From Rick Moran at Pajamas Media:
The dungeon that the GOP has put bloggers in this time around would be familiar to Torquemada and his buddies who made the Spanish Inquisition such a great party. And the labyrinth one has to navigate to find the darn place would tax the abilities of a carrier pigeon. I honestly felt like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs when I went out for a quick smoke. Not that it would do any good. The food on our level is so bad that I have no doubt some ravenously hungry media type would have preferred the breadcrumbs to the greasy, tasteless crud they were serving at the kiosks. If I wanted the same stuff they serve at a hockey game, I would go to the Libertarian convention down the way.
What a whining little [expletive deleted]. Really, there’s no other way to say it. He expects the RNC (or anybody really) to give him a comfy chair, internet connection, and a steak because BY GOD HE’S THE MEDIA (well sort of)! Shit, if this is what all bloggers are like I wouldn’t want them anywhere near me either.
Yeah, it was pretty bad for some of the bloggers at the RNC. A colleague of mine at PBS wrote about the poor conditions she witnessed while covering the convention.
Ok, but comparing it to the Spanish Inquisition? That’s not just a bad metaphor, it’s a several-orders-of-magnitude bad metaphor.