Two doors down
Toward the end of an anti-Obama press conference at the National Press Club on Wednesday morning, one attendee blurted out that if “the media” (that’s us) chose to cover the event, surely we’d just mention that the emcee called a dissenter in the room a “rude old lady.”
Guilty as charged. The scene was a presser by the Our Country Deserves Better Committee, which concluded a two-week “Stop Obama” bus tour. After hearing from Lloyd Marcus, who wrote the song “Sarah Smile” in honor of Sarah Palin, and Anne Franklin, who founded Clintons4McCain.com, a fly flew into the ointment in the form of an Obama supporter who had plopped herself down in the front row.
After she piped up and tried to debate the entire room, radio host and event emcee Mark Williams indulged her for a couple minutes. But as she kept at it, he and the rest of the group grew impatient. “That’s the problem with Obama supporters,” said Williams. “They’re rude. I paid you the courtesy,” he told her. “Now you can pay me the courtesy and leave. You very rude old lady.”
The event also gave us the opportunity to observe one of those Press Club coincidences that happens every so often, when diametrically opposed groups hold events next door to each other. Two doors down from the Stop Obama event was a discussion sponsored by none other than … ACORN.
They’re holding a “woe-is-us press conference,” joked Williams.
