Hillary's Staff Threatens to Abort Booksigning Over D.C. Chapter (4/21/04)

D.C. Chapter ^ | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Honor Roll for tonight: Angelwood, tgslTakoma, Trueblackman, scholastic, 3D-Joy and kristinn. Big thanks to Rummyfan for the tip!

Her Heinous, Hillary Rodham Clinton, held a booksigning for the paperback release of her book, Living History, at the Books-a-Million in Washington, D.C.'s ultra-liberal Dupont Circle tonight.

The booksigning was nearly called off because Hillary Clinton's staff freaked out when Trueblackman went through the line twice to get copies of Hillary's books signed by her.

To set the scene, we had thrown this freep together in one day thanks to the alert eye of Rummyfan who tipped us off on another thread about the booksigning.

Angelwood sent out a permit application this morning as a courtesy to the D.C. police and Secret Service, even though we knew there would just be a handful of us out there so a permit was not required.

Angelwood was first to arrive--around 5:30 p.m. On a lark, she went in the store to see if any tickets were left. To her surprise, not many had been issued even though they were available since 9 a.m. So she bought a book and got ticket number 136. The booksigning was scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.

The rest of us arrived between 6:15 and 7 p.m. We initially set up on the right side of the store facing the table at the far end of the store where Hillary would be signing. The D.C. police told us we'd have to move soon as the line from the store would be spilling out to where we were. So, when the line came near us we switched sides and stood near the other side of the entrance.

Angelwood had to leave, so she left the book with tgslTakoma. Trueblackman volunteered to do the honors of getting the book signed by Her Heinous.

He went through the line while we stood outside holding our signs and bantered with passersby. Because we were so close to those waiting in line, we chose not to speak out to them so as to not get them riled up.

However, folks walking by engaged us in civil conversation for the most part. We only got flipped off once and got a surprising number of positive responses.

A uniformed security guard got in tgslTakoma's face when she stood on the sidewalk at the entrance and took some pictures of Hillary at the back of the store. He told her she couldn't take pictures. She held her ground until a store employee told the security guard to back off and leave her alone.

Trueblackman came out with his signed book. He played it straight and shook hands with Hillary after she signed the book. He called his liberal girlfriend to tell her about it and she asked him to get one signed for her.

Love will make a man do the most dangerous things, so he asked a Books-a-Million employee if he could buy another book and get back in line. They said sure, no problem. Being that the turnout for Hillary was nowhere near what it was when she barnstormed the country last year for the hardback edition of Living History, he was able to get a ticket in the 270s range.

He was on the phone with his girlfriend as he got up to Hillary and held the phone out for Hillary to say hello to her, which she did. It was a pleasant exchange. However, Hillary's snake-eyed staff had noticed Trueblackman talking with his fellow D.C. Chapter members outside before he came back in.

After he had left Hillary the second time, Hillary's staff threw a fit with the Books-a-Million managers, telling them that he was with the protesters outside and if they allowed him in the store again they would shut down the booksigning and Hillary would leave.

The store acquiesed, even though he had done nothing wrong, and sicced the security guards on Trueblackman--outside the store on the sidewalk!

One guard got in his face and told him he was banned from the store. Trueblackman got upset because he knew he had done nothing wrong. A D.C. police officer intervened and calmed things down. However, the banning from the booksigning stood. I guess Hillary's people were afraid he'd buy a third book.

The booksigning was scheduled to end at 9 p.m. Because of the lack of customers, it ended early around 8:30 after about 350 books had been sold, by our estimate.

Pictures to follow.

[kristinn]

The 'Rats are getting frayed nerves about November--and it's still only April.

[Pegita]

Awesome FReep. The X's wife is going to be pretty busy brooming around, so maybe it's time to haul out the good Doctor's devil mask and multiply it a bazillion times over. The sight of the devil is the only thing I know that really rattles Her Heinous.

You've been busy tonight, True ... I heard you talking with Mark and then you were off for more mischief ... congratulations.

[ladyinred]

These are the people who say that President Bush is taking our freedom away with the Patriot Act while telling all of you that you can't take pictures on a public sidewalk and telling Trueblackman he can't be in the store? I am really mad now that I read all of this!

Trueblackman, they can't do this to you! I hope you complain to the management about this treatment!

[kristinn]

Mike's a gentleman and a dedicated defender of America. It was an honor to spend time with him.

[cyborg]

LOL!!!!! GOOD FOR YOU GUYS!

[cyborg]

Wow I see Hillary really DOES threaten people!

[kristinn]

Thanks, but the fun is getting a little hairy these days, LOL!

The pics are posted a few comments up from here.

[Angelwood]

Hillary gets others to threaten people. Or, in the case of the Ace of Spades Saddam, chase them away with tall tales about the possibility of getting hurt at construction sites -- that's what Hillary's security people did to Doctor Raoul in NYC this week.

[cyborg]

Hillary showed up on film. Who knew?

[cyborg]

Yup.. I know. I was there LOL... cowering behind DR hoping I don't get arrested :) I went upstairs to see the crowd, it was pathetic. There were at the most ten people in the line.

[Angelwood]

Glad you were there to watch the good doc's back. Good work freeping Hillary.

[cyborg]

I was praying that he didn't get arrested. I'm not a liberal. I don't like getting arrested :) I was pleased to educate the public on the facts about Hillary, that she's a supporter of Robert Byrd HER ROLE MODEL.

[TYVets]

Was Trueblackman allowed to have eye contact with the Hildabeast?

[cyborg]

Project 21 men...no lockboxes within a thousand miles BTTT!

[cyborg]

Ummmm... you see he's still around right? Obviously not :D

[JustAmy]

I'm checking out the pics.

Were you there, Cyborg?

[cyborg]

I was at the NYC freep on Monday.

[ladyinred]

LOL! I doubt it, no one can look upon the great and powerful Hildabest and live!!!!

[ladyinred]

OOPs, HildaBEAST, certainly NOT BEST! YUK!

[JustAmy]

Did she get a large crowd in NYC?

Was NYC GOP Chick there? Seems that I remember her saying something about going to a rally.