VP Biden’s Office Apologizes for Confining Reporter in Storage Closet During Fundraiser

This is one of the more bizarre snippets to come out of the political/media axis in awhile.

Fox News:

The vice president’s press secretary has apologized to a local political reporter after he was kept in a storage closet during a Florida fundraiser.

Scott Powers, a reporter with the Orlando Sentinel, was relegated to the storage space during a fundraiser Wednesday for Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., apparently to prevent him from speaking to people before Vice President Biden showed up.

VP Bidens Office Apologizes for Confining Reporter in Storage Closet During Fundraiser

The Sentinel did not make a big deal about the incident when it first happened, publishing a somewhat lighthearted account on their political blog:

Not looking for sympathy here, but the life of a political reporter isn’t all champagne and canapes. Consider our man Scott Powers…

But the story took on more extended life when the Drudge Report featured it prominently with in a “flash” report:

Reporter Scott Powers was the designated “pool reporter” for the vice president’s Wednesday visit to the massive Winter Park, Fla., home of developer and philanthropist Alan Ginsburg. The veep hadn’t arrived yet but most of the 150 guests (minimum $500 donation) had. They were busy noshing on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese and bacon deviled eggs, before a lunch of grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps.

Not so for Powers. A “low-level staffer” put Powers in a storage closet and then stood guard outside the door, Powers told the DRUDGE REPORT. “When I’d stick my head out, they’d say, ‘Not yet. We’ll let you know when you can come out.’”

VP Bidens Office Apologizes for Confining Reporter in Storage Closet During Fundraiser

Sentinel reporter Scott Powers (Twitter)

NY Daily News:

Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement Sunday that the decision to put Powers in the storage room was a “mistake” and that the reporter accepted her apology on Wednesday.

She said that reporters often gather in “hold rooms” when the Vice President makes appearances, but she acknowledged that the cluttered storage room wasn’t an appropriate place for Powers to wait.

Fox News:

“This was the unfortunate mistake of an inexperienced staffer and the vice president’s office has made sure it will never happen again,” she said.

She explained that “hold rooms” are typically provided for pool reporters covering the vice president when he speaks at private homes. In this case, Biden was speaking at the home of a wealthy developer and the reporter was told to wait in a storage closet — which Alexander said contained open space, as well as a table and chair where the reporter could work. She said the space was chosen because of its “close proximity” to the room where Biden was speaking.

Comments (118)

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  • Lone Ranger
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 3:28am

    We’re sorry. Please don’t file charges for kidnapping and illegal detention.

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  • WallyAVoter
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:59am

    Can not understand why so many people put up with this moron’s statements or actions! He is truly a bad example of the current politician in Washington at this time in history. 2012: time to clean the slate and get rid of career politicians! It is time for TERM Limits on our Representatives and Senators!!!

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:48am

    @ CHEEZWHIZ

    Yoooouuuuuuuuuuuuuu LOL

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:17am

    There’s no telling what they would have done had he made a scene. He would not have been invited back into the press pool, for one thing.

    And, what they did to the reporter made a GREAT story!

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    • givemeavent
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 11:24am

      he would have been painted as a Tea Party reporter…….silly!

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:08am

    Now we know why Biden has skeleton’s in his own closet. Lots of them!

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:44am

    between the truckstop toilet bowl aka obama and the bidet joke of a VP , we are talking a total (reliving of the 1935 German nat’l socialist party ) disregard and degradation and shut down of the American (very willing) mainstream media, aren’t we.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:39am

    what kind of MORON sits willingly in a broom closet all day to begin with.

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  • commuterdude1
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:37am

    Kidnapping and false imprisonment is what this is no matter who did it.

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:42am

      Correct !!!!!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 4:50am

      Not if the reporter lets it slide

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 6:11am

      I hope that reporter files a civil lawsuit –

      since Eric Holder as US Attorney General – will not be any help – and condones having Americans falsely imprisoned -

      such as LT. COL TERRY LAKIN – as Usurper Obama/Soetoro’s first “official” POLITICAL PRISONER.

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  • commuterdude1
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:37am

    If a Republican administration would have this we would NEVER have heard the end of it! Kidnapping and false imprisonment is what this is no matter who did it.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:36am

    food for thought:: would the elitists have locked a black reporter in a closet .

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:16am

    BULLSHYT – holding reporters hostage – is a regular event – with the Obama/Soetoro THUGOCRACY.

    During the 2008 presidential campaign, in June 2008, the Obama campaign set up an interview – with a POOL of reporters – to meet up with Obama on an airplane – at Dulles International Airport.

    But after a TWO-HOUR wait – and a no-show, the pilot announced the doors were locked and the plane was taking off.

    There is a video on YOU TUBE about it – with Robert Gibbs smirking – being entertained – with holding the reporters hostage – appeared shell-shocked – while asking questions where they were being taken – and why were they not informed about the change of plans – if obama did not want to be interviewed – and why were they not given the opportunity to get off the plane before it took off.

    When there was a media frenzy over what occurred, US Senator Diane Feinstein chose to give a lame ALIBI – to obama – (phony alibi rewarded later with US taxpayer money) – by Feinstein FRAUDULENTLY claiming that Obama was at her house with Hillary Clinton having a private meeting – although the MASS of Photographs outside of Feinstein’s house – did not acquire one picture of Obozo and Clinton going in or out of Feinstein’s house – bc they were not at Feinstein’s house. Obama and Clinton were at the Bilderberg Conference.

    Feinstein acquired a $25 MILLION government contract – for her husband’s company – and when her husband was caught in a “house-flipping” SCAM – w a clerk falsifying documents – as the same criminal activities that caused the housing and banking meltdowns – US Senator Diane Feinstein created another DISTRACTION – w House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – screaming about “waterboarding” – using their influence to have their lies and deceit appear as truths – by fraudulently claiming they knew nothing about enhanced interrogation techniques – waterboarding – being used on the Radical Muslim Terrorists responsible for the terrorist attacks on US soil on 9-11. It is well documented by the CIA that both Pelosi and Feinstein attended several CIA briefings wherein waterboarding was discussed.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:22am

      http://conservativexpress.blogspot.com/2009/05/secret-service-remove-african-american.html
      Remember this ?

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:32am

      NO ALIBI should have been acceptable – for Robert Gibbs playing along with the ruse – for the Obama campaign – holding reporters HOSTAGE – to HI-JACK and KIDNAP REPORTERS – during the 2008 presidential election…

      that is why the obama/soetoro administration is still pulling these nasty games – holding a reporter hostage in a closet – to keep him from interviewing people at the fundraiser.

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:41am

      @CheezWhiz

      Wow – thanks for reminding me….

      FYI, the front scene – w the men throwing the woman to the ground – is there on YouTube – but when you hit the arrow – it says the video is removed by user. There must be another video archived somewhere else.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:46am

      @Fina

      I had forgotten about that. This Presidentcy has indeed been run the “CHICAGO WAY” these bunch of creeps are worse than the Mafia.They could learn from the Obama people. Geeez

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  • suran
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:15am

    Whaaaaaat????

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  • KEA
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:14am

    Someone should be charged in this case! A felony has been committed!

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  • ZaphodsPlanet
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:13am

    Someone needs to have charges pressed against them. I say both Biden and Ginsburg. What’s next…. “We’re so sorry we ganged raped you….. no harm done right?”.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:11am

    “Biden was speaking at the home of a wealthy developer and the reporter was told to wait in a storage closet”

    It’s pretty common for the wealthy to treat the non-wealthy like they are human trash. It’s a shame the wealthy have to interact with regular folks at all, we should all bow down and avoid looking them in the eyes so as not to offend them with our ordinariness.

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  • kreese
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:10am

    No one should be surprised by this “mistake”—Biden was in the area.

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  • ILUVJESUS
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:05am

    Oh my God, this should be all over the media. The fact that it isn’t…
    Come on, we all know that if anyone else did this….
    Byden, step down!

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  • spirited
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:51am

    Being an African-American, Mr Powers will probably receive retribution.

    >Don’t let Sharpton or the NAACP hear about this!

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  • glennisright.com
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:46am

    This was the unfortunate mistake of an inexperienced administration..

    http://www.glennisright.com

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  • Veritas
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:34am

    This Admin screws up at every turn. I bet even the MSM is getting tired of covering up for these idiots!!

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 7:25am

      ~This Admin screws up at every turn. I bet even the MSM is getting tired of covering up for these idiots!~

      I’m beginning to consider the possibility that the Progressives have secretly gotten everyone in the MSM addicted to some new designer-drug “tingle-crack” that has, as exhibited by Chris Matthews, the side-effect of creating random tingling sensations in the lower extremities when anti-Capitalists speak, as well as marked docility toward Progressive ideological authority & extreme suggestibility.

      Note to the MSM: Put the “tingle-crack” pipe & lighter down and step away. Just step away.

      For all my fellow-Blazers that express wonder at how a reporter would allow themselves to be treated that way, you have to remember Progressives believe that Government *IS* God, so to this reporter, it would be like if a Catholic tourist at the Vatican would be told by a Bishop that he had to wait in a closet and not ask questions if he wanted an audience with the Pope.

      Except that in the case of the MSM and Progressive politicians, there’s a LOT more than rings being kissed!

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:05am

      Close Bluestrat- But this tinglecrack is laced with carbon exchange shares. This is the drug of choice for these sheepleherders, and they know that the progressive agenda must succeed to get their bounty. Greed and addiction. The tools of indoctrination and propaganda…

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:31am

    Somebody tell me why this is or should be of any importance what so ever as unfortunate as it might be. Big deal, as for why anybody feels it needs reporting??

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    • fastfwd
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:36am

      Ok it is just that it shows the arrogance and disrespect of these liberal Marxists in the white house !

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:20am

      thats why justanotheropinion is complaining …………..he doesnt like when his wonder boy or one of his stooges is embarrassed

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:42am

      Trust me. It’s newsworthy. The people there are news. What Biden had to say was news.

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    • MaggieRose
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 8:08am

      MY HAIR IS ON FIRE HERE!! Can you imagine if this had happened under President Bush’s administration?? Where is the outrage? Wow, was Glenn ever correct when he said we wouldn’t recognize our beloved country. Man up press!! Tear down that wall and start reporting for the sake of our Nation! Kick down the doors and do your #@$! job! Really, oblahblah is just a man for pete’s sake! Sorry… warned you my hair is on fire…

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  • A Steiger
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:29am

    You’re kidding, right?

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  • Dianne93101
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:28am

    LOOK,imo, they are playing dumb. I just have to wonder what he missed…

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:27am

    This once again shows just how clueless the administration is, and how arrogant they have become.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:31am

      It also shows how compliant and sissified the press is …when its being bullied by Obama or his people.
      Imagine if this had been a republican gathering

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:40am

      @CHEEZ

      Exactly … they put him BACK IN after the speeches were done !! What a WIMP!

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    • mill
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:22am

      Yes, this reporter has allowed himself to be bullied.

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 12:36am

      Fuzzy Police State?

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  • desertpatriot
    Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:24am

    Spell check people….come on. Confinding?

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:31am

      A “low-level staffer” put Powers in a storage closet and then stood guard outside the door,

      Let’s see .. imprisonment, kidnapping … come on you can’t just “stick” someone in a closet for OVER an HOUR and say oops sorry…. would not work in “real life”.

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:32am

      Spellcheck, if that is all you find wrong with this story then you need to read it again. Did the reporter ever get out to report on the event or was he held there until Biden had left?? It doesn’t say. I wonder if they were trying not to have anything Biden say on the record?

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:37am

      Where is the reporter’s
      SELF RESPECT ?
      Why didn’t it kick in ? Seems to me that he is used to this kind of treatment

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:38am

      @JOSEPH

      From Drudge …

      ” He made do with a bottle of water to sip as he sat at a tiny makeshift desk, right next to a bag marked “consignment.” Powers was closeted at about 11:30 a.m., held for about an hour and 15 minutes, came out for 35 minutes of remarks by Biden and Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, and then returned to his jail for the remainder of the event.”

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:39am

      @CHEEZ

      Worse than that .. they put him BACK in it after the speeches were over !!! I would have told them like hell.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:51am

      Can you imagine the conversation that went down ?
      Reporter : Hi, I’m here to cover the event for the press
      Biden lackey : Show me your ID
      R : Here. Where can I start
      BL : Not now. The rich people are eating and they don’t like to be bothered
      R : So can I take a few pics till veep arrives
      BL : Here , come with me
      R : Where ?
      BL : Now get in that closet and DON’T YOU COME OUT till I allow you to
      R : OK
      5 min later
      R : Can I come out now ?
      BL : No And hush it, there are rich people here
      5 more mins later
      R : Can I come out ? I’m thirsty
      BL: Here, here is some water..now STFU
      5 min later
      R : Can I come out now ? Please ?
      BL : OK but get your pics and scram …no one wants to see a hobo , and use the back door . Don’t touch anything.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:59am

      “This was the unfortunate mistake of an inexperienced staffer and the vice president’s office has made sure it will never happen again,” she said.
      From now on, when any reporter will be required to disappear, the staff will make sure to take the reporter’s cell phone and blackberry etc , and confine him in a basement , with armed guards.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:22am

      I hate to call the Biden spokeswoman a liar, but from my experience, she lied.

      My first husband was in newspapers, radio, and television. He covered appearances by VP Hubert Humphrey, Pres. Richard Nixon, Pres. Jimmy Carter, and I don’t know who all else! He had his security clearance and press credentials, but her was NEVER put into a room with other reporters as this man was.

      “The veep hadn’t arrived yet but most of the 150 guests (minimum $500 donation) had. They were busy noshing on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese and bacon deviled eggs, before a lunch of grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps.” And they would not let Price talk to the guests. Plain and simple.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:29am

      The Obama WH get’s more pathetic with each passing day. First Obama get’s locked out of the White House, then a low-level reporter gets locked-in. You can’t make this stuff up. Has anyone found the kids Dog yet?

      Quick question… How many of you are on the edge of your seat and can’t wait until Obama speaks to the nation tonight?

      http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:32am

      Cheez

      They should have given you credit for this story. You broke it first on the Blaze. I really thought it was a joke. I cannot imagine a reporter staying in that closet. I certainly wouldn’t send him out on any “Big” story. He is as limp as a dish rag.Obviously he wasn’t around when they passed out the stones. I would never have stayed in there, first I’m claustrophobic but secondly I would have pitched a hissy fit.Everyone there would have known what was happening.

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    • vivrobbins
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:37am

      Inexperience!! Hummm that’s what I say.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:46am

      @ thepatriotdave
      We can make a drinking game out of it .
      One gulp / sip/ shot for :
      1. Let me be clear
      2. Me
      3. I
      4. My administration
      Two gulps/sips/shots for :
      1. My Secretary of state
      2. My Department of Defence
      Three gulps/sips/shots for :
      1. United Nations
      2. International mandate
      3. International coalition of allies
      4. Dictator killing innocent civilians
      5. Women being raped
      Five gulps/sips/shots for :
      1, Our troops
      2. Peace
      3. Community
      4. Disrupt , dismantle and disrupt alqaeda
      5. safety of our country
      Six gulps/sips/shots for :
      1. World expects us to lead
      2. France+ Sarkozy
      3. UK + Cameron
      Bang your head against the wall :
      1. God bless America

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:14am

      IN FACT, what they do is clear the guests prior to the VP’s arrival, and once in the room, you do NOT LEAVE AND RETURN!

      Tim had a migraine headach and became nauseated and left his place to go to the men’s room. The Secret Service would not let him leave. Tim told him that if he didn’t, he would throw up all over him, but he had to get back into the room, too. They let him back in after frisking him.

      Showtime  
    • warrior21
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 3:12am

      It seems like our politicians think the can do, or say anything, and get away with it when caught by apologizing. The apology makes it, OK. I don’t have much sympathy for this guy, he has a mouth and could have said ” I wait, but get me a better holding room”. It is about time that Americans started calling our politicians to account.

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    • 101
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 4:52am

      So WTF is going on in the destruction of America? Who gives a rats *ss what Biden says, he isn’t a viable source for news, maybe stupid but not a news worthy distraction!

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 6:39am

      C’mon guys…what part of SORRY don’t you understand?

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 8:07am

      Sounds like the reporter was kinda passive during this whole ordeal, a “true reporter” would have kicked and punched and pushed his(or her) way out of that closet, or made a big scene for the person trying to hold them in. Something doesn’t sound right on this story.

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    • joe conservative
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 9:04am

      oops, sorry, didn’t mean to stick you in the closet. Doh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=619wI12Ky20

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    • indy1
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 9:07am

      They should put Crazy Joe in a closet and lock it.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:00am

      They are just practicing kidnapping people and journalists so they can copy their heroe’s like bin laden, gaddafi and all the others.

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    • mill
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:21am

      get a life, SPELL CHECK worries
      are like picking fly poop out of pepper…

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    • lketchum
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:16pm

      @CatB – that would be “Unlawful Detention”

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    • *************************
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 3:37pm

      That is the textbook definition of “kidnapping” and the police MUST start arresting the perpetrator(s) involved in the command, the act, and the cover-up, for prosecution.

      boss TAGGART: “What do you want me to do, sir?”
      HEDLEY LAMARR: “I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west.”
      -Blazing Saddles

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    • weeblewacker1
      Posted on March 28, 2011 at 3:38pm

      ho-hum:Scott Powers, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reporter who’s reported confinement in what was described as a closet during a fundraising event attended by Vice-President Biden, seems to be a bit surprised that he ended up at the center of a cause celebre:

      I was kidnapped.

      That was news to me.

      My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week.

      That was news to me too.

      In fact, a lot of details circulating through the blogosphere — and into some mainstream media — about my coverage of Biden’s fundraising visit to a Winter Park home last Wednesday were news to me.

      Here’s what Powers said actually happened:

      Here’s what happened. I showed up at the private home of developer, philanthropist and political contributor Alan Ginsburg Wednesday morning to file a pool report on the visit there by Biden and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando. When I arrived I was told I would not be able to speak with any of the people at the party, and that I was to wait in a room until Biden and Nelson arrived. I went in willingly, with the understanding that I was free to leave — but if I left I’d probably have to leave the house entirely, and not get to cover the speeches.

      I called it a closet, because it was stuffed with shelves, boxes, baskets and other items in storage, and it felt like a closet. The vice president’s office called it a room used for storage. It had a light, a window somewhere in the back behind the shelves full of boxes, and a few square feet of open space in the front. They set up a small table and a chair for me. They offered me food, which I declined, and brought me a bottle of water. They closed the door. I sat to wait, mistakenly thinking it would be only a few minutes. The door wasn’t locked, though every time I opened it and stepped out to see what was going on a staffer told me I couldn’t come out yet. He’d let me know.

      It was more than an hour, and when I was finally led out, Ginsburg, Nelson and Biden were just getting ready to talk. I listened, recorded the speeches and took notes, then was led back to the little room to wait until they left, about 15 more minutes, before they led me to my car.

      While I was in the closet, getting impatient and annoyed, I snapped a picture with my cell phone and e-mailed it to my editor, Bob Shaw, explaining that this is where I was at, and this is why I wouldn’t be filing anything about the party before the speeches. He wrote up an item and posted it, with the picture, on this blog. His post was a bit snarky. He likes snarky. So do I. I thought it was funny. The post and picture also ran in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper the next morning, along with my write-up of Biden’s speech. People told me they thought it was funny.

      Then, the story got picked up by the internet, and specifically the Drudge Report, and suddenly Powers was a star and his account of the event didn’t seem to matter to anyone:

      Bloggers around the country, it seems, had determined that either we had published a story on-line luridly detailing the alleged kidnapping, then later removed it, or we chose to not write about it at all. Either way, we were shilling for Biden and the Democrats.

      So I talked to Joe, and he posted a decent account on Drudge. I thought that would end it, but it only opened flood gates, from other media. Some I talked to, hoping to clarify the matter. But I discovered that whatever I said was irrelevant to other bloggers and posters who concluded that I was spin-controlling, continuing the cover-up. Some called me a liar and worse. But the real vile was naturally aimed at Biden. enof said.

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