Sunday, September 05, 2004
leading protesters (and journalists) astray
In a report tonight on NPR's All Things Considered, Don Gonyea -- a member of the White House press pool covering the Bush campaign -- relayed an interesting story.
He was on a bus with other journalists and there was a ton of traffic between them and the rally they were on their way to. They somehow got a police escort and ended up at a church - not the Bush rally site. The police apparently thought that the bus was full of protesters, not journalists, and was leading them away from the rally site.
So now, not only is the Bush campaign requiring allegiance to Bush as a prereq for attending rallies, they have enlisted local police to actively mislead citizens as to the location of the rallies?
nice.
¶ 6:17 PM
In a report tonight on NPR's All Things Considered, Don Gonyea -- a member of the White House press pool covering the Bush campaign -- relayed an interesting story.
He was on a bus with other journalists and there was a ton of traffic between them and the rally they were on their way to. They somehow got a police escort and ended up at a church - not the Bush rally site. The police apparently thought that the bus was full of protesters, not journalists, and was leading them away from the rally site.
So now, not only is the Bush campaign requiring allegiance to Bush as a prereq for attending rallies, they have enlisted local police to actively mislead citizens as to the location of the rallies?
nice.
¶ 6:17 PM
