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Hillary Clinton Says She’d Avoid TSA Pat-Down if at All Possible

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says officials should try to make the new airport security measures, including full body scans and intimate pat-downs, less intrusive.

Clinton says there’s clearly a need for the tighter security. But she says the government should explore ways to “to limit the number of people who are going to be put through surveillance.”

She says she understands “how offensive it must be” for some people to undergo the searches. She says there’s a need to strike “the right balance” and to “get it better and less intrusive and more precise.”

Would she submit to a pat-down? “Not if I could avoid it,” Clinton says. “No. I mean, who would?”

She made the comments in interviews aired Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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  • Minority Retort
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:09pm

    Every time, I get “selected” for the scanner, I opt for the pat down. Because they should endure the inconvenience just as much as I will. Further, the pat-down lasts for a moment, the scanner image lasts indefinitely.

    Then I ask the TSA employee, “How was I selected for further scrutiny?” and they will [quite often] say, “We select people at random in order to keep it fair and sample the population.” Or do we really believe children fit a threat profile?

    Folks, random sampling is not “reasonable search and seizure.” Keep a record and file a complaint anywhere and everywhere. Begin with TSA, the airlines and your congressman’s office(s).

    Defend the constitution, or be prepared to live without it. Know the 4th amendment. Know when it’s been violated too.

    There’s something very wrong with this arrangement. Remember, if seems excessive, it probably is.

    THERE ARE other technological and manual methods which will work without invading your privacy or assaulting your dignity and your rights (as scanner image clarity AND the frisking do)!

    Otherwise, some suggest “crop-dusting.” ;^) You pick…lose your rights, or lose your couth. That’s gonna be a curious trend to report in the news!!

    In other related news, the terrorist Ghailani got a slap on the wrist with 1 conviction out of 285 charges…and the one conviction was not even a “terrorist” charge…you think it’s going to get easier on the American public as we have to make up for the lack of deterrence…

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:47pm

    hey there you are ABC……wondered where you been hiding, is that the best argument you can come up with? that we are only talking about the 3 stooges avoiding scans? you must be really hard pressed for alternative views to argue about on this topic if you think we think that only democrats are avoiding scanning………..we all know that all of our ruling class circumvents this procedure. so whats your point, other than being an ignorant instigator?

    go troll somewhere else……….like the huff-n-puff they like your kind of blather over there, and wont delete your posts like they do to ours over there. but make sure you come back here now and then, we like using your posts as example number one :)

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  • historypaper
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:44pm

    Hillary has been avoiding pat-downs for years, ask the rapist Bill Clinton.

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  • Conservative Grinch
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:36pm

    Air Force One should not be allowed to enter US Airspace unless all on board agree to a full body scan and pat down.

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  • SENIORCHIEF
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:56pm

    Isn’t that funny. She and Obama never have to go through a pat down any time they fly so of course she would say this. I wonder if her junk would be touched?

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  • FANGS
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:49pm

    My Brother arrived in Milwaukee two weeks ago. The rental suburban was left in the drop off lane for over 1/2 hr . unchecked. These terrorists are getting smart. They’ll operate on someone and fill their stomach with c4. Leave your pot at home, go through the screening and hope your plane wont blow up from something in the cargo hold.Even before the scanners, Myself and my Marine Brother allways got frisked. Get used to it.

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  • Ronko
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:44pm

    Hillarys right for once although she’s still a Nimrod.

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:44pm

    Ha! Can you imagine how sick someone would have to be that would want to pat down Hillary Clinton ? Man, we are talking major gross here.

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  • Silverwolf00
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:30pm

    People, the next time you and a group of your friends want to fly somewhere charter a plane and forget the T_Fing_SA…

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    • T.E.A.PARTNER
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:18pm

      What the heck makes you ‘fly your own plane’ posters think that once you‘re in the airport that you won’t go through the same?

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  • Rob_M
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:20pm

    Classic elitism.

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  • Freedom1984
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:02pm

    Oh Hillary, I so feel your pain… (or was that what your husband said?) Of course you can say that…because I doubt that you would ever have to get a Pat Down, because you would buy your way out of it… Is this your way of PERHAPS SAYING YOU WOULD LIKE ONE?????

    I double-dog dare you to get one!!!

    Is that what you were waiting for??? So now you can go!!! Yee-haw….enjoy your Pat Down woman (?)

    I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU TO GET ONE!!!!!!!!

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:43am

    Once politicians are subjected to the laws and regulations that we are. Then a lot of this crap will stop in a hurry. But as long as they can put themselves on pedestals then they can do pretty much whatever they want to. But then again with the exception of Pelosi, Reid, Obama, and the rest of the Democrats. I would just put them on no fly lists. Let them walk to where ever they need to go.

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    • abc
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:22pm

      Why don’t you mention Republican politicians? Do you think that these policies are the fault of the Dems? Do you not know that Boehner is skipping out of line?? Your partisanship is blinding you. You should try to be a little more honest.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:33am

    If it was up to me, she would have to go through three pat downs and three scans. Then maybe if all the politicians had to then they wouldn’t be so quick to pass laws that affect the rest of us.

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  • crossdraw
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:24am

    The rule makers can break their own rules. VETERANS, organize into a union. What a powerhouse of men and women, trained by the government to kill in so many ways, organized into one huge UNION. The politicos would S*** their pants. The Veterans Union. COMMIES NEED NOT APPLY. That’s why there is SEIU,AFL-CIO,etc. THE VETERANS UNION. We can get er done and make the politicos accountable.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:50pm

      AQs a veteran, I hear what you are saying. But lets be wary of the pit falls. Let us have elections and term limits and all actions must recieve a majority vote by the membership at large in a secret ballot.
      My mos was anti-submarine warfare…sosus…..
      I offer my service to my country again, without payment required or requested, without reservation and with the full intent of establishing a Repubic as our forefathers desired, how can I be of service?

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  • rdk
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:24am

    Occasionally Hillary speaks with wisdom and common sense.

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:12am

    Whats the “remedy”? PROFILE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ALL muslims and followers of of islam would have a “lifetime islam card”
    (in case these decievers try to change religions) also they would have “islam” stamped on the ticket————- for screening
    their I solved it——-and LEAVE US AMERICANS ALONE
    Next we need a card for all progressives, union members, one world wannabes and throw the whole
    lot out of the country

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  • Star Spangled
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:11am

    I feel a nudge . A nudge toward revolt , a revolt that could cost us even more freedom .
    I think the solution is to demand airports hire private security and get rid of TSA . The private companies will still have to follow TSA’s rules but I think they would be a better job. Competition always improves customer service .

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    • Waggedy Wabbit
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:06pm

      private security GROPE is better than a TSA grope???? How about this——-NEITHER!!!!!!! AS far as a REVOLT costing us even more FREEDOM——guess than we already LOST!!!!!

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  • Smart
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:09am

    See!!!! The politicians would not submit!!! Why should we? They must stop this sexual harassment NOW.

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  • joseph Fawcett
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:07am

    It is a great Idea that all goverment officials have to go through the highest levels of screenings each time they board a plane private or commercial. This way they know and put themselves through what they are demanding of others. No pass for the officials. This should include the TSA agents and the officials also. It should be automatic policy and no exceptions. This way they can say that they understand being sexually assulted and photographed nude. Also, what can we say then if they submit themselves to all of this then we should too. Either that, or start profiling and do this to all persons fitting the profile.

    http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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  • CM Sackett
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:57am

    Awww, isn’t that sweet?

    Billery, the ‘friend’ of the ‘little people’…

    This is nothing but the “Good cop/Bad cop” routine… poorly executed.

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    • lenavid
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:40am

      Very poorly. They really don’t think much of us.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:43pm

      plainly spoken, plainly obvious that there disdane for we the people is before us all to see.

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  • abc
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:57am

    John Boehner was escorted around the metal detectors, along with his wife, skipping the long line, scanners and likely groin pat-downs that the rest of us are subjected to. This after he made such a big deal about his decision to do away with the military flights that Nancy Pelosi was pilloried for (although it was Bush that implemented that policy), and after he stated that he would “fly like the rest of us.” Maureen Dowd writes about this, so it has been verified and fact-checked. Ignore it only if you are a liar and hypocrite. At least Hillary Clinton is honest about it, while John Boehner wants you to believe that he will subject himself to the pat-down while he attempts to quietly pull rank on the rest of us. Whatever nasty comments you make about Hillary avoiding the pat-down, please apply them with double the force to our Speaker-elect. Again, unless you are a partisan liar and hypocrite.

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    • butler180
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:08am

      One thing we know for sure, John Boehner would not blow up a plane. H. Clinton, not so sure about, as she is part of the Admin. that has taken us down the ‘garden path’ financially. Ex. buying our own debt etc.

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:16am

      I think it should be manditory that all goverment officials and TSA be subjected to the screening to the fullest each and everytime they fly. This way all of them know and are constantly reminded what they are putting the general public. Including Obama, Hillary, and everyone. Let us see all of them submit to the sexual assults and nude imaging.

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • OneRepublic4us
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:16am

      If people are recognizable why should they have to go through security? I don‘t think I should have to go through all of this crap because I’m an American. ABC you think like a Marxist Liberal and want Boehner to have to go through it to “get even” with him. Would you please slither back in to the hole you slithered out of!

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    • abc
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:17pm

      OneRepublic, there are an infinite number of reasons to take the position I do. But you ASSUME that you know the one behind it. Either you are a moron, and cannot see the myriad possibilities, or you think you are mind-reader, which means you are worse than stupid: you are crazy. Which is it?

      Joe the Plumber and Brad Pitt are recognizable, so should they skip the screening? What about Zhang Zi Yi? I think you ought to ask yourself why the EXPERTS consistently set up programs of security that subject most celebrities to a screening. And then ask yourself why only political celebrities are being allowed to opt out. Clearly, being recognized is not the controlling factor. It is the POWER that these people have. Power corrupts, so as an antidote to that corruptive element, I demand that Boehner and Clinton be subjected. I also believe that you cannot empathize with your constituency if you are opting out of the headaches that they are subjected to. Another reason for Boehner to not opt out.

      There was a controversy earlier in the year, when the TSA demanded that famous Indian actors, who are regularly opting out of security in India, given that country’s caste system that treats people unequally and in un-American fashion, should be put through scanners in NYC. The Indian government filed a complaint, but we didn’t back down. Republicans cheered. What’s good for celebrities in Hollywood and Bollywood ought to be good enough for Boehner. Only hypocrites make up strawman arguments about why I am wrong and claim false victory, all the while failing to address the obvious hypocrisy of their and their favorite political leader’s points of view.

      Either Boehner should retract his comments about flying like the common man–which he made only last week–or he should stand in the expedited first class or regular coach line like the rest of us.

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    • abc
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:19pm

      Butler, you are a moron if you think Hillary Clinton would blow up a plane. You truly are fit for a strait jacket. She is Secretary of State. She is a multi-millionaire. She rejects terrorism. But you perpetuate fantasies that are beyond stupid. Hopefully, most bloggers even here are not that irrational.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:35pm

      ABC:
      I usually end up praying for you (and in my own little world I pray that it irritates you that I do), but on this I find myself in agreement with you.
      I for one have had it with the “double standard” that Washington DC and “celebrity” is given and takes in this country. I’d like to see a level playing field, that our elected officials would under go the same existance that their constituentcies do. That beiong said, I am an adult and fully rational, so I know that the likelyhood of that happening is slim to none, and slim left town before the scanners were in place.
      It’s easy to call the kettle black, too easy.
      But here are some facts.

      America was founded to be a republic

      Since 1913 “social wellfare laws” have eroded our Republic into a “democratic socilism”

      No one presently living in America has experienced a true American Republic as intended by our
      founders

      The election on 11/02/2011 was not a validation of a “republican (party) agenda, but a veritable slap to the FACE of socialism

      We the people have spoken, and shall continue to speak, we will experience a true REPUBLIC in our life time, and we shall do so the PROPPER WAY by voting.

      We who feel this way OUT NUMBER the socialist/communist/marixist Three to One. Have you read Sun Tzu?

      Irregardless of who you are, how you fell, this country IS returning to its founding one way or another. And I speak in parables for those who have ears that hear and eyes that see.

      And in conclusion, unlike a socilist, we won’t take what you work for, in fact you wouldn‘t have what you have if it weren’t for us.

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    • abc
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:11pm

      BetterDays, first, you are not correct about praying. I do not believe in God, but I do not presume to have all the evidence that would allow me to disabuse you of your religion. I think prayer is useless except to the extent that it helps give people peace of mind, just as the meditation of non-theistic people will do. So I would never hold it against you. Finally, I am touched that you would pray for me since that implies that while we disagree you care enough about me to want me to “see the light.” That is not a bad ethic to hold, even if I disagree with it. Thus, your assumption that your prayers irritate me are not correct.

      You also wrote a bunch of stuff that should be addressed:

      America was founded to be a republic

      “Since 1913 “social wellfare laws” have eroded our Republic into a “democratic socilism””

      As countries get richer, they add a larger safety net so that our standard of living can be raised. This is not socialism necessarily. We have tougher food safety and environmental laws than dirty and dangerous China does, although their country remains more socialist than ours. So I think your claim is false on its face. To the extent that we have some policies that are socialist, like those that guarantee workers rights, I happen to like those, as do millions of other Americans. And there is nothing unconstitutional about them, as the Supreme Court has approved of them thruogh a history of case law and a long period of silence that shows tacit acceptance.

      “No one presently living in America has experienced a true American Republic as intended by our
      founders”

      This statement implies that you have privileged knowledge about what the founders envisioned. It is possible that they expected the country to have a bigger safety net and higher standard of living 200 years later, just as I expecte that 200 years from now, we will know a lot more and have a much better functioning government than we have today. Also, the fact that we live in a different democracy than our founders did is actually a good thing. Afteral, blacks and women and non-landowners couldn’t vote back then. Are you defending that state of affairs as being better than ours? I think not.

      “The election on 11/02/2011 was not a validation of a “republican (party) agenda, but a veritable slap to the FACE of socialism”

      This is your opinion. You have to produce polling data on that question to prove it. I happen to think that the economy being very weak and unemployment being high contributed mightily to voter dissatisfaction. By the way, the economy would have been a lot worse without the bailouts that you are implicitly calling socialist. And even the most conservative trained economists have repeatedly said as much. But the problem is that you never will win an election for avoiding a much worse economic outcome (which Bush policies would have produced). People don’t vote based upon hypotheticals. In short, you assume way too much on the basis of the election without showing data. And the electorate could punish someone for doing a good job since the bad outcome avoided is never considered by the voting public.

      “We the people have spoken, and shall continue to speak, we will experience a true REPUBLIC in our life time, and we shall do so the PROPPER WAY by voting.”

      A republic is technically a representative system of democracy. It has nothing to do with how welfare based or laissez-faire based the economy runs. If we have indirect democracy and highly socialistic policies, then technically, this is still a republic. I think you need to go back and learn your terminology so I can understand what you are trying to say.

      “We who feel this way OUT NUMBER the socialist/communist/marixist Three to One. Have you read Sun Tzu?”

      I’ve read Sun Tzu–some parts even in Chinese–but I struggle to understand what that means. We are a democracy and a nation of laws. If the majority of left leaning people can win elections–and they do on a regular basis, they they are allowed to put those policies into action. By the way, those policies are not communist or marxist and are mostly not even socialist. You use those words as though they are interchangeable, but they are not. Again, you would be well-served to go learn what they mean. That way, we can have a more precise and accurate discussion.

      “Irregardless of who you are, how you fell, this country IS returning to its founding one way or another. And I speak in parables for those who have ears that hear and eyes that see.”

      The country cannot return to its founding even if it tried. The world we live in is not 18th century, so the demands of government are different. You can call your preferred state of affairs a “return” but that is more rhetoric than reality. Clearly, you don’t advocate returning to the 3/5ths rule. So you have to be more precise in your logic and language. And parables are problematic in this regard since they are so imprecise. it is how we communicated 5,000 years ago, but there are much better ways to do it today. We have enjoyed much progress since the time of the Bible. You should recognize that rather than pretending that people 5,000 years ago have superior insights to us now. They do not.

      “And in conclusion, unlike a socilist, we won’t take what you work for, in fact you wouldn‘t have what you have if it weren’t for us.”

      Even capitalists require a government to take some of what you work for. So your argument again makes no sense. You have to define things more precisely. You have to say what you think the right tax rate is, what the right level of govt spending as a percentage of GDP, and how those two are equalized under normal economic conditions. If you cannot do this, then you are really talking nonsense about taking what is not yours or returning to the founders and all the other useless stuff that Beck fills your head with. You’d be scared if your doctor started talking in parables are asserting that we need to return to 19th century medicine, but you are not scared when policymakers talk this way. That is puzzling to me. Economics and accounting are as precise as medical science. You ought to demand the same level of competence when discussing it. If you cannot evaluate the art, because you are not qualified, then the fact you can recite parables should be irrelevant.

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  • HillBillySam1
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:56am

    The TSA hopes that she would avoid it, too……there is a shortage of ten-foot poles.

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    • ARIZONA VETERAN
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:24am

      Ding ding ding, “10 foot pole” is the winning post!!!

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    • FIREDUDE
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:08pm

      Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the bucket of S**T they would have to feel threw~~~~~~~~~

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  • SnapTie
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:55am

    Her and Obamby will never be subjected to a pat-down. Limousine Liberals

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    • butler180
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:03am

      Just us folks have to be humilated.

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    • abc
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:24pm

      Neither has Boehner, who last week said he’d fly like the common man, but this week skipped out of his screening. Why are you so dishonestly partisan that you only call out Democrats? Not very honest of you. And it really sinks your credibility. Facts matter. And the fact is that Republicans are skipping out just like Democrats. Only a fool or someone who takes me for one (which is a false claim) would make such stupid assertions.

       
    • RJGUSA
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:51pm

      To ABC: What’s your deal? Every time I check a post by TheBlaze, you’re always in the comment section (multiple times) spewing your left wing garbage. Your either are:
      1) Employed by George Soros to ‘try’ & discredit Glenn Beck & Conservative view points OR
      2) You are collecting Unemployment compensation while living home with Mom, hidden in your basement, sitting in your ‘Fruit of the Looms’ & blogging garbage all over the internet.
      At least TheBlaze allows you to post here. Can’t say much for the Huffington Post.
      For the first time, I responded to someone (similar to you) on the HP site. They were going on about how the Jewish Leadership trashed Glenn Beck for his Soros report. I simply told the young lady the ZOA (I think it’s called) came to Glenn’s defense & provided the link. No name calling. Well guess what happened. My post never reached that woman because the Huffington Post deleted it.
      If you don’t agree with them, your views don’t count.
      AT least you ABC, are allowed to be an ******* here & get away with it. This is the American way.
      Now get a job.

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    • abc
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:52pm

      RJG, thanks for the comment. First, there are obviously a lot more possible explanations for my comments than the ones you mention, so it should come as no surprise that you are wrong in your conclusions about me. I am gainfully and lucratively employed. Second, you cannot on the one hand pat yourself on the back for your conservative site allowing me to post, while HuffPo doesn’t, and then on the other implying that I should shut up by going to find a job. The same limits on contrary opinion that you see at HuffPo exist all over the right-wing blogosphere. So please spare me the noise. Either you can rebut the factual analysis that I always supply, and which you call garbage because it causes one to reach conclusions that are contrary to the false narrative espoused by conservatives. Or you can admit that you are incapable of defending that false narrative with facts and that you will instead rely upon name-calling or non-sequitur attacks to distract people from the sorry failing on your part to actually address the issue. And the issue is this. Beck highlights Hillary’s admission in the hypothetical, which is honest, but they ignore Boeher’s hypocrisy in this regard. If you stand on principle, you will call out both or neither, but not one and not the other. That is dishonest partisanship. I thought conservatives and tea partiers were non-partisan and principle based. I guess that isn’t true. Put up the facts or shut up. Calling my facts garbage only makes you look foolish.

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  • ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:54am

    I dont think that Hillary has had a patdown in years……………………..

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    • butler180
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:01am

      Not nice – but funny

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    • SHTFMilitia.com
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:01am

      She might want one :)

      If you are prepared you may survive,
      http://www.shtfmilitia.com

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:10am

      In your worst nightmares this could be possible – you are the TSA agent doing the pat downs…

      (Agent: “Next.”

      (Comes Pelosi, Napoletano, and Hillary for full strip searches in public.)

      Could not get any worse – lets see:

      (Agent: “Next…)

      (Mr Soros comes up…”I am Soros the magnificent dictator of the world, I do not get this done…”

      (Voice: “Oh Mr Soros, while you are here how about a quick interview on your plans for world domination and such…”

      (Voice is of Glenn Beck

      Sometimes even a horrendous nightmare made real has a golden lining hidden within.

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    • ARIZONA VETERAN
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:25am

      bet ole oBowMa has “cavity” searched her, how else would she get the job shes in….

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    • FIREDUDE
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:07pm

      Dude to funny for sure……… Does she not look like she has turned into a man!!!!!!!!!!! I am sorry but that B***H is FUGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:36pm

      Should a male TSA touched her she’ll knock him out. Should a female TSA pat her down she‘ll blushso much she won’t stop laughing.

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    • GumbyGunslinger
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:35pm

      http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/rumor-mill-huma-abedin-hillary-clintons-aide-politics-and-love

      Well if you don’t count Huma, I‘m sure it’s been years since Hill has had a pat down.

      TSA= The Stoßtruppen of America…. rightwing arm of Homeland Gestapo

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    • chazman
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:44pm

      … be like patting down the wife of JABBA THE HUT! No tellin‘ what you’d find in there … yuck.

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  • wethepeoplepress
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:54am

    Myself and another passenger were flying out of Ft Lauderdale airport to Atlanta. We did not set off the alarm going through the metal detector but were still marked for x ray scanner. Pat’s story can be found here. http://teapartyfortlauderdale.com/news.html He is a much better writer than I.

    The video of the Atlanta airport security terminal warning lock down can be seen here.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPo8R79lQ6Q

    This morning flight from Ft Lauderdale to Atlanta had a medical emergency in flight about half way through. Upon landing passengers were asked to stay seated while paramedics boarded and attended to the passenger in first class. Our prayers are with the man and his family. I am unsure of his condition.

    Once I exited the plane into the terminal I was spooked by a recorded alarms and flashing lights, the alarm stating
    “”Attention please, attention please, relocate to a safe area within the building near a safe exit and await further instructions, do not use elevators.”

    I asked the only TSA person present if this alarm was due to the medical emergency that happened on the plane, she said she did not think so, I asked if this was a drill, she said she did not think so, BUT “if I see people running then you know it is hitting the fan”. I steeped back as she walked away with a grin and thought If this is what our millions of stimulus have accomplished we are indeed in deep trouble. I pulled ou t my Iphone and began to record. I captured the security warning audio message in full and then stopped recording.

    The trip started in Ft Lauderdale airport where a TSA agent asked me to walk through the metal detector, I did without a beep. I was then lured into one of the x-ray machines, I was not told I was going to be scanned. Upon realizing what they were attempting to do I told the TSA agent I refuse to be scanned. My opt out was announced publicly and then by walkie talkie. I was then paraded to a small roped off area for pat down. My TSA assaulter was gentle compared to the horror stories I have read about to date.. The process took 2-4 minutes. After what I assume was some kind of chemical test I was told I was free to go. I know a TSA agent. They do in fact profile just so you know. The problem is it is left up to the discretion of the agent. If you have a liberal America hating agent you can be sure those who are devout followers of a religion who track record of followers who blow up planes is rather alarming. Then you have the grandmas and children who are being run up the flag pole? Someone needs to tell the TSA you don’t look for oranges in a apple orchard.

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    • Reavist
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:17am

      Excellent article by Pat — worth the read – thank you for posting the link.

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    • heavyduty
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:37am

      An easy fix to this problem and all problems that people are having with TSA. Either quit flying or buy your own plane. Then you can avoid all pat downs and scans.

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:55am

      You would have to have very big hands to pat down Hil’s pins. How would the TSA stormtrooper react when he got to her crotch and found a sac with Barry’s Huevos??
      Sailor

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    • APPLESOFGOLD
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:45pm

      OK, HEAVYDUTY… I have grown weary of hearing this response of yours. As a frequent traveler, I travel often out of a very real business requirement. Suppose the TSA were restricting automobile travel, and you were told to suck it up or don’t drive to the grocery store. Let’s just close our eyes, go to sleep, and wake up after ALL of our Constitutional freedoms have been taken over. I hope that Americans show more spine and intelligence.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:10pm

      of course Hillary would avoid TSA screening,,,,she’s one of the countries royalty,,not to be mistaken for one of the lower class servants of the public.

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    • Hobo Boondocks
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 12:53am

      Please remember if the pat down was really good to you, tip no more than 10% of your ticket value.

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    • grandmommie
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 9:29am

      Why should we worry about some one blowing up an airplane when the current adminstration is blowing up our whole country from the safe confines of the White House? Just asking….

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