The Kerry Campaign position on Freedom of the Press
From California Yankee (via VodkaPundit)
Saturday morning ABCNews' "Noted Now" briefly posted this:
California Yankee, puzzled why this news wasn't making headlines (like it would if the Bush campaign had done something similar), found at least one explanation in this Boston Globe article: Angry over on-air remark, adviser threatens a ban.
Continue reading how "the Kerry endorsing Globe story manages to cover all the facts that were briefly leaked by "Noted Now" and makes Fox News the villain."
Saturday morning ABCNews' "Noted Now" briefly posted this:
KERRY CAMPAIGN BLOWS UP AT FOX, THREATENS TO THROW FOX OFF THE PLANE, BACKS OFF
KERRY CAMP OBJECTS TO 4:00pm FOX NEWS SEGMENT:
ALAN COLMES: "It's not like he [Osama bin Laden] had a Kerry-Edward bumper sticker in his cave." NEIL CAVUTO: "But he's all but doing that, isn't he? I thought I saw a button."
KERRY CAMP ASKS FOR RETRACTION, DOES NOT GET ONE… JOHN SASSO BLOWS UP AT FOX PRODUCER ON PLANE: "Is that the one? Is that her? I want her off the plane tomorrow. I'm not kidding."
COMM. DIR. STEPHANIE CUTTER BACKTRACKS: "He [Sasso] was wrong to say that. We jumped all over him for it."
California Yankee, puzzled why this news wasn't making headlines (like it would if the Bush campaign had done something similar), found at least one explanation in this Boston Globe article: Angry over on-air remark, adviser threatens a ban.
John Sasso, a senior adviser to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, threatened to ban Fox News staff from the candidate's plane Friday night when Fox initially refused to apologize for a talk show host's comment that a new videotape showed Osama bin Laden with a Kerry button.
Continue reading how "the Kerry endorsing Globe story manages to cover all the facts that were briefly leaked by "Noted Now" and makes Fox News the villain."
