Obama campaign can't stand any opposition. Actions speak volumes of words. Their actions are stating: 'We only like to be interviewed by the media when they gush and worship the ground we walk on. If you ask us any hard, truthful questions - we'll hodgepodge around the question - and then refuse to ever speak to you again. How dare anyone think differently than us... 'I don't know who is writing your questions.' How dare someone want some real answers! How dare anyone oppose us! We demand you be silent! It's quite acceptable and expected for the media/news to attack McCain and Palin (& boy, have they ever attacked her), but don't you dare attack us.'
Read the article below & hit the link to watch the video of the interview. Everyone needs to see this. What did you think of the interview? I loved it!!!
Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden
posted by halboedeker on Oct 24, 2008 11:12:15 AM
found at: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/obama-campaign.html
"WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West conducted a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden on Thursday. A friend says it's some of the best entertainment he's seen recently. What do you think?
West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment.
"Are you joking?" said Biden, who is Obama's running mate. "No," West said.
West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over.
"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden shot back.
Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife.
"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.
McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."
Here's a link to the interview: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html.
WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, "When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes."
Jordan said political campaigns in general pick and choose the stations they like. And stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews.
"Mr. Biden didn't like the questions," Jordan said. "We choose not to ask softball questions."
Jordan added, "I'm crying foul on this one."
What did you think of the interview?"
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