Archive for August 24th, 2008

Earlier this month, I blogged about Baron Hill’s interesting policy of refusing to allow anyone to record his town hall events. Baron’s policy of censorship even provoked a rare press release from the 9th District Republican chairman.

All of that exposure caused Baron to retreat and to remove any mention of his “no taping” policy from the press release. Dan Turkette of Angry White Boy blog fame and I attended the town hall in Seymour announced by the press release.

Dan, as a member of the new media, got himself a press credential and even recorded some of the event itself. He was confronted by Baron’s staff while recording, but they backed off when shown his nifty laminated press pass. His account of the Seymour town hall is available here.

It appeared that Baron’s people were eager to enforce a “Don’t Tape Me Bro!” policy, but were suckered by Dan’s “new media” press credentials. They just weren’t eager to be caught on the record saying that they had such a policy, as witnessed by their earlier removal of any mention of it from their press releases when called out.

But when the traditional media in and around the 9th District made no noises at all about Baron’s restrictive recording policy (as they might have feared; without reason, as even sheep are not as pliant and easily duped as most 9th District reporters), their censoring instincts came roaring back with a vengeance at the town hall in Sellersburg one week later.

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(H/T - AWB)

From Hot Air comes word that the folks at the Cult of the Obamassiah have not given up on taking the Seal of the United States, changing it, and making it their own:

…It looks like the design team at the Barack Obama campaign have too much time on their hands. On their campaign website, the background image adapts the basics of the presidential seal — again — into an Obama campaign logo.

This time, Team Obama avoided the faux Latin for the normal “E Pluribus Unum”, but the rest of the design still screams “presumptuous”. Once again, we have the O Logo in the dead center, and an oddly oriented eagle — or what appears to be an eagle — clutching nothing but olive branches.

Didn’t Barack Obama learn from his last attempt to fashion his own “seal”? This looks a lot like compensation for either an unbridled ego or a person worried about his lack of credentials.

The background (from here):

Zoomed in:

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