Secret Service seeks race of media party guests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Secret Service has asked for the race of guests attending a media reception with President Bush before the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday.
Some senior correspondents who cover Bush regularly and have attended the reception in past years said Friday they had not been asked for race information previously and were shocked at the request.
"[White House] reporters already have hard [permanent] passes, have gone through all the checks, and are often in reach of the president," said Ed Chen of the Los Angeles Times, who is secretary of the association. "I think it's unnecessary and offensive."
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Can anyone offer a good explination as to why the Secret Service would ask for such information?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
You want an explination?(explanation)
ReplyDeleteMaybe they're trying to weed out the Middle-Eastern man between the ages of 18 and 45...can't imagine why....can you? In any case, I'll let the Secret Service decide themselves what is in their best interest to protect our President.....you liberal, whiny, baby....
Since you're too shifty to actually indicate who you are with this comment, I will go easy on you.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, despite your lame attempt to use the word as a pejorative, I am proud to call myself a liberal.
Despite the attempts by the right to employ Orwellian language manipulation, liberal is not a dirty word.
Liberals believe in justice, not vengeance. Liberals believe in helping people, not controlling people. Liberals are the only hope we have of reversing this country's slow transformation into a fascist police state.
That said, you are talking about members of the press with hard passes. They have already been through a Secret Service background check, except for those "reporters" who were once male prostitutes.
There is no need to do racial profiling on members of the White House Press Corps... No need to profile members of congress, no need to profile any of the people who attend this event.
They weren't looking for terrorists, and to claim otherwise is utterly absurd.
Yank the cord on that little two cycle engine of a brain you have, and see if you can try again.
Thanks for those proto-thoughts though. I always enjoy hearing from bleating ranks of the "Proudly Indoctrinated."