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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A “priestess?” How about taking a stand for traditional Catholic teaching and not claiming to be some sort of priestess.
LOL. Same thought I had when I posted my #17, but you said it better.
*shrug* He like fruits.
Where's the dam birth certificate Barry or whatever you name is?
Actually, she is vocally pro-life, has openly spoken out and written against gay marriage, and protested the Vatican’s lack of spine on Obama’s visit to Notre Dame in her column. She was probably “hand-delivering” a letter rebuking obama for his stance on abortion to provoke just the response she got.
Hardly.
She's a RC priestess, and a black one at that.
Racism anyone? LOL
I suspect this woman is one of a kind. Probably the only Roman Catholic Priestess in the country who stands for traditional marriage.
A roman catholic PRIESTESS? Does she worship a female godess?
> Brenda Lee = psycho??? lol
LOL! When I was a young man of 23 many years ago, I dated a “Brenda Lee” and she WAS a psycho! Rock & Roll songs are written about girls like her...
“a Roman Catholic priestess who lives in Anaheim,”
uhh huh.
Wouldn’t this be the catholic version of....Thailand?
If "crazy" was a disqualifier to be a White House reporter, the daily WH briefings would be given to an empty room.
Also, are you presuming that Sheila Jackson Lee has a sane sister? I wouldn't bet the farm on that one. :)
“Does AF1 even have any white staff or security staff anymore?”
Yeah, they drove the golf cart during his golf outing the other month.
Did you expect any different? Ya' can't have some nasty white-boy with a gun near the "messiah".
wow she has a spine. good for her. she should be a nun reporter though.
Lots of photos here.
Dumbass
"Brenda Lee's comin' on strong . . ."
My guess is this woman was not heading the rules in one way or another.
Send her straight to Gitmo! How dare a black, female, pro-life, pro traditional marriage advocate get anywhere near Air Farce the One. /s
The radio’s playing some forgotten song
Brenda Lee’s “Coming on Strong”
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