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."
You're feet show it! (They're long fellows)
She sounds a little bitter....
“Hey (hey)
You (you)]
Get offa my plane
Don’t hang around
Because Dowd’s a crowd”
Pretty funny, heheheh.
A poet and didn’t know it :)
Funny now, but this feeds into the anger meme.
Equal and opposite reaction, etc,
A different orifice, more likely.
"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.'
Such a sad break-up after all the years of McCain sucking up to the NYT.
Yes, what was she doing that she hadn’t been doing forever?
|
Maybe McCain is finally dropping the Mr. Nice Guy routine.
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.
Sorry, Mo, McCain isn’t dismissive of the First Amendment. He’s dismissing you because you are a b**ch.
Her understanding of the First Amendment is beyond funny.
Now that there’s an empty seat on the plane... somebody should apply to offer a citizen’s eye view, of the reporters in action. Wouldn’t take me too long to pack.
Why don’t you make like a banana and split?
Like a tree and leave?
Is it possible that McC has decided that its not all about playing nice with one’s adversaries?
Modo is a monster.
He's probably just making room for Bernadette Dorn or Cindy Sheehan.
Alright, already, you’re a doctor!
She is only kicked off until he becomes President and becomes Maverick again.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.