Posted on 10/01/2008 10:28:50 PM PDT by GVnana
MoDo's off the plane
Howard Kurtz hangs out in the press tent at Oxford, Miss., and learns that one famous columnist will not be flying on Straight Talk Air.
Outside, on a summerlike evening, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs held forth for the likes of NBC's Chuck Todd and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who was wearing an Elvis T-shirt. (The company may have been more pleasant than that of McCain aides, who have barred Dowd from the candidate's plane.)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0908/MoDos_off_the_plane.html
Maureen Dowd Reacts To Being Tossed From McCain Plane
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/maureen-dowd-reacts-to-be_n_130863.html
Earlier this week, we learned that the McCain campaign had barred New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from traveling on their plane, stranding her at an airport hotel in Pittsburgh as McCain's pool of reporters wended their way on without her ready skill at alliteration and musical theatre references. Since then, Dowd has had the opportunity to respond:
"I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicolle Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane," Dowd wrote in an email.
"It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney."
How high up was it, then?
Men!
Hey (hey)
You (you)]
Get offa my plane
Don’t hang around
Because Dowd’s a crowd (gee, it rhymed and I didn’t even know it)
There, fixed it.
I don’t know. Think she’ll ever be a clymer?
As Obama is threatening prison to conservatives using his truth squad. Only her first amendment is relevant.
But who was her date? C’mon! Don’t leave me hanging here...
Dowd thinks she can vomit on people and they’re supposed to take it. If she wants to see First Amendment violations let her look at her hero Obama’s “Truth Squad.”
OH LORDY it not good day for Mo LOL!
Was she stealing all the booze?
She probably wanted McCain to vote ‘no’ on the bailout.
“How high up was it, then?”
Obviously not high enough!
Oh, please, the First Amendment.
Just make up something, Mo, like you usually do.
No, too much of a drag.
McCain gives Maureen Dowd the “Michael Douglas treatment”
Guess there just aren’t many men that can stand to have you around, Maureen!!
Yeah, where’s her column of outrage over that?
When they have to face any consequences for their blatant bias and outright vitriolic behavior, they whine and cry and act soooo indignant.
What goes around comes around, Mo. Haven't you figured that out yet?
Oh, and nobody's stifling your First Amendment rights. They're just exercising theirs. Too complicated for you?
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