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."