This Can't be True

Can it?

Reportedly, a journalist from the Orlando Sentinel Reporter, Scott Powers, was to cover a Democratic fund-raiser at philanthropist Alan Ginsburg's home in Winter Park, FL. Powers was the designated "pool reporter" for Vice President Joe Biden's Wednesday visit to the massive home. The veep hadn't arrived yet but most of the 150 guests were "busy noshing on caprice crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and Gorgonzola cheese and bacon deviled eggs, before a lunch of grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps."

Not so for Powers, who was unceremoniously placed into a storage closet, guarded by a "low-level staffer" and not allowed to leave while the staffer stood guard outside. "When I'd stick my head out, they'd say, 'Not yet. We'll let you know when you can come out.'"

What else can I say? This administrations ongoing lies about transparency is a joke. I don't expect anyone really believed that from the outset, but to allegedly lock a reporter in a closet? Are you kidding me?

Newsbusters has the story, via the Drudge Report.