Ok, here is what I think happened with Cindy:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Cindy is allowed in by Police, knowing she is doing nothing wrong and is a guest of a Rep.

2. Minor Repuke factotums know this, don't like it, and keep an eye on her, as soon as she comes in the door.

3. Cindy sits down. Minor Repuke Factotums are starting to freak.

4. Cindy takes off coat.

5. Minor Repuke Factotums freak out, go find Mid-level Repuke Factotum.

6. Mid-level Repuke Factotum finds some cops "he/she can work with". Tells them to get her out fast, before the cameras find her, in her shirt.

7. Cindy is bums-rushed. To her physical discomfort.

8. Upper-level Repuke Factotums take a break from playing with the change in their pockets and get a rush of unacustomed insight: This is gonna look really, really bad in the press. Really bad. I mean they are gonna take some real heat.

9. Upper-level Repuke Factotums get a tshirt to Repuke congresscritters wife, tells her they need cover, that she should put it on, talk to the nice policeman for a minute, leave, moan to the press and hubby's congressional campaign will get a nice taste. You know, $10-15,000 or so. Takes the sting out better than Bactine.

10. Upper-level Repuke Factotums then concoct story that will leave Police holding the bag. And so they do.

I suspect that 11 will be some disgusted cop spilling his/her guts as to what really happened. Someday.

How'm I doin' so far?

[bloom]

1. sounds about right... n/t

[madeline_con]

2. What's a Factotum?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Functionaries.

In the case of the Repukes, highly indoctrinated and extremely militant young folks. Many are fundies.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

4. Sounds like a good scenario to me.

Repuke Factotums, as we all know, we do anything to make Chimpy McYellowstain look like the "good guy".

[Lars39]

5. spot on

[marlakay]

6. Cindy posts the true story on Michael Moores website

its just www.michaelmoore.com I read the story, what the press is saying is not true but big surprise!! All she did was take off her jacket and when they saw her tshirt they yelled protestor at her and grabbed her and arrested her. She said all they had to do was tell her to keep her jacket on and she would. They wanted to start trouble...

[Fridays Child]

7. But, from her description...

...she had only just begun to pull her arm from her jacket, when she was accosted. The guy who did it had to have been almost hovering over her to have reacted so quickly. I have a feeling he was assigned to her and, for all of the apologies, dropped charges, etc., he executed his duties exactly as instructed. It wouldn't surprise me if he got a kiss from Karl.

[tridim]

8. My only quibble is the fake CNN report about the banner unfurling

That had to come from the upper-level folks.. Unless CNN is on Roveian autopilot now.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. No, it did not.

A lot of these reporters get a lot of information from the lower-level factotums. Gossip and skinny is currency to Washington. I suspect that the banner story was BigFatLie v0.5beta.