dandandan (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} heterodoxus) wrote,@ 2007-10-13 18:59:00 |
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| Entry tags: | censorship, dc, free press, republicans |
reporter kicked out of white house press conference for asking a question...
Shown the Door at the White House:
What has the 4th estate become when we attended a government press event that includes a press release, lights, microphones and all the accommodations needed for the press, yet it is somehow rude for us to ask a question?what, indeed.
here's the background: mark plotkin of WTOP news radio asked laura bush
"Mrs. Bush, do you agree with those who say and believe that members of the Ballou High School band should not grow up to become members of the House of Representatives?"she didn't like it. and had him booted.
granted it was a rather aggressive question. it's about DC's lack of voice in national government. but wtf do you expect from a place with passive aggressive license plates that read "taxation without representation"? people here are pissed about it. and they should be. and here the head of the country that is denying them their voice in government, the voice that we rebelled against a crown for not giving us, fer chrissakes... is having a cute little photo-op social event with some kids growing up where they will never be represented. a city with lots of problems. crime. murder. poverty. and they don't get to say much about it. they have to sit back and let the national congress made up of people only from NOT here make decisions about what to do here.
and he gets ejected for asking why.
it's a sad, sad irony, when the republicans look more and more like "the commies" every day...
