Prometheus 6

Well, isn't this special?

Tallahassee Democrat senior writer Stephen Price was singled out and asked to leave the area reserved for media at a rally for John McCain in Panama City, Florida, on Friday. He had showed his media credentials and employee i.d. in order to enter the area when a member of McCain's security detail asked him to leave. "I explained I was with the state press, but the Secret Service man said that didn't matter and that I would have to go," Price said. When another reporter asked why Price was being removed, she too was led out of the area.

Other state reporters remained. Price was the only black reporter among those surrounding McCain's bus ... was he being "profiled"?

You know Price's editor had to step up.

Jonathan Block of the McCain campaign, who was not there at the time of the incident, expressed regret, but stated, "I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that race had nothing to do with it."

You know what? I believe him. It's obvious it had nothing to do with race at all.

It had to do with his being a Democrat. How could we tell from across the room? Well, he Black...all Blacks are Democrats, we know all the Blacks who are Republican and he ain't one of them. His press pass said "Tallahassee Democrat," right? So we were right, right? 

Block said the area where Price was standing was restricted to members of the traveling national press corps which accompanies McCain on the campaign trail...."At the end of the day, your reporter was in the wrong place. I do not know why the other reporters were not moved. The rest of the local press should have been moved as well," Block said.

See, we could tell he wasn't a member of the national press corp. There's no Black folks in that entourage, we know the real famous Blacks that might pass through but he ain't one of them. Oh, the other state reporters? Well, the whole travelling press corp didn't make it, they might have been replacements....