After noting that reporters will not have access to a Paul Ryan finance event tonight, Reuters campaign correspondent Sam Youngman treated his followers to hours of non-stop whining about the decision and the Ryan campaign.
Ryan spokesman Mike Steel tweeted a picture of Ryan speaking to overflow. He did not mention to the traveling press corps. #bold
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 14, 2012
Stunning to me that a traveling press corps that pays handsomely to be here not notified by the traveling press sec that Ryan is speaking
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 14, 2012
Btwn secret overflow and secret donor gathering, Mike Steel taking too literal "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 14, 2012
That was Ryan's now standard stump speech. Again, I don't know what he said outside.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 15, 2012
And I don't know what he'll say behind closed doors at tonight's "fundraising event."
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 15, 2012
Sorry. That should have been "finance event." Before today, there was no distinction between that and a fundraiser.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 15, 2012
We wonder if Youngman would complain as much about President Barack Obama, who has not answered a substantive question from reporters in more than eight weeks.
Several followers noticed the bellyaching and offered some good advice:
https://twitter.com/JakeWilk/status/235524581211918336
@samyoungman My TL has been filled with you complaining for the last 30 minutes. Grow up
— Ben (@ben_woods15) August 15, 2012
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