While the busloads are trying to bring in enough people to fill the Bank of America Stadium (a.k.a. The Stadium That Must Not Be Named) in Charlotte, the media’s not happy:
Reporters scolded by Democratic garbage police, i.e., “environmental consultants”
Throughout Charlotte’s Time Warner Cable Arena are special garbage cans marked “Compost,” “Recycle,” and “Landfill.” Each come with signs showing what is to go into them, though most of the errant garbage tossers seem to be using the “Recycle” bins since they don’t have special covers.
At many garbage stations there are “environmental consultants” to help people choose the right bin, or, if need be, reach in and move the garbage to the right one. For example, one of the consultants repeatedly stopped kitchen help at the trash cans to advise which cans to use: cardboard in “Recycle,” food in “Compost,” styrofoam cups in “Landfill.”
One reporter said that a consultant scolded her for not paying attention and using the wrong bins. Another said that one of the consultants — who were barred from talking to the media — pulled his plastic cup out of “Recycle” to place in the “Compost” bin, explaining that the cup was biodegradable. “How am I supposed to know that? It’s plastic,” he said.
Worse yet, they’re being put up in The Crack Hotels of the DNC (h/t Ed Driscoll)
I can’t speak for the delegates or ther foreign dignitaries, but many of the journalists I have spoken with here are appalled at the accommodations in Charlotte to which they were assigned by the DNC. National Review was assigned to two Knights Inn properties. Everyone who saw them fled immediately across state lines to an available Marriott in South Carolina rather than stay there. As one of our political correspondents reported:
The Knights Inn was the worst hotel I have ever seen, and I’ve stayed in many bad motels in my life. Two guys were dealing drugs in the room next to me, and a prostitute was working out of the parking lot. And this was in the early afternoon. The room itself was dirty, full of other people’s stuff, etc.
I have never requested a hotel change in 3 years at NR. This was the first time I felt absolutely compelled.
It’s not as if the DNC couldn’t have figured out something was wrong with the properties. TripAdvisor had these recent comments on one of the Knights Inn properties: “wouldn’t recommend it to my worst enemy,” “scared to death,” and “pimps and prostitutes at night.”
Nor was National Review singled out. Staff members from Politico and theHill abandoned their assigned hotels, too. Staffers from the Hill found refuge in a cheap Microtel and considered it a comparative oasis.
A lesser blogger than I may digress into snark and may point out that the media has insisted on carrying a one-sided fellational relationship with their idol, so they shouldn’t be surprised that he doesn’t respect them in the morning.
So little respect is there, that, instead of having respected journalists (oxymoronic as that may sound) host coverage for Thursday’s event on BarackObama.com, it’s going to be Kumar.
Kumar? What about Harold? Well, Harold’s in the ad, too, but apparently only Kumar gets to host,
“Could be worse: could be raining.”
The Bank of America Stadium is open-air.
Related,
Record-high Labor Day gasoline prices greet Democrats in Charlotte
Democratic convention sources have indicated that the ‘contingency plan’ is at an advanced stage and that a move to the stadium appears certain.
Anything to avoid the bad optics.
