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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: UCANSEE2

>> Here is his exact quote.

Thanks for the quote.

Red herrings, straw men, illusions - the MSM is forever in love with its Leftwing Administration but will pump out the drama hoping to convince otherwise. Save the most egregious of crimes, it will continue to run cover for the Socialists’ agenda while pretending to care about the Constitution.

Fortunately, there are FReepers who take the time to lift the veil off the face of this bogus journalism.


281 posted on 07/04/2010 5:51:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I see no problem. Remember the press is our enemy. The American presstitutes are not our friends. They thrive on any thing that destroys our country.

I think of the US Marines landing on Somali shores only to find CNN there in the way disrupting operations with their trivial blather and bright lights.

Such it is with the gulf. They have long lenses that should be good enough .

My reaction is screw ‘em all.


282 posted on 07/04/2010 6:03:40 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
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To: AndyJackson
Just add your name to the clueless idiot list. You are past all help. Really.

Oh, and Happy Independence day.

I see such responses from many "rational thinkers" -usually they are on the political left. Somehow such people consider their opinions superior and when dummies such as myself disagree they resort to name calling.

LOL!!!!

Get over yourself...

283 posted on 07/04/2010 6:05:32 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: TennTuxedo
What scaremongering moron put that map out?

I also want a map of the lizard people.

284 posted on 07/04/2010 6:08:32 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Gosh, where's Helen Thomas when ya really need her?

Next ban will be on coverage of the Mexican drug wars/illegal immigration. The partisan media shills already cover for the Obama Recession. Thanks Sub-Driver.
285 posted on 07/04/2010 6:09:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Normally I would whole-heartedly agree, but with the secrecy shrouding everything associated with this oil spill, you have to wonder if there could be some sort of half-truth in something like this?

If you would have told me two years ago, that I would lose much of my healthcare, pay exorbitant carbon taxes, and my country would abandon one of it’s closest allies, I would have laughed you out of the room. I don’t put anything by these people.


286 posted on 07/04/2010 8:20:34 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: Sub-Driver
65 feet... What this means is that oil-soaked birds on islands surrounded by boom, you can't get close enough to take that picture."

I call BS. My little PowerShot S10 can take extremely good close-in shots from 65 feet.

This is just media whining, primarily. They want total access and total control at all times. Our rights can be limited and curtailed... but never theirs.

287 posted on 07/04/2010 8:26:34 PM PDT by Teacher317 (I'm sore)
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To: UCANSEE2

No I agree with you. The media has no business being near the Coast Guard skimmers etc.

I realize now that the left is mad at this administration and they’re looking for things on him.

I think we’ve hit the tipping point.

They can’t stop the oil leak, and he escalating, in their eyes, Afghanistan...


288 posted on 07/04/2010 8:51:39 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Praying for minus 24 today....at least minus 23...)
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To: 70th Division

You have no idea how much the Communist Regime will not accept opposition.

Sestak, Black Panthers, letting US rigs be seized by Chavez, the Floatilla...on and on.

What a lot of people do not understand is that we are no longer a representative Republic, we are a Kenyan-Chicago Banana Republic run by a hard-Left Marxist.

Imbedded troops are OK, but bad press on Obama will get you jail time.

Wait until his Civilian Force (Brown Shirts) is as powerful and well-funded as the military (his words).

This guy needs to be stopped.


289 posted on 07/04/2010 11:23:17 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somwhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: ReneeLynn

Cooper wants to find out what Larry Sinclair knows...


290 posted on 07/04/2010 11:28:26 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somwhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: driftdiver

Thanks for that link.

Once the government gets hold of it, none of the ROVCAMS will work.


291 posted on 07/05/2010 12:10:11 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: driftdiver
Are you seriously comparing a oil covered pelican with a space vehicle containing a few million pounds of rocket fuel?

Regardless to whether they are NASA rules at the launchpad, or COAST GUARD rules for dealing with safety and security involving a bunch of numbnuts reporters, ships of all sizes in a confined area, miles of booms which can be destroyed by same reporters, they are dealing with an area at least the same size if not bigger, and more potential danger.

All the Coast Guard is asking of the media is that they call and get permission before they make any such attempts.

The only 'info' being suppressed is that CNN and other MSM have been hiding the truth from the public. It's been available to the MSM this whole time.

292 posted on 07/05/2010 12:21:33 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: AndyJackson; an amused spectator
OK, I'm not understanding the part about the beaches

The Coast Guard doesn't want boats running over the oil booms on their way to the beach.

I'm not either because I don't understand how the Coast Guard's writ runs to dry land, being concerned, as they are with navigable waters.

Yeah. At the Lake they have the Boat Patrol. You'd think their writ would stop at the water's edge. I assure you it does not.

The Coast Guard's 'dominion' has been extended to the beaches as they are the 'front' of the oil cleanup effort.

Again, this whole thing is a diversion from the real issue, which is that the Government and BP have been lying about the amount of equipment being used to clean up, and the media is just NOW getting around to admitting it.

293 posted on 07/05/2010 12:31:01 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: AndyJackson; A Navy Vet; UCANSEE2; an amused spectator

Thanks, Andy, Navy Vet and UCANSEE2 for your reasoned responses to this and if this rule only applied to water then it would be completely understandable. But as Amused Spectator points out, it applies to beaches, too. And though it’s true that 65’ is just as easy to photo on land as on sea, the lack of any clear-cut security concerns on land make the ruling seem more like the beginning of a serious clamp-down on the story. I could be wrong; the reasons to keep gawkers back from the beach might be just as compelling.

As for Cooper, I agree with everyone here who say he’s a putz who doesn’t care about Free Speech only about his own personal privileges.


294 posted on 07/05/2010 5:29:14 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: UCANSEE2
the Government and BP have been lying about the amount of equipment being used to clean up, and the media is just NOW getting around to admitting it.

No doubt, but a 65ft standoff distance does not stop anyone from inventorying the amount of equipment.

295 posted on 07/05/2010 6:03:49 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: driftdiver
I guess allowing a dictatorial wanna be to further his agenda without any transparency or public visibility is ok.

I am fully appraised that there is an oil spill, it is a godawful mess, it isn't getting better quickly, and the administration has jumped in with both feet without a clue what it can actually do to make things better.

What part of transparency is 65ft obscuring?

296 posted on 07/05/2010 6:17:13 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

it’s kind of like the 18 1/2 minutes of blank tape......it’s the cover up.


297 posted on 07/05/2010 6:20:01 AM PDT by tioga
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To: UCANSEE2
About the 65 ft. Here is a picture taken from more than 65 ft. In fact it was taken from a satellite. And it was released by NASA. So, from 300 miles up we have a very good idea of what the situation is, a whole lot better than a picture from 5 ft of another dead seagull.


298 posted on 07/05/2010 6:22:00 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: GOPJ

Useful fools . . . among the first to be jailed when the hammer really comes down.


299 posted on 07/05/2010 6:57:44 AM PDT by Mere Survival (The time to fight was yesterday but now will have to do.)
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To: Sub-Driver
65 Feet? Pffft.

Took this impromptu snapshot walking up the path toward the Washington Monument....

400.0mm @ 838 Yards.

Photographing the damage done is a matter of motivation.

This is just an excuse for the MSM not to do their job, as usual.
300 posted on 07/05/2010 7:19:42 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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