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Skidmore

(37,364 posts) Thu Aug 14, 2014, 04:17 PM Aug 2014

Remember when the press allowed itself to be shackled

by embedding during the Bush-Cheney years? Remember when it ignored those First Amendment zones as if they were commonplace and acceptable? How they jumped through hoops for Rove? Does that mentality end now with this event?

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Remember when the press allowed itself to be shackled (Original Post) Skidmore Aug 2014 OP

Nope Savannahmann Aug 2014 #1

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)

1. Nope

Reply to Skidmore (Original post)

Thu Aug 14, 2014, 04:23 PM

Aug 2014

MSNBC last night commented that they don't have any of their own video because their camera truck was asked to leave the area by the Police. This was shortly after the cops arrested two reporters for eating at McDonalds.

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