Obama's Airplane Stinks, literally

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MG1968

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Reporter's Notebook: Seeing How The Other Half Lives - From The Road

The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.

The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama's past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood.

Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he's just said. It's made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.

Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama's that is focused solely on victory doesn't have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters.

But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.
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thoughts?
 
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u were talking bout it in the other thread, and then u said poor Dean Reynolds. i'm guessing he is a middle class guy
 
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onevolfan said:
Where is this talking about the poor and middle class?
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you think Dean Reynolds makes more than 250k/year? Or does any, non-Anchor, reporter? Since they probably don't, Reynolds is solidly in the middle class as are 99% of all the other reporters traveling around with Obama.

Why treat the press with such disdain when it is that very same press that has been covering for Obama for over two years now.
 
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onevolfan said:
I doubt that. He's just a reporter that got his feelings hurt.
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read the article.

Obama's campaign schedule is fuller, more hectic and seemingly improvisational. The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about. Baggage calls are preposterously early with the explanation that it's all for security reasons.

If so, I would love to have someone from Obama's campaign explain why the entire press corps, the Secret Service, and the local police idled for two hours in a Miami hotel parking lot recently because there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. It was not an isolated case.

The national headquarters in Chicago airily dismisses complaints from journalists wondering why a schedule cannot be printed up or at least e-mailed in time to make coverage plans. Nor is there much sympathy for those of us who report for a newscast that airs in the early evening hours. Our shows place a premium on live reporting from the scene of campaign events. But this campaign can often be found in the air and flying around at the time the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" is broadcast. I suspect there is a feeling within the Obama campaign that the broadcast networks are less influential in the age of the internet and thus needn't be accomodated as in the days of yore. Even if it's true, they are only hurting themselves by dissing audiences that run in the tens of millions every night.
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TennNC said:
sorry. this is too good.

who has been treating the press with disdain?
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From my experiences, local media, print and tv, are some of the nastiest people on earth.

It could not happent to a better bunch of people.
 
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TennNC said:
sorry. this is too good.

who has been treating the press with disdain?
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read the article. Perhaps Reynolds leans a little too far right of center to be blinded by the Obamassiah's light and can see the shadows on the cave wall for what they truly are.
 
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MG1968 said:
read the article. Perhaps Reynolds leans a little too far right of center to be blinded by the Obamassiah's light and can see the shadows on the cave wall for what they truly are.
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I did. and my comment has nothing to do with the author. I don't care about that.

It has to do with you trying to tell someone else not to treat the media with disdain, something you've been doing with regularity this entire campaign when it suits you. And now you're standing up for them?

help me do the math on that one.
 
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TennNC said:
I did. and my comment has nothing to do with the author. I don't care about that.

It has to do with you trying to tell someone else not to treat the media with disdain, something you've been doing with regularity this entire campaign when it suits you. And now you're standing up for them?

help me do the math on that one.
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when was I "standing up" for the media? I posted a link to one of your colleagues who is saying that the Obama campaign treats it's gaggle of traveling press like crap.

Given how in the tank the media is for Obama, you'd think they'd be treated better.
 
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Writer sounds like a cry baby to me. I'm sure you can find the same whiners on the McCain trail as well.
 
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