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."
"Congress shall not fail to show all courtesy and respect to Constitutionally illiterate liberal columnists..."
McCain didn’t want that *bleeping* snake on his *bleeping* plane!
Dowd doesn’t belong there anyway, she’s just an old has- been Michael-Douglas reject who writes idiotic opinion pieces. The only thing she’s good for is to be made fun of.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana!
“Maureen you ignorant slut!”
LOL!
The number of “slimming” tricks used in that photograph leads me to suspect that Maureen is drowning her sorrows in Haagen-Daaz as well as Southern Comfort.
“I didn’t think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney”
The last time I checked, Bimbette, John McCain was acting in the capacity of a private citizen, i.e., a candidate for president (not as a US senator on behalf of the government)and therefore there is no dismissiveness of the first amendment involved here, since the first amendment has no application here to begin with.
He simply has had enough of your BS and mockery. You vandalize the house you pay the price.
With rights comes responsibility.
Next time act more professionally and responsibly and you may be allowed to ride with the grown-ups.
She should quit her bi**hing...lest she end up like Newt did when he whined about not going out the front hatch of the Air Focre One during the Slick Willie days...
Boohoo for her..(sarc)
Altitude was my first thought.
Ouch!
Why do we even give the ENEMEDIA the opportunity to slander us?
Next debate is on Fox (Better ratings = more viewers = more potential voters) with Brit Hume as moderator! No Ifills, ands, or Courics!
Being “dismissive” is a lot less harmful than being “destructive” with it, Ms. Dowd.
Girl up, and move on.
Okay, I’m pulling out the big guns:
Six was afraid of Seven because Seven Eight Nine.
What a pity it wasn’t airborn when they kicked her off.
The First Amendment does not give an individual reporter (who is a *itch) the right to have a seat on a candidate’s plane. She still has the right to write foolish columns for a boss that will hopefully be out of business soon.
BA
“I didn’t think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney”
I didn’t think Mo would be a dumb as a box of rocks.
Yes I did.
Take him to the Supreme Court, Mo!
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