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White House Lifts Lockdown After Occupiers Allegedly ‘Chucked’ Smoke Bombs Over Fence

Just when you thought the Occupy movement’s over-the-top antics were waning, things started to heat up again on Tuesday night after two smoke bombs were apparently thrown over the White House fence.

While few details were initially given, the “smoking objects,” as MyFoxDC.com reported, led to the White House being put on a brief and partial lockdown. In an effort to safely examine the device, the Secret Service used a robot. The Obamas were not inside the White House at the time, as they were out at a nearby steakhouse celebrating First Lady Michelle Obama’s birthday.

Last night, the individual managing the Occupy D.C. Twitter account wrote, “Someone threw a firecracker” and “Someone just chucked something over the fence, it’s on fire. People are saying its a firecracker”:

Occupy D.C. Protesters Allegedly Throw Smoke Bomb Over White House Fence

Currently, no arrests have been made, although the secret service reports that authorities are looking into the incident. The smoke bombs were apparently tossed as 1,000 people protested outside of the White House. This convergence followed an earlier rally on the West Lawn of the Capitol that the protesters called “Occupy Congress.” While planners had secured a permit for 10,000 people and promised that the event would be the largest national gathering of Occupiers to date, the numbers didn’t come close to this lofty goal.

Here’s some raw footage of the events that unfolded outside the White House last night:

Occupy D.C. is currently a point of contention in Washington, as critics of the movement are ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to stop the protesters from residing in McPherson Square – a federal park. Next week, House Republicans plan to hold a hearing on the matter. Additionally, the city’s mayor, Vincent Gray, like other leaders across the nation, is citing the unsanitary conditions as a reason to have the Occupiers removed.

While local leaders are typically responsible for managing the protests, MyFoxDC.com explains why the local movement is in Obama’s hands:

An attempt to evict the protesters would almost certainly be met with resistance and arrests. The White House has deferred to local authorities in New York and elsewhere as they have evicted “Occupy” camps. But unlike other cities, the federal government is managing the demonstrations because the Park Service oversees many D.C. parklands, leaving the decision in the hands of Obama’s administration.

It looks like it’s going to take more than cold weather to slow down the Occupiers. While they certainly have every constitutional right to protest, the presence of smoke bombs and other violent tools will continue to tarnish the movement’s image.

(H/T: MyFoxDC.com)

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  • rationallyurs
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:56am

    probably at a all you can stuff in your mouth restaurant—how else can you fill up the moochelle—and her big butt

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:15am

      Police Agent Provocatuers usually are the ones caught infiltrating protests and then doing something to provoke the cops into beating everyone down.

      We’re well aware of their methods.

      RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!

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    • db321
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:57am

      Hey Van Jones – the OWS Movement you created has backfired – they are suppose to support Obama not throw smoke bombs at the WH.

      Another plan Van were you think you are so wise but you become a fool.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:21am

      I envisioned V man looking just like van jones before I even knew who van jones was. Black egotistical smartass that most likely wore glasses to give a pretentious aire of intellectuallism.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:24pm

      Meh, what’s a firecracker between friends?

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:55pm

      GPS-Tech

      That’s pure unprovoked, baseless, ad hominem garbage.

      I’m the antithesis of a Van Jones. I listen to another Jones. Alex Jones.

      Don‘t take it so personal that I’m smarter than you. You seem jealous of it. It’s not a good look.

      Report Post » V-MAN MACE  
    • KickinBack
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:56pm

      I‘m wondering if the OWSers will show up to Barry’s nomination acceptance speech…at the Bank of America Center.

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    • HKS
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:05pm

      At least they finally got the target right. You have no problems that didn’t come from there.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:45pm

      Now don’t forget Michelle is no “a mad black woman”. Could she possibly be a mad black crossdresser? Rumor is that Obumbler likes guys, maybe Michelle isn’t a woman but a guyin drag.

      OMG

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    • JohnTwoFeathers
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:47pm

      Someone needs to teach V-man how to build a spud gun to get those smoke bombs closer.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:55pm

      @ d-bag mace
      No, It’s actually what I said it is. That is what I envisioned from your your comments and style of speaking. NO ONE in here is jealous of your idiotic anti-authority ramblings. I ridicule you constantly and all your comebacks are lame so how could I consider you smarter than me. I used to think you were a left wing troll but your Alex jones references prove you are a garden variety nut job and made me think even less of you.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:36pm

      JohnTwoFeathers

      Oh, wow, what are you? A government agent trying to treat me like one of your little false-flag patsies? Sorry sir. We’re defensive, not offensive. Go ahead and trespass. Go ahead and make yourself a domestic enemy. We have a nice surprise waiting for you.

      PMS-Peck

      You have quite a vivid imagination. You should lay off the hallucinogens.

      I keep trying to explain to you, you poor little fluoride-drinking child, that those Nazi traitors aren’t my authorities, or yours. We’re the masters, they’re the servants. Master>Servant. Master>Servant. Get it?

      Do you need a set of flashcards? I’ll make some for you. Your brain has probably atrophied to the size of an amoeba from all the hexafluorosilicates.

      The juvenile drivelings that you call “ridicule” are like so much drizzle against a lighthouse. You have zero effect. NONE. 100% inconsequential. 200% ineffectual.

      My Alex Jones references prove to you that I’m awake, informed, armed, angry, and waiting for your ilk to trespass. That is why you keep responding to me. You fear me. And you should. There’s more of us than you, and it only takes a handful of us to make a bad day for you little bootlicking sheep. You better stay behind the police barricade and lick those boots for them, you testosterone-deficient pet.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:48am

      @D_bag mace
      Yes, no effect at all. Thats why you composed a two paragraph response as opposed to ignoring somone who has a zero effect. It’s pretty obvious you are butt sore macey. Your response is as lame as it is lenghty.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:20pm

      GPS-Tech

      Your waste of space called a comment doesn’t preclude me responding and putting you squarely in your place…on the margin.

      My butt is armored. It can’t get sore. You’re the one that is butthurt by MY comments, because you felt it necessary to respond directly to me for…what reason? My initial comment must have provoked you somehow…or do you just waste time signing in to be all on my nuhts?

      Groupie much? Get a fake cop uniform and meet me in front of the police station. You can be my “sidekick”.

      Report Post » V-MAN MACE  
    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:01pm

      @d-Bag mace
      Oh yeah, one more thing. That groupie comment is just a ploy to try and get me to break off the attack. Sorry kid, that doesnt work on me.

      Report Post » GPS-Tech  
    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:32pm

      ATF-Pet

      Don’t come riding in on your high horse (pardon the pun) BS as if you’re morally superior because you choose not to pursue happiness, torturing your burning conscience in a flagellation of self pity. What you eat doesn’t move my bowels and vice versa. Find something more important to worry about. In other words, get a life.

      Police are not a necessity, the ability to defend oneself is. You have delegated the responsibility to defend yourself to incompetent pigs who care nothing about you. Like I said, stay behind the barricade, little girl.

      I don’t have a “kind”. You have a “kind”. It’s a special kind of human called a Racist BIGOT. Nothing obscure about that.

      I didn’t know they made “Master>Servant” flash cards. Where do you find that at, the Library for Escaped Slaves? “Ye Olde Slave Boutique”?

      I’m glad you took the time to look up “ad hominem”, where you attack someone personally with total disregard for any point, simply to be divergent and tangential, which is what your opinion amounts to. Irrelevant BS. It doesn’t negate the truth to attack the character of the messenger, and your attacks are weak. It simply illustrates your inability to form a coherent counter argument. So you resort to juvenile namecalling and other personal attacks. A regression to infanthood from prepubescence. You even admitted that your own comments are juvenile. How pathetic.

      Just be silent, peon. Your chihuahua skills need sharpening.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 11:38pm

      @D-bag mace
      It’s a good thing I looked up the definition of of ad hominem because I wouldnt have known that you misused it. You wont admit it though because it conflicts with your delusion of infallibilty. Instead you try to disprove me with some round about argument which is truly irrelevant BS. I mean it really was non-sensical garbage. I wasnt admitting my comments are juvenile, I was being sarcastic but you must not comprehend that through your drug induced haze. I make smartass comments towards you out of sheer sport, I truly enjoyed dissecting your prior response. I can sense the anger and desperation in you macey. If you think there is anything you can say to get me to stop now you’re dreaming. The way I see it the real fun is just getting started pal.

      Report Post » GPS-Tech  
    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:46am

      Your stupid comments don’t amount to a stream of warm dog p, let alone reach the level of patronizing.

      Your baseless garbage has no logic. You haven’t beaten anything, because this is not a battle. This dialogue between us is play-play. You’re the toy.

      The only thing that is obscure is your cognition. I haven’t used any Jedi mind tricks on you. You flabbergast yourself with your own ignorance.

      Your concern with my body is indicative of your failure and inability to control your own body, and illustrates your jealousy that I’m not restrained by the “moral” standards you have allowed to burden yourself.

      You do you, and I’ll do me. And there’s nothing you can do about it except whine and henpeck. I’m smoking right now and blowing a huge cloud of smoke at the screen. You have no power over me. You are weak. And you don’t like it.

      Never needed the cops, never will. I got the same guns they got. They’re only there to investigate and write reports/ tickets and generate revenue. They’re not going to save you.

      Yea, you said a lot of BS about dark skinned people and that’s your problem, not mine. You have to live with it, not me. That’s YOUR personal problem. Bigotted fool. If you feel ignorant and backwards, again that’s your personal problem. No skin off my nose.

      You can dwell on mundane tangents like flash cards and all that mess, don’t really care. Hang on those words for another 5 hours.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:17pm

      out your backside

      Report Post » GPS-Tech  
    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 1:48pm

      @D-Bag
      You reported my post so it could be deleted. You’re a p*ssy mace.

      Report Post » GPS-Tech  
  • Mandors
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:54am

    Got to hand it to our crackerjack national security and their skill at threat assessment.

    Next time OWS should try a ding dong ditch, they’ll shut down the beltway.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:44am

    So The Obama’s were at a steakhouse, celebrating the angry baboons birthday, and everyone else…. Eat your peas !

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    • Tom K
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:14am

      @ DETROIT PAPERBOY: Michelle Obama “ Angry Baboon ” – Stop it; I laughed so hard I almost peed myself ! Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:22pm

      Chuck E Cheese sells steaks?

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:38am

    Billy’s either very slammed with moderating tons of comments, or he’s censoring, again!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:51am

      The flea baggers were’nt getting enough attention, they were invited to the white house, all a set up to distance the Democrats from their own movement ….

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:02pm

      Use horse Biscuits next time.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:18am

    Maybe this is a way to finally DISTANCE themselves from these OWS paid Democrat operatives, since they are NOT so popular these days. They can STILL support them form BEHIND the scenes and I know they will. The Van Jones types LOVE this group and helped to organize them. Go to any liberal website and ask how to get involved. You may be surprised! ;)

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    • cosette
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:34am

      @ Equal-Intelligent post. I’m inclined to agree. Informed people are well aware that the radical left, of which this administration is a part, created this Frankenstein monster in an attempt to demonize corporations and by extension the capitalist system. This aggressive act towards the “White House” is a ruse designed to distance the creator from the monster of his making due to the backlash demonstrated by the average American. Don’t be fooled. Obama is EVIL, not Stupid.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:34am

      Nope, I can hear them from my house plotting the usual “ Bush did it” excuse.
      Jay Carney ” this was a regrettable event, and we understand the angst this poor downtrodden, abused, unemployed individual feels. We also know the event was in response to Bush’s policies of stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. Furthermore we want our protestors to know that we stand with them on principal, you have every right to protest in America, and a chicken, BMW, LCD big screen, and gold plated bath fixtures for every protester shall be given to help cover the gross inequities the taxpayers suffered at Bush’s hands.”
      To bad it didn’t do a 1814, DC needs an flaming enema.

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:51am

      The Obamas were at a steak house during the episode. A steakhouse employee reports Moochelle ordered a 3 inch thick porterhouse 2 baked potatoes with extra butter and then proceded to finish off the kids leftovers. Hipocrit

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:34am

      The Machiavellian Obama Propaganda Machine probably took a poll and decided to distance themselves from the movement due to election concerns! Or maybe there is justice in this world and the Obama Lefties will learn that having a bunch of angry anarchists , whom YOU have inflamed with your ” anti rich/ anti bank/ anti CEO/ anti capitalism” rhetoric, at your base can be a very dangerous situation.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:16am

    We have become a nation of M O R ON S!!! Why are these OWS losers NOT in JAIL? If any Tea Party member did that, you can BET they would ALL be arrested ASAP!

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    • Tom K
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 3:44pm

      @EQUALJUSTICE: You are correct. Even if there were 1,000 reported, arrest ALL of them and sort them out “ downtown ”. Those that threw the smoke BOMBS remain locked up. The OWS bloggers don’t know a firecracker from a smoke grenade. It was only a matter of time before the Occupiers, that were created in George Soros’ lab, came to life and attacked. It was probably already planned that the First ( Last ) family would not be at home. Gotta take Michelle to the trough once in a while.

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  • dirthead1986
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:15am

    unfortunatly now that they passed the ndaa nazi bill they can call whoever threw the smoke bomb belligerent and detain them indefinatly. the people in the streets are the one’s fighting to protect our freedom and liberties now. the cops are protecting the corrupt and our millitary are predisposed fighting pointless endless nwo wars so giant corparations can reap the profit while we foot the bill for everything and nothing.

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  • dbdbdb
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:07am

    Wow, can’t wait for Al and Jesse and MSNBC to report on these Racists!

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    • HKS
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:12pm

      Is it Impeachment time yet?

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  • momrules
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:55am

    Even if they find out who threw the smoke bombs I doubt an arrest would be made. The excuses will start flying, it was just kids, it was “just” smoke bombs not real bombs, they are just so upset with Congress, etc……….

    Remember, these are Obama’s protected people.

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    • bhohater
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:20am

      One can only hope that the promised 10,000 thugs and low-life’s will show up next time with real bombs, and that Obummer gets to witness the mayhem when the Secret Service opens fire on them.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:35am

      It will be “BUSH’S” fault somehow.

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:54am

    Was that a police motorcycle with a sidecar? What decade are we in? There is no way to ride in the sidecar of a motorcycle and look cool.

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    • lookatthefactsjack
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:09am

      They use the side car so they don’t have to use those stupid looking training wheels. And they can still use the bikes in icy conditions.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:47am

    But, but… Don’t OWS know the dems support them? Why would OWS turn on them???

    LOL, I think it’s hysterical!

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  • Dickshatband
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:36am

    Racists. What other reason could there be.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:45am

      Those who occupy space will have a ball at the Bank Of America stadium @ the DNC party!

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:45am

      Yep, clear proof. OWS must be racists.

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:36am

    Need to set up some Porta Potties in the rose garden.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:34am

    It was a smoke bomb…I mean…wow a lockdown? Glad nobody farted, we would be at Defcon 3.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:42am

      They should have tossed a skunk, or 57 skunk.
      Now that’s raising a stink!

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:31am

    It seems to me that they don’t need anymore smoke (or mirrors) at the White House. Talk about overkill. I can‘t wait until these yahoos ’protest’ the Democrat Convention. What a lovefest that’ll be.

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    • rinckster
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 3:19pm

      Yeah I am sure it will be a scene, I live about 60 miles from Charlotte, all our state and local police have been training for riots and how to handle chaos, I hope the make examples out of these people

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:00pm

      Rinckster, that was meant to be a sarcastic comment. The occupiers ARE Obama’s, Van Jones‘ and the Dems’ shock troops. (See Snowleopard’s post below.) The only reason police cars will be there will be for the bums to poop on. I’d love to see you proven right, though.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:30am

    Does anyone else notice the constant pattern – the Obamas are out of the White House when anything actually happens there? Is a ‘event’ being set up for him to use to gain sympathy for his next election farce?

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    • classicalgas
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:02am

      But the Obamas are almost always out of the White House campaigning or on vacation.

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    • Porkchop_sw
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:32am

      True, you can bet he isnt doing his ***ing Job!!

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:26am

    When will the OWS mob set up a tent city on the white house lawn.

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  • joe conservative
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:25am

    Just remember though, it‘s the Tea Party that’s the radical group. These are just a bnch of fun loving free love citizens. Wink. We’ll certainly be hearing more about the nice OWS crowd vs. the evil Tea Party myth. Just like we’ll hear the old Clinton surplus myth. Check this video out that destroys that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVPyIXZzRg

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  • barber2
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:22am

    And I’m sure this will not be covered in the Dominant News Media / aka as the Obama campaign propaganda machine…while our tax money continues to be bled by these anarchistic, Lefty leeches..

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:23pm

      BARBER2, The media will claim that the Tea Party infiltrated the OWS camps. Or Bush did it.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:19am

    “President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were not inside the White House at the time, as they were out at a nearby steakhouse celebrating Michelle’s birthday.”
    The guy has the White House chef serving $300 a lb. Kobe steak and he’s got to go out for dinner? I hope Michelle stuck to salad.

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:23am

      You know what she said to Mrs. Sarkozy about the hellish life in the White House….

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    • Mandors
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:51am

      How old is she now in dog years?

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  • 912er
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:19am

    Well, its a big house with lots of empty rooms and its very cold out… Just let them in. Ya know, kinda like the border… Why is there a fence keeping people out…???

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  • ConservativeQtee
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:17am

    I‘m happy they’re protesting at the White House. I’d like them there indefinitely to see how Obambo would spin it.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:16am

    It’s about time these lamebrains finally attaced the REAL source of all the problems. Better late than never.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:24am

      I can see the NYT headline now: Tea Party Infiltrates Occupy Movement.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:31am

      Yep Gonzo…I am sure that is how it will be spun.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:38am

      Tea party into covert ops? I never saw it coming! How diabolical!

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    • Mandors
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:50am

      Well, if they’re useful idiots, let’s US try to use them.

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  • ProfessorClyde
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:14am

    At least they are protesting the right group of people

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  • johnpaulkuchtajr
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:14am

    Wow!

    Those damn Tea Party folks disguised as some of Obammie’s buddies.

    And, the White House press corps reported that Jay carney said it was all bush’s fault!

    Wh’d a thunk it?!?!?!?

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