NYC Restaurant refuses to serve Bush twins.

Gawker.com ^ | 11.19.04 | Gawker.com

[conserv13]

...Freemans tuesday night the 16th of nov. the bush twins along with 2 massive secret service men tried to have dinner they were told by the maitre 'd that they were full and would be for the next 4 years upon hearing the entire restaurant cheered and did a round of shots it was amazing!!! [Ed: We're hearing that this is actually true.]...

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Admin Note:

Received forwarded message from info@freemansrestaurant.com 11/22/2004

Regarding the Internet rumors, no member of Freeman's staff made any derogatory or discriminating comments towards Jenna or Barbara Bush. We are a non-partisan establishment and pride ourselves on having a diverse clientele. The Bush twins or any member of the first family are welcome to join us for dinner anytime.

[TexasGreg]

I'm not a lawyer, so maybe some lawyer might disagree with me, but I'm pretty comfortable that what may have been done to the Bush twins is not covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or other federal laws.

:) You could have fooled me about not being a lawyer. I actually AGREE with you ... I've just been having some fun.

Oh, sure, I wouldn't mind seeing it tested ... I would be curious to see what the outcome would be. Is it a violation of the law to discriminate based upon State of origin, for instance? One could say that it's not because it doesn't assert such in the law -- but, it does say "national origin" and, according to the Dems, we're a different nation than they are (we're from "Jesusland.")

Oh, well ... enough fun for a Saturday.

[phxaz]

all the way from my living room in phx!

[KingNo155]

lol I like that idea.

[firebrand]

Hmm. I'll check it out next time I'm over that way.

[Snoopers-868th]

Good place to leave a recommendation.

http://www.digitalcity.com/newyork/dining/venue.adp?sbid=142781

[Junior_G]

Was it ever confirmed that this story is total BS? It would have been all over the news if it was true.

[Selkie]

No I'm not wrong, john freeman is not a real person.
::rolls eyes:::

[FightinFederalist]

Unprovable.

Not enough for deletion.

[Selkie]

Your opinion isnt fact.

The fact is is that several names have been deleted over false registrant name/owner info.

And I just read thru your posts. Youre just an argumentative curmudgeon in nearly all your posts.

[rajkumania]

To: jpf who wrote:

"What p***es me off is how much support we gave NYC after the 9/11/01 attacks. (we meaning, the Bushes and Red Staters)

Won't get fooled again..."


What pisses New Yorkers off is that Bush et al promised the city $20 billion to rebuild but has delivered about a thirds of that. Much of that aid goes in the form of tax breaks that will be used to build an office building for Bank of America. Hardly the kind of help that we needed (as opposed to the good people of Oregon) who came and spent tourist dollars and rallied in support.

As for the twins, they'd probably be able to get in the door of any place they wanted if they ever stood up and said something meaningful or had beliefs of their own or had any interest other than capitalizing on daddy's higher office to get into cool clubs populated by the likes of whom are despised by their father and his political followers.

And as for all those people who think they did enough for NYC last time: would you really be so callous as to say that you're not going to help your countrymen in NYC next time we get hit (because we're going to be hit a dozen times before they find something worth bombing elsewhere). When Tim McVeigh blew up the Murrah building, New York's firefighters were among the first to jet over, no questions asked, and with no snide comments about it later.

So don't give us any shit just because a pair of elitist girls were snubbed at a bar. Get over it yourself.

[ncpatriot]

Just got reply regarding the Bush twins being turned away at Freeman's Restaurant in NYC:

Regarding the Internet rumors, no member of Freeman’s staff made any derogatory or discriminating comments towards Jenna or Barbara Bush. We are a non-partisan establishment and pride ourselves on having a diverse clientele. The Bush twins or any member of the first family are welcome to join us for dinner anytime.

[conserv13]

Thanks!

[Bon mots]

If this were true, we could methodically begin a campaign to systematically and daily release cockroaches in this place.
They go well with RATS.

But let's first find out if it's true.

[JesseHousman]

Your link is obscene and the entire post needs to be removed!

[JesseHousman]

Did you read the cruddy article? It's obscene.

[NCC-1701]

The rules. What about the FR rules?

[SlowBoat407]

Welcom to Free Republic.

[conserv13]

That is fine, I don't care. I posted it Friday after I saw it on 3 different weblogs.