The AP buries at the bottom of a Palin rally story from this morning this little gem:
Reporters weren't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park in Clearwater to talk to Palin's audience, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?" and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported.
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So, it was not enough to have the candidate be off-limits to the press -- now, her crowds are, too?
This is unbelievable stuff! Tag it for what it is -- anti-American, anti-freedom behavior, the kind we used to make fun of the Soviet Union for employing.
These people are beyond scary. The national media needs to demand an answer to the question that is always asked in these situations: What are you people trying to hide?
It's a helluva way to try and get yourself elected, you betcha!