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Press covering Michele Bachmann’s remarks at next month’s Tea Party Nation convention will apparently be limited to five news outlets running the gamut from right-leaning to far-right-falling-over. By contrast, Sarah Palin has opened her address to all media.
Tea Party Nation officials warned earlier this week that only select news organizations would be allowed at what they are calling a “working convention.” Now they have named those organizations: Fox News, Breitbart.com, Townhall.com, World Net Daily and The Wall Street Journal (unclear whether that’s the WSJ’s editorial or news staff).
The Minnesota Independent has asked Tea Party Nation to confirm that those five organizations will be the only ones allowed to cover Bachmann’s speech. We’ll update this post when we hear back. This response doesn’t completely clarify the situation:
We are working on a Press Room for the media. The Convention is not closed to the media, we simply do not have the space to house an entire Press Corps.
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Comment posted January 14, 2010 @ 9:27 pm
In early America, when local politicians committed criminal acts against the people who elected them, or allowed special interests to plunder the people, vigilante committees formed and things were corrected. It is a tradition illustrated in the modern day Tea Party movement. Americans accept their role as self-governed and independent. In the Old World, such things would be armed rebellions facing the king’s army and blood flows. Not in America, with the exception of a few murderers hung or card cheaters run out of town on a rail with tar and feathers, no one gets hurt, except their feelings and the office they hold. The Tea Party movement fits with American justice. The current American government does not fit with American justice. It promotes injustices on the people they are elected to represent. Claysamerica.com
Comment posted January 14, 2010 @ 11:32 pm
Clay, that’s all well and good but answer the question.
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 4:46 pm
Clay, try reading some history instead of watching westerns.
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