{"id":8289,"date":"2011-01-06T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2011-01-07T03:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T11:23:51","slug":"gops-reading-of-us-constitution-interrupted-by-birther-1st-amendment-rights-quickly-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8289","title":{"rendered":"GOP’s Reading of U.S. Constitution Interrupted by ‘Birther,’ 1st Amendment Rights Quickly Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not ironic at all. During today’s $1.1 million, GOP-led reading<\/a> of the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the U.S. House today, Article 2, Section 1, as read by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ, the parties were taking turns reading) the “natural born citizen” clause was interrupted by a protester shouting from the gallery.<\/p>\n

As Pallone read “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President,” the “birther activist” Theresa Cao shouted out: “Except Obama! Except Obama! Help us Jesus!”<\/p>\n

Cao’s First Amendment rights were abruptly revoked as she was ordered escorted out of the chamber and arrested by Capitol Police.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video, courtesy of TPM who has more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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That wasn’t the only early embarrassment for the new GOP majority in their first full day on the job. There was also this amusing little problem.<\/a> May be an amusing couple of years ahead… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not ironic at all. During today’s $1.1 million, GOP-led reading of the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the U.S. House today, Article 2, Section 1, as read by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ, the parties were taking turns reading) the “natural born citizen” clause was interrupted by a protester shouting from the gallery. As Pallone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,127,198],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution","category-us-house","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}