Meg Kissinger, a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in Wisconsin, wrote on her Facebook that she was creeped out after being told by a Mary Burke aide she couldn’t speak to people in the crowd at a Michelle Obama event:
Assigned to cover Michelle Obama’s speech today and was told by a Mary Burke aide and one for the White House that I could not speak to the people in the crowd. To say that I was creeped out is an understatement. This is what reporters do in America: we speak to people.
At least that’s how I’ve been doing things — at all kinds of political events — since 1979.
She also wrote that she’s never seen anything like it all her years as a reporter:
Never seen anything like it in 35 years as a reporter covering dozens of political events. White House and Burke aides telling reporters we were not allowed to talk to the people on the other side of the rope. But that’s what reporters do: we talk to people. In America, that’s our job.
Chicago thug-politics all over America from the most transparent administration evah!
(h/t: The Blaze)