Trump campaign requires media to have bathroom escorts; not allowed to leave when Trump in the room

[villager]

Tweet that just popped up on the Breaking News feed:

"Donald Trump campaign requires media to have bathroom escorts at his rallies when leaving media holding area, not allowed to leave while Trump is in room - @KatyTurNBC"


https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/669331944111538176

[elias49]

1. So you need a hall pass in TrumpVille?

Then I'm not going!

[villager]

2. And the brown-shirted hall monitors will be checking...

nt

[hatrack]

3. When will the the clowns start boycotting The Clown?

I mean, seriously,

[uppityperson]

4. "you must restrict and control the media in order to protect free speech"

Good reply tweet

[UTUSN]

5. Who's escorting whom?!1 n/t

[Massacure]

6. Couldn't that legally be considered kidnapping in some states?

That would be kind of entertaining to watch... a presidential candidate arrested for kidnapping.

[jberryhill]

7. No

It is a condition of being able to attend. When you rent a venue, you can invite or disinvite whomever you like. Even if it means, yes, you really have to wear that bridesmaid's dress that looks horrible on you.

[X_Digger]

11. Well, if they detained you, not allowing you to leave until DaHump left..

[jberryhill]

13. When you get on the Mad Hatter ride at Disneyland

They strap you in until the ride is over.




They rent the hall, they make the rules for your admission. Don't like the rules, and you are not allowed back in the park. If it's your job to cover this campaign, go back to your employer and say they won't let you back into one of their events again.

This is all by consent.

[Logical]

14. I agree, but they are free to leave and not come back. Nt

[jberryhill]

15. Hence the escorts.

[Logical]

16. Point is they can't stop anyone from leaving when Trump is in the room. Nt

[jberryhill]

17. Permanently

[LittleBlue]

22. Who said they could?

The escorts are there to see that if someone breaks the rules, they are escorted off the premises and blacklisted from ever attending again. Which is perfectly legal.

[Rose Siding]

8. I read the networks had a conference call yesterday all the restrictions.

Don't know if they reached a consensus response to him about it.

[gratuitous]

9. None of them will do a thing about it

They might grouse a little (unofficially and definitely not for attribution, which makes Katy Tur's tweet sort of almost courageous), but they know T Rump will freeze them out if they complain. And none of them want to give up the ratings bonanza of airing every stupid opinion T Rump blurps up.

[Jim Lane]

18. They could if they stuck together.

IIRC the "conspirators" were ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox. If that consortium laid down a set of rules and stuck together in insisting on them, it would be Trump who'd have to back down. Will his campaign insist on bathroom escorts and the like if it means they don't get coverage on any of those networks? I don't think so.

Maybe I just love the image of Sean Hannity finding his inner 60s protester and sternly intoning, "An attack on one will be answered by all."

[gratuitous]

19. That's a mighty big "if"

They're wrapped around the vulgarian's short fingers, and both sides know it. T Rump is like crack for them, and he plays them like a fucking Stradivarius. As long as T Rump was just selling his rotten brand, I couldn't be bothered with the popular media's obeisances. But the longer T Rump's candidacy endures, the more legitimate it looks. None of the outlets wants to miss out on what could be an historic White House run and its good ratings, and T Rump knows how to play a favorite and set them against each other so that they don't stick together. Hannity is far more likely to say, "An attack on one will see me as the first to join the pig pile."

[villager]

20. We do seem to be impervious to history's lessons about how a far-right minority gains "credibility"

...from quavering moderates, and institutions, along the way.

Until the moment comes when it's far too late to stop them.

[gratuitous]

25. And once it's apparent to all that a line has been crossed

The media pundits sit around and wonder how we got to this point. Baffles them, it does.

[haikugal]

33. Yes!! It's all very lame....

[Retrograde]

10. No synpathy here - he's their creation

Six months ago the MSM gave him a pass because he was amusing and good for ratings. Now that Trump's massive ego is interfering with them they're suddenly whining. Well, you created him: you deal with the consequences.

[villager]

12. At each stage, someone adds to the "recipe" creating the monster...

Of course, we've seen that before...

[bemildred]

21. Public figures have all gone paranoid since teh Internet.

Curating your presence on the web is soooo much work.

[KamaAina]

23. Are you sure that's not from The Onion?!

[riversedge]

26. Per this article the Donald does not want reporters to cover the increasing violence...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141271365

[hifiguy]

24. The resemblance grows stronger every day

Thanks to napkinz for the wonderful graphics.

[villager]

28. We've gone from Il Dunce to Il Donald this century

No wonder America's never gonna really recover....

[hifiguy]

29. Truly, things are beyond repair

unless Sanders is elected. He's the last train out of Dodge.

The downward spiral will no longer be reversible. And V.I. Lenin was absolutely correct when he stated that fascism is capitalism in the final stage of decay.

If there were a hereafter, I somehow imagine Messrs Jefferson, Washington, Madison and the rest watching, on some cosmic viewscreen like that on the bridge of the Enterprise, the final flatlining of their experiment, all the while screaming bloodcurdling and murderous 18th century oaths and furiously flinging empty whisky bottles at the screen. Dr. Franklin has probably headed for the opium pipe by now.

[villager]

30. And Jefferson would know how correct he was in that we should never have allowed the legal construct

or rather fiction, of a "corporation" to exist....

[hifiguy]

31. Jefferson distrusted no human creation

more than banks and "monied corporations." None. Ol' Tom was mighty far-sighted in his views there.

[w0nderer]

27. K & R N/T

[hobbit709]

32. When will he start using the royal "We"?

If you deflated his ego there'd be only a small pile of shit on the floor.