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Sarah Palin Joins Al Gore In Not Realizing That Everyone's A Reporter These Days
from the something-in-the-veep-sauce? dept
Last year, we wrote how odd it was that former VP Al Gore banned reporters from a speech he gave, where all audio-video equipment was also banned. These days, such "no reporters allowed" speeches make no sense -- because anyone can be a reporter. Yet, it seems that there's something in the veep sauce (or veep wannabe sauce) that leads to these sorts of positions, as former VP candidate, Sarah Palin, is trying to do the same thing, barring "reporters" along with any kind of recording devices from a talk that she is giving. You can understand, perhaps, why politicians like to do this, but it seems both out of touch and completely pointless. Every single person in that room can be a reporter in one way or another -- and it doesn't take a recording device, but a pencil and some paper (or a decent memory). Trying to block out the "official" press is just a waste of time.
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Deniable
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Not All Recording Devices, Only Socialist Ones
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Re: Not All Recording Devices, Only Socialist Ones
Hey where the F are my sarcasm tags?
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nothing new here
sarah, if you've got something to say, get out and say it. if you make a foolish remark from time to time, that is ok as long as it is a small percentage of what you've said. jesse jackson, joe biden, and a whole pantheon of public figures have said something difficult to explain, but since it is a small percentage of their total verbal output people are willing to cut them a little slack.
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Aww Not Again
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Re: Aww Not Again
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Re: nothing new here
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If a tree falls in Russia, can she see it?
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That sort of thing is really thrilling, isn't it?
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Re: nothing new here
Hail Xenu (and Seth) !!
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It comes down to trust...
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That time of the month ...
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Sarah Palin is an idiot
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Re: Re: nothing new here
Not being able to name a news paper she reads looked pretty bad, even though fewer and fewer people are reading the damn things. The interview with Charlie Gibson though, that made her look like an infant. The way he looked at her down his nose and throgh his glasses at her after asking her about the Bush Doctrine... brutal.
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Re: Sarah Palin is an idiot
You, by comparison, however... whew. Pure genius.
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Re: Sarah Palin is an idiot
Umm, ok
This may be more applicable
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignoramus?jss=0
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Re: If a tree falls in Russia, can she see it?
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Re: Sarah Palin is an idiot
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Fabio as running mate
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She probably just wants to be able to give the same speech over and over again. If a tape gets out she is like the comic who just did the HBO special and needs all new material.
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Banning reporters
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Its not about secrecy or privacy its about freedom of speech
Just because other people in the group can report on it doesn't mean they have too or even would want to, nor does it imply that what she is saying is private, confidencial or even secret. She has a right to ask its her condition for participation. Compliance to that request is the freedom to participate.
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Re: Deniable
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Re: Its not about secrecy or privacy its about freedom of speech
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Oh, please
Al Gore and Sarah Palin both have the right to restrict whatever they want in terms of recordings, because they are private citizens. Despite Al Gore being a blowhard spewing forth mass ignorance and nonsense every time he speaks on so-called AGW using crap data, I will defend to the death his right to restrict his speeches to those who paid to hear him speak. Similarly for Sarah Palin and her $100,000 per speech.
This is no different from people banning a/v capture equipment to circus shows or plays or concerts or whatever.
Now, what's up with all the hatin' Palin stuff? What does that have to do with anything? I happen to think that President Palin would have been a 100x better choice than President BHOmbastic, but so what? Neither my opinion nor anyone else's on this matter has anything to do with whether or not Palin or Gore are acting within reason in banning such a/v capture devices.
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Re: Oh, please
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Where, exactly, was that stated?
You compared two people, one foolish and the other ignorant.
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Oh leave poor sarah alone .....
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Re: Not All Recording Devices, Only Socialist Ones
That's a good one.
CBMHB
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Re: Re: nothing new here
There's a big difference between swinging and connecting.
Gotta do both; otherwise you look like a retard. Which she did spectacularly.
CBMHB
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Re: Re: Deniable
Witness testimonials of a gaffe or a dumb statement are simply not sensational, there is no schadenfreude, and it doesn't spread as widely.
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