Posted on 07/03/2010 9:03:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
If the owner of the vessel invites media personnel, the coast guard can’t say squat. I understand keeping a safe distance from people trying to work on this issue, but I also understand this government’s desire to cover up the truth at all costs.
My answer to the 65 foot rule is a longer lens and one of those parabolic dish microphones like they use on the sideline at football games. You can sit 100+ feet away and get good pictures and video with sound if that’s your desire.
I propose that there isn’t a lot going on on these boats that would constitute news. The media should direct their efforts to what the ‘rats are saying behind closed doors and under the veil of darkness.
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and the liberals in Congress and in power have all been the willing troops, doing Obama's dirty work for two years now---that is, covering up for Obama and keeping the truth about him (and all the liberal leaders) from being seen by the voting public.
But, hey, Cooper, you had your chance to report what should have been shouted from the rooftops about candidate Obama and his anti-media tactics long ago during his campaign. You chose to ignore it. You chose to glorify this guy, make him "untouchable" and unaccountable. You ignored the conservatives who did their research when you would not and who clearly saw Obama for a fraud and a wanna-be dictator.
Now, don't cry "victim" when you put him in the White House.
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...A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap photographs of the oil slicks blackening the water. The response from a BP contractor who answered the phone late last month at the command center was swift and absolute: Permission denied.”
This behavior is completely unacceptable. Access by reporters should be as unfettered as possible. This de facto form of censorship needs to stop.
The web site of the tabloid Star magazine, 25 hours and 27 minutes later:
Al Gore‘s split from wife Tipper after 40 years of marriage was a shock to everyone who thought theirs was the ideal marriage. Now Star can exclusively reveal that the former Vice President was having an affair with Larry David‘s ex-wife — for the past two years!
See Law of Eminent Domain.
See Parks in Arizona that have been CLOSED by the government due to infiltration by Mexican Ganglords.
Why do you think you have to pay TAX on your land?”
We own NO land only lease from the crooked government.
What next! White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Hurricanes?
If you understand that, then why did you ask that question?
Was it satire, and I didn't get it?
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“We own NO land only lease from the crooked government.
If you understand that, then why did you ask that question?
Was it satire, and I didn’t get it?”
You answered the question;We paid for the use of the Beaches and are Now denied the use of them.
As the segment continued, Cooper expressed disgust with this rule repeating several times, "We are not the enemy here"
Sorry Nancy Boy, but you are 'the enemy'.
VIDEO Your government can kill you (9:42 long)and....
MARTIAL LAW ALERT: Gulf Coast Evacuation Scenario Summer/Fall 2010
It's 'funny' (not) that The Gulf Coast Evacuation is (or would be) just in time for the November elections, where every prediction has it that the CommieRATS are going to lose big time. And just another odd coincidence I'm sure, that those who will be under the thumb of Martial Law - and 'ruled' by Oberstgruppenführer Eric Holder, are from all those pesky 'Red States'.
And if all those 'Red States' are to be evacuated and under Martial Law to boot, that sure would help the CommirTATS keep control of Congress, now wouldn't it.
Now I'm suuuuure that there's really nothing to see here. So we may as well just move along.
Lock and Load FRiends, 'it's coming'.
So all it takes to get the USCG to change their rules is for a local person to express concern. Yeah, right. Man, it’s harder and harder to respect the higher ranked military sell outs.
Wow! The first (and only) concerted and coordinated action from the Obamunist White House regarding the oil spill cleanup is to muzzle the press!
Hey, fascists is as fascists does!
I wonder if you’ll ever figure this out...in time to recognize how useful you have been to them.
Useful as in “Useful Idiot”.
The Won will tell us what we need to know. No need to concern the common man when there’s really nothing to see. It’s better if the government takes care of it. They know best. More kool-aid anyone?
I think there’s more to this issue than just how far from a scene photograpers and journalists have to be located.
The reason for the censorship, its goal, is to shield Obama from critisism and prtotect his ‘reputation’. If I’m correct, then this extends all through the media and involves control of ANYTHING negative about Obama’s and the government’s performance in the environmental recovery of that oil spill. The government is, in essence, going to control the message in an old fashioned soviet-style manner.
This has the stink of deep-seated censorship, so watch the demeanor of the media, we should notice continuing resentment. I suspect that right now we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg. If I’m correct, as time goes along, it will become more apparent.
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Obama’s reputation is already sullied and ruined for good among reasonable folks. Every bit of legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by Obama was done so with virtually no details announced. In each case, there were ulterior motives associated with each win for him. I smell something rotten in this and all citizens should keep their eyes peeled on him right now.
It's not like you can trust them anyway.
Can you still vote when you’ve been evacuated and under martial law?
Someone is grappling with a major conflict of conscience here.
On the one hand Cooper is saying that it's his job as a journalist to report the facts, while on the other hand he's admitting that by covering up, it "makes it very easy to hide failure and hide incompetence" ... playing both sides of the same coin.
Astonishingly, Mr Cooper betrays his real interest in saying that he wants to show "the hard work of cleanup crews and the Coast Guard", and goes on to beg the government impediment as "We are not the enemy here".
No mention whatsoever of the disaster itself, just a self serving complaint that the government isn't allowing him and his journalists to show the cleanup effort in a better light.
That's my take on this, your mileage may vary .....
-- MM
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