you JUST LIKE WE WARNED YOU THAT IT WOULD... you’re upset. Too Fraking bad.

At least we can stand up and defy our march to slavery at the point of a gun even though, had you and your ilk had your way, we’d be totally defenseless now. But, you see, it doesn’t matter. You AND you ilk will not learn your lesson. You never have, you never will. THAT is why I have absolutely no sympathy for you.

It’s a reasonable restriction. You don’t NEED to get closer than 65 feet. You NEED Government permission to get any closer or you go to jail... kinda like the NFA and machine guns. But it’s a matter of want vs. need right? Doesn’t matter that you have the 1st Amendment to protect your right. Reasonable restrictions to protect society from itself are hunky dory... just like the crap you and other liberal leftest idiots have jammed down our throats for over 40 years.

So, get over your temper tantrum, get a clue, realize that what gun owners have said for the last 40 fraking years is true. Now they are starting to infringe on YOUR pet right you’re gonna go stomp a pink hanky in a tirade about how dare the Government say no to you? Yep. Shoe is on the other foot.

Frankly, you can take a long walk off a short pier to get inside that 65 foot reasonable restriction as far as I’m concerned. Your selective right BS just doesn’t cut it you hypocritical baby.

/rant


170 posted on 07/03/2010 8:30:39 PM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: Solitar

They’ll all be vaccinated too


171 posted on 07/03/2010 8:31:42 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: 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

Man, thats golden


172 posted on 07/03/2010 8:34:37 PM PDT by Augustinian monk ("Too many freaks and not enough circus tents")
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To: dead

This is a free country. If a reporter and camera man wish to come ten inches from the subject they’re shooting regardless of the danger, so be it.

This is pure and simple gagging tof he media.


173 posted on 07/03/2010 8:35:44 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Praying for minus 24 today....at least minus 23...)
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To: AndyJackson
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.

It's really come to a sad place when we have to practically apologize for bringing rational thought to a discussion.

I think people are jsut thrilled that the libs are ticked off at Obama, as we were when they got in a hissy fit about his slowness to react to the spill. Well lo and behold, that didn't last, did it?

Cooper is doing the same thing, taking a non-issue and posing as a real reporter, who isn't biased.

Let's see this little perfumed wuss get on the air and say Kagan isn't fit for the court, and that Obama is bleeding this country dry, or that the border has to be guarded, right now, no excuses--and maybe I'll see his point.

Here he's whining because photographers will have to slap on another lens instead of getting in the way of the cleanup we all claim is so important. Something tells me he won't be so sulky for very long--like, until the next time Obama needs some fawning coverage.

But we're so hungry for the libs to turn on him--which they aren't, they're just having a little lovers' spat--that people are falling for it, again.

174 posted on 07/03/2010 8:42:18 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Barack Obama, the Coleman Francis of presidents.)
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To: 1000 silverlings

And all resisting 0bama’s government will be implanted with compliance chips.

I’d like to think these thoughts are just baseless conspiracy nightmares.

Then again...


175 posted on 07/03/2010 8:42:26 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: Sub-Driver
"ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: But we begin, as we do every night, "Keeping Them Honest".

I can't believe anyone is taking this fop seriously after that line of bull.

176 posted on 07/03/2010 8:43:14 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Barack Obama, the Coleman Francis of presidents.)
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To: rolling_stone

I saw at the supermarket that on the cover of the Globe has Obama’s presidency being illegal. Maybe now all the rest of his voters will hear about it. I wonder if they’ll care? They’ll probably laugh at the Democratic bureaucracy.


177 posted on 07/03/2010 8:48:17 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: UCANSEE2

Are you serious? Please tell me you forgot to use /s?


178 posted on 07/03/2010 8:58:04 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Sub-Driver

Anyone know if news choppers or planes are prohibited as well?


179 posted on 07/03/2010 9:01:23 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Sub-Driver

From:

http://www.jeffhead.com

“Barack Hussein Obama, hear us, loyal Americans whose bloodlines run deep in this land, back to the founding & beyond, who have watered the ground of this nation & foreign soils to maintain our liberty & constitution: Molon Labe-Sic Semper Tyranus-De Oppresso Liber. Your Marxism shall not stand in this land, so help us God!” - Jeff Head, July 3, 2010


180 posted on 07/03/2010 9:08:06 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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