Posted on 05/28/2009 12:37:44 PM PDT by xtinct
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.
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 monthly publication 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
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Given that the majority of the MSM react to Obama as if they were teenaged girls at a Jonas Brothers concert I’m surprised we don’t see more scenes like that.
ZERO brooming the unwanted parts of the media. Got to keep up appearances.
sounds like they did the right thing
Perhaps...
>>to take a stand for traditional marriage
One nice way to discredit this POV.
If it gets highlighted tonight on TV, then a certainty that proves FDR’s axiom, nothing in politics happens by accident unless it’s planned that way.
I’m afraid this will become an oft repeated scene in the years to come.
or just a sister?
Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee’s crazy sister.
I guess Obama don’t wanna hear nothin’ ‘bout no “Traditional Marriage”, not even from a black woman.
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."
That is a beautiful sight. It made me smile.
Let me get this straight? A “Roman Catholic Priestess” with a newspaper column tries to get Obama to “take a stand for traditional marriage?”
A “priestess?” How about taking a stand for traditional Catholic teaching and not claiming to be some sort of priestess.
Don’t worry...we will.
"Lee, who identified herself as a Roman Catholic priestess"
Ya THINK!?!??!
Does AF1 even have any white staff or security staff anymore? I never seen any in the photos. Plus half of Obama’s security staff look like Fruit of Islam and not like Secret Service. Weird.
"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."
Just when you think you've seen it all....
If this had been Bush....well, you know the drill :)
Do I really need to finish the sentence.
“I’m sorry, so sorry....”
a Roman Catholic priestess who lives in Anaheim,
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