The police officers who stopped Oklahoma City motorist Chip Harrison and confiscated a sign from his car told him he has a right to his beliefs, but the Secret Service “could construe this as a threat against President Obama,” according to the incident report released this morning.
Capt. Steve McCool of the Oklahoma City Police Department is seen in this NewsOK.com video frame grab. McCool says an officer who wrongly pulled a man over last week and confiscated an anti-Barack Obama sign from his vehicle misinterpreted the sign as threatening.
Feb 19 OCPD Capt. Steve McCool addresses an incident in which an officer confiscated an anti-Obama sign from a man’s vehicle.
The sign, which read “Abort Obama Not the Unborn,” was returned to Harrison later that day, the report said.
Police spokesman Steve McCool said this morning that the sign was taken in error, and Oklahoma City residents should not be worried that their First Amendment rights will be violated.
Harrison told the officers that in his opinion the words “Abort Obama” meant to impeach him. He told the officers he does not believe in abortion because he is a Christian.
Harrison was stopped on westbound Interstate 240 at 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 12, according to the police report.
Harrison said he later received a call from a person who said he was a lieutenant supervisor for the Internal Investigations Department and wanted to know his location and return his sign to him.
According to Harrison, the supervisor said the Secret Service had been contacted on the matter and had told them the sign was not a threat to the president.
Harrison was asked if he would like to file a complaint. He said he was not sure but would take the paperwork, just in case.
Well, isn’t this as much fun as a fight between a pit bull and a poodle? I was quite amused watching this tonight. I hope you, too, get the same feeling as did I. Is it anyone else but me that thinks Joy is flummoxed by Ann’s vocabulary and historical references? Joy tries flippantly to laugh things off, but she’s not too convincing. She even, at times, seems nervous…dare I say scared?
Here ya go, folks. Enjoy!
There was no contest here. Even Joy’s “comedic” skills were like a dull bowling alley shoe compared to Ann’s Marine high-gloss dress shoe; I could see my reflection in Ann, but looking at Joy all I could see was swamp water. Heh.
And there’s a HILARIOUS P.S. to this Larry King appearance.
Today on The View, Whoopi prompted Joy to promote her guesting for Larry tonight, and Barbara asked Joy about Ann “Are you going to take her on?”, to which Joy replied “When you’re sitting for Larry, you’re objective more or less. I don’t give my opinion as much on that show. So I’m perfectly capable of being neutral, but I will question her. Seriously I can!”
Even Whoopi rolled her eyes at THAT one. And as you can see by the previous videos, she was anything but objective. But then again, who expects liberals to keep their word? What a concept…someone keeping their word.
Today on The View, the hens went full-force on the NY Post editorial cartoonist, Sean Delonis, which portrayed two cops standing over a chimpanzee which has been obviously shot fatally, while the caption reads “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
Now, clearly EVERYBODY knows that Obama only signed the bill. The bill was written by Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid, but oh, no, The View bitches had to immediately infer that the chimp in the cartoon was Obama. Everyone on the panel took great pains to exhibit their self-righteous indignation, with calls of blatant racism, blah, blah, and more blah.
The only one that said one thing I agree with was Joy (shock!), and that was all Americans enjoy TOTAL free speech. Elisabeth was even out-to-lunch on this one, too, shilling for the politically-correct loons in this country.
I just say, give it a rest, everyone. And for the comediennes (Joy, Whoopi & Sherri) on the panel: cartoons are not ALWAYS meant to be funny – that’s the precise nature of editorial cartoons, which this selection by cartoonist Delonas was. An editorial cartoon – meant to be illustrative of one’s perceptions of another political group; not humorous to all.
Tonight on Special Report, Carl Cameron was on to highlight the problems the president is facing with Mexico. Not only are there the illegal immigrants at issue, but the bigger problems are the drug cartels, kidnappings and beheadings that are becoming a regular thing.
And Carl revealed a fact that Glenn Beck has been reporting forever about Phoenix, AZ being the #2 location for the most kidnappings…IN THE WORLD! Phoenix is only behind Mexico, City in that statistic. Why aren’t more people talking about this problem? Because the dems don’t want to face the truth, and they have too much invested in the illegal and Latino voting blocs. Talk about corruption!
Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer for ACORN, was on with Neil Cavuto today to talk about their efforts to protest in several states, encouraging people to stay in their homes…despite the fact they are being foreclosed on. Basically squatting. Ms. Bertha is oh-so deluded to think that having a home is a right and not a privilege, and believes that the lenders are 100% to blame for this; not the irresponsible idiots who took out the loans they knew they couldn’t afford. What happened to personal responsibility?
When in the world is America going to wake up and realize that if we continue to reward bad behavior, that’s exactly what we’re going to get more of. We are, at the same time, punishing good behavior; e.g. “prosperity” and “success.” And we know that what you punish, you get less of. So how did we get to this point, America? How?
Someone please tell me when we became a nation of whiners, believing that all Americans should be protected against pain, uneasiness, hurt, failure, and all those other things that come with life? Where in the Constitution are we guaranteed any of this? We are guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but we are NOT guaranteed equal results!
I pray to God that we wake up before it’s too late. We are becoming a nation of victims, and everyone is so zombified by Obama’s speeches to realize their cheers for his empty promises are actually frightening to the rest of us.
People say they want more freedom, but they are willing to be victims and have everything given to them; these two concepts are incongruent.
Common sense is losing in America, and we are a poorer nation because of it.
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Listen…I’m no fan of Obama, and like Mark Levin, I’d vote for a can of orange juice before I’d vote for Obama in 2012. Somewhere along the way, just because our president is black, videos like this are becoming more mainstream and more acceptable on YouTube and other sites, and it should not be.
This is tastleless to the n’th degree, but if it’s okay for black people to do this, how is anything ANY of the Republican candidates do remotely deemed racist at all?
If this country ever truly wants to progress and become a more civilized nation, why is trash like this even tolerated? I’m not asking for this garbage to be censored, but I’d love to see at least SOME condemnation of things like this to be more prevalent. Can we please all agree this is unacceptable in a civilized world? You cannot condemn one group of people for being allegedly “racist” while simultaneously approving of another group of people for creating videos such as this, villifying a single race of people in the process of glorifying the creators of these videos? One need only search certain terms on YouTube to find thousands of videos like this one. And they’re all equally disgusting.
What say you, Eugene Robinson, Goldie Taylor, Donna Brazile, Marc Lamont Hill, etc., etc.? I’m waiting for you all to openly condemn videos like this on YouTube. If you don’t, then I have no reason to listen to your small and petty complaints of racism from Fox News, Republicans as a whole, and GOP candidates in the 2012 primary. Your silence about videos like this are tacit approval of them.
As is said in many places, “hilarity ensues” (h/t Mediaite):
Frances Martel does a fabulous write-up about it, and I couldn’t have said it any better, so here it is direct from the Mediaite post:
“Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.”
O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this– namely, something that happened in 2008. Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.” Harpootlian finally replied, blaming Republicans for injecting race into the matter by calling this “the most important election since 1860.” “We in the South have a little different version of that election,” he noted, suggesting that talking to Southerners in such a way was a sort of dog whistle. O’Reilly disagreed and just asked Harpootlian to give it up, adding, “you’re getting killed here!”
Today on Neil Cavuto, radio talk show host and constitutional scholar, Mark Levin was on to discuss his new book, “Ameritopia.”
Levin’s previous book, “Liberty and Tyranny” was a best-seller, as was another book before that titled, “Men in Black.” “Liberty and Tyranny” is a must-read for anybody who wants to know how we got to the point where we are in America today.
I’ve been stewing on this and stewing on this figuring out the right way to convey how I feel about it, and I’ve been struggling with just the right words to describe my sentiment. I read a fabulous screed by Deebow over at BlackFive, but it wasn’t until I saw the headline in a Weekly Standard piece today that quoted Lt. Col. Allen West (R-FL) on this matter. I couldn’t have said it better myself:
‘Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell’
Yes, you got that right. Congressman West has weighed in on this flap over the Marines taking a piss on dead Taliban terrorists, sending an email to the Weekly Standard, who got his permission to print what he said. Here’s a portion of his commentary:
“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
I’m not even quite sure that what the Marines did was wrong, but since when in the hell did we become so indignant and self-righteously outraged about treating killers like they deserve to be treated? Sure, they probably shouldn’t have videotaped what they did, but who the hell cares? And don’t give me this “don’t stoop to their level” B.S. either. Until you have been in the shoes of our warriors, or our first responders (cops, firefighters, etc.), or, heck, even ever been a crime victim yourself, you have no idea what you would do, given the same circumstances.
Dedicated_Dad: It HAS been going on long before King O'bummer, but has really kicked into OVERDRIVE since his coronation.
It has spiked just like every OTHER negat...
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First Amendment, beeeyotch!
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Fake_ear: If Chris did this he would be guilty of assault and battery, but he didn't. Looks to me like Fox, O'Reilly, and Kyle have opened themselves up to a m...
