If you are not vetted, you will not be allowed in because they will not allow anyone close to the candidate that might ask him unscripted/approved questions that might throw the candidate off script with his answers.

Because we all know the candidate can't go off script for fear his true identity would be displayed.

This is how they managed to keep bu$h protected from the media and questioning public.

Can't even handle a few rowdy journalists, how can he handle all the challenges of a world in turmoil?

Because they know it will demonstrate he is not qualified.

Brings back fond memories of the GWB public event press and public relations. Ahh the good ole days of Orwellian Free Speech Zones, usually in a chain link pen blocks from the event. The joys of being removed from a Public Presidential speech by the SS simply because of attending while suspected of being Democrat.

Ain't Republican Democracy great!

Hey, mitt, keep on resurrecting GWB totalitarian methods. I hear Karl Rove is seriously considering anointing himself Veep. He only has to worry about Charles Manson getting paroled and snatching that position away from him.

-Jim

Calm down, take a deep breath, the Rove speculation is based on nothing more than the literary license to write this post. I like making my points as hyperbolic as possible. I cop Dr. H.S. Thompson's writing riffs all the time.

how will they handle the 3am news reporter

and if that doesn't work, they'll buy the media outlet and fire him for "budgetary reasons"... Rmoney might just be the Bane of this country

. . . You Might Be a FASCIST!

seig heil to you all.

"If you read the news even poorly, you'll notice your rights keep getting smaller and smaller every year. And rights are not rights if the government can take them away. The Bills of Rights are a list of temporary privileges."

It's been happening since Reagan's War on Drugs which is really a War on the Constitution.

Hostility between the Republican candidates and the media is good for democracy (as well as Democrats).

She was trying to go where she wasn't supposed to go, then sat down, blocking a doorway. From what I've seen on other threads at DU, Ms. Loder is lucky she wasn't Tased into a coma, because she would have totally deserved that, and it would have been her own fault.

are you fucking shitting me?! welcome to the nu-democratik party. sieg heil.

Once Secret Service starts protecting someone don't they vet all people before they're allowed within range of the target they're protecting? Hasn't it been this way since JFK or Reagan were shot at? Occassionally there are larger events with a less than totally vetted audience, but that costs a lot of tax payer money and puts strain on the human reasources of the Service. Once they're in the room, they should be able to ask any question they want though without interfearance by the Service. They protect from bullets, not barbed questions.