Posted on 02/01/2006 5:01:54 AM PST by kristinn
Cindy Sheehan, the drama queen who was removed from the House gallery last night before the State of the Union address for wearing a t-shirt with a political message, is not the first person to be tossed from a Congressional gallery at a high-profile event for wearing a political t-shirt.
In the early days of the Senate's impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in January 1999, a Pennsylvania man named Dave Delp was removed by the Capitol police from the Senate gallery for wearing a t-shirt that said, "Clinton doesn't inhale, he sucks."
Unlike Sheehan, Delp didn't make a federal case of the incident and took his removal with good spirit. He told me at the time that he hadn't gone into Senate chamber to protest, but that he had opened his jacket some while sitting in the gallery.
An alert Capitol police officer hustled him out of the gallery and took him to the sub-station in the basement of the Capitol for processing. The only real trouble Delp got into was when he mistakenly thought the doughnuts left out on a table in the sub-station were for guests.
Delp was released after an hour or so without being charged. The New York Daily News did a brief story about the incident which was picked up for a gag by Saturday Night Live.
I haven't seen Delp in a few years, but we always have a good laugh about the incident when we run into each other in D.C.
Oh, so ED did mention the banner this morning. Good. Because the reporting I heard, it wasn't mentioned.
I finally saw a picture of her being 'escorted' from the gallery. I would love to see a picture of the banner. What did it say? Someone is bound to have a picture somewhere.
I haven't seen anyone tell us what it said and I'd like to know that too.
bbl - carpet cleaners are coming to do our bedroom carpets.
hahaha
The "Grief Pimp".
Nice find. BUMP!
You made Drudge:
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashts.htm
Uh oh, looks like Senator Santorum is gonna have some unfriendly MSM knocking at his door.
Naah, WTF am I thinking, the MSM will never let it be known that this case has a political mirror-image precedent.
Drudge is stealing Freeper research again!
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashts.htm
You are right - the main body of Dims stood and cheered the blocking of SS reform. I loved the way the Prez pointed and told them they all knew it was hosed and that the longer it took to fix it, the worse the repercussions would be - not a murmur from them and you could sense the blood rushing to some faces - gotcha!
Matthews is forever slobbering over something or someone.
I think everyone should send this to their local papers and news outlets so they can remind people that their are protocols in place or this kind of thing. But I doubt the majority will even mention it.
He wasn't even given the option of putting his jacket back on but was promptly removed. He didn't have a banner AND a tee shirt. And he didn't protest, which Cindy probably did, given her personality.
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