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Malia in Mexico story vanishing from the Web
Times247 ^ | 3/19/12 | Eric Ritz

Posted on 03/19/2012 5:59:15 PM PDT by lward99

Have you heard that Malia Obama, the president’s daughter, is reportedly spending her spring break in Oaxaca, Mexico?

Allegedly, she’s jetting off with some of her classmates and 25 Secret Service agents to a country that the State Department has said all Americans should avoid. But something is different about the latest “Obama vacation controversy:” references to it are disappearing from the Internet — and fast.

(Excerpt) Read more at times247.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201203; 20120319; feedingatthetrough; lifeisbutadream; malia; mexico; oaxaca; obama; obamafamily; obamafaminly; obamavacation; vacations
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Comment #101 Removed by Moderator

To: EDINVA

Someone made the point earlier...Twitter, Facebook are part of our lives a guest could have tweeted how cool it was to see MAO. The risk is simply with being the daughter of the POTUS.

I am a father and there is NO FN WAY I would have sent my 13 yr old kid to Mexico during a period of time when the State Dept was warning against traveling there. Bad parenting. Bad decisions. Bad POTUS.

That being said - It is still a violation of the first amendment for this administration to abuse its power to ask politely or forcefully for many news organizations to pull a story that he found objectionable.

We are dealing with a dictator, it’s time people recognized that.

BTW - There were plenty of stories about the Bush twins about where they partied and drank....none of them were as flattering as this story about MAO.


102 posted on 03/19/2012 8:34:39 PM PDT by lward99 (http://www.politicalmedia.com)
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To: Shadowstrike

AMEN!


103 posted on 03/19/2012 8:34:39 PM PDT by mojitojoe (American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)
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To: jdionne

Yeah, how dare the mods actually moderate FR. /s


104 posted on 03/19/2012 8:44:13 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: Venturer; null and void

25 SS agents!, wow, how many of the kids are they protecting?!


105 posted on 03/19/2012 8:52:20 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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To: Shadowstrike

To your point, there’s a difference between an individual tweeting about what they see and the press publishing security details for an international audience.


106 posted on 03/19/2012 8:52:25 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: BuckeyeTexan; Lazamataz

Join the club!


107 posted on 03/19/2012 8:54:26 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Tweeting IS an International audience.


108 posted on 03/19/2012 8:55:02 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Shadowstrike

They probably took over the entire hotel.


109 posted on 03/19/2012 8:56:50 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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To: livius

oh YUCK. You entirely went to far there, you’re talking about CHILDREN


110 posted on 03/19/2012 8:58:56 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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To: Shimmer1

And that makes me mad as he** too!

More money wasted!

A 13 year old does not need to be going on Spring Break to Mexico! Period! Especially when my tax dollars are paying for it.


111 posted on 03/19/2012 8:59:18 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
To your point, there’s a difference between an individual tweeting about what they see and the press publishing security details for an international audience.

That has to be the most idiotic comment I have ever seen posted here.....series???

What, you think Twits and FB are somehow confined in some inner circle?

Evidently, you are also fine with the SS having the power to scrub the Internet, I knew you had a smell, I should have stayed with my gut instinct.

Please, no more suck up FRmails, thanks.

112 posted on 03/19/2012 9:01:43 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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To: livius
Mexico is not dangerous unless you happen to be selling cocaine or trying to trans-ship marijuana to the US, or are a decent Mexican unfortunate enough to live in one of the areas where these have become normal activities.

Wasn't a whole bus full of tourists on a Carnival cruise robbed at gunpoint in Puerta Vallarta 2 or 3 weeks ago? Doesn't sound too safe to me when they start feeding off the tourists en masse.

113 posted on 03/19/2012 9:06:00 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I never suggested I was okay with the SS scrubing the Internet. You totally misinterpreted what I said. I’m okay with the press taking down a story voluntarily if the SS indicates it could be a security risk. Cleary, the SS doesn’t have the power to scrub those stories. FR took down a story earlier. You think they got to JR & the mods too? Nonsense.


114 posted on 03/19/2012 9:14:55 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: lward99

I’d have a fit if my 30 year old went to Mexico! Been to Mexico many times way in the past, wouldn’t even consider it today. Lots of places I wouldn’t consider today.

At this point I am more concerned with Obama’s HHS mandating that college girls’ voluntary sterilizations be covered by insurers than his putting the arm on his ever-compliant friends in the press about when/where his daughter is.

I’m not too sure, tho, this is a technical violation of the 1st Amendment. He doesn’t have to ORDER the press what to say or not to say, he just says what he wants and it’s done. The ‘free press’ has, over and over again, violate its responsibility as a free press. It has been utterly corrupted. And I fully realize he is a dictator.


115 posted on 03/19/2012 9:21:58 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

I agree that the media likely agreed to pull the stories. The problem is the abuse of power and privilege. Removing the stories after they were posted for hours on the internet was NOT a security measure. It was a political one.

How did making a few major news sources pull the story make the situation any safer for MAO?

Damage done, move the girls to a remote secure location or bring them home. Instead the bully in charge, and I mean Michelle likely overreacted to someone posting a story about her princess and she demanded the POTUS/SS do something about it.


117 posted on 03/19/2012 9:37:42 PM PDT by lward99 (http://www.politicalmedia.com)
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To: Lazamataz; BuckeyeTexan
You got some history with some of those folks, that’s all.

Yep, and so do I, but this stalking is getting out of line. Tex is good people.

118 posted on 03/19/2012 9:47:41 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: null and void
They need to bloody well stop nuking it.

I strenuously object to my money being used for Obama getaways, regardless of which Obama it happens to be.

My money, my business. Period.

119 posted on 03/19/2012 10:01:44 PM PDT by Houmatt (NObama in 2012!)
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To: livius
Mexico is not dangerous unless you happen to be selling cocaine or trying to trans-ship marijuana to the US, or are a decent Mexican unfortunate enough to live in one of the areas where these have become normal activities.

Travel Warning
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs

Mexico
February 08, 2012


The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens about the security situation in Mexico.

U.S. citizens have fallen victim to TCO activity, including homicide, gun battles, kidnapping, carjacking and highway robbery.

The number of U.S. citizens reported to the Department of State as murdered in Mexico increased from 35 in 2007 to 120 in 2011.

The rising number of kidnappings and disappearances throughout Mexico is of particular concern. Both local and expatriate communities have been victimized. In addition, local police have been implicated in some of these incidents.
120 posted on 03/19/2012 10:15:03 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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