From yesterday's Froomkin....

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Here's something from yesterday's Froomkin that bears comment:

The Soapbox Alliance

Oren Dorell writes in USA Today this morning: "A Pennsylvania college that was the scene of a protest against Vice President Cheney is trying to start a movement to ban politicians from holding closed meetings restricted to supporters on all campuses in the nation.

"The Soapbox Alliance started by professors at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., says it is opposed to allowing politicians of any party to use colleges as a backdrop for their rallies. The alliance has sent letters to 600 other colleges and universities in the hope that they too will refuse to let their facilities be used for such events.

"Colleges have shown little enthusiasm for the idea. And political operatives question whether rallies should include people who don't support the candidate.

"'It's a nice concept, but people tend to misbehave,' says Trent Duffy, former deputy press secretary for President Bush."

From the Soapbox Alliance Web site: "By tightly controlling access to campaign events, modern political strategists are subverting the American tradition of the town hall meeting and undermining the foundation of our democracy."

I wonder if sycophant Shitrag Duffy would classify lying us into war, killing over 4,000 Americans and countless Iraqis, and failing the entire nation for the last seven years as "misbehaving." Choke on your turkey, you fuck.