Romney campaign keeping reporters away from the Bully by force if necessary

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/romney-campaign-tries-to-block-reporters/

May 16, 2012, 2:07 pm
Romney Campaign Tries to Block Reporters
By MICHAEL BARBARO and ASHLEY PARKER

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Romney campaign is renowned for its hyper-disciplined approach to the news media. Question-and-answer sessions with reporters are exceedingly rare. Aides avoid on-the-record briefings. And the candidate’s latest outreach to voters, a series of casual meetings with middle class Americans, is shielded from public view.

But on Wednesday morning, the campaign took that restrictiveness to a new level, leading to a brief kerfuffle with reporters and, later, an apologetic clarification.

After Mitt Romney finished delivering a speech, campaign aides told members of the traveling press corps that they could not join the audience or approach the rope line where Mr. Romney shakes voters’ hands and engages in casual conversation with them.

Access to such interactions has long been a zealously protected staple of presidential campaign reporting, allowing reporters to capture unscripted moments and pose questions to the candidate (who typically ignore or pretend not to hear them.)

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1. There were two other stooges thar were scripted

Raygun an bu$h

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2. Romney's running for a dictatorship. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. The Corporate Raider's campaign is like a gated community

You need special permission to penetrate and only the 1% can buy access.

[Angry Dragon]

4. cockroaches are always afraid of the light

[magical thyme]

5. disarmingly candid?

"And while these moments have often showcased a disarmingly candid and authentic side of Mr. Romney, they have clashed with the imperatives of the carefully-choreographed, modern political campaign."

Well, they've definitely shown a candid and authentic Mittens. And clashed with the imperatives of preventing the media from showing the rest of us the authentic Mittens. Except, of course, when they haven't.