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Barack "Hussein" Obama

Monday, July 7, 2008

Obama’s Mystery Taping..So They Say...

With his pool crew in tow, Barack Obama headed to the Clark Chateau Museum, a stately brick mansion on Washington Street in Butte, Montana. The candidate was to do some sort of taping, the campaign said. We were initially told the taping had something to do with the DNC Convention, but the campaign later advised pool reporters waiting outside on the press bus that the taping was a routine taping with the campaign’s new media division, a group of staffers who shoot on DV cameras for the campaign’s website, much as the embed producers for the networks cover presidential candidates.
After an hour and ten minutes inside, the candidate emerged and got back on his bus. Following him out of the building - crews carrying Super 16 film cameras and one Davis Guggenheim, the director of the Academy Award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
A woman named Aleish riding on the press bus - not a regular in the traveling press corps - informed the pool that she was a makeup artist hired by Essence, and spilled that they were inside doing a documentary for the DNC. Not so said traveling press secretary Jen Psaki, who emailed this producer, “It is a new media taping and [I] don’t have anything else to add.”
Poolers scratched their heads on the ride back to Obama’s Butte hotel, and when we arrived, Guggenheim emerged from Obama’s bus. The pool approached Mr. Guggenheim in the hotel parking lot, and the filmmaker admitted he’d interviewed Obama. Seeing cameras running and pens scribbling, he told the press he’d talk to us after he cleared it with the campaign as he wasn’t sure the mystery taping was on the record. He added with a laugh that he was traveling with his young son, who stood by his side.
Perhaps realizing Guggenheim and his crew then boarded the press bus to a hotel around the corner, Psaki sent the pool another email reading, “Was a new media taping for the dnc. I am sorry we were not more specific. We don’t have additional details to share at this time.”
Watch Guggenheim talk to press here:

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