Your Tax Dollars At Work
Subsidizing the purchase of this couple’s deeply held principles re their First Amendment right to freedom of shirt:
The Bush administration has agreed to pay $80,000 to a husband and wife who were ejected from a presidential rally because of their anti-Bush T-shirts.
The settlement ends a suit brought by a Texas couple and the American Civil Liberties Union, claiming the couple’s First Amendment rights were violated when they were arrested and removed from a taxpayer-funded event featuring President Bush because their shirts read “Love America, Hate Bush” and “Regime Change Starts at Home.”
White House probably should have mimicked disturbing Kerry plan:
In a 2004 investigation, ABC News found such tactics were apparently used by the Democratic Kerry presidential campaign as well. In that investigation, ABC News producers wore T-shirts featuring the opposing candidate to campaign-sponsored rallies. Bush aides instructed producers to leave the presidential re-election rally; at a Kerry rally, they were surrounded and followed by a team of dancing Democratic campaign workers with large signs.
Any video of that around?
Anyway, I’d love to know what these two are going to spend that $80,000 on. Big fat donation to MoveOn.org or Paralyzed Veterans of America? More t-shirts? Big screen TV and a Hummer? The vehicle, I mean. Eco-vacation … that’s it.
Topics: pols, shameless opportunism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:44 am on Saturday, August 18, 2007
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August 19th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Ok, that (payoff) really sucks.
As does ABC’s characterization…”Presidential Advance Manual, which laid out the White House’s meticulous efforts to protect the president and his public image from dissent.”
Phuleeze.