Secret Service ordered to block reporters at IWRC* Palin rallies

By GottaLaff

So much for freedom of the press:

I have to say the Secret Service is in dangerous territory here. In cooperation with the Palin campaign, they’ve started preventing reporters from leaving the press section to interview people in the crowd. This is a serious violation of their duty — protecting the protectee — and gets into assisting with the political aspirations of the candidate. It also often makes it impossible for reporters to get into the crowd to question the people who say vulgar things. So they prevent reporters from getting near the people doing the shouting, then claim it’s unfounded because the reporters can’t get close enough to identify the person.

Campaign staffers have also been locking journalists into a restricted press area in order to prevent them from writing “negative things.” (HT: Romenesko)

Bush III, Cheney II. My blood is boiling again. I would love to say a few vulgar things of my own, right into IWRC*'s face.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"