Refreshing Tea Party people don't apologize for being alive

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3/18/11, "Hidden-camera activist James O'Keefe turns away APP videographer," Asbury Park Press

Transcript from video and introduction from Romenesko:

"An Asbury Park Press videographer was told to leave after James O'Keefe said he didn't want to be videotaped while speaking Thursday to members of the Bayshore Tea Party and their supporters at the Ye Cottage Inn in Keyport, NJ."...

"Bayshore Tea Party member Charles Measley tells the Asbury Park Press staffer [from the video]:

"You can take still pictures. If you want to ask him to film an interview afterwards, you have to ask him that. But you cannot film or record during the event. That's what he requested."

Bayshore Tea Party founder Barbara Gonzalez then tells the newspaper:

"People came here to hear him speak, and if he walks out - I'm not saying he will - but if he walked out I would feel bad for the people who paid a lot of money to come and hear his presentation. ...You can tape me, that's fine, if you feel that it would be to benefit you to make us look bad because of this, I have very thick skin, okay.""

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My thought is how normal the Tea Party members sound compared to average elected Republicans. In this and other examples I've read, they think and speak clearly, are polite, understand the media is not their boss or parent and move on. Al Gore never allowed media into his global warming speeches though they were intended to affect billions in investment, and would starve and kill some people via ethanol as Gore has since admitted.

via Poynter.org/Romenesko