Reporters Pretty Much Letting Democrats Masturbate All Over Them At Will Now

Reporters seem to understand that they exist to serve Democrat interests.

At a Democrat retreat, Democratic operatives are shadowing reporters everywhere -- even into the bathrooms.

Reporters are being escorted to and from the restroom and lobby and are being barred from entering the hotel outside of scheduled events, even if they've been invited by a member of Congress.
During Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks at the retreat Friday, reporters were required to have a staff member, usually a junior member of the press team, escort them when going to the bathroom or to the lobby....
"It was a police state. It was absurd how heavy handed the capitol police and Democratic staff were in trying to control everywhere the press went," New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters said in an interview.
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Peters said he was told by a staffer they were being escorted to prevent them from talking to members of Congress.
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The incident is reminiscent of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in September, where reporters were being escorted by staff right up to the bathroom stall.

Yup.

Posted by: Ace at 02:50 PM

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1 I can't wait for the "Pull my finger" moment.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 02:51 PM (IXrOn)

2 Did the reporters have a "wide stance"?

Posted by: Yes means Maybe at January 30, 2015 02:52 PM (7wyDO)

3
The incident is reminiscent of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in September, where reporters were being escorted by staff right up to the bathroom stall.

I heard a reference to this this morning and I thought they were bringing up the Clinton fiasco.

Didn't know it had metastasized.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 30, 2015 02:52 PM (JtwS4)

4

Imagine being anywhere near the Clinton gang.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 02:53 PM (IXrOn)

5 >>>>Peters said he was told by a staffer they were being escorted to prevent them from talking to members of Congress.
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.B$. They don't want them recording any Democrat "Senior" moments.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 30, 2015 02:53 PM (4oSLk)

6 And yet the reporters will open wide and say "more please!"

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 30, 2015 02:53 PM (da5Wo)

7
Say what?

Posted by: Anthony Wiener at January 30, 2015 02:53 PM (X7MMs)

8
What difference, at this point, does it make?1//1/!?1/!?/!?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 30, 2015 02:53 PM (HSmrB)

9 Just make them wear diapers then you don't have to follow them.

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 30, 2015 02:53 PM (klaU/)

10

This is exactly what O's team did.
Why is this different?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 02:53 PM (IXrOn)

11 They're lucky I was speaking and couldn't follow them into the bathroom.

**makes grabby hands gesture**

Posted by: Joke Biden at January 30, 2015 02:54 PM (f8y+G)

12 Why do reporters bother going to the events? Can't someone just text them what happened and maybe a picture and call it good?

Posted by: huerfano at January 30, 2015 02:54 PM (bAGA/)

13 The good news: the Democrats brought a LOT of baby wipes.

Posted by: JEM at January 30, 2015 02:54 PM (o+SC1)

14 Sigh. I missed my true calling.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at January 30, 2015 02:55 PM (Dwehj)

15

Who's your daddy?

hmmm?

Who's your daddy?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 02:55 PM (IXrOn)

16 Pit Bull/Dachshund mix: I'd hit it.

Posted by: Toby the Beagle at January 30, 2015 02:55 PM (Ks4nX)

17 That's racist.

Yours truly,

International Peruresis Association

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 30, 2015 02:55 PM (6MqSe)

18 They're luck, the Empress just sends the raptors.

Posted by: wrg500 at January 30, 2015 02:55 PM (sgrzZ)

19 For all of you thinking and praying-

CT Scan came back normal. Some scar tissue. But, everything was alright.

She will be having a colonoscopy next Month, for peace of mind, but I'm glad today ended up ok.

Posted by: TickledPink at January 30, 2015 02:55 PM (TMe1n)

20 And, since it's the Democrats, any reporters that wish to shower can take advantage of the non-gender-selective shower facilities.

Posted by: JEM at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (o+SC1)

21
Alt post title:

A Taste Of The Orient: The Similarities Of North Korea's Press Corps And Ours

Posted by: Soothsayer is S.I.G. at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (K8c3j)

22 Don't blame us. We treat them like crap and they still carry our water.

Posted by: The Democrats at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (OD2ni)

23 Just make them wear diapers then you don't have to follow them.

Unhackable diapers.

Posted by: Kneel DeGrassi Tyson at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (ZKzrr)

24 And yet, despite complaining that they live in "a police state," they STILL slant the news to favor their progressive overlords, and unfairly slander those who want to dismantle the police state.

I'd call it "Stockholm Syndrome," but maybe "Liberal Bubble Syndrome" would be more accurate.

Posted by: zombie at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (K4YiS)

25 In the DNC's defense they *did* have Average Joe and Hector there on call....

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (/4AZU)

26
BRB - Walking across the aisle.

Posted by: Sen Lindsey Graham

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (kdS6q)

27

Tool: Pull my finger.
"Free Press": *pulls finger*

Tool: Cry uncle.
Boehner: *sniff*

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (IXrOn)

28 We control the horizontal. We control the vertical. Sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear.

Posted by: Democatic Control Boys at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (JO9+V)

29 Full facial anyone?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 30, 2015 02:56 PM (2Aj5D)

30 Imagine if a Republican, yadda yadda yadda.

If anyone followed me into a bathroom like that, they'd better be prepared for my response.

Hint: It would be worth the bail money.

Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (mf5HN)

31 I volunteered to escort them to the glory holes.

Posted by: Barney Frank at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (OD2ni)

32 Line for today's talking points starts here.

Posted by: Next to bar with free drinks at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (WNERA)

33 For primarily most of the media to die on their knees for the Administration has little meaning because their mouths are full of the units of that regime.

Posted by: Mr Makarov at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (/WmRg)

34 I never made it to the bathroom.

Posted by: Al Roker at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (wAQA5)

35 Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (mf5HN)

Anyone?

Posted by: wrg500 at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (sgrzZ)

36 They escort me because they care about me.

Posted by: I can't press charges: I love him at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (Spluw)

37 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (kff5f)

38 Members of the news media may as well just stay permanently bent over, waiting to take it from the dems. I'd call them a synonym for kitties, but that would be insulting to vaginas.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (DXcH1)

39 I'm a Democrat and I'll hold that for you, sir.

Posted by: Junior Member at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (j37Ud)

40 And go down two threads.

They know everything.

Why they have to escort them to the bathroom, I don't know.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (wVWRM)

41 revolutionaries are always surprised to find themselves the first to be thrown against the stall

Posted by: Ebola guy at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (jzI6G)

42 "It was a police state. It was absurd how heavy handed the capitol police and Democratic staff were in trying to control everywhere the press went", New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters said in an interview. Then pausing then to take a leisurely sip of penis

Posted by: 928 at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (evdj2)

43 I'd invite one of the Dem handlers into the stall with me, saying, "I've got a terrible case of explosive diarrhea right now, and I'd really appreciate it if you just reassuringly held my hand when I sit on the toilet and endure the pain. But first, maybe you should put in these earplugs."

Posted by: zombie at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (K4YiS)

44 Sounds like a microcosm for liberal utopia. Reporters are upset because they thought they were part of management, not mixed up with the plebes.

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (1BQGO)

45 And yet, despite complaining that they live in "a police state," they
STILL slant the news to favor their progressive overlords, and unfairly
slander those who want to dismantle the police state.

They don't object to living in a police state per se; they're objecting to being on the wrong side of the police.

And yet, not very strenuously. Suckups gotta suck.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (ZKzrr)

46 I am surprised the dems get this heavy handed with reporters. History has shown pretty well that if Harry Reid stood up and started expounding on the loveliness of 12 year old boys at the local swimming pools, they would nod write down that he spoke of the need to provide more local access to recreational facilities to preteens and that would be it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (wt/Oq)

47 If the MFM objected to this kind of treatment, they could simply refuse to go.

They do not refuse to go.

Ergo, they do not object to this kind of treatment.

QED.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (kff5f)

48 If anyone followed me into a bathroom like that, they'd better be prepared for my response. Hint: It would be worth the bail money.

Alexthechick

I bet that it would.

Posted by: Blue Hen at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (Spluw)

49 The communists usually call them "Minders," and they are a well-established feature in all totalitarian regimes.

Posted by: Rolf at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (H+WqQ)

50 Be sure to face the viewscreen while taking a dump.

Posted by: brak at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (Tj+s6)

51
Nobody is following anyone into the bathroom.

Posted by: Vox at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (K8c3j)

52 I can't imagine not having absolutely any shame, but this is helping me envision it somewhat.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (5j6el)

53 And then we watched to make sure they only used one square of TP.

Posted by: Sheryl "Dingleberries" Crow at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (wAQA5)

54 MILLITARIZEDTHUGDONKS!

Posted by: mugiwara at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (06U11)

55 AtC. you're here?

I figured you'd blown away by now.

*ducks*

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (wVWRM)

56
"Peters said he was told by a staffer they were being escorted to prevent them from talking to members of Congress. "

That is so, so weird. I mean, members of congress just wander freely all over DC any day of the week. Why would it make any difference if they talked to them at the retreat?

Posted by: Lea at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (lIU4e)

57 I guess the NYT guy was upset he did not get a special dispensation for being from the Old Gray Lady. Or that they would not shake him dry.

Posted by: Penfold 25.3 at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (Fbt5B)

58 15

Who's your daddy?

hmmm?

Who's your daddy?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 02:55 PM (IXrO

I giggled

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (2Aj5D)

59 I'd call them a synonym for kitties, but that would be insulting to vaginas.

And to kitties.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (ZKzrr)

60 43 I'd invite one of the Dem handlers into the stall with me, saying, "I've got a terrible case of explosive diarrhea right now, and I'd really appreciate it if you just reassuringly held my hand when I sit on the toilet and endure the pain. But first, maybe you should put in these earplugs."
Posted by: zombie at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (K4YiS)

When I started reading this I thought you were going to ask one of them to wipe your ass.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (WNERA)

61

they have become afraid of the Bully Party

*ChrisMatthewsDroolsDribbles&SpitsAllOverHimself*

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 03:00 PM (IXrOn)

62 The Narrative must be controlled...

But I am very surprised the media is going along with this....

really.... this is my surprised face...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 30, 2015 03:00 PM (qh617)

63 24
And yet, despite complaining that they live in "a police state," they
STILL slant the news to favor their progressive overlords, and unfairly
slander those who want to dismantle the police state.

I'd call it "Stockholm Syndrome," but maybe "Liberal Bubble Syndrome" would be more accurate.
==========
Because the Dems may treat them like second-class pieces of shit but--to them--you are more evil.

Like I say: They're not going to like this new paradise they think they are building at all. And they'll still be blaming people like us while they're being lined up against the wall.

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 30, 2015 03:00 PM (5yHi1)

64 I thought all hard boiled reporter newsmen types did all their journalism stuff while at the hotel bar?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2015 03:00 PM (JO9+V)

65 I'm a Democrat and I'm here to help.

Posted by: FUBAR at January 30, 2015 03:00 PM (Dwehj)

66 >>The incident is reminiscent of the Clinton Global Initiative conference
in September, where reporters were being escorted by staff right up to
the bathroom stall.

Inevitable outcome after Obama's press office being so controlling of their message and the media for the past 6+ year...while the journalists and management just accepted it. Fish rots from the head down and all that.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2015 03:00 PM (ABcz/)

67 **clapclap** Wipers!

Posted by: 928 at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (evdj2)

68 Good night people time to go to cardio rehab

Posted by: wrg500 at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (sgrzZ)

69 All I want from a hypothetical future Republican administration is the appointing of the nastiest most abrasive asshole around as the White House Press Secretary.

Someone who will _every single day_ loudly and openly rub the noses of the press corps(e) in their ridiculous subservience to the Democratic Party.

"Ah, yeah, that's a great question you just asked about the deficit. Very tough. Very substantive. Imma let you finish asking that question and then I'll give you a tough substantive answer to go with. But before I do, I'm going to ask you a question. Why did you spend eight years of the previous administration *not* asking questions like this one, and instead asking ridiculous questions like, 'Did the President enjoy the green tea ice cream?'"

Posted by: torquewrench at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (noWW6)

70

Look at the quality of the "reporters."

Enough said.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (IXrOn)

71 30 Imagine if a Republican, yadda yadda yadda.
If anyone followed me into a bathroom like that, they'd better be prepared for my response.
Hint: It would be worth the bail money.
Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (mf5HN)

Actually, if these reporters had any brains at all, a few of them would get together, eat a few bean burritos and cabbage, then let the dem babysitters follow them into the bathroom for the fireworks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (DXcH1)

72 Well that would be an honest living at least.

Posted by: NCKate at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (EBMYe)

73 And was Barry in there handing out towels?

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (wAQA5)

74 So you don't have to go to the USSR to get followed any more?

What are these people thinking?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (0FSuD)

75 We'd better all get used to the idea - it's coming.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (2ePOO)

76 AtC. you're here?

I figured you'd blown away by now.

*ducks*
Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (wVWRM)

Ballast.

Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

77 Democratic operatives are shadowing reporters everywhere -- even into the bathrooms.

So many bad things/injuries can happen in a restroom....

Posted by: rickb223 MD 20/20 at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (czbC2)

78 The President of the US met with a batshit crazy woman who sat in a tub full of milk, cereal and God knows what else. And they said nothing.

What in Hell do they need escorts for?

Posted by: Blue Hen at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (Spluw)

79 So...why did they accept this treatment?
Why did no one say f* this, if you want my coverage you will treat me like a free citizen? Pretty much ensures it will become the norm.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (ABcz/)

80 59 I'd call them a synonym for kitties, but that would be insulting to vaginas.

And to kitties.
Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (ZKzrr

Scrunts?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (2Aj5D)

81 Why they have to escort them to the bathroom, I don't know

Democrats - We Like To Watch

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (j37Ud)

82 Posted by: torquewrench at January 30, 2015 03:01 PM (noWW6)

So you are saying "Press Secretary John Bolton"?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (wt/Oq)

83 Porcelain is amazing.

Posted by: Chris Hayes at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (Ks4nX)

84 Is it wrong that my only response to this is Nelson Mund style Ha Ha.

The assholes deserve each other.

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (MYCIw)

85 @63 - Oh dear, what can the matter be
Knob-gobbling scribes from the AP
All got locked in the lavatory
They stayed there from Monday to Saturday
Nobody knew they were there

Posted by: JEM at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (o+SC1)

86 But that would take brains and balls and reporters don't have either. Oops, was the balls remark crossing the line, CUNY?

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (DXcH1)

87 12
Why do reporters bother going to the events? Can't someone just text them what happened and maybe a picture and call it good?

Posted by: huerfano at January 30, 2015 02:54 PM (bAGA/)

and an approved article complete with each news orgs. personal logo. Turn-key operation.

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (klaU/)

88 Can we call this shit what is is, now? Totalitarianism.

Posted by: Feh at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (KGwO/)

89 Those reporters are going to end up looking like a freshly made Krispy Kreme donut.

Posted by: EC at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (doBIb)

90 Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

Over, maybe?

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (wVWRM)

91 In Union of Democratic States of America, fascist police minders control you!

(Wait, that's not even a joke...)

Posted by: zombie at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (K4YiS)

92 Why did no one say f* this, if you want my coverage you will treat me like a free citizen?

1) They do not believe in a free citizenry. Their world view is of ruler and ruled.
2) They support the Democrats to the point that they believe this is perfectly acceptable.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (kff5f)

93
AtC. you're here?

I figured you'd blown away by now.

*ducks*
Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 02:59 PM (wVWRM)

Ballast.

You're going to use Golfman as ballast? That's uncharacteristically merciful.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (JtwS4)

94 >>>Reporters Pretty Much Letting Democrats Masturbate All Over Them At Will Now<<<

Eventually, you come to accept it.

Posted by: The Barrel at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (f8y+G)

95 Folks forget that Winston Smith was a reporter who ended up loving big brother despite how big brother mistreated him.

Although, maybe it wasn't despite, perhaps it was because of the mistreatment.

Posted by: Tom In A Truck at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (0Yh03)

96 Why they have to escort them to the bathroom, I don't know.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 02:58 PM (wVWRM)

BECAUSE WE HAVE A DATA FIELD WHICH IS EMPTY ON MOST ENTRIES>

DATA FIELD = HOW MANY SHEETS OF TP>

HUMAN AGENT INTERACTION REQUIRED TO ACQUIRE DATA>

Posted by: Big Data at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (qh617)

97 I read Ben Stein's piece the other day. (His long rambling vacation piece) And he mentioned reading Gibbons' Decline and Fall... and how things came apart for them and how very much like today's America it was and is. The leaders get stupider and stupider and the money rises to the top. Meanwhile the odd decent emperor tries to save things and is usually assassinated. Meanwhile everyone up and down the line wonders why things are burning.

Yep.

Posted by: Hoped Up On Something at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (nSj9w)

98 89 Those reporters are going to end up looking like a freshly made Krispy Kreme donut.

Posted by: EC at January 30, 2015 03:03 PM (doBIb

Fresh donuts. YAY!!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (2Aj5D)

99 Two shakes only, please.

Posted by: Fritz at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (dVmLD)

100 So you are saying "Press Secretary John Bolton"?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (wt/Oq)

Press Secretary Alexthechick.
With a gilded step stool.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 30, 2015 03:05 PM (kff5f)

101 Escort to the bathroom? Pick me! Pick me!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 30, 2015 03:05 PM (KGwO/)

102 Are reporters BORN with their hands attached to their ankles? And their heads up their butts?

Posted by: 1bulwetweft - smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy at January 30, 2015 03:05 PM (h4UbF)

103 Or why didn't any of them record this behavior and publicly mock the whole thing? We know the Dems cannot stand to be mocked or outed for their ridiculous behavior.

Thought you weren't supposed to pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel....

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2015 03:05 PM (ABcz/)

104 If anyone followed me into a bathroom like that, they'd better be prepared for my response.

Hint: It would be worth the bail money.

Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (mf5HN)

You know, there are quite a few guys out there that would pay good money to get the stompyboot treatment from a lovely lass like yourself.

Posted by: mugiwara at January 30, 2015 03:06 PM (06U11)

105 Press Secretary Alexthechick.
With a gilded step stool.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 30, 2015 03:05 PM (kff5f)

We're gonna need a smaller podium.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 30, 2015 03:06 PM (da5Wo)

106 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 30, 2015 03:05 PM (kff5f)

This. Badass.

First time FYNQ would be aired in live TV.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 03:06 PM (wVWRM)

107 You're going to use Golfman as ballast? That's uncharacteristically merciful.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (JtwS4)

I am totes benevolentish!

Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 03:06 PM (mf5HN)

108 Nothing says "Democrat" more to me than a public restroom.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2015 03:06 PM (wAQA5)

109 30 Imagine if a Republican, yadda yadda yadda.

If anyone followed me into a bathroom like that, they'd better be prepared for my response.

Hint: It would be worth the bail money.
Posted by: alexthechick - XLII DD at January 30, 2015 02:57 PM (mf5HN)

Embrace your inner primate. It's easier for you to wash the shit off your hand than it will be for them to get it out of their eyes nose and mouth.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 30, 2015 03:07 PM (z/Ubi)

110 You have the motion-sensor paper towel dispensers rewired so that if you swipe your hand here paper comes out over there.

It's like the cat and the laser pointer. The reporters will be busy for hours.

Posted by: JEM at January 30, 2015 03:07 PM (o+SC1)

111 Escort to the bathroom...

OK... I pick that cute little intern over there....

Posted by: Bill Clinton, future First Gentleman at January 30, 2015 03:07 PM (qh617)

112 And, I think there is an even bigger story here that you can reason out.

Why are they following them everywhere--even to the bathroom?

Electronic communication, that's why--they want to prevent them from being able to talk to any one or to upload anything without being noticed; videos or pictures.

What does that then mean?

They fucking screen their phones and their persons before they let them leave the event!!!

That is, "show us all your recent photos and videos." And they then delete the ones they do not approve. That, that is what is the real story here they are far, far too scared to talk about.

Why else would they need someone to make sure they are not sneaking off to the bathroom UNLESS they have a set point of control where nothing leaves without their permission?

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 30, 2015 03:07 PM (5yHi1)

113 Hey guys! Sarah Palin bombed trying to ad-lib a speech!! let's have her shot!

Posted by: Our betters on both sides at January 30, 2015 03:07 PM (Spluw)

114 We're gonna need a smaller podium. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 30, 2015 03:06 PM (da5Wo)

The one from "Police Academy"?

Posted by: 1bulwetweft - smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy at January 30, 2015 03:07 PM (h4UbF)

115
So many bad things/injuries can happen in a restroom....

Posted by: rickb223 MD 20/20 at January 30, 2015 03:02 PM (czbC2)

...and they know where their kids go to school...it would be a shame if something happened to little Suzie on her way to ballet.

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 30, 2015 03:08 PM (klaU/)

116 I have shy bladder.

Posted by: Ezra Klein at January 30, 2015 03:08 PM (wAQA5)

117 Exactly, RoyalOil. What is the difference between this and the USSR?

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 30, 2015 03:08 PM (KGwO/)

118 I was surprised security took away my knee pads when I passed the check point. Fortunately I had a another pair stashed in my handbag.

Posted by: Nina D. Burleigh at January 30, 2015 03:08 PM (1BQGO)

119 If the press had any balls they'd get in there and bug the place before the event.

Posted by: JEM at January 30, 2015 03:08 PM (o+SC1)

120 I hope they kept them to 1 square only!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at January 30, 2015 03:08 PM (f8y+G)

121 Please use another glove said the NYT reporter - this one has brown stuff all over

Posted by: Obama at January 30, 2015 03:08 PM (gOizR)

122 And this is new, how?

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at January 30, 2015 03:09 PM (wVWRM)

123 One square for Fox reporters.

Posted by: Feh at January 30, 2015 03:09 PM (KGwO/)

124 Meanwhile everyone up and down the line wonders why things are burning.

Yep.

Posted by: Hoped Up On Something at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (nSj9w)

Some of us TRIED to tell them....

Posted by: Cicero at January 30, 2015 03:09 PM (qh617)

125 >>I'd call it "Stockholm Syndrome," but maybe "Liberal Bubble Syndrome" would be more accurate.

I think this also is the result of so many in the press being directly related to the WH and/or Democrats.
Will a reporter push back if he knows his boss has a brother who is a WH adviser, or his own wife is on the WH press office staff? What about if his wife is a Democrat PR consultant or head of a Lefty non-profit that works closely w/the Dems to get legislation passed?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2015 03:09 PM (ABcz/)

126 2005: speak truth to power!
2015: Truth is not allowed to wipe its ass without being monitored.

Posted by: 1984 as masturbation material at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (Spluw)

127 They should have just crapped in the hallways like we do.

Posted by: EPA employee at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (f8y+G)

128 whats the over / under on the MSM getting fed up with being treated like a abused spouse?

I have the 32nd of February 2017

Posted by: tfox72 at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (DVC2D)

129 Be sure to face the viewscreen while taking a dump.

Look at the flowers, zampolit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (JO9+V)

130 >>>I have shy bladder.

Posted by: Ezra Klein<<<

Mr. Fist has a remedy for that.

Posted by: Fritz at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (dVmLD)

131 >>One square for Fox reporters.

They were invited?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (ABcz/)

132 So does this happen at GOP events?

Posted by: Feh at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (KGwO/)

133 At a press conference with Democratic leadership, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) said they were not aware reporters were being followed.
"We were not aware they were following you. We had to have the security in the hotel that we were in because it was expected by Capitol Police that we would be secure. This hotel, where the press was located, we did not have those types of requirements. If you want to give me some names, I'm willing to talk to them. That was not at the direction of the caucus," Becerra said.

See? It was nobody's fault. It just happened.

Again.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 30, 2015 03:11 PM (JtwS4)

134 Posted by: Hoped Up On Something at January 30, 2015 03:04 PM (nSj9w)

Check your nic.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at January 30, 2015 03:11 PM (wVWRM)

135 Don't forget to tip the towel man.

Posted by: Nosy F*cking Democrat at January 30, 2015 03:11 PM (wAQA5)

136 I thought reporters shit in the hallway like all Dems.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (XVNm3)

137 What was the name of the young Nazi in The Sound of Music, Rolf?

These staffers and reporters are all Rolfs.

Posted by: Feh at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (KGwO/)

138 Posted by: RoyalOil at January 30, 2015 03:07 PM (5yHi1)

This.

They're willing to talk about the escorts. They're unwilling to even consider- let alone mention- what the escorts really signify.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (kff5f)

139 ...while I check mine.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (wVWRM)

140 That's not a gloryhole, that's an observation port.

Posted by: JEM at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (o+SC1)

141 tap, tap, tap, tap...

Posted by: Roy at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (VndSC)

142 Stomp.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (JtwS4)

143 Freedom of the press huh.

Our government is the mob. Organized crime, with the added benefit of being the only group of men who can carry guns around anywhere they want to.

More and more I have to think, there's no way out of this.

Fucking cocksuckers.

Posted by: Mrs. Ida Lowry at January 30, 2015 03:12 PM (6G698)

144 The media will whine a bit, and then they'll resume blowing every Democrat within a sixteen mile radius.

Posted by: radar at January 30, 2015 03:13 PM (kQfqk)

145 I gotta pee, Maybe they can help me find my penis.

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at January 30, 2015 03:13 PM (wAQA5)

146 Peters said he was told by a staffer they were being escorted to prevent them from talking to members of Congress.

Because why should us plebes be permitted to hear what our elected representatives have to say.

A pox on all their houses.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 30, 2015 03:13 PM (7ObY1)

147 I have the 32nd of February 2017

Posted by: tfox72 at January 30, 2015 03:10 PM (DVC2D)

Not going to happen. Most republicans would treat them as what they should be, a vital organ of a free society. The fact that they have, in their minds, joined the nomenklatura, and are therefore members of just a different wing of this government does not matter.

An earlier commenter had it right, they are more upset that this oversight is being directed at THEM (which makes them believe that the dems view them as traitors to the cause) than by the heavy handedness of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2015 03:14 PM (wt/Oq)

148 So you are saying "Press Secretary John Bolton"?

I say "Secretary of State John Bolton".

In my dreams.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 30, 2015 03:14 PM (7ObY1)

149 You can follow me to bathroom anytime fella...

Posted by: Don Lemon at January 30, 2015 03:14 PM (wAQA5)

150 >>>Press Secretary Alexthechick.
With a gilded step stool.
_________

With more ppunch
Can't wait til Alex throat punches Psaki and Pharf.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 30, 2015 03:14 PM (2Aj5D)

151 ATC and/or BC -
trying to listen to your podcasts, but I can't get it to play on my Samsung phone.
Do I need to download an app or something?

Posted by: shredded chi at January 30, 2015 03:14 PM (3Eg8d)

152 Don't worry ,dear reporters. After we're done talking, we'll invite you back in for tea, talking points, and bukakke.

Posted by: DC Democrats at January 30, 2015 03:15 PM (2Ojst)

153 "... Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_... and how things came apart for them and how very much like today's America it was and is."

I first read the _Decline_ about thirty years ago, and although from habit I read everything cover to cover assiduously, I honestly admit that it's a long boring slog in some places.

But even then I found myself stopping, and looking up and around, and thinking about increasingly evident parallels.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 30, 2015 03:15 PM (noWW6)

154 That NYT "reporter" complains, but he and his "paper of record" will continue to gargle the president's and the rest of the Demonrat's balls and support them in every way, forever.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 30, 2015 03:15 PM (72D6h)

155 Good, they can help me squeeze out of the stall when I'm done.

Posted by: Candy Crowley at January 30, 2015 03:15 PM (wAQA5)

156 Bukkake Corps

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at January 30, 2015 03:16 PM (27KAF)

157
Both parties feel they need protection from the citizenry.

If the citizenry knew exactly what the party members have done to them, there wouldn't be enough security if they borrowed the entirety of NATO.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 30, 2015 03:16 PM (2ePOO)

158 Y'know, we had to threaten and kill members of the press to get this sort of obeisance.

We're jealous.

Posted by: Zombie USSR at January 30, 2015 03:16 PM (7ObY1)

159 Ace's headline just captures exactly what the press and Demonrats have had going for quite some time:

"Bukkake Theatre"

Posted by: Sharkman at January 30, 2015 03:17 PM (72D6h)

160 and bukakke.

Oooh, I'm so excited!

(bounces up and down in chair)

Posted by: Fat Little Girl Chris Hayes at January 30, 2015 03:17 PM (7ObY1)

161 The joke is, what could they report on that could top the crap we've seen?

They either choose to ignore reporting on it (see Newsbusters.org), or they report on it with their own twist (see Newsbusters.org) or they report on it and everyone shrugs...

It's only if a conservative said or did it anyway.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2015 03:17 PM (IXrOn)

162 Bet nobody wants to escort Ed "I know nothing" Schultz to the can.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2015 03:17 PM (JO9+V)

163 I do know one thing though
They come they go
Saturday through Sunday,
Monday through Sunday
Yo.

Posted by: Democratic Minder of Press, Channeling Eminem at January 30, 2015 03:17 PM (CAJL/)

164 Nothing matters between elections. This is why campaigns cost so much for TV time. Voters find out all they need to know from TV political ads.

They hear on the news Obama wants free college. Yep that is my man there. I approve. Next week they forget.

Austerity will never beat free stuff when anyone can vote for their fair share.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 30, 2015 03:18 PM (WNERA)

165 I know it sounds like a faucet running in a full sink, gimme a break.

Posted by: Anderson Pooper at January 30, 2015 03:18 PM (wAQA5)

166 Nude Pod People.

Posted by: 928 at January 30, 2015 03:19 PM (evdj2)

167 But they still support Democrats blindly. So why whine? Just bend over and enjoy the drill and fill.

And journalism is still a respectable trade staffed by people interested in truth and balance.

Sure.

This country is coming apart at the seams because the media has abandoned truth for propaganda. They are the main cause. The perpetrators couldn't get away with it if they were honest.

May they be the first ones lined up against the wall when the firing squads and guillotines return.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2015 03:19 PM (GGCsk)

168 Can any of y'all hazard a guess as to why all the little icons in the lower right screen of my laptop ( speaker, internet connection, etc) have little red Xs? My touchpad won't work, either.

And how might I fix this without having to drag my husband in to it??

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 30, 2015 03:20 PM (Pauop)

169 How do they know which bathroom to escort Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein to?

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2015 03:20 PM (wAQA5)

170 Good, they can help me squeeze out of the stall when I'm done.

Posted by: Candy Crowley at January 30, 2015 03:15 PM (wAQA5)

First, the fire department needs to be summoned to bring the jaws of life and their 54" fan.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2015 03:20 PM (JO9+V)

171 It's not explosive diarrhea, it's more projectile.

Posted by: Anderson Pooper at January 30, 2015 03:21 PM (wAQA5)

172 I first read the _Decline_ about thirty years ago, and although from habit I read everything cover to cover assiduously, I honestly admit that it's a long boring slog in some places. But even then I found myself stopping, and looking up and around, and thinking about increasingly evident parallels.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 30, 2015 03:15 PM (noWW6)

There's condensed version out therethat still retains the meat of the original. I know Gibbon, a meticulous historian, was just trying to be thorough and complete, but I could've done without yearly Roman crop reports, frankly.

Posted by: troyriser at January 30, 2015 03:21 PM (CAJL/)

173
I get escorted to the bathroom all the time.
I'm gonna befour years old tomorrow.

Posted by: Kevin at January 30, 2015 03:21 PM (PEgKF)

174 Few professions can wipe their ass with their own work.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 30, 2015 03:21 PM (XVNm3)

175 >>Posted by: Candy Crowley at January 30, 2015 03:15 PM (wAQA5)
<<

They would need to grease the sides first, you fat ass, stupid oaf.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2015 03:21 PM (GGCsk)

176 166 Nude Pod People.

Posted by: 928 at January 30, 2015 03:19 PM (evdj2)

People is RAAAACIST....

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf, fighting for Wolf Rights at January 30, 2015 03:22 PM (qh617)

177 A security measure. Sure. That's why they used staffers, not security. That's why Press are credentialed and have to gain entry.

For security.

Posted by: Blue Hen at January 30, 2015 03:22 PM (Spluw)

178 "If the citizenry knew exactly what the party members
have done to them, there wouldn't be enough security if they borrowed
the entirety of NATO.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada"
This is what I have been trying to get people around me to see. Consider all the money over the years that has been confiscated from you by the state, all in a pile. Are you in debt? Are you able to support yourself going into retirement? How much different would your lives have been had that money not been stolen from you and pissed away in graft, waste, fraud and government agencies working against you.
People should be pretty damned pissed, But by and large they don't even know about the size of the pile.
If you work half of your life for another, under threat of violence, then you are a slave. Sure, you are not chained to a rock living in a cave; but that just makes you a comfortable slave.

Posted by: Mrs. Ida Lowry at January 30, 2015 03:23 PM (6G698)

179 Why do they whine?

Because they may be presstitutes, but they don't want to be *treated* like one.
They'd rather maintain the illusion that they're unbiased, independent reporters.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2015 03:23 PM (ABcz/)

180 Over at neighbors today helping fix computer issues.
His adult son was there and when I (naturally how could I not be political) mentioned the liberal press --

"There is just as much right wing news"

I stopped and just looked. I was polite and didn't ask for examples but I sooooo wanted to.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 30, 2015 03:25 PM (WNERA)

181 "The communists usually call them 'Minders,' and they are a well-established feature in all totalitarian regimes."

I had a fascinating conversation with an engineer who was detailed to go to the USSR during the Cold War, to consult on some complicated industrial equipment the Soviets had bought from his firm.

He said that literally the second he got off the plane in Moscow, his minder was waiting at the bottom of the airstairs. Big guy in a cheap cardboard suit with a completely unreadable poker face. Someone else performed the introductions and customs formalities. The minder simply stood there and watched, saying nothing.

He said that the minder was by his side the entire visit, weeks on end, at all times. Including trips to the men's room. Russian lavatories of the era often lacked privacy dividers between toilets, and the minder even started to come inside to watch him take a dump. Saying nothing, just shouldering in through the partly closed door.

The minder sat silently on a chair outside his hotel room door at night.

Only very occasionally would the minder be temporarily spelled by another minder who might have been a cousin. And was identically eerily silent.

When he left the USSR, the minder followed him right to the base of the airstair at Sheremetyevo. Waited until the cabin door closed and the stairs were pulled away.

Never said one word in any language the entire time. Other Soviet officials spoke volubly, but not the minder.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 30, 2015 03:26 PM (noWW6)

182 Tammy,
I think quite a few people are upstairs in the new thread.

My thought is the red x's mean everything is off.
maybe open control panel & try to turn them back on manually?
OR just re-boot?

Good luck.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 30, 2015 03:26 PM (3Eg8d)

183 If the press had any balls they'd get in there and bug the place before the event.
Posted by: JEM

If the RNC/GOPe had any brains.......

Posted by: rickb223 MD 20/20 at January 30, 2015 03:27 PM (czbC2)

184 Sounds like the Soviet Union or North Korea.

Posted by: Grabthar's Hammer at January 30, 2015 03:29 PM (Edob3)

185 chi, thanks! I can't do anything like turn it off because the touchpad thingee also does not work.

I shall ask upstairs!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 30, 2015 03:29 PM (Pauop)

186 I propose "Morone" for guys (or penis enviers), "Morona" and "Moronita" for gals (or those who self-identify as vagina holders) and "Moroni" as a collective noun. "(s)He's a proud member of the Moroni" someone might remark.

Posted by: docweasel at January 30, 2015 03:29 PM (DzQH3)

187 Any reporter with even a single deflated ball (let alone two functional ones) would be writing and protesting about this over and over.
Of course, it's Dems doing the piss monitoring, so it's OK with our journalism school grads.

Posted by: dave at January 30, 2015 03:31 PM (8uzdZ)

188 "It was a police state....."

That is exactly what the democrats are trying to achieve at a much larger scale with the country. Doesn't the NYT know their masters?

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at January 30, 2015 03:33 PM (Bjd6M)

189 This shows how much Dems care about people and don't want anything bad to happen to them. We just loved all the attention and felt much safer. Wouldn't anybody?

Posted by: Critically Thinking Reporter at January 30, 2015 03:35 PM (1BQGO)

190 I hope the reporters are wearing full-body condoms.

Posted by: Hepcat at January 30, 2015 03:42 PM (IeR2g)

191 Democrats and reporters all together in one place?

Anyone got a spare nuke?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 30, 2015 03:45 PM (wtvvX)

192 So leftist MSM reporters are OK with a police state. That pretty much confirms what many of us suspected.

Posted by: rickl at January 30, 2015 03:46 PM (zoehZ)

193 Commissars.

Posted by: Randy Westerfeld at January 30, 2015 03:50 PM (rJRsj)

194 So leftist MSM reporters are OK with a police state.

That depends on who the police are.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 30, 2015 03:56 PM (W5DcG)

195
They object?

No they don't...this is the natural path of progressivism.

You think it was any different in the USSR? no, they want this.

Yes, they want it. That's why it's happening.

If progs abhor freedom, why wouldn't progs in jorunalism also hate? they are assholes just like the rest, but have the power to change things.

Which is why they go into it...

They suck.

Posted by: Rev Dr Dumb Bunnies at January 30, 2015 03:59 PM (cNiT0)

196 I admire the presstitutes' capability to multi-task for the Democrat Party.

The cowardly press willingly serve as fluffers, the ones doing the dirty in whatever form demanded by the democrats and then do the laundry afterwards. I bet the GOP wished they had such good service from the Fourth Estate.

Posted by: John Doe@Another Quidam at January 30, 2015 04:09 PM (zsZgu)

197
Imagine that all these people, who are stupid in general, went to college and universities that were as closely alinged with what Bill Ayers preaches as Barry's pant creases to his studly legs.

It has to happen tihs way, because it is how the who process works. Ayers has so much influence in higher education, and it's not just him,, obviously.

That bitchwhore wife of his is also influential...and there are thousands more like those two assholes.

So, they are totally on board with all of it.

Posted by: Rev Dr Dumb Bunnies at January 30, 2015 04:10 PM (cNiT0)

198 189 This shows how much Dems care about people and don't want anything bad to happen to them. We just loved all the attention and felt much safer. Wouldn't anybody?

Posted by: Critically Thinking Reporter at January 30, 2015 03:35 PM (1BQGO)

I certainly wouldn't want a Democrat to follow me into the mens' room. You know Democrats routinely ... uh ... "socialize" there.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 30, 2015 04:10 PM (oKE6c)

199 "It was a police state....."

"... they treated me like I was a conservative!"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 30, 2015 04:12 PM (oKE6c)

200 They probably arrest regular citizens on sight.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2015 04:18 PM (08Znv)

201 Escort girls http://REGMODELS.RU

Posted by: Tina at January 30, 2015 04:23 PM (uV0j1)

202 Yeah, but it's Democrats, so it's totally OK and not creepy and not fascist.

/the reporters think they will be eaten last. They are wrong...

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 30, 2015 04:28 PM (trX1O)

203 Freedom of the press!?!?!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They deserve this ...next up stool samples!

Posted by: RGallegos at January 30, 2015 04:45 PM (D6AwL)

204
"And yet, despite complaining that they live in "a police state," they
STILL slant the news to favor their progressive overlords, and unfairly
slander those who want to dismantle the police state.

"I'd call it 'Stockholm Syndrome,' but maybe 'Liberal Bubble Syndrome' would be more accurate."

I'd call it "I Don't Have a Marketable Skill And If I Don't Claque For My Overlords, I'll Find Myself On The Bricks" syndrome.

Posted by: Brown Line at January 30, 2015 05:00 PM (zcbZo)

205 Call me naive, but I'm guessing that I should not Google "bukkake" to find out what it is.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at January 30, 2015 05:06 PM (0RdKg)

206 Call me naive, but I'm guessing that I should not Google "bukkake" to find out what it is."

At least wait till your wife goes to bed like the rest of us.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at January 30, 2015 06:07 PM (ZufZo)

207 Eventually they'll just shoot them behind the ear. Rule .32

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2015 06:28 PM (42OVs)

208 I remember taking my CPA exam in the Tarrant County Convention Center...don't remember the year but it's Mike Ditka had a heart attack while I was taking it. I don't think there was a correlation between the two things.

Anyway, it was so eerie walking into a huge room with so many people and it was so quiet...it was unreal. But what capped the deal was going to the bathroom, and realizing there were proctors sitting in the bathroom, making sure you didn't have anything with you (and probably that you didn't spend too much time in the stalls). These poor grunts were just trying to get a few extra hours applied to their annual requirements, and I thought any course on Exceptions on Calculating 409As had to be better than this.

Guess it could have also been viewed as training for the Obama administration.

Posted by: keninnorcal at January 30, 2015 07:19 PM (On0/h)

209 That headline is not an image I want during dinner.

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at January 30, 2015 07:39 PM (UaV8u)

210 Am I too late for the thread?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 30, 2015 08:45 PM (AVEe1)

211 "At a Democrat retreat, Democratic operatives are shadowing reporters everywhere -- even into the bathrooms."

Hey reporters.

You built that.

Now swallow.

Posted by: dissent555 at January 31, 2015 12:58 AM (yR6A1)

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