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Now the Manchester is ‘dingy’
Apparently the Middletown’s downtown hotel has been downgraded by Newsweek magazine in its latest issue.
In this week’s story about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and about how some staffers dispatched by Sen. John McCain, the GOP’s presidential nominee, to come to Middletown to assist the governor while she was “holed up” here. The story referred to the Manchester Inn & Conference Center, not by name, but as “a dingy Ohio hotel.”
Last month in a Newsweek article, McCain staffer Nicolle Wallace described the Manchester’s $89 a night rooms as being “unposh.”
So what’s worse? “Unposh” or “dingy”?
Palin and her family flew to Middletown and stayed overnight at the Manchester the night before McCain announced her as his running mate on the GOP ticket at a rally in Dayton last month.
Middletown was obviously picked because Hook Field’s runway could accommodate the jets bringing the Palin family to Ohio and was close enough to Dayton, but just far enough not to catch the attention of the national press covering the McCain campaign.
Again, we know the Manchester isn’t the Ritz Carlton or anything “posh.” But as one of its owners, Perry Thatcher recently said, “the Manchester doesn’t intend to be a posh hotel, just a good hotel serving Middletown.”
It’s just too bad Middletown and the Manchester continues to get a bad rap when this story gets retold in the national press.
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