Er, we made a mistake... Vice President's aide apologises to journalist locked in a closet for hours

[ensho]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370371/Vice-President-Joe-Bidens-staff-lock-journalist-closet-stop-talking-guests.html


An aide to Vice President Joe Biden has apologised to a reporter who was locked in a closet for hours after he was invited to cover a Florida political fundraiser because they did not want him talking with the guests.

Spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said the decision to hold local reporter Scott Powers there was a 'mistake'.
And she claimed an inexperienced staffer had put Powers in the closet instead of a 'hotel room' as was their normal practice.

As the unaware $500-a-head invitees dined on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese, grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps, last week, the veteran reporter was locked away.

-snip of reporter and closet-

The Orlando Sentinel reporter was ushered into the closet inside wealthy property developer Alan Ginsburg’s Winter Park mansion, after being told that Joe Biden and Senator Bill Nelson had not yet arrived.

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cheese and crackers! the games they play

[brooklynite]

1. To be fair, he wasn't "locked in"

The reporter was on ABC this morning and said he popped his head out periodically to see what was going on.

[ensho]

2. lol, thanks for update

nt

[LaurenG]

8. Held captive?

Placed in a closet and told to come out when they said is still bs no matter what you call it don't you thnk?

[buddysmellgood]

3. Jon Stewart will have fun with this.

[dionysus]

4. he wasn't locked in, and it wasn't a closet. try harder.

[SidDithers]

10. Yup...

:thumbsup:

Sid

[pintobean]

11. A fairly full storage room under guard.

Is that better?

[SidDithers]

5. Have you read the version from the actual Orlando Sentinal reporter?...nt

Sid

[dionysus]

it's far easier to scour foreign media for slander pieces. although, a british RW rag isn't as bad

as using an iranian "source"

[EFerrari]

6. This is a Noel Coward plot.

lol

[Keith Bee]

7. Half the Republicans in Congress are in the closet

:evilgrin:

[Dappleganger]

9. Sounds like a South Park episode...

was Tom Cruise hiding out again?