Man ejected from Cheney S. Security town hall meeting for asking questions

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050321/480/carf10603212131&e=11&ncid=480

Dustin Barnes, 25, left, is escorted from a town hall meeting while trying to shout questions at U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) at California State University, Monday, March 21, 2005, in Bakersfield, Calif. V.P. Cheney and Republican Congressman Bill Thomas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, used the meeting to discuss Social Security (news - web sites) reform.. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Cant be askin questions now.....

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. You're out of order....this whole stinkin' country's our of order...

You, sir, suck!

[fallout]

52. i admire his sideburns... nt

[Hobarticus]

3. I'm guessing he would've been ejected even if his questions were about SS

unless he was "scripted".

Does anyone buy this horseshit 'town hall' format anymore, anyway?

[NNN0LHI]

8. His questions could very well have been about Social Security

The caption beneath the photo doesn't say one way or another.

Don

[EVDebs]

4. Why bother, Bill Thomas already calls the Pres's plan "Dead Horse" !

But seriously, you'd NEVER see Sen Kerry or any of the Dem's physically tackling a citizen simply asking a question. The cool-aid drinkers seem to be nailed to their seats too !

[BamaLefty]

5. LOL

He must not have been a guinea pig.

[smoogatz]

6. I wonder what the question was?

"Uh, Mr. President--pretty much every public utterance you've made in the last five years has been a lie. Why the fuck should anybody believe you now? I mean, do you think we're all morons?"

[BreweryYardRat]

58. That is fucking brilliant...

You mind if I yell that at Bush sometime? I'll gladly take jail time for that.

On the original topic: This scares me and really pisses me off at the same time.

[dave29]

7. If I may, Mr Vice President...

"Go privatize yourself!!"

[EFerrari]

9. It's not a "meeting" if only you get to talk. lol (nt)

[Quakerfriend]

10. Thx for posting this pic...makes my day!

The black lady in the pic looks like she's loving it!

And, the white guy with glasses on the right looks to be enjoying the interuption as well!

[susu369]

23. Those "amused" faces alarm me

shouldn't the others in the audience be outraged? It is very disturbing.....

but then I'm just a cynical old woman.

[ailsagirl]

26. Maybe they're smiling because they like what the guy is saying

Though, the very fact that they're there, listening to this BS, makes me think they're rethugs. In which case, they'd be averse to anything disrupting their brainwashing session with Count Dracula, hence happy that the guy is being ejected.

Hard to say

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. There not smiling because they're happy people

They are smiling because they are arrogant self righteous peons who are sitting in a privilaged position, with the white house, congress and senate stacked in their favour.

Its graceless gloating you are seeing. As in "look at that poor stupid hippy commy get thrown out of OUR meeting"

Discusting

[redqueen]

50. Hi LiberalLovinLug!

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[LiberalLovinLug]

61. I feel at home

:pals:
Thanks for the welcome redqueen!
I am new to the blog community in general.

Thanks for accommodating my need to vent :puke:
(Stand back)

[redqueen]

51. Awww... don't insult Count Dracula that way.

He only kills for food... unlike Cheney & his cronies at Halliburton.

[Mr_Spock]

11. Too bad he couldn't get to Cheney and spit on him.

There is nothing that you can do to Satan that sould be considered unacceptable behavior. If Cheney isn't Satan, then I can't even imagine how evil Satan is...

[Tesla]

41. Amen!!

[Rex]

12. Some how he got by the 1st Amendment filters

Can't have that!

[smoogatz]

He's currently being held in a Free Speech Zone--

aka the county jail.

[Dr Fate]

13. DEMS wont say a PEEP about this facism.

DEMS will give another free pass to Bush/media you watch.

[David Zephyr]

14. Looks Like Jeff Gannon Is Humping the Questioneer.

"If I can't question Dick, neither can you! By the way, your torso is majorly hot. Now come with me outside because that army shirt has got me all hot and bothered" --- Jeff Gannon. ;-)

[MGKrebs]

15. That is "being escorted" about as much

as that was really a "meeting".

Man, how much bullshit can be packed into one sentence?

[MelissaB]

16. Rate the story up while you're there.

Thanks!

[Frances]

18. Done

Note how the story reads "social security reform"

Once again the Repubs are framing the issue. It would be more accurate to say "destruction of social security" because that is what the Republicans want.

[leftofthedial]

17. If we'd 'a wanted you ta ask questions

we'd 'a given you questions ta ask.

who cares what you think?

[ronnykmarshall]

19. Alright Bakersfield!

Even in the very RED county of Kern, George and Dick are getting heckled!

[XemaSab]

20. If I'd a known Dick was going to be in Kern

I would have taken the week off to go down there. One day for the meeting, 4 days for the jail...

[ronnykmarshall]

21. No kiddin', huh?

This guys rocks!

I told my mom to be on the look out for info on her local news.

[Satara]

22. one party style

When I read or see things such as this I am struck by how offended some people get when this administration is compared to other historical dictatorship government policies and/or actions.

What ever happened to learning from the past ? And what is so bad about making historical comparisons anyway ? I never quite understand that part ???

[Ms. Clio]

27. Excellent point

Welcome to DU:hi:

[Rose Siding]

24. Cheney's obviously thinking impure thoughts

dick

[FredScuttle]

32. check out the bulge...

OK Dick....you hang to the right. Thanks for the visual.

(shudder) I wish the FCC would fine that! That freaks me more than 1,000 Janet Jackson tit shots!

[TankLV]

35. Probably a colostomy bag.

Or a bunch of wires for his tin heart.

[Jimbo S]

49. Sock stuffed in his pants? eom

[iamjoy]

56. We Already Knew He Hung Right

Way, way right.

[jbnow]

40. Then what was he thinking here?

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/white-house/big-dick-cheney-oh-yes-very-big-025650.php

I don't know how to post a picture, but...it is quite a picture.

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

42. OMG. You're right.

Is it photo-shopped?

:wow:

[jbnow]

59. Evidently not photo-shopped

"big" news in Milwaukee at the time

Part of what Milwaukee Magazine says about it:

http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/122004/pressroom.html

Overexposed

A Journal Sentinel photo of Dick Cheney is unexpectedly revealing. by peter robertson

Joining Vice President Dick Cheney’s motorcade in Green Bay, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Dale Guldan hoped to capture a unique image during an otherwise scripted campaign visit in September.

Did he ever.

On the way to Milwaukee, however, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr convinced Cheney to make an unscheduled stop in Glendale to visit local favorite Kopp’s Frozen Custard, according to New York Times reporter Rick Lyman.

When Cheney ordered a decaf coffee and sat on a concrete ledge outside, Kopp’s manager Scott Borkin graciously brought him a sample of frozen custard. “The guy came all the way from the White House,” Borkin says. “He’s got to try our custard.”

The normally serious Cheney flashed a winning smile for Borkin, and Guldan snapped an attention-grabbing photo that would later be chosen for the front page of the paper’s September 11 Metro section.

Guldan got a call from a reader the next day. “Did you notice anything unusual about that picture?” the reader asked.

Upon closer inspection, it seems the vice president’s smile was not his biggest, ahem, asset. Is that what we think it is?

“You’re not imagining it,” Guldan says of the unintentionally revealing photo.

Let’s just say the snugness of Cheney’s pants left little to the imagination, and we’re not talking about his waistline.

[Tesla]

44. dick!!!!

[iamjoy]

57. Oh, Please...It's A Load

maybe he should wear a diaper. No way that is, uh, attached.

If it were, I would say he was thinking, "Drill off the coast of Florida....Gut social services for the most needy to give tax breaks to billionaires...Curtail dissent...SCHWING!"

[Tesla]

43. Looks like a prostate problem to me!!!

If not, I bet he's 8" cut!!!!

[MiniMe]

25. You can't have a discussion by yourself.

Quote:

V.P. Cheney and Republican Congressman Bill Thomas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, used the meeting to DISCUSS Social Security (news - web sites) reform.. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)

[fleabert]

28. what's a 'discussion' without questions?

fuckers.

[sakabatou]

29. Any non-"scripted" questions against SS reform

gone up?

[Counciltucky]

30. Anyone else think that photo...

...kind of looks like it came from The Onion? lol

[Tempest]

31. I just sent this to the Bakersfield Californian

Asking if they were going to mention this in their article tomorrow about the visit.


Email the Bakersfield Californian (the only newspaper in Bakersfield) at [e-mail]

[catzies]

38. Yeah! And I hope Dustin Barnes finds DU! We'd love to have him.

Kern is red, but there are good Dems and progressives who won't be forgotten! :hi:

[Tempest]

45. There's some of us, but we're far and few between

The article in today's paper was pretty well done and even-handed.

Article heading: "Cheney makes pitch to fans"
Sub-heading: "Hand-picked Republicans lob softball questions on Social Security at Cal State"


And the writer for the Local section called it propaganda, Texas-style.

[DoYouEverWonder]

33. I guess Barnes didn't get the New Revised Ten Commandments

Thou shault not question the lord, thy Dick.

[Laurab]

36. Oh, you people have it all wrong he's getting a HUG

it's just those nice christian rethugs showing their love.

Well, ok, that was a lie, but you know, the man certainly looks pleased with himself, and not a bit upset, so I think he probably made whatever point it was he wanted to make.

Wonder how he got in......

[Solly Mack]

37. Mustn't question God. Mustn't. Mustn't. Wouldn't be prudent.

or a big bald guy in a brooks brother suit will descend down from the heavens and smite you!

or at least "escort" you out by force...

[The_Casual_Observer]

39. Land of the free home of the brave. Let freedom reign!

[mimitabby]

46. Dustin Barnes, american hero! n/t

[toad12]

47. Serious lack of security...

Dustin Barnes doesn't look anything like the cookie cutter repug's usually at these "meetings."

[Media_Lies_Daily]

48. I bet we'll see this happen a lot more often as time goes on.

[fromBrooklyn]

53. for once I wished they would stop

refering to these propaganda tours as "town-hall meetings" - you might as well call them "two minute hates."

In a bid to reclaim the english language (and the good sense that can be imparted through it's conscientious use) we should call these meetings what they are -
"staged policy-promotion events." And give the lying a day off, 'cause god knows it's getting tired (and since the 'Press' isn't doing much of anything to keep it in check, we have to do a fair amount of it ourselves).

[Robbien]

54. A Democratic student at UofA, is refused entry

there is an article posted in the Arizona State forum on how Democrats are not allowed into a taxpayer funded Presidential Town Hall meeting:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=139x1690

Tucson, AZ - President Bush's taxpayer funded Social Security "Forum"
in Tucson today did not welcome young American Steven Gerner, who was
quietly standing in line waiting to hear the President deliver a
speech that he felt he needed to pay close attention to. Gerner, 19,
was one of 1400 Tucsonans who properly obtained a ticket to the
tightly screened forum, but he would not get the chance to actually
make it inside the event. The reason: Steven was wearing a University
of Arizona Young Democrats t-shirt.

Twenty minutes before the doors opened for the Tucson Civic Center
forum, an event staffer approached Steven, asked for a better view of
his t-shirt, then demanded his ticket.

"When the staffer took my ticket, he literally crumpled it up in his
hand and then walked away. I was too shocked and frankly too
disappointed to even do or say anything." said Steven Gerner, a
University of Arizona student.

The staffer returned twenty minutes later, told Gerner that his name
had been "reported" and warned that there was no way he could gain
entry into the event.

"I really wanted a chance to hear the Bush side of the Social Security
debate. Plus, I have never seen a President speak and even though I am
a dedicated Democrat – I was excited to see the leader of my
country."

[callous taoboy]

55. Well, how American. n/t

[EVDebs]

60. DoD has "lost" $2.3 Trillion dollars...why not fund SS with that ?

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

[NNN0LHI]

62. How come every time Kerry was heckled it was on all channels 24/7?

But this is the only place that I have ever seen or heard about this shit happening?

Don