Obama campaign aides ban voter interviews outside rally

Newsworks ^ | 08/10/12 | Dave Davies

[DFG]

Presidential campaign events are always orchestrated stage shows, and reporters are used to campaigns doing their best to manipulate the media and control the day’s narrative.

But my experience Thursday at a Michelle Obama event in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was a first.

Obama campaign operatives barred me from talking to voters outside the event, to the point of interfering with my interviews and grabbing my microphone.

You can hear some audio of one encounter by playing my radio story above.

[DFG]

The crowd probably was made up of paid union people that were ordered to be there. The Obama campaign does not want them to be interviewed.

[musicman]

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[ilovesarah2012]

Obama does not want a free press. Obama does not want a free people.

FUBO

[Pollster1]

Freedom of speech and of the press are not concepts a far left constitutional law “professor” would understand or respect.

[SueRae]

And this reporter is from WHYY(PBS affiliate). Waay out of line from the 0bama punks.

[sphinx]

I trust that at every Obama event for the next couple of weeks, there will be more reporters outside asking questions than there are people in line. And filming any efforts by zero’s crowd cops to suppress the first amendment.

[Major Matt Mason]

Although it is no surprise that the Obama campaign would do something like this, I think it is worth getting this out there. But the face-palm moment in this article is the last paragraph in which the writer shrugs his shoulders and indicates he simply needs to go along with these edicts. Pathetic.