Reporter Forbidden To Speak To Crowd At Michelle Obama Event

[Clementine]

Seems like the only media that the Obamas are nice to are the ones acting as their personal spokespeople. Real reporters like to investigate and report things, which is bad news for people with something to hide or who desire to control the information released to the public. Since when do we allow any politicians to dictate who the media can talk to or not? They were told by Obama's and Burke's aids that they could not speak to anyone in the crowd or any of the people out on the street and the reporters were then separated from the crowd. I am betting reporters would have been kicked out if caught acting like a reporter and talking to people. What the hell is going on with this bunch? Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, Meg Kissinger, said she has never encountered anything like this in her 35 years on the job.

Meg Kissinger, a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, covered on Monday first lady Michelle Obama’s Milwaukee campaign stop for Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke.


Kissinger says she was barred from speaking to members of the crowd.


Kissinger, a veteran of covering political events, said of the request that she’s "never seen anything like it in 35 years as a reporter."


At the event, Kissinger noticed that members of the media were "cordoned off" from the crowd at the event.

Reporter Forbidden to Speak To Crowd At Michelle Obama Event
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[shart_attack]

Seems like the only media that the Obamas are nice to are the ones acting as their personal spokespeople. Real reporters like to investigate and report things, which is bad news for people with something to hide or who desire to control the information released to the public. Since when do we allow any politicians to dictate who the media can talk to or not? They were told by Obama's and Burke's aids that they could not speak to anyone in the crowd or any of the people out on the street and the reporters were then separated from the crowd. I am betting reporters would have been kicked out if caught acting like a reporter and talking to people. What the hell is going on with this bunch? Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, Meg Kissinger, said she has never encountered anything like this in her 35 years on the job.

What makes it even more shocking is the surname of the reporter who was given the gag order.

Never thought I'd live to see the day that this would happen to a Kissinger.

 

[Shrimpbox]

Why isn't this a front page story? It would be if she was a republican!

 

[gallantwarrior]

Random reporters seem to uncover and reveal some of the most interesting little factoids about this pair. Gotta stop that shit, can't have the truth being revealed.

 

[saveliberty]

Of course no good reporter would let that stop them....

 

[shart_attack]

What's next — a Kennedy is denied the chance to be Obama's golf caddie???

 

[saveliberty]

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

 

[bodecea]

Whose call was this?

 

[saveliberty]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

The primary purpose of free speech rights is political expression. Suppressing that is one of the highest forms of a violation.

 

[S.J.]

There is no freedom of the press in a communist dictatorship.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

The primary purpose of free speech rights is political expression. Suppressing that is one of the highest forms of a violation.

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Obviously, someone needs to educate you.

Read the last line of my signature. I put it there just for this reason.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Uh, "right to assemble"?

Where was that in the article?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

The primary purpose of free speech rights is political expression. Suppressing that is one of the highest forms of a violation.

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Obviously, someone needs to educate you.

Read the last line of my signature. I put it there just for this reason.

Congress shall make no law- Ok so what the fuck does that have to do with the Bill of Rights?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Uh, "right to assemble"?

Where was that in the article?

She was told she wasn't allowed to assemble with those that attended the speech. Are you seriously this fucking stupid?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Uh, "right to assemble"?

Where was that in the article?

She was told she wasn't allowed to assemble with those that attended the speech. Are you seriously this fucking stupid?

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

The primary purpose of free speech rights is political expression. Suppressing that is one of the highest forms of a violation.

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Obviously, someone needs to educate you.

Read the last line of my signature. I put it there just for this reason.

Congress shall make no law- Ok so what the fuck does that have to do with the Bill of Rights?

It has EVERYTHING to do with it. EVERYTHING.

"Congress shall make no law ..."

That is the very definition of the First Amendment - that our government cannot pass a law taking those rights away from us.

Quote where Congress passed a law forbidding her from doing anything at all.

Just about every day here, some RW will get up on their hind legs and bray about the First Amendment and inevitably, they are wrong because they don't understand the real import of those 5 words.


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And, an aside is that FLOTUS is a private citizen. That's not germane in the conversation about the First Amendment but she doesn't owe anyone a thing.

If it were Sarah Palin or Ann Romney, you would understand and agree with that.

If she were running for office, I would feel differently but this is a non-issue.

Remember all the times Repubs have run from reporters? Everyone from Sharon Angle (Engle? Whatever) to Paul Ryan have refused to talk to reporters and we have ever right to expect that of them.

And, btw, politicians also have the right to not talk to reporters.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Uh, "right to assemble"?

Where was that in the article?

She was told she wasn't allowed to assemble with those that attended the speech. Are you seriously this fucking stupid?

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

The primary purpose of free speech rights is political expression. Suppressing that is one of the highest forms of a violation.

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Obviously, someone needs to educate you.

Read the last line of my signature. I put it there just for this reason.

Congress shall make no law- Ok so what the fuck does that have to do with the Bill of Rights?

It has EVERYTHING to do with it. EVERYTHING.

"Congress shall make no law ..."

That is the very definition of the First Amendment - that our government cannot pass a law taking those rights away from us.

Quote where Congress passed a law forbidding her from doing anything at all.

Just about every day here, some RW will get up on their hind legs and bray about the First Amendment and inevitably, they are wrong because they don't understand the real import of those 5 words.


====
And, an aside is that FLOTUS is a private citizen. That's not germane in the conversation about the First Amendment but she doesn't owe anyone a thing.

If it were Sarah Palin or Ann Romney, you would understand and agree with that.

If she were running for office, I would feel differently but this is a non-issue.

Remember all the times Repubs have run from reporters? Everyone from Sharon Angle (Engle? Whatever) to Paul Ryan have refused to talk to reporters and we have ever right to expect that of them.

And, btw, politicians also have the right to not talk to reporters.

So you are ok with ARMED men preventing reporters from doing their job at a public gathering? I bet if Bush had done this you would have been the first one complaining.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Are you people for real?

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Uh, "right to assemble"?

Where was that in the article?

She was told she wasn't allowed to assemble with those that attended the speech. Are you seriously this fucking stupid?

Are you people for real?

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

The primary purpose of free speech rights is political expression. Suppressing that is one of the highest forms of a violation.

Are you people for real?

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Obviously, someone needs to educate you.

Read the last line of my signature. I put it there just for this reason.

Congress shall make no law- Ok so what the fuck does that have to do with the Bill of Rights?

It has EVERYTHING to do with it. EVERYTHING.

"Congress shall make no law ..."

That is the very definition of the First Amendment - that our government cannot pass a law taking those rights away from us.

Quote where Congress passed a law forbidding her from doing anything at all.

Just about every day here, some RW will get up on their hind legs and bray about the First Amendment and inevitably, they are wrong because they don't understand the real import of those 5 words.


====
And, an aside is that FLOTUS is a private citizen. That's not germane in the conversation about the First Amendment but she doesn't owe anyone a thing.

If it were Sarah Palin or Ann Romney, you would understand and agree with that.

If she were running for office, I would feel differently but this is a non-issue.

Remember all the times Repubs have run from reporters? Everyone from Sharon Angle (Engle? Whatever) to Paul Ryan have refused to talk to reporters and we have ever right to expect that of them.

And, btw, politicians also have the right to not talk to reporters.

So you are ok with ARMED men preventing reporters from doing their job at a public gathering? I bet if Bush had done this you would have been the first one complaining.

I'm sure you can link to where I wrote that.

WHY do you ALWAYS have to LIE???


How about you stay on topic?

Oh hell, I doubt you even understand the conversation.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Uh, "right to assemble"?

Where was that in the article?

She was told she wasn't allowed to assemble with those that attended the speech. Are you seriously this fucking stupid?

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

The primary purpose of free speech rights is political expression. Suppressing that is one of the highest forms of a violation.

Are you people for real?

Somebody tell the Obamas there are copies of the Constitution, otherwise I fear they'll take it on the way out.

Please oh PLEASE tell me you are not saying this is a First Amendment violation ...

I'm sure you are going to tell us all about how it isn't right? Limiting the people from the right of the people peaceably to assemble. You have an answer for that right?

Obviously, someone needs to educate you.

Read the last line of my signature. I put it there just for this reason.

Congress shall make no law- Ok so what the fuck does that have to do with the Bill of Rights?

It has EVERYTHING to do with it. EVERYTHING.

"Congress shall make no law ..."

That is the very definition of the First Amendment - that our government cannot pass a law taking those rights away from us.

Quote where Congress passed a law forbidding her from doing anything at all.

Just about every day here, some RW will get up on their hind legs and bray about the First Amendment and inevitably, they are wrong because they don't understand the real import of those 5 words.


====
And, an aside is that FLOTUS is a private citizen. That's not germane in the conversation about the First Amendment but she doesn't owe anyone a thing.

If it were Sarah Palin or Ann Romney, you would understand and agree with that.

If she were running for office, I would feel differently but this is a non-issue.

Remember all the times Repubs have run from reporters? Everyone from Sharon Angle (Engle? Whatever) to Paul Ryan have refused to talk to reporters and we have ever right to expect that of them.

And, btw, politicians also have the right to not talk to reporters.

You don't seem to know what the fuck you are talking about here. You are simply being a partisan reactionary desperately looking for any way to make this acceptable.

How much more desperation are we to look forward to from you?

What is so difficult about saying the first lady should never be limiting a reporter from reporting? Is that so difficult and bad for your position you can't allow it? Is she so bad for your cause you actually have to limit a reporters access to people to hold your fragile concept together? What is your problem here?