Thank you! I did read that story and I also read this:
Vice President Joe Biden’s staff has apologized to an Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reporter for sequestering him in a closet so he couldn’t mingle with guests at a fundraiser before headline speakers Biden and Sen. Bill Nelson arrived and began to address the crowd.
Reporter Scott Powers was on hand to cover the posh event at wealthy property developer Alan Ginsburg’s Winter Park, Fla., mansion March 23 when he found himself ushered into a closet.
Biden and Nelson were slated to speak to the audience to raise money for the 2012 elections — more specifically, to boost the re-election war chest of Democrat Nelson. Powers was instructed that he could emerge from his make-shift cell when the politicians were ready to give their speeches.
A Biden representative later explained that an “inexperienced staffer” had put Powers in the closet instead of a “hotel room,” as was the usual practice.
Afterward, Powers said: “It was frustrating and annoying that I was not given a chance to do my job fully and properly. This was an extreme and extremely inappropriate way of handling the press . . . It was essentially a rude and uncomfortable way to treat a reporter.”
Powers said Ginsburg was embarrassed when he called to apologize. “He said he was very sorry — he had no idea I’d been confined in the closet,” Powers said.
Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander’s apology appeared to gloss over the Spartan conditions of the 8-by-10 closet piled with boxes and baskets, a small table, and a chair.
But instead of addressing the issue head on, Biden fell into campaign speak, calling the small closet a “hold room.”
"Scott — You have our sincere apologies for the lack of a better hold room," she wrote.
www.newsmax.com...
Closet? Storage Room? Hold Room? Quiet Room? NOT a hotel room.... I say closet
I say tomato you say tomahto....
ETA
Here is an interesting point to ponder from the new Obama spokesboy. Oh the irony when you consider this little event and the antics of the past spokesboy Glib Gibbs in how he handled the WH press pool.
Recently, President Barack Obama spokesman Jay Carney told reporters: “Journalists should be protected and allowed to do their work.”
Powers eventually received an apology from Ginsburg and from the vice president’s office.
same source
edit on 28-3-2011 by jibeho because: (no reason given)
