Campaigns Rally Against Wrong T-Shirts

[Tuttle]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2004/story?id=214695&page=1

At an Oct. 21 Kerry rally in Minneapolis, ABC news producers were surrounded and followed by a team of dancing Kerry campaign workers with large signs, effectively obstructing the Bush-Cheney T-shirts from the view of the national press.

"My job tonight was to run interference so that we didn't have any negative situation on our hands," said a female Kerry campaign volunteer. "Our job was to stand in front of them and make sure that, number one, that press had access to Kerry stuff and not necessarily Bush."

The Bush campaign was even more aggressive in its response to the opposing party's T-shirts.

When ABC News volunteers Matt Walter and Sherrie Varpula tried to attend an Oct. 23 Bush rally at Space Coast Stadium in Melbourne, Fla., they were told by event volunteers the Kerry-Edwards T-shirts they were wearing would cause them not to be admitted.



Tut-tut

[gratuitous]

1. More fake equivalency

At a Kerry rally, Kerry supporters block out the Bushistas so that the televised pictures will show what's actually happening, rather than minority agitprop. Bush rallies simply ban all Kerry paraphernalia at the door.

ABC treats these as equivalent situations. ABC is either run by mouth-drooling morons, or thinks its audience is composed of them.

[Tuttle]

2. Agreed: 2 little 2 late

but it is interesting, watching them suddenly pander to the left of center... think they see what everyone else knows?

Tut-tut

[Devils Advocate NZ]

3. Yes they all the same....

Bush event:

"But you wore the shirts; you wore the shirts," Borman said. "And honestly, if you would have come without the shirts and sat quietly, you would have had a fun time and enjoyed it, but I mean it's not that kind of event." He then instructed the sheriff's deputies to escort the ABC News team out to the parking lot.


Kerry Event:

"We hold the right to remove you, but other than that, enjoy and hopefully at the end of the event you'll want to wear a Kerry T-shirt," he said.

Bush Event:

A Bush volunteer said at the Melbourne event, "You guys know you have to love America to stand in this line, not France. Just letting you know. I don't want you guys to get beat up in there by Americans."

Kerry Event:

And at Kerry's Boca Raton rally, one of the faithful Democrats could be seen calming a woman upset at the sight of the Bush-Cheney T-shirts.

"Feel proud that we let them in," he said. "That's what democracy is all about, that's what we're fighting for."

Yep - they are all alike, eh ABC?

[pop goes the weasel]

4. links, please?

I want to send this to a chimp lover I know, and I will need the article links.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

5. Those are quotes from the article linked in the original post....

Check the bottom of each page for a link to the other pages - 4 in total

[Laelth]

6. Great essay, really.

Though the message isn't clearly spelled out, if you read this piece you get a clear indication of what the two parties are all about. For the R's it's "our way or the highway." For the D's it's "hope we can change your mind." This essay makes me proud to be a Democrat.

:dem:

Kerry on!

-Laelth