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PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE
Fri Oct 31 2008 08:39:55 ET

**Exclusive**

The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its
plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states — and
all three endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!

The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been
told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs — and
possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines,
ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Despite pleas from top editors of the three newspapers that have
covered the campaign for months at extraordinary cost, the Obama
campaign says their reporters — and possibly others — will have to
vacate their coveted seats so more power players can document the
final days of Sen. Barack Obama's historic campaign to become the
first black American president.

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Some told the DRUDGE REPORT that the reporters are being ousted to
bring on documentary film-makers to record the final days; others
expect to see on board more sympathetic members of the media,
including the NY TIMES' Maureen Dowd, who once complained that she was
barred from McCain's Straight Talk Express airplane.

After a week of quiet but desperate behind-the-scenes negotiations,
the reporters of the three papers heard last night that they were
definitely off for the final swing. They are already planning how to
cover the final days by flying commercial or driving from event to
event.

Developing . . .
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