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Harry Taylor, the man who confronted President Bush during a public appearance this past week and now the far left’s Presidential candidate of the moment, was reportedly abducted for several hours yesterday by a group of Code Pink members. “Harry’s a bit shook up,” said close friend Ken Binns. “They grabbed him as he was leaving the country club, put a bag over his head and whispered in his ear, ‘Mama Sheehan wants to have a word with you.’” Taylor was driven to an undisclosed location where the Peace Mom waited for him. He relayed the following story to authorities...

An audience member who identified himself as Harry Taylor criticizes President Bush after he delivered a speech on the global war on terror at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C. Thursday April 6, 2006. Taylor said he has never been more ashamed of U.S. leadership. Audience members at left are reacting to Taylor's comments. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Media darling stunned; public reaction mixed JIM MORRILL jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com Friday was not a normal day for Harry Taylor. He did two national TV interviews. His phone rang all day. E-mails flooded his inbox. People he never met called him a hero and a patriot. He became a darling of Internet blogs, including one called simply: thankyouharrytaylor.org. "It's like I've got 10,000 butterflies jumping up and down in my stomach," he said in an afternoon interview. "It's been that way for 27 hours now." A day before, President Bush called on Taylor during a question session after a speech at Central...

It was a moment brought to you by the First Amendment. Minutes after finishing a face-to-face verbal assault on President Bush, Harry Taylor was talking about the experience with reporters who covered the president's visit Thursday to Charlotte. Speaking from the balcony of a theater at Central Piedmont Community College, the 61-year-old commercial real estate broker had laced into Bush for his conduct of the war on terror, his environmental record and his opposition to legalized abortion. "In my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of my leadership in Washington," Taylor told the president. "And I would hope from...