Reporter Complains About Obama Plane As World's Tiniest Violins Play Piteous Strains

[Judi Lynn]

Reporter Complains About Obama Plane As World's Tiniest Violins Play Piteous Strains
October 9, 2008 12:45 PM


It's a pretty well known fact that the Obama campaign doesn't exactly go out of their way to coddle the cadre of reporters that follow their campaign. Many have reported on it. As early as January of this year, Howard Kurtz took on the topic, and offered some big-picture analysis of the Obama camp's general "aloof attitude," and its potential cost. But, via Alex Balk, no one's opened up a new frontier of journalistic atrabiliousness as CBS' News Dean Reynolds, who took to CBS's "From The Road" blog to throw a pity party, celebrating his own diva-ish distemper.

Reynolds basically thinks that the Obama campaign could treat him a whole lot better than they have been. Let me summarize: Obama's "campaign schedule" is too full! "Baggage calls are preposterously early!" They once "idled for two hours in a Miami hotel parking lot!" They "airily dismiss" complaints about the timeliness of schedule printing! They aren't as "friendly" as the McCain camp, who have out schedules in the form of "actual books you can hold in your hand!" The "events are designed" for the "simple needs" (and the simple minds!) "of the press corps!" Obama's plane is messy and smelly! McCain's plane is better!

From the trail, Ana Marie Cox replies, "I bet they deliver the luggage right on time in Baghdad, asshole."

Seriously. I don't know what world Dean Reynolds is living in, but where I live, people need another story about reporters reporting on reporters about as badly as they need a polonium enema. There are legitimate, serious, necessary inquiries that need to be put to these two candidates, and if Reynolds isn't up to the task, maybe he should tag out and give someone who is of sterner stuff a crack at the CBS's newshole. Someone who's less sensitive to the smell, maybe. The smell that's no doubt been generated by...uhm...reporters.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/reporter-complains-about_n_133276.html

[TomClash]

1. Boo Hoo

Meanwhile here in lower Manhattan the dispossessed are trickling into the subway stations as the cold begins to advance. They idle there in their own filth far longer than a few hours. So tape it up and play, Dean wimpy.

[taddles]

2. Reynolds...

go fuck yourself you simpering pussy.

[zbdent]

3. Obama camp doesn't coddle the reporters? I thought the talking point was that

Obama was kissing up to the reporters!

Would the liars please get their stories straight? It's getting confusing!

[Hekate]

4. "Atrabiliousness"? What a lovely word for the jerk's pity party! Hilarious. nt

[neverforget]

5. The reporter is pissed that he won't be on Air Force One after

Obama is elected.