Moe Lane

[UPDATE] Welcome, Ace of Spades readers. I think that it could be salmon.

Here’s the video (via AoSHQ) of a woman arrested at yesterday’s Carnahan meltdown who claimed to be a Carnahan staffer:

And here’s the text from an article about the arrest:

His friend, Javonne Spitz, 51, of O’Fallon, Mo, said she doesn’t think she was interfering with anything.

[snip]

She said she came to the forum Thursday because “I wanted to see what it was all about.”

[snip]

At the forum, Spitz admits she was tossed out because she had been taking photographers of angry protesters as they tried to drown out the speakers.

[snip]

(Spitz was the woman in the salmon-colored shirt whose arrest was featured Friday in a video on stltoday.com).

[snip]

“These tea baggers are dangerous,” she said. “I’m not going to any more town hall meetings until these people calm down.”

Note that in the article the woman never brought up the Carnahan connection. So, lying either way.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Raise your hand if you’re surprised by this.

If you have raised your hand, real quick: why are you surprised?

…while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama’s campaign in 2008.

(Via Hot Air Headlines)

I mean, you are aware that this administration pre-screens all journalists’ questions asked of it, right? It’s not exactly surprising that they might do the same for what is an ostensibly more ‘unscripted’ venue. Or that they’re picking softball questions. Or that they’re being extra-careful to minimize the possibility of a chance of a hint of the suggestion of an inkling that there may be any discernible change to our War on Some Drugs policy. It’s just business as usual, in other words. Business as usual, and only disappointing if you had unreasonable expectations in the first place.

Moe Lane

PS: “Right now.”
The correct statement to make here is that he’s getting away with it right now.

Crossposted to RedState.