Posted on 05/28/2009 2:06:03 PM PDT by bimboeruption
A reporter for a small newspaper was forcibly removed from a press area near Air Force One shortly before President Barack Obama arrived at Los Angeles International Airport to depart California early Thursday.
Enlarge Photo Secret Service personnel remove Brenda Lee from near Air Force One after Lee attempted to give President Obama a letter, Thursday May 28, 2009, at LAX. Top News Photos View SlideshowSee amazing photos from around the globe... The Obama Presidency in Photos View SlideshowTake a look at the best photos of President Obama and his family captured during the first few months in office. Airport security officers carried the woman away by the feet and arms as she protested her removal.
She later identified herself as Brenda Lee, a writer for the Georgia Informer in Macon and said she has White House press credentials. The newspaper's Web site says it is a monthly publication, and a Brenda Lee column is posted on it.
Calls to the newspaper and the White House press office were not immediately returned.
Lee said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that she wanted to hand Obama a letter urging him "to take a stand for traditional marriage."
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, who identified herself as a Roman Catholic priestess who lives in Anaheim, Calif. "He became annoyed that I wouldn't give him the letter."
Lee, who was wearing what she described as a cassock, said she protested when she was asked to leave.
"I said, 'Why are you bothering me?' They escorted me outside the gate," she said.
She said security officers allowed her to return when she promised she would not yell or wave, but then other officers arrived and told her to leave.
"I said, 'I'm not leaving,'" she said. "They tried to drag me out."
Two officers then picked her up and carried her out. An Associated Press photographer photographed the incident.
"I was afraid you could see under my clothes," she said, her voice choking up.
Lee, who said this was the second presidential event she has covered, was later released.
The incident occurred about 10 minutes before Obama arrived at the airport by helicopter to board Air Force One. He had been in Los Angeles to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.
Shame on her for spreading hate speech. (sarcasm intended)
Did she sing “I’m Sorry”?
Anybody know what this is?
They photo-shopped out the taser
She looks like a drama queen.
Not as afraid as we are to see you your dress.
Anybody know what this is?
From a security point of view they can’t let just any stranger hand any president of the US a letter that could be contaminated with they don’t know what.
If she was really wearing a cassock she probably looked like a kook and it could have hidden a fair sized weapon.
The Secret Service doesn't use the see-under-clothes device any more. Not since they lost two agents to cranial detonation during what they shudderingly describe as "the Helen Thomas Incident".
Anybody know what this is?
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Code word for moonbat.
I'll admit I don't know much about Catholics, but I was taken aback to find out they have priestesses. That has to be the most surprising new thing I have learned in days.
She may be a priestess. She may be a catholic priestess. But she is definitely not a Roman Catholic priestess.
Supposed to be from Macon, GA...? Never heard of her or her publication. You cannot have strangers handing envelopes to the POTUS regardless of who happens to be holding the office.
Here’s the problems:
1) Lee, a Roman Catholic priestess.... there is no such thing. She is a lib nutjob if she thinks she’s a priestess.
2. Wearing a cassock.... what was she there as, a journalist or a priestess? She was a bona fide nut and the Secret Service people saw she flaky and was getting out of hand and got her out of there.
You thinking maybe French or Greek Catholic? That’s what I’m kind of leaning toward. But as I said, I don’t know much about Catholics. I’ve heard of Jewish American Princesses of course, but I’m not sure if they’re real, and in any event a princess and a priestess are almost always not the same thing. The modern world is so confusing sometimes.
I am sorry but this picture is hilarious, and so politically correct it IS funny.
Can anyone else see it looks like they are going to string up a black woman?
Are they bringing her to a noose???
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