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The AP’s Christina Hoag reports that Brenda Lee, a reporter for the Georgia Informer, was dragged kicking and screaming from the press area near Air Force One at Los Angeles International airport (LAX) Thursday morning.
“Airport security officers carried the woman away by the feet and arms as she protested her removal,” Hoag writes.
She’s sorry, so sorry. Please accept her apology.
What the hell is a “Roman Catholic Priestess”? Does that mean she can put roots on a bruva?
Was she wearing a pink tutu and a fake crown at the time?
J.
She may as well have been. Or is that supposed to be another silly blow for equivalence yet again?
And I can imagine this wackjob will claim she’s the victim here, because her purse is bulging with the love of Christ or some shit like that. Christians love to play the ‘oh poor me I am oppressed’ card as often as they can.
Jayteabag, don’t try and be funny. You just aren’t. Wingnuts don’t know how to do comedy.
Wasn’t going for funny, BurningFart. Just that when news like someone acting like a dipshit like this, it’s most often the Code Pink dipshits. And since they’ve managed to repeatedly disrupt events like Congressional hearings and assault past and present government officials, it’s no wonder that others have taken that as license to pull the same bullshit stunts.
This sort of bullshit is wrong. I don’t care if it’s Code Pink, gay marriage nuts (of either side), anti-war dipshits, anti-abortion whackos, or any other nuts.
Letting it slide in the past pretty much guarantees that others will pull it in the future.
J.
Letting it slide in the past pretty much guarantees that others will pull it in the future.
I can’t remember if you’ve stated your opinion on it, but from this I take it you’d be in favor of investigations into the allegations that Bush/Cheney broke the law on numerous occasions.
Sean, the subject here is whacko protesters assaulting public officials — the two examples that come to mind is Medea Benjamin’s attacks on Condoleezza Rice in a Congressional hearing and Donald Rumsfeld a few weeks ago.
J.
Jay Tea:
When was Condi attacked? Benjamin just called Condi what she was to her face.
Check out the video. She ran right up to Rice, screamed at her, and had her hands all around Rice’s head — fulfilling any legal definition of “assault.”
And that was at a Congressional hearing, when Congress (a Democratically-controlled Congress at the time, as I recall) is supposedly responsible for the well-being and safety of those it compels to appear.
Whoops, my error — it wasn’t Benjamin, it was Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, her hands painted red, who got into a Congressional hearing room without being stopped and got literally within inches of the Secretary of State in October of 2007.
J.
Right winger “Jay Tea” is a like a gift, he perpetually discredits the right wing.
Sean points out that “Jay Tea’s” assertion that “Letting it slide in the past pretty much guarantees that others will pull it in the future” logically leads to Sean’s conclusion that “from this I take it you’d be in favor of investigations into the allegations that Bush/Cheney broke the law on numerous occasions.”
But instead of acknowledging the overwhelming evidence supporting the allegations of Republican Bush and Cheney’s war crimes, torture crimes, murder allegations, and assorted other criminal accusations against Bush and Cheney, right winger “Jay Tea” makes the absurd false equivalency between a few instances of overzealous free speech advocates that wear pink shirts and wave red painted hands at a distance.
This lady is seriously crazy:
Timecube!
Jay Tea: Letting it slide in the past pretty much guarantees that others will pull it in the future.
SDM: I can’t remember if you’ve stated your opinion on it, but from this I take it you’d be in favor of investigations into the allegations that Bush/Cheney broke the law on numerous occasions.
Jay Tea: Sean, the subject here is whacko protesters assaulting public officials — the two examples that come to mind is Medea Benjamin’s attacks on Condoleezza Rice in a Congressional hearing and Donald Rumsfeld a few weeks ago.
Yes, your “it” specifically referred to “whacko protesters” but I would have thought it clear, Jay, that I was asking whether you maintained your view in a broader context.
If letting bad behaviors go unpunished is a bad thing to do because it assures they will happen again, shouldn’t acting against bad behaviors be applied at all levels? By dodging that with a “I was only talking about rowdy protesters” are you meaning to suggest that bad behaviors should not be allowed to slide when more serious crimes are involved?
Jay Tea: Check out the video. She ran right up to Rice, screamed at her, and had her hands all around Rice’s head
OK, I did. If this is the incident you’re referring to (let me know if it isn’t) it doesn’t look to me like she has her hands “all around Rice’s head”. She actually bends her elbows, pulling her hands back from Rice (to keep them in Rice’s line of sight?) at closest approach. Other videos of the same incident with a wider view show she walked up to Rice. I’m not saying it wouldn’t necessarily meet a legal definition of assault, but it’s not as you describe it. (And it’s not even Benjamin.)
Jay Tea: Whoops, my error — it wasn’t Benjamin
OK, I should read posts all the way to the end before posting a reply. (Of course, when you first paragraph says it’s Benjamin it doesn’t occur to me you’ll correct that in the last paragraph. Why not just correct the first paragraph before hitting the Submit button?”
In any event, it does make it clear that that is the incident you were referring to. And it didn’t happen (“ran up to her” “hands all around her head”) as you describe.
SDM: are you meaning to suggest that bad behaviors should
notbe allowed to slide when more serious crimes are involved?Fixed my typo. (There’s always that errant “not” that doesn’t get removed when editing re-working the sentence for clarity.)
This sort of bullshit is wrong. I don’t care if it’s Code Pink, gay marriage nuts (of either side), anti-war dipshits, anti-abortion whackos, or any other nuts.
Jay, who are some of the nuts on the pro-gay marriage side?
Why that would be Perez Hilton, silly! He had the gall to ask Carrie Prejean a question about gay marriage which MaKeS hIm aN EnEmY oF The rEpUbLic!!11!1!!eleventy!!!!
What the hell is a “Roman Catholic Priestess”?
Used to be, that was what was known as a witch.
Why that would be Perez Hilton, silly! He had the gall to ask Carrie Prejean a question about gay marriage which MaKeS hIm aN EnEmY oF The rEpUbLic!
That would be the Perez Hilton who asked a loaded question of woman he knew to have had a Christian upbringing who was representing a state which had recently taken extraordinary steps to vote against gay marriage and then lambasted her when she gave an answer that respectfully acknowledged that others have different views but she did not support gay marriage?
That would be the Perez Hilton who forces his lifestyle on people by publicly exposing their private lives in a supposed effort to get people to stop forcing their lifestyles on him?
Yeah, he’s not a nut at all.
Sean:I can’t remember if you’ve stated your opinion on it, but from this I take it you’d be in favor of investigations into the allegations that Bush/Cheney broke the law on numerous occasions.
Jay Tea
May 28, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Sean, the subject here is whacko protesters assaulting public officials…
So, no, then?
Last week a dentist used a ray gun to dry a filling; it sent shockwaves through the body. Now there are headaches and pains that shoot from one side of the head to the other from time to time.
Pretty sure it was like that before she got to the dentist.
First off, Perez Hilton is a douchebag, so who cares what he thinks?
Secondly, Carrie Prejean LOST Miss America, so who cares what she thinks?
Did I miss something that made either of them relevant?
Does anyone care what the Miss America WINNER would think, for that matter? I certainly don’t.
And I certainly don’t care what ‘argument’ Prejean could put up against marriage rights, because there aren’t any arguments in favor of her position.
In any event, it does make it clear that that is the incident you were referring to. And it didn’t happen (”ran up to her” “hands all around her head”) as you describe.
Sean, that is PRECISELY the incident I had in mind — thanks for finding the video. And if you look at around the seven-second mark, the whackjob has her right hand in front of Rice’s face, and her left hand behind Rice’s head — that pretty much fits my description.
And THEN the Secret Service (I presume) moves in.
Think about that for a second — in a Congressional hearing room, a woman with a record for disrupting events and an unknown substance gets within literally inches of the Secretary of State before security acts to restrain and remove her. That should freak the shit out of ANYONE.
Duros, you can take my non-reply to your attempt to change the subject however you wish.
J.
Does anyone care what the Miss America WINNER would think, for that matter? I certainly don’t.
I don’t even know who won.
Duros, you can take my non-reply to your attempt to change the subject however you wish.
Glad to see your such a staunch supporter of the rule of law. Too bad you weren’t around during Watergate. Nixon would have finished his second term.
“Jay Tea”: “That should freak the shit out of ANYONE.”
Only bed wetting cowards that use fear for political purposes.
Duros:
Meh.
J.
Jay Tea: And if you look at around the seven-second mark, the whackjob has her right hand in front of Rice’s face, and her left hand behind Rice’s head
Hard to see where her left hand is. But I’ll defer to your x-ray vision.
Jay Tea: you can take my non-reply to your attempt to change the subject however you wish.
The subject being your view that “Letting it slide in the past pretty much guarantees that others will pull it in the future.” is only for “whacko protesters assaulting public officials” and should not be applied to public officials assaulting the Constitution.
Got it.
News Ref: Only bed wetting cowards that use fear for political purposes.
No. That someone could get close enough to the Sec State to assault them who should probably not be allowed within that range is worrisome.
As is having a Sec State who would rather have all citizen protests confined to out-of-site “free speech” zones.
Sean, watch to the right of Rice’s head. You’ll see the nutjob’s hand there, coming from behind Rice. And at the same time, the right hand is literally right in Rice’s face.
The Code Pink nut literally had her hands around the head of the Secretary of State, with an unknown substance covering those hands.
Funny how Oliver didn’t say anything about this, but a whackjob camping out near where Obama is scheduled to visit rates a post…
J.
“Jay Tea”: “you can take my non-reply to your attempt to change the subject however you wish.”
Sean: The subject being your view that “Letting it slide in the past pretty much guarantees that others will pull it in the future.” is only for “whacko protesters assaulting public officials” and should not be applied to public officials assaulting the Constitution.
LOL!-) Everybody’s a comedian today.
It’s funny, when I think “Jay Tea” I think ‘makes Code Pink seem rational’.
Sean, you don’t NEED X-Ray vision. The hand comes around Rice’s head and is visible over her left shoulder. (Sheesh, I sound like Kevin Costner. “Back and to the left. Back and to the left.”)
“Newsy,” you are SUCH a dipshit. If you were in a supposedly secure environment like a Congressional hearing room on Capitol Hill and some nutjob rushed you, hands coated with god knows what, shouting and shoving those hands in your face, inches away, you’d react with the absolute unfazed aplomb of Rice? I’d have either ducked and dodged, or belted her in the face. (I’d like to think the latter, suspect the former.)
J.
Oh, and Oliver, you might wanna fix the title. The nutjob was in a press area NEAR Air Force One. Nothing in the article you linked indicates she has ever set foot on the plane itself.
And apparently never got near Obama.
She said she asked a Secret Service agent to give the president her letter, but he refused and referred her to a White House staffer. Lee said she refused to give the staffer the letter.
“I said, ‘I’ll take my chances if (the president) comes by here,’” said Lee. “He became annoyed that I wouldn’t give him the letter.”
J.