Obviously the cop misunderstood that Alterman was supposed to be removed from the ROOM, not from the show altogether. If the room was not clearly marked, Alterman can certainly be cut a pass for not realizing it was a private area. The wingnuts who have made obnoxious comments probably would have ended up arrested themselves, since not a single wingnut I have ever met could resist the pull of an open bar.

I think it is telling that Alterman was treated far more courteously (and apologetically) at the police station, where the individual cop's behavior was disavowed by the precinct.

Take THAT, wingnuts!

When police tell you to leave, its not an invitation for a civil debate on the subject.

Too many police officers get a thrill from ball busting

Tell that to the cops that are putting their lives in harm's way for your candidates.

I don't know why they bother, its not like Al Queda would attack a democrat candidate anyway – Dems are Al Queda's last hope.

I'm pretty much with Alterhead here – although I disagree with him on pretty much every issue.

However, I've witnessed the zealousness of certain police officers, how when they get something into their head, if you try to question or ask them about it, they simply repeat themselves...

I could see Alter-boy attempting to explain that he was a credentialed member of the press, whilst the officer simply repeated over him to go – hence the "seven warnings."

thanks

Tom, with a comment like that we have to assume you are a Conservative. Otherwise, you would have posted your address, a phone # or at least an email address to prove your fearless & upright bona fides.

You mean like Jimmy "Bimbo" Carter?

It took about 2 days after Jimmy attacked Bush that everyone was reminded what world-class failure really slooked like.

Who was the LAST successful, truly Liberal Democrat president? (Please don't tell me Clinton, since he actually balanced the budget & was fairly moderate on many levels).

Sean is that rare specimen of conservative that can not only form a complete sentence, but can use “big words” in the proper context more than half the time. No points on rationality, however.

A gold star for Sean.
Posted By Dylan"

As we say in Miami after receiving the daily colada, "Grassyass!"

Sean is that rare specimen of conservative that can not only form a complete sentence, but can use "big words" in the proper context more than half the time. No points on rationality, however.

A gold star for Sean.

Dennis Murphy
Detroit, MI

A market of imbeciles that are scared when they aren't told what to think and do. The 30 percenters...

Truth to Power
"It's not paranoia if it's true."

This astounding "sentence" is proof of Liberal intellectual superiority?

The best educated & most original minds I have met have been Conservatives & Libertarians, forced to cut their teeth in the wilderness while blinkered, group-think, collectivist Leftism raged for decades.

Liberal beliefs have barely any difference from bumper-stickers or catchy slogans. Then again, what IQ does a person need to still defend Marxism after it raged & sputtered within every country it was ever introduced?

Anybody can read Das Kapital for its 90 simplistic, hectoring pages. But when you spend a summer reading Wealth of Nations, War & Peace, and Decline & Fall then I think your put-downs will seem a bit more literate, Philistine.

The above post By Kelly, Piedmont, SD. is quite funny. Does this person watch the news?

Bush constantly breaks the law but its the 'liberals' that don't want to follow the rules. How about this one:
Bush sends his lap dog Gonzales to the hospital to get AG Ashcroft to sign off on an illegal wiretap plan. Or: Cheny harms our intelligence services by exposing an active CIA covert agent just to be vindictive against her husband who exposed their lies about WMD's. I suppose Kelly from SD only watches FOX news, the ALL-SPIN ZONE.

Actually, Eric's the type who believes there should BE no first class, we should all be together in Comrade Class.

"fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, "

Jones wasn't fired. He retired (with a settlement package) after being placed on PAID administrative leave.

He must have thought it was a government financed bar.

Police often lie and claim they read a defendant their Miranda rights, when they did not. They often claim Defendants made a confession when no confession was made.

Many police follow the law, many police act above the law. Many bullies become police because it allows them to bully others and to vent their pent-up, repressed anger with impugnity.

I always had the highest respect for police until I got to personally know many of them. Many really are nice guys. But too many of them carry around a huge chip on their shoulders, and create trouble.

Posted By mrs. liberty : June 3, 2007 11:15 pm

Um, this was a Democrat's debate. Bush wasn't there. And it's Cheney. With an "e" Some people shouldn't try to participate where they don't belong, just like Altergoof.