{"id":3136,"date":"2010-10-18T01:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T08:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2010-10-18T01:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T08:49:26","slug":"freedom-of-the-press-republican-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/freedom-of-the-press-republican-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of the Press, Republican Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who can forget the campaigns of 2004 and 2008 when Crawford Caligula and McConJob kept their audiences pure by refusing access to anyone who might criticize them.  When it comes to the press, the Republican Senate nominee runs from them at an obtuse angle.  But the Alaska Senate nominee has set the bar for defining freedom of the press, Republican style.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18AKdisp\" Security guards for Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller handcuffed and detained the editor of the online magazine "Alaska Dispatch" on Sunday while he tried to interview the Republican nominee<\/strong>, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n

The Anchorage Daily News reports<\/a> that Tony Hopfinger, who founded and edits "Alaska Dispatch," was arrested by Miller’s private guards at an Anchorage school. The senate hopeful was on hand as part of a town hall event.<\/p>\n

The firm that handles Miller’s security says that Hopfinger shoved a man, but Hopfinger claims that he only pushed back at a guard after the guard began pushing him.<\/p>\n

According to an article at the website for "Alaska Dispatch," Hopfinger was warned that he would be charged with trespassing if he did not cease asking questions and leave the premises.<\/p>\n

Hopfinger had been trying to ask Miller questions when two or three guards told him to leave or risk being charged with trespassing\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I have never been to a Democratic campaign rally where people, let alone press, were excluded due to their political views.  If Republicans take power, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Fox, may be the only ones with access.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who can forget the campaigns of 2004 and 2008 when Crawford Caligula and McConJob kept their audiences pure by refusing access to anyone who might criticize them.  When it comes to the press, the Republican Senate nominee runs from them at an obtuse angle.  But the Alaska Senate nominee has set the bar for defining […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}