Connecting the stripes: Was Mrs. Young's "ejection" from the SOTU staged?

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Wed Feb-01-06 08:36 PM
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Connecting the stripes: Was Mrs. Young's "ejection" from the SOTU staged?

I can find no pictures, no witnesses, no video or audio. There are no first-person accounts to corroborate the story. Only the media are talking about the alleged ejection of the wife of Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla. from Tuesday's State of the Union address.

Think about it. Help me walk through this for a moment or two.

We have Cindy Sheehan's personal account of her arrest, and several pictures. That it really happened, there is no doubt.

However, a cursory look at the websites of the usual purveyors of news and irritainment reveals little about what actually transpired regarding Mrs. Young. Some examples follow:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/01/sheehan.arrest/

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Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan wore a shirt with the message "2,245 Dead. How many more?" -- a reference to the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq.

Beverly Young, the wife of 18-term Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Young of Florida, wore a shirt that read "Support the Troops."

Both shirts resulted in their owners being ejected from the House chamber before President Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Sheehan, an invited guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-California, was arrested around 8:30 p.m. ET on charges of unlawful conduct. Young was asked to leave but not arrested.

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There is no evidence in this story that Mrs. Young was "ejected". Who asked Mrs. Young to leave? Surely someone else must have witnessed this. But notice the link to Cindy Sheehan.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060201/cm_huffpost/014943;_ylt=A86.I0H8FOFDXwgA_Rb9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

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The other shirt is in the wardrobe of Beverly Young, the wife of Florida Republican congressman Bill Young. She said she was kicked out of her gallery seat six rows away from Laura Bush for wearing a shirt reading "Support the Troops -- Defending Our Freedom.'' In this case, the police said, she didn't get ejected -- she was just asked to leave, and she did.

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So, here we learn that Mrs. Young was not ejected, let alone arrested, but simply "was just asked to leave".
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http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/2240462.html

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Republican Congressman Bill Young of Florida is hopping mad that his wife was ejected from Tuesday night�s State of the Union Address for wearing a T-Shirt urging support for U.S. troops.

Standing in the well of the House chamber, Young held up the T-shirt , which read "Support the Troops -- Defending Our Freedom."

Young says his wife was told she was removed because "she was a protester."

She told the St. Petersburg Times she was sitting about six rows from Laura Bush when she was asked to leave, and that she then argued with police in the hallway.

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This story describes how Mrs. Young was sitting within six rows of Laura Bush. How did no one notice this? And note that the story gives no accounting of the alleged removal of Mrs. Young, only of her husband's outrage, and his showing of her offending T-shirt, no photo. A brief mention is given to Cindy Sheehan, just enough to link the story in the minds of the readers.
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And on and on. I can't find a single factual account as to what really happened regarding the alleged "ejection" of Mrs. Young. Not one. Only that she was asked to leave.

No pictures. No witnesses or even anecdotal information.

Just stuff like this:

Rep. Young's wife says she was ejected from State of the Union

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The wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young said she was ejected during President Bush's State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt that said, "Support the Troops Defending Our Freedom," a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Beverly Young said she was sitting in the front row of the House gallery Tuesday night when she was approached by someone who told her she needed to leave, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

After reluctantly agreeing, she said, she argued with several officers in an outside hallway.

"They said I was protesting," she said in a telephone interview with the newspaper Tuesday. "I said, 'Read my shirt, it is not a protest.' They said, 'We consider that a protest.' I said, 'Then you are an idiot.'"

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Now, if you're still with me, thanks for your patience. Let's take a little trip back into time. Ready?

Phil Parlock. Remember this guy? He once made DU's "Top Ten Conservative Idiots" list, at #4 with a bullet.

Link is here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/171.html

The Parlock story reads as follows, from that link:

You have to feel sorry for Phil Parlock. I mean, the guy was just trying to exercise his First Amendment rights at a John Kerry campaign event, and he was viciously attacked by Democratic thugs. They even made his daughter cry!

"They just pounced on us," said Phil Parlock, "She was crying; they were pushing and shoving her." My God - will those evil Democrats stop at nothing? John Kerry must hate children! Actually, it looks like it's Phil Parlock who hates children - see, this isn't the first time Mr. Parlock has made it into the papers after being "pounced on" at a Democratic rally. After he and his 12-year-old son Louis smuggled Bush signs into an Al Gore event back in 2000, Louis apparently hoisted a girl onto his shoulders. According to the Charleston Daily Mail, "'She walked up and said 'I'll get on your shoulders and hold a sign,' " Louis said. While she was sitting on Louis' shoulders waving a Bush-Cheney sign, a man who identified himself as a volunteer for the Gore campaign tried to pull the sign out of the girl's hands, Parlock said. He pulled so hard that Louis and the girl fell over. 'That sounds like an exaggeration,' said Sarah Feinberg, spokeswoman for Gore's West Virginia campaign." And - would you believe it - Parlock was a victim of nasty liberals at a Clinton campaign event back in 1996 as well! Again, according to the Charleston Daily Mail, "The Huntington man said he was knocked to the ground by a Clinton supporter when he tried to display a sign that read 'Remember Vince Foster' ... 'It must have been a strict Democrat who did this,' Parlock said." Yup, our Phil certainly has a habit of complaining to the media about Democratic "thuggery." Kinda makes you wonder why he took his young daughter to the event last week. But then, once you realize that Parlock appears to have a relationship with the photographer that snapped the above pic, and that the man wearing the union shirt holding the ripped up sign looks suspiciously like one of his sons, and that Parlock even happened to be around when his local Republican party headquarters were shot at by a unknown assailant ...well, it just kinda makes you think. Funny how our Phil always seems to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time - with the media in tow.
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I'm just sayin'.

Remember that Jack Abramoff guy?

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/01/06/wbABRAMOFF_narrowweb__300x354,0.jpg

The guy who "donated money to both Republicans AND Democrats"?

This is what the media in this country and the slick politicos in the Bush Crime Family do. Confusion, obfuscation, dirty tricks.

Just remember that the next time you see a story like this. Does it pass the smell test? This one is a stinker.