Wednesday, October 01, 2008

FULL STORY-How Maureen Dowd Got BANNED From McCAIN PLANE


firedoglake.com

Yesterday we wrote about Kurtz aside on Maureen Dowd getting banned from the McCain plane. Now the full story emerges:

It all started when Maureen covered an Aug. 30 McCain-Palin rally in Washington, Pa., then wasn't let on the McCain plane afterward, forcing her to overnight at a Pittsburgh airport hotel while the traveling press went on without her.

"I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicole Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane," Dowd wrote in an email.

"It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney."

If the McCain campaign can't stand up to Maureen Dowd -- how will they stand up to the terrorists.

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