SOCIALIST SECRETS: Ocasio-Cortez BANS PRESS, REPORTERS from Speaking Events
"According to the local Queens Chronicle, the liberal candidate and self-described Democratic Socialist barred journalists from covering the event because her campaign didn’t want to make locals “feel uncomfortable.”
Her organization is quoted in the article saying
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“We wanted to help create a space where community members felt comfortable and open to express themselves without the distraction of cameras and press. These were the first set of events where the press has been excluded,” said her campaign spokesperson. “This is an outlier and will not be the norm. We’re still adjusting our logistics to fit Alexandria’s national profile.” "
When President Trump withheld permission for one reported to attend the MSM went ballistic. So far as I can tell they haven't commented on this action. Where is the oputrage for this violation of Freedom of the Pressw???
Her organization is quoted in the article saying
"
“We wanted to help create a space where community members felt comfortable and open to express themselves without the distraction of cameras and press. These were the first set of events where the press has been excluded,” said her campaign spokesperson. “This is an outlier and will not be the norm. We’re still adjusting our logistics to fit Alexandria’s national profile.” "
When President Trump withheld permission for one reported to attend the MSM went ballistic. So far as I can tell they haven't commented on this action. Where is the oputrage for this violation of Freedom of the Pressw???
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And guess who wants to be one of those Orwellian Animal Farm more than equal elite betters who gets to control everyone else?
And why am I suddenly thinking of Kim Jong-un, the only fat man I've seen in starving North Korea, whose soldiers raid peasant farms for food and who I've read lives in the lap of luxury and smokes ritzy cigarettes that sell for about $75 a pack?
I am amazed at his ability to get to the core of things and enunciate it on air, yet sometimes he is just plain wrong. Aren't we all, I suppose.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he is calling out her hypocrisy rather than negating her prerogative to meet without the press around.
Even a moron deserves the right to communicate with her supporters in private if she so chooses.