Did McCain Oust a Reporter From Event Because He Was Black?

There has been much talk this week regarding John McCain’s apparent turnaround with regards to the press; many people are remarking that the much ballyhooed “Straight Talk Express” has changed lanes. The most recent, and perhaps extreme, case in point is that of Stephen Price, a senior reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat who was kicked out of a McCain event yesterday. He was later told he’d been asked to leave because he was a local reporter in an area reserved for national ones (but wait, isn’t McCain supposed to be all

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