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Obama Boots More Journalist Enemies Off Plane

Throw 'Bama from the planeWhat a sore winner this guy is! The only three newspapers in the country to endorse John McCain — the New York Post, Washington Times, and Dallas Morning News — have all been given the heave-ho from Barack Obama’s pwecious pwane. Now they will all have to fly commercial in order to get to various events in the last stretch of the campaign. This is the journalistic equivalent of having to walk through the town square in a pom-pom hat and a thong. [Drudge Report]


11:09 AM on Fri October 31 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. ForTheTurnstiles says at 11:11 am, October 31st, 2008

    Yeah, but Jet and Ebony have reporters on the plane.

    Obama traded in the Rev. Moon for Sun Ra. Good choice in my humble opinion.

  2. ShaqsDong says at 11:12 am, October 31st, 2008

    They finally figured out where that smell was coming from.

  3. Madeline says at 11:13 am, October 31st, 2008

    If you’re not in the tank, you’re off the plane.

  4. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:15 am, October 31st, 2008

    …I so gotta HARD-ON for Barry right now!!!

  5. Tommy Says Soooo says at 11:17 am, October 31st, 2008

    Well, duh, the Socialist Worker, Huffington Obama, and Big ‘Uns needed the seats.

  6. wx insider says at 11:17 am, October 31st, 2008

    If this is any indication of the way Hopey plans on running the country, God help us all! (except for the Godless Americans PAC who don’t a rat’s ass about God)

  7. Oh, the humanity.

  8. Recent NY Post front page headline: “Life’s A Bitch” in three-inch letters. Look forward to tomrrow’s.

  9. Name Pun Phenh says at 11:18 am, October 31st, 2008

    I hope my campaign contributions aren’t paying for any parachutes.

  10. Bypartizoa says at 11:18 am, October 31st, 2008

    If it’s on Drudge, it must be true.

  11. May be a non-story. I bet these guys made some sham complaint or special demand.

  12. Just like in the movie referenced, those reporters really deserved it. Way to go Barry!

  13. Texan Bulldoggette says at 11:19 am, October 31st, 2008

    Is this all Drudge could find to swing the election Walnuts’s way? He couldn’t doctor a photo of Barry in bed with Michael Jackson or Fidel Castro? Shit, by Monday Drudge will be sirening “Obama doesn’t replace the empty toilet paper roll”.

    Note to Matt: Be MORE creative–no one on EARTH cares about whiny, pampered journalists getting kicked off anyone’s plane (see MoDo & Joe Klein getting the boot from Walnuts’s plane).

  14. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:20 am, October 31st, 2008

    …I picture Barry standing at the back of the plane like Harrison Ford in “Air Force One” shouting “Get off my plane!!!”

  15. Piss off, freeloading baggage!

  16. ManchuCandidate says at 11:20 am, October 31st, 2008

    What’s wrong with chucking Moonies out of planes? I’d prefer while the plane is airborne but the law and FAA might have a problem with that.

  17. magic titty says at 11:21 am, October 31st, 2008

    Had to make room for F.E.D.S and AVN.

  18. Bostoprov says at 11:21 am, October 31st, 2008

    You know what they say: “As goes Drudge, so goes the nation!”

  19. The sky is black with chickens coming to roost…

  20. AngryBlakGuy: That’s change we can believe in!

  21. ok, “HOME to roost”…

  22. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:23 am, October 31st, 2008

    …funny how when the Bush administration “Black-Lists” reporters for SIX YEARS no one says shyt, isn’t it?!

  23. DoctorCulturae says at 11:24 am, October 31st, 2008

    Duh. Decisions have consequences.

    btw, Joey B just asked us to rhyme “hope” and “history.” Good luck with that songsters.

  24. AlexTrebeksGirl says at 11:24 am, October 31st, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: That’s so transformational.

  25. Fly-over Correspondent says at 11:24 am, October 31st, 2008

    TGY: Oh, the Sean Hanity!

  26. Barack Like Me says at 11:25 am, October 31st, 2008

    When I saw Sludge’s splash hedline that ended in the words: “Get Out” the first thing I thought of was the 3 Terminator movies, in which that line is a recurring theme, most notably the helicopter scene in T2 with the shape shifting one scaring the pilot so much that he does indeed make a hasty exit.

    Right down to the ground.

    Would that the NYP, The WT, and that pos Dallas paper meet the same fate, how would that be a bad thing?

    Fuck those assholes, I’m just wondering why that order to split came at the tarmac instead of mid-flight on Hopey Force One at 30,000 feet.

  27. Barack Like Me says at 11:27 am, October 31st, 2008
  28. Magic:

    …also “Sweets”?

    I’ve just heard about it, never seen it, me, no….

  29. 4tehlulz says at 11:31 am, October 31st, 2008

    Keep BAWWWWWing righttards; your whines of pain only makes my penis harder.

  30. Fly-over Correspondent: Oh, well played!

  31. facehead says at 11:31 am, October 31st, 2008

    Texan Bulldoggette: Seriously…

    If you go to the Drudge Report (I believe he pronounces the ‘t’), this is the headline, and teh Drudge is claiming it is an exclusive story. This can only mean:

    1) He typed up the story while looking in a mirror.

    2) “JOURNALIST MUTILATION”

    3) No one cares.

  32. The White Crow says at 11:32 am, October 31st, 2008

    After That One gets elected there will be more people that will be asked to get to the back of the bus.

  33. Oh, the horror! Imagine the negative press he’ll get from these liberal institutions! Hey, Times, Reverend Moon called, he wants you to blow McCain again, extra saliva this time.

  34. Barack Like Me: that would give a whole new twist to the term ‘bailout’

  35. TexasCowGirl says at 11:44 am, October 31st, 2008

    I hear the worst part is they were 35,000 feet up in the air when he threw them out!

  36. Cape Clod says at 11:44 am, October 31st, 2008

    Fly-over Correspondent: Simply brilliant.

  37. bonghitsforjesus says at 11:51 am, October 31st, 2008

    It’s really unfair because McCain has been so sweet to those reporters from Democracy Now and Mother Jones the whole campaign.

  38. The Cold Sea says at 11:52 am, October 31st, 2008

    ForTheTurnstiles: I’d take Sun Ra on my plane anyday. Shit, I’d trade my plane for his spaceship, while I’m at it.

  39. bitchincamaro says at 11:56 am, October 31st, 2008

    Fuck ‘em, they like “boots on the ground” so much, let ‘em WALK!

  40. bitchincamaro says at 11:57 am, October 31st, 2008

    The Cold Sea: *Space is the Place*

  41. Lemming Caution says at 12:00 pm, October 31st, 2008

    You know they were just getting tired of the Times people trying to make them participate in a mass wedding ceremony.

  42. WhatTheHeck says at 12:06 pm, October 31st, 2008

    I bet they took up more than a seat a piece.
    Hey, freeloaders, there’ll be no more free lunches under Barry.

  43. what’s wrong with pom-pom hats?

  44. LBOtomist says at 12:18 pm, October 31st, 2008

    4tehlulz: The use of penis there makes that kind of awkward. Can we say trucknutz? or transformational unicorn horn?

  45. That’ll tech them to expose his socialist, islamofascist leanings to their right wing readers. Now they’ll have to go cover McCain’s funeral dirge. Luckily he threw so many reporters off, combined with the lack of interest in his campaign, that they’ll be able to have two to three seats to themselves.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

  46. voyetra8 says at 12:40 pm, October 31st, 2008

    Sun Ra in the tank, obv:

    “The music is different here. The vibrations are different. Not like Planet Earth. Planet Earth sounds of guns, anger, frustration.There will be no one from Planet Earth we could talk to who would understand. We’ll set up a colony for black people here. See what they can do on a planet all their own, without any white people there. They would drink in the beauty of this planet.”

  47. War Eagle says at 1:23 pm, October 31st, 2008

    Okay, so can we start making up our Enemies List yet?

  48. phildeaux says at 1:23 pm, October 31st, 2008

    My guilty pleasure is typing “tips” into Drudge’s website — it’s easy to do! So this morning I wrote: “drudgereport.com losing relevance…developing.” It’s not quite as passive aggressive as enabling my ad blocker on his site.

  49. LittlePinky82 says at 1:25 pm, October 31st, 2008

    ForTheTurnstiles: I think so too. Mr Moon is really crazy and he’s a big supporter of the Bushies. Of course the Bushies are big on him too probably because of the green.

  50. wavingnotdrowning says at 2:37 pm, October 31st, 2008

    Seriously, people still read Drudge? He’s so 2000. He’s like the 14th season of “E.R.”

  51. SlouchingTowardsWasilla says at 3:23 pm, October 31st, 2008

    Wait, they let them on the plane in the first place? And you said they were booting “journalists”? Something ain’t right here.

  52. palmerdawg says at 3:23 pm, October 31st, 2008

    Bypartizoa: Drudge is a colostomy bag for the right wing ass holes.

  53. DangerousLiberal says at 4:02 pm, October 31st, 2008

    Wait, it said “newspapers,” and then said something about the NY Post and Washington Times, used more often by the homeless as tee pee than by reg’lar ‘merkins as sources of news. So, really, what journalists were thrown off the plane?

  54. vthokies383 says at 4:16 pm, November 1st, 2008

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