Saturday, July 31, 2004
Please tell me how requesting the race of a photographer going to a GOP campaign event isn't offensive and wrong? Better yet, ask Dick Cheney.
President Bush's re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph Vice President Dick Cheney.
The [Arizona Daily] Star refused to provide the information.
Cheney is scheduled to appear at a rally this afternoon at the Pima County Fairgrounds.
A rally organizer for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign asked Teri Hayt, the Star's managing editor, to disclose the journalist's race on Friday. After Hayt refused, the organizer called back and said the journalist probably would be allowed to photograph the vice president.
The claim was that the information was needed "for security purposes." BS.
