CBS's Reynolds: Obama's Campaign Plane 'Smells Terrible Most of the Time'

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CBS News' Dean Reynolds may get in hot water with his mainstream media associates for doing the unforgivable:  He's committed the truth.  On CBS's "From the Road" blog yesterday, Reynolds wrote,  "Reporter's Notebook: Seeing How The Other Half Lives." The reporter recently switched from covering Barack Obama's campaign to that of John McCain.  His rumination includes these interesting tidbits:

The (Obama) national headquarters in Chicago airily dismisses complaints from journalists wondering why a schedule cannot be printed up or at least e-mailed in time to make coverage plans. Nor is there much sympathy for those of us who report for a newscast that airs in the early evening hours. Our shows place a premium on live reporting from the scene of campaign events. But this campaign can often be found in the air and flying around at the time the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" is broadcast. I suspect there is a feeling within the Obama campaign that the broadcast networks are less influential in the age of the internet and thus needn't be accomodated as in the days of yore. Even if it's true, they are only hurting themselves by dissing audiences that run in the tens of millions every night.

The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who've been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.

The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.

Obama's headquarters airily dismissing complaints isn't unexpected.  After all, he is "The One."  But in a period when linking Obama to unreconstructed terrorist Bill Ayers carries "a racially tinged subtext" according to the Associated Press and McCain's designation of Obama as "that one" caused "some in the African-American community to accuse McCain of racism," Reynolds has got to know that reporting Obama's campaign plane stinks is going to cause, well, a stink.

Reynolds' peers will not be pleased.  He may have to validate his membership in the MSM Club with some strident anti-McCain coverage.  I mean, even more than the standard strident anti-McCain coverage.  

 

 


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Racism

If you read the comments over at the CBS website, someone calls his comments racist, surprise, and ofcourse demands to remove the article.  I find it very informative, you can learn alot about someone by how he (or she) keeps, or doesn't keep, their house in order

Take that blog down!

If you read the comments over at the CBS website, someone calls his comments racist, surprise, and ofcourse demands to remove the article.

Ah, true liberals so much in love with free speech, no doubt.

Of course they hate it. 

Of course they hate it.  This is old-school, factual reporting.  Notice there are no assumptions, no "some have said" constructs--just straight first-hand reporting.  The one opinion offered (about the 0bama campaign not valuing MSM) is reinforced as an opinion with the phrase "even if it's true".  The lefties have no idea what this sort of writing is.  It has no invective, no vitriol, no BDS nor PDS, and no lies.

The stink

Has got to be all the BS stored in the overheads ...

Planes are supposed to be cleaned after a few flights, costs money. Money that won't get spent of ACORN. 

the stinky one

well there is something that stinks in the Obama campaign but the left just wants to blame it on the dog

Drudge has an article saying

Drudge has an article saying that reporters are complaining that Hussein Obama's plane stinks. Maybe there is a connection.

stinky

genetics or diet ??

never look a gift skunk in the tail ..

Uh-Oh...Reynolds may want

Uh-Oh...Reynolds may want to have his resume ready for Fox.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Resume, BT

Uh-Oh...Reynolds may want to have his resume ready for Fox.

Since he's not blond and cute, he may have trouble getting a gig over there.  Not that I'm complaining or anything.

Mike... Good

Mike...

Good point...

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Pointed comment, BT

Good point...

Thought if I wore this hat it wouldn't be so obvious. .. 

That smell, can't you smell that smell

Its all those aging radicals they keep in the closet.

I dunno,

Maybe they didn't change the bong water for a few months and someone knocked it over and didn't clean it up.

LMAO!!!!

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

racism

not only are this reporters comments possible blatant racism but to me it smacks of smellism .... he is looking down his nose at others who smell different...

Race deck

The Obama folks better be careful going to that well too often. People want a president they can criticize without having one of the reverends picketing their home.

Going to the well

The Obama folks better be careful going to that well too often.

It's worked out pretty well for them so far.

It's probably all the

It's probably all the BS. 

Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.

Speaking of which, since we

Speaking of which, since we can't use Barry's middle name, maybe the smell of the plane fits the initials we are allowed to use...

.....B.O....

On the other hand...B.S. works too....those also used to be his initials..

Either way...it works for me. 

 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

B.O.? Well, I guess this

B.O.? Well, I guess this means even those initials will be off limits now. Soon, the only way we can refer to him will be "the one", or "the messiah".

 

Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.

Yea i like that, "Something

Yea i like that, "Something smells & its BO"

I will never understand I guess

The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules
are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then
plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to
us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and
for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John
McCain is friendly and loquacious

 So why do they ridicule him with every word? Why do they spare Obama? What dothey hope to gain? A worst situation helps them?

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Gaining

What do they hope to gain?

A full blown socialist in the White House?

I thought Bill Clinton was

I thought Bill Clinton was fully blown in the White House?


It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton

Clinton

Just an ugly rumor.  He was actually ministering to a troubled young person.

Oh yeah!

Very, Very Good. As ol' Goober said to Burt Reynolds: Stroker Ace, Stroker!

or, as they say :

there's a sucker born ...

never look a gift skunk in the tail ..

A full blown socialist in the White House?

I am not that thick, but why? Does the press think this benifits them some how? We both know it wont, so why do they neglect to sound the alarm?

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

gc... Here's my guess...

gc...

Here's my guess... I think those in the news biz are hoping to keep their big salaries while simply broadcasting whatever the Obama White House tells them to report. This way they no longer have to work hard at getting a story and they can still be invited to all the elitist parties.

Do You Feel Better About Your Candidate After Last Nights Debate?

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

No chance CT

The younger more ambitious communist will have those jobs in know time. They scream about freedom of speech now. 

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

full blown socialist

I am not that thick, but why? Does the press think this benifits them some how? We both know it wont. . .

First, in all their magnificent selflessness, they know they don't need to be directed by government, but all those common folks who can't think for themselves - and arrive at the "correct" conclusion, that is - do.   Secondly, as self styled intellectuals, they'll expect to be treated with the deference and admiration their lofty position in life dictates.   Finally, many of them were attracted to journalism with aspirations of saving the world, and they believe The One can do that.

There are no doubt other reasons, but these are a few.

 

My new name = "ThatSter"!!!

I'll change my screen name...as soon as I figure out how to do it!!

When you get that many unwashed Liberals in a confined area...what do you think it's gonna smell like?!?!?  You ever walk around a health food store??  Trust me...Austin has plenty of them!!

ThatSter.

....I like my new name!!!

Health food

  You ever walk around a health food store??

Not voluntarily.

ONE MAN'S MEAT IS ANOTHER'S POISON

MAYBE MR. REYNOLDS SHOULD HAVE CALLED IT A

NOXIOUS AROMA. MORE POLITICALLY CORRECT?

"NOBODY PUTS ONE OVER ON FRED C DOBBS"

B.TRAVEN

Preview

"So now we have a snapshot of the changes in the wind for the an O-brr-brr-brr-brr-bama White House".  

Dean Reynolds reporting from The Mongolian News Channel    

"I have a bracelet too" ..Barak Obama, Psychopath

Watch Out!

I'll be surprised if anyone in the media touch this with the old ten foot pole. If Obama's plane "smells", why? Is it left over pizza, poor housekeeping, or that certain odor racists smell when they are to stupid to say anything intelligent. There is one more possibility for misuse, though. As an unreconstructed Southerner, who has picked cotton and used a one and a two holer, I have seen this more often: an idiot fool isn't sure of his listener's leanings so he says something like "Well, they leave a smell you know." If you respond negatively he can say it's hygiene or something asinine like that. He'll know who you are one way or the other. Same thing with Reynold's comment. It leaves the door open for fools. Like Joe Biden. He, trying to say good things about Obama, let fly with the clean comment. We used to say the same about , in the words of the past, those Negroes who were trying to advance their cause, but were not pushing to hard. You know, uppity, a credit, clean, good are words that were used, and, I might add, by the friends and supporters of change. Biden and a liberal member of the press have both asked the equivalent of "Ya know?" Neither really want an answer.  

I think there is a

I think there is a connection between the stink and the reporters.

'atta boy, Dean!

Smells like 'real honest to goodness' journalism to me!  The really scarry part is the obama team checking out reporters baggage...and the reporters allow it??

Dean Reynolds: Brave CBS Reporter of the Year!

Dean Reynolds

Dean Reynolds: Brave CBS Reporter of the Year!

Or possibly, Dean Reynolds: Brave (former) CBS Reporter of the Year!

Bet its rotten caviar and stale champagne.

-Dave

 


Nah, Dave,

It's the stench of lies. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Of course it stinks on that

Of course it stinks on that jet.  Most everyone on it is full of sh*t.

My recommendation is once they reach altitude to crack a window and let the bad vapors be sucked out.

ROFL

I think it was the "crack a window" line that finally made me just lose it totally.  Good one.

Thanks Kimberly.  I

Thanks Kimberly. 

I kinda enjoyed that too.  ;-)

I can just hear Obama on the jet saying:

"Whew!  You guys smell just like the Marxists I used to hang out with at Columbia.  No, David Gregory, I will not pull your finger again.  Will someone light a match or crack a window, for Lenin's sake!"

..throw in a couple more

..throw in a couple more things...and you've hit the nail on the head Dave... or you've got it made..either way, you get what I mean, I hope....LOL!!!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Dave...You're Alive!!

Number of times McCain said "My Friends" = 22!!!  Nuf said.

What happened to the chat yesterday??  After it got nuked...I couldn't get back in.

ThatSter. - New Name!!

Ster, I couldn't get back in, either.

LOL-I think we were close to toasting their server.  

-Dave

 


the chat room set a default p/w

Matthew fixed it... 

"I might be movin' to Montana soon..." - FZ

IT'S B.O.s PLANE, OF COURSE IT STINKS

 The ACORN/Obama Voter Registration "Thug Thizzle"

Systemic corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your backyard. And as I've reported before, this voter-fraud racket is on your dime.

On Monday, the two liberal groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter registration drive targeting low-income people and minorities in battleground states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

What's wrong with that? For starters, these two groups are militant partisan outfits purporting to engage in nonpartisan civic activity. And their campaign comes amid an avalanche of fresh voter-fraud allegations involving ACORN in many of those same key states.

On Tuesday, Nevada state officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names.

ACORN, which receives 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers to pursue an aggressive welfare-state agenda, has already helped register over 1.27 million people nationwide. The rest of their funding comes from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.

Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by left-wing lawyer Sandy Newman to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.

The two groups are inextricably linked -- and at their nexus is Barack Obama.

In 1992, Newman hired Obama to lead Project Vote efforts in Illinois. The Illinois drive's motto: "It's a Power Thing."

As previously noted in this column ("The ACORN Obama Knows," June 25, 2008), Obama also trained ACORN members in Chicago. In turn, ACORN volunteers worked on his Illinois campaigns and ACORN's PAC endorsed his primary bid with full backing and muscle.

Despite his adamant denials of any association with the group (his Fight the Smears website now claims "Barack Obama never organized with ACORN"), Obama's political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.

Quantity over quality. It's the ACORN way.

In addition to the Las Vegas raid, fraud allegations keep piling up: Continued...

-- Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected a large portion of the 5,000 registration forms ACORN turned in after conducting registration drives in the area all summer. Some vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from telephone books and forged signatures. According to local reports, "large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants included dead people and underage kids.

On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 voter applications were no good -- tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

-- Last month, Milwaukee, Wis., officials discovered at least seven felons employed as voter registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter registration cards. The state GOP accused ACORN of attempting to enroll dead, imprisoned or imaginary people to voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

-- In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. According to the Miami Herald, "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."

Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices several months ago, but it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats that constitute a fifth of all new voters in that region.

-- In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people received free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling prospects to the polls. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who told her ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

Holliday interviewed another homeless man targeted by the registration drive who exulted that he was voting for Obama because "I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle."

"Thug thizzle" is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democratic power base. Rules be damned.

 

 

McCAIN-PALIN 2008 and HILLARY-ANYBODY 2012

But...but...but...Ayers is

But...but...but...Ayers is just "that guy"(racism, anyone?) from my neighborhood.

It's happening in MO, too.  In how many states has ACORN hijacked the voter registration/voting process?  Will we be able to trust the election results if Obama wins?  If McCain wins by a narrow margin, should he have won by a landslide?  It seriously irks me that a radical group such as this one is completely undermining our election system just so they can have control and implement their Communist/control of the people agenda.  Shame, shame on B.O.

http://www.msnbc.msn...

It's the Geraldo Syndrome

Remember when Rivera was embedded with the troops in Gulf 2? When he left, the troops ran their hands up their cracks before shaking his hand. Maybe this is why Barry doesn't talk much to the press.

That's

That's how they treat campaign staffers? Oh sorry the MSM.

Is at all possible that the

Is at all possible that the stark differences in the way the press is handled by the campaigns is an indication that maybe "that one" is not so skilled at running big organizations? I mean, isn't that what they are hanging their hat on? That he can run this huge campaign? The only way to run anything successfully is to pay attention to even the smallest details, or at least hire someone who WILL do that for you. Seems McCain has his camp in ship shape, but then he is ex-military. 

The only reason "that one" has the appearance of running a successful campaign is that the msm is in the toilet...er.. I mean tank for him. 

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

Is the stench from cigarette

Is the stench from cigarette smoke or marijuana?

I imagine that it is from the bathrooms

Every poorly run socialist country I have ever been in has horrible sewage problems. Why not Obama's plane as well? 

Change

In Obama Soviet Amerika, reporters will like their accomodations.

 Seriously now. How dare this reporter complain about what has been provided for him. In a planned economy such as that which Obama proposes, we shift all decision-making to the great leader and his designated "great thinkers." We do not let free markets decide, like the better smelling airlines that this reporter may have encountered. Instead, some grand thinker in the Obama campaign had not considered that the well-being of the reporters who travel with The One was a factor worth consideration, and subsequently the plane has been left to be filthy and the condition of the little people has been ignored.

 Personally, I can't wait. The one bit of justice that will occur early under an Obama reign is that the fourth estate will be extinguished. Those who refused to listen to us, ignored several hundred years of journalistic history and precedent (such as the lessons explained by John Milton) will be eradicated quickly. It's laughable that in the face of losing all first amendment freedoms, the MSM hacks complain about stinky planes. I guess they never could get past worrying about themselves, could they?

The rest of us will have to fend for ourselves. Thank you so much to the Huckabee supporting freaks for engineering this guaranteed loss and empowerment of a Socialist. I can guarantee we will remember your role in empowering America's Lenin.

Such Bravery...

I read Reynolds comments and actually worry for his personal safety.  It's like hearing from a Chinese citizen in China who dares to speak out against the oppressive government.  You know Reynolds did a noble thing by speaking the truth, but you also know it won't be long before the men from the DNC (tipped off by CBS insiders) with the dogs and the guns and Joy Behar come kicking in his door to silence him.

Stay strong Dean! We're with you in spirit..you crazy brave man.

Lemmee take a guess.

  What is that smell?

   Asscrack & shrimp.

   How did I do? 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

I'm Confused

If the Obama campaign treats the media so badly, why are they all still in the tank for him?????

Tanking

If the Obama campaign treats the media so badly, why are they all still in the tank for him?????

Maybe they're willing to put up with a few inconveniences in order to achieve a long held dream:  getting a genuine radical in the White House.

Not only does he stink, he smells bad too.

Another example of "me first" by Obama, instead of McCain's "country first".

Allah!

Maybe the stench is halal cooking. Interesting that the story comes out after Ramadan.

Plane stupidity

If Obama can't run a campaign any better than that, why should we trust him with the country?

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

No Surprise There

The Obama campaign is being run by David Axelrod. Axelrod is a marketing type. He is orchestrating the Obama Campaign to present only the image of Obama that HE wants everyone to see. As such, he is trying to and succeeding at leading the MSM around by their collective noses.

It should be no surprise that they would NOT arrange the schedule to accomodate the major networks' evening news broadcasts as this would enhance the opportunity for "coverage" they might not want. In fact, the Obama Campaign may now want as little coverage as possible so as to avoid an unpleasant for them "October surprise." 

Please, not the Oval Office

I have been shuddering to think of how the oval office will look when Obama is sitting at the desk.

Now I have to worry about the smell. Good Grief!

CNN is racist

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/virginia.battleground/index.html?iref=topnews

I cannot believe they posted this headline?  Is it because he's half black?