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05.29.2009 9:42am EDT
(Los Angeles, California) A writer for a small Georgia newspaper who wanted to give President Barack Obama a letter was forcibly removed from a press area near Air Force One on Thursday shortly before he arrived at the airport.
Airport security officers carried the woman away by the feet and arms as she protested her removal. She was then allowed to leave. She said the letter she had written was opposing gay marriage.She later identified herself as Brenda Lee, a writer for the Georgia Informer in Macon, and said she is a “Roman Catholic priestess” who lives in Anaheim, Calif. She said she has White House press credentials.
The newspaper’s Web site says it is a monthly publication; the site has writings by Lee posted. A call to the newspaper was not immediately returned.
The White House had no comment, said deputy press secretary Josh Earnest in Washington.
The incident occurred about 10 minutes before Obama arrived at Los Angeles International Airport by helicopter to board Air Force One. He had been in Los Angeles to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.
Lee said later in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that she wanted to hand Obama a letter urging him “to take a stand for traditional marriage.”
She said she asked a Secret Service agent to give the president her letter, but he refused and referred her to a White House staffer. Lee said she refused to give the staffer the letter.
“I said, ‘I’ll take my chances if (the president) comes by here,’” said Lee. “He became annoyed that I wouldn’t give him the letter.”
Lee said she protested when she was asked to leave.
“I said, ‘Why are you bothering me?’ They escorted me outside the gate,” she said. She said security officers allowed her to return when she promised she would not yell or wave, but then other officers arrived and told her to leave.
“I said, ‘I’m not leaving,’” she said. “They tried to drag me out.”
Two officers then picked her up and carried her out. An Associated Press photographer photographed the incident.
“I was afraid you could see under my clothes,” she said, her voice choking up.
Lee, who said this was the second presidential event she has covered, was later released.
Actually, having read the rest of the comments, I’ll switch from Narcissism to Delusional, though the two aren’t mutually exclusive.
I love how people pick and choose. On the one hand, she wants to bust down the doors of tradition by being a Catholic priestess. But let’s not bust down the doors of tradition regarding marriage. (Let’s just bust down the tradition that holds me back personally, and to heck with anyone else.)
Can you say Narcissism? Sure ya can!
I grew up Roman Catholic and I’ve never heard of a “priestess” in my life…LMAO!
Tyler Perry, is that you girl?
I’m glad she was removed. She should have been jailed for trespassing, as well!
A “Roman Catholic Priestess” ? ROFLMAO
Silly biatch need to get off the crack!
Did she get clearance with the Roman Catholic Church (the Pope) to use that title or is this another Religious Nut, part of the American Riligious Taliban who decided to do an hour online “Religious” quiz and she “earned” her religious degree and title…
Sounds PAGAN too, or Haitian Voodoo, Calling herself “Priestess”?
I really can’t stop laughing. What a moron another idiot, USING their GAWD, her “yes LERD” to bring harm to others. She Just Like Ole Whitey Slave Master against ppl. like her from not long ago!
She BOUT TO get a letter from me!
Those anti-gay folks are freakin’ nuts!!
I think the NOM should hold a press conference with her and (…oh, already forgot her name…) that skanky beauty queen. Let the nutjobs loose, so everyone can see how hate rots your brain.
P.S. I don’t want to look under your clothes.
Under the Bush Admin, “free speech zones” were set up MILES from his appearances for protestors to gather.
And this woman feels slighted? ha
LOL!
That’s all that needs to be said here methinks.
See pic all she was in a Nun’s old Habit. A real nut-case. But supposedly she has ‘Whitehouse Credentials.’ HOOT!
Yeah…soo…a roman catholic “priestess”? As far as I know there is no such thing according to the catholic church and the pope.
These freaks never cease to amaze me.
Since when do the Roman Catholic’s have a priestess? I thought that was as impossible as a Roman Catholic priest being STRAIGHT.
“I was afraid you could see under my clothes,”
whatta nut job
It’s a shame the secret service didn’t treat her the same way they treated the guy who threw shoes at W. Talk about uneven justice!