NBC’s Mitchell likens McCain-Palin media restrictions to experiences in North Korea, Syria, & Sudan

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/24/mitchell-palin-media/

NBC’s Mitchell likens McCain-Palin media restrictions to experiences in North Korea, Syria, and Sudan.

Yesterday, media covering Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) visit to the United Nations revolted when the McCain-Palin campaign tried to back out of its promise to allow journalists to cover the governor’s meetings with various world leaders. Last night on MSNBC, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell compared the whole affair to her experiences trying to cover the regimes in North Korea, Syria, and Sudan:

MADDOW: You have covered these sort of high level meetings with foreign dignitaries, getting at least one editorial staff member in the room to represent the entire network is standard practice, right?

MITCHELL: It is standard practice. It’s standard for the White House, for the State Department. And often we are in foreign countries where it is not standard practice, like in Pyongyang or in Damascus.

Watch it at link~

As Maddow noted earlier in the segment, “{T}his isn’t North Korea, we don’t just do pure photo ops with no questions.”

[BumRushDaShow]

1. The repuke-biased media enabled them to do this. Don't whine now! n/t

[Cha]

9. Glad they're whining now...they could just all be more

bowing and scraping like david gregory whose wife is a vp at fannie mae.

[Overseas]

2. Maybe we need an ad with McC and Failin in N. Korea style jumpsuits,

bouffant hairdos and platform shoes. Headline below photo = PHOTOS ONLY. NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED>

[blondeatlast]

3. I watched that; Mitchell was not pulling punches. McCain used to be the press'

best friend--now he's turned on them and they don't like it.

This could get reeeeaaaal good.

[Cha]

10. Which begs the question..Why turn on the hand

that feeds you? What kind of strategy is that?

[blondeatlast]

12. mcCain has always gotten a pass from them, then he found out it wasn't going to be so easy

as a presidential candidate. Now they want to play the victim.

Even if the press turns against him, it fires up the base that already hates the "liberal" (in their irrationla, ignorant minds) media.


They weren't counting on a financial eruption and scandal in his own campaign (Rick Davis, et al).

[Cha]

14. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

My favorite mccain whine is when he accuses pundits and reporters of being in the bag for Obama.

That's quite the strategy to make sure the idtiots get out on Nov 4th.

[ShortnFiery]

4. The M$M is throwing the democrats scraps because they believe that our representatives

will GUTLESS LY allow this scam of a *any* bailout to re-distribute more wealth from the middle class to the upper 1%. :grr:

[babylonsister]

6. Baloney. This isn't about the bailout, it's about the continuing FUBARs

coming from the McBush campaign. The media is finally calling them on it; it has nothing whatsoever to do with throwing scraps to anyone.

[ShortnFiery]

11. No, the M$M plays us like a Stradivarius violin. Especially Tweety.

They sometimes throw us "scraps" to keep us pre-occupied and/or give an inch so when "push comes to shove" and the voting begins, they will promptly line up behind the BushBotBorg Corporate meme.

[SeeHopeWin]

5. She is right on!

[emulatorloo]

7. So . . . Why are they ***still*** covering PALIN's photo-ops and canned speeches?

The sensible response would be to have a media blackout of Palin photo-ops and canned speeches until she begins answering questions.

But apparently they are not going to do that.

[blondeatlast]

8. You might want to watch the clip; she mentions that a couple of times.

Or you can just post an ignorant response.

You choose.

[emulatorloo]

15. I saw it live. She said the press corp "threatened" to not cover. But they covered it anyway

because an editorial presence was allowed in for 30 secs. 30 whole seconds.

Again, to me this incident should provoke the media to have a Palin media blackout on photo-ops and canned speeches until the time that the campaign allows Palin to answer direct questions.

Stop flying off the handle and calling me ignorant.

[blogslut]

13. Andrea doesn't like it when they mess with her access

n/t