EAllusion wrote:Yes, the candidate has some control over what press travels with them. The major news sources are always represented, though who they send is negotiated. The more fringe partisan sources, like WND, are chosen by campaigns as a political maneuver. There's only so much room on the bus, so to speak.
That's what I figured. I stand by my criticism.
Wonkette put it more colorfully, of course.
JEROME ‘OBAMA IS A QUEER GAY-MARRIED BREITBART-CORONER-MURDERING MUSLIN’ CORSI FLYING AROUND ON MITT ROMNEY’S PLANE
And now news comes that the dean of White House Queer Muslin Murder ‘Spiracy Theories, Jerome Corsi of WND, is stone cold flying around on Mitt Romney’s plane, like a boss! So let us put on our OWN conspiracy caps (it is a crimson fez, duh), and ask the clear and obvious question: Who’d Jerome Corsi murder to get on Mitt Romney’s plane?
Give up? It was Mitt Romney’s last shred of dignity! BOOM!
beastie wrote:Am I mistaken in assuming that the campaign has some control over which reporters are allowed to actually travel with them? If I am incorrect, and this was something foisted on Romney beyond his control, then I retract my criticism.
Ask Hunter S. Thompson.
Oh wait, he's dead.
Read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
Not enough time?
Well... he said there's the Screwheads and the Doomed. The Utah State Legislature are screwheads and those of us not of their ilk are the doomed. He tried hard to get access to Nixon and was denied at every turn.
Hunter supposedly ran into Tricky Dick in a public restroom and asked him about the screwheads and the doomed. Nixon told him "F@#k the doomed."
I live in Utah by the way.
Not much hope.
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. - O'Sensei