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Thursday, Oct 16 at 1 p.m. ET | Post columnist Dana Milbank, who serves as the capital's foremost critic of political theater in his Washington Sketch columns, takes your questions and comments about the things politicians say -- and the absurd ways they find to say them.
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‘In cooperation with the Palin campaign,’ Secret Service now blocking reporters.
Think Progress — ... Today in a Washington Post chat, Dana Milbank revealed that — in “a serious violation of their duty” — the Secret Service is now preventing the press from interviewing attendees at McCain-Palin rallies: ...

Secret Service Blocking Reporters At Palin Rallies: Milbank
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... , the Washington Post's Dana Milbank reveals in an online chat that the Secret Service is stopping people reporters from interviewing people at Palin rallies: ...

Secret Service Blocking Reporters At Palin Rallies: Milbank
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... , the Washington Post's Dana Milbank reveals in an online chat that the Secret Service is stopping people reporters from interviewing people at Palin rallies: ...

Controlling A Free Press
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... We know that Palin refuses to have a press conference, or to allow even follow-up questions from Alaskan reporters on Troopergate, when she simply flatly denied reality. Now she has persuaded the secret service to bar reporters from even interviewing her supporters. Milbank: ...

Secret Service Rejects Dana Milbank’s Claim regarding Press Treatment at Palin Rally
Patterico's Pontifications — ... regarding Dana Milbank’s claim that the Secret Service was running interference at Sarah Palin rallies to keep the press away from her supporters: ...

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