Welp…
An Atlantic journalist dubbed a “top-notch hater” by Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s team and thrown out at Crockett’s rally in Lubbock, Texas, on Friday, released audio from the moment she was told to leave the lawmaker’s campaign event.
Elaine Godfrey, a staff writer covering national politics for the outlet, was wearing her press badge identifying who she was and had “attempted to join a closed-door press scrum with the congresswoman that was open to the other reporters at the rally,” but was turned away. Instead, she decided to start interviewing people in the crowd when a security guard walked up to her and told her she needed to leave, escorting her away.
In the unedited transcript Godfrey reveals what happened during the incident.
Woman: Can you get your stuff? (Speaking to someone else.) Her team wants her to leave, and they’re asking her to leave.
Godfrey: Why are you asking me to leave?
Woman: They just said, ‘Elaine from Atlantic, white girl with a hat and notepad. She’s interviewing people in the crowd. She’s a top-notch hater and will spin. She needs to leave.’ (Speaking to someone else.) I just told her to get her bag and go [unintelligible] that’s from her team.
Godfrey, who needed to get an Uber from the location, was then told by a security guard to go wait outside the event, along the side of a country road.
She got an Uber and then followed up with Crockett directly on Friday.
“After getting picked up by the Uber, I went straight to Lubbock’s famous Prairie Dog Town, where I received a warmer welcome,” Godfrey wrote. “I called Crockett directly today to ask about all of this. When she answered, and I told her who was calling, she said, ‘Oh!,’ sounding surprised, and hung up. She did not respond to my follow-up texts.”
Crockett’s team has said there is no evidence that a journalist was booted from the rally.
Godfrey told CNN that plenty of people also witnessed what happened — and that she has the receipts to show for it, including the recording.
And this is why Talarico is the better candidate. Not because he’s more electable as a white christian man, but because he’s more measured and understands how to handle contentious reporters or leading questions. Maybe he and his team have also thrown out journalists at their events, but I’d wager against it.
The website is cancer and there was barely any context or conclusion of that article. There was more ad than content
But at least we know she got an uber
Literally every political news feed site. Invest zero dollars in an Ad Blocker.
I don’t know this reporter, I don’t know the whole situation, but if it was a private event and they told you to leave…okay? Press badge isn’t an “I go anywhere and do what I want” badge.
Elaine Godfrey, a staff writer covering national politics for the outlet, was wearing her press badge identifying who she was and had “attempted to join a closed-door press scrum with the congresswoman that was open to the other reporters at the rally,”
Other reporters being there is where the issue lies.
A closed door press scrum. Those usually have a list, if she wasn’t on the list then she doesn’t get in. That’s…how all of this works? I don’t understand what the outrage is about, this is pretty standard shit
Why normalize it? She’s from The Atlantic. Its not like she’s a Breitbart reporter? This should be no different than the White House booting BBC reporters out of the press pool for their press conferences.
have you been to a closed door event? you’re not on the list and you try to get in, you have to go. a press badge is not a “i go where i want” badge
