Curse the luck!  Here we have a great news story about unlawful confinement and an attack on freedom of the press at a political fund raiser featuring the Vice President of the United States, and we have the wrong damn V.P. in office.  This is so not news!

"First off, it was a bad thing that they wouldn't let me interact with other guests," 11-year Orlando Sentinel newspaper veteran Scott Powers, 51 told the Post today.

"It was silly and stupid and it annoyed the hell out of me.  And second, it was a highly inappropriate and demeaning place to put someone."

"They told me, ‘you wait in here until the vice president comes,' and every time I stuck my head out, they'd say ‘he's not here yet.'"

"I guess they didn't want me to get any state secrets."

After Joe Biden arrived, Powers was escorted to the room where the V.P. was to speak.  He was given a "Bob Uecker seat" at the rear of the room where he strained to get a glimpse of Mr. Biden over the 150 Democrat supporters in attendance. 

With the fund raiser winding down, Powers was given an apology by Mr. Ginsburg.  "He said he had no idea that the VP's team put me in his closet," Powers said.  "It was a nice apology, gracious."  In stark contrast to the "gracious" apology from his host, Powers received an email from Biden's press secretary which he described as "something less than heartfelt," adding that "It was one or two sentences, like, sorry it happened to you."