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I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/stor
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag...
Shame on them too?
- fgonzag 10y agoI don't think it was right, but it's not nearly the same. Obama was a candidate then, not the president.
- gknoy 10y ago> The campaign says that a limited number of seats forced it to make the tough decision of which journalists would be permitted to follow the Democratic presidential candidate in the last four days of the campaign That seems like a much more limited kicking-out than what our current administration is doing, and the constraints of an airplane seem much more limiting than those of the white house's press room.
- bullfightonmars 10y agoYou comparing the actions of a non-sitting candidate for President to the actual President. I don't think they are equivalent.
- festivusr 10y agoThey weren't kicked out from the normal White House press briefing. I'm sure you know that from reading the article.
- neilellis 10y agoApples and Oranges. Plane Seats vs Press Briefing Campaign Trail vs Whitehouse
- cynicalkane 10y agoYou're comparing seats on a campaign airplane to the White House Press Corps?
- eterm 10y agoI'll save everyone the click: It's a false equivalence. Three reporters (total) were dropped from a plane flight, once. Being held here by yummyfajitas as equivalent to barring whole organisations from a press conference.
- georgemcbay 10y agoAlso this event occurred before Obama was President... Not only are the practical aspects of the two situations different, but on top of that comparing the official actions of a sitting President versus those of a non-incumbent candidate make it even more falsely equivalent.
- moomin 10y agoIf you can't tell the difference between presidential candidate Obama and President Trump there's no helping you.
- yongjik 10y ago> Oct. 31, 2008 > Barack Obama's campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain. Yeah, totally same thing.
- unuser 10y agoAttending an airplane?
- asynchronous13 10y agoKicking them off the plane is not equivalent to kicking them out of official Press Briefings.
- oh_sigh 10y agoIt's still limiting access. Is what Obama did not bad at all, or just not as bad as what Trump's team did to NYT, CNN et al?
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- AnimalMuppet 10y agoWell, it's better than strapping them to the wing... That is: Given limited seats on the plane, what else are they going to do? Put the reporters on the plane, and make Obama walk?
- oh_sigh 10y agoDo you not see a problem with cutting people who just so happen to work for newspapers that endorsed his opponent? On the balance, would cutting those people improve or degrade the quality of media coverage of Obama, compared to cutting reporters who are already on his side?
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- mynameismonkey 10y agoTo be clear, you are comparing being banned from official White House press briefings to being refused a seat on Air Force one for four days for campaign coverage.
- mejari 10y agoNot even Air Force One, because this was during Obama's 2008 campaign before he was President. Just some personally chartered flight.