President Obama shuts down an anti-Hillary heckler as only he can.

Damn that man is smooth!

Trump supporter heckles Bernie Sanders.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

"Shame on you, Bernie," the man shouted at the senator. 

"Here's a Trump supporter worried about Mr. Trump's money," Sanders said as the crowd booed. 

 The heckler held up a sign that read, "Obama is as Christian as Bruce Jenner is a woman." 

Sanders' supporters chanted "Bernie, Bernie, Bernie" as the protester was escorted out of the rally. 

"I say to Mr. Trump and his supporters that the billionaires in this country will not continue to own this nation," Sanders said. 

The first thing I noticed is that the heckler was certainly treated with more respect than the BLM protester who interrupted a Donald Trump rally.

And the second thing I noticed is that by his appearance I would suggest that the gentleman would benefit far more from a Sanders' presidency than a Trump presidency. That guy in no way looks like he makes enough for the Trump tax plan to help him.

However considering the sign this guy was holding I would not be at all surprised to learn that he became a Trump supporter after visiting some of the White Supremacist sites that now fawn over the Donald as the second coming of Hitler.

"You're in my house." President Obama shuts down protester during event honoring LGBT pride month.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

President Barack Obama was heckled Wednesday during a White House event honoring LGBT Pride Month by an undocumented LGBT activist protesting his administration's policies on deportation and undocumented LGBT immigrants. 

"Not one more deportation!" Jennicet Gutiérrez shouted, before being escorted from the room by Secret Service agents. 

Obama appeared angry at the interruption and addressed Gutiérrez directly. "No, no, no. Listen, you're in my house. It's not respectful. Shame on you. You shouldn't be doing this," he said. 

Gutiérrez, a 29-year-old transgender woman, came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 15. She is in the process of getting a green card through her sister, but is currently undocumented. At Wednesday's event, she said she intended to deliver a letter bringing the abuse of undocumented LGBT immigrants to Obama's attention.

You know I think there is certainly a time and a place to heckle a politician, but if you are transgender it seems doing it during a White House event honoring LGBT month just seems incredibly counterproductive.

I mean the President is already reaching out to your community, and has easily been the most pro-gay President that we have ever seen in this country.

So why try to embarrass him and anger other LGBT activists to make a point?

I think the President handled it well. And demonstrated great patience while doing so.

Conservative idiot heckles Bill Maher during show, and gets thrown out. Later claims that he got mad because Maher called Sarah Palin's son a "retard." Well you know what THAT means!

Okay so this is how this incident was described by a Las Vegas reporter:

Former Las Vegas TV personality Ron Futrell was escorted out of liberal comedian Bill Maher’s show at the Palms on Saturday after a heckling incident. 

Futrell, an outspoken conservative known for his Twitter rants, told the Review-Journal he was offended that Maher mocked special- needs individuals by using the “r word” against Sarah Palin’s special-needs son. 

“I’ve got a son with special needs,” Futrell said. “It didn’t surprise me that Maher said it. It surprised me that a lot of people laughed at that joke.” 

Futrell said he moved down from his original seats in The Pearl concert venue to “about the 50th row” to engage Maher. 

Futrell, a former sports anchor and daytime anchor at ABC affiliate KTNV-TV, Channel 13, before he was fired in 2008, chided Maher for a joke about Halliburton, the oil field services giant. 

“Halliburton? It’s 2013,” Futrell said several times, until he got Maher’s attention. 

Responding to Futrell, Maher said something to the effect of Halliburton still being a major corporation in 2013 that was ready to start the next war so it could start ripping off the government again and billing taxpayers for $45 cases of soda. 

Still addressing Futrell, Maher then added what sounded like “you wack job.” 

When Maher returned to his stand-up, Futrell continued to make comments while typing on his camera phone. 

A male member in the audience stood up in front of Futrell and said, “Excuse me, we came here to hear the show not you.” 

When Futrell continued to react out loud, the audience member went to get security as Futrell started shouting, “Who’s the president? Who’s the president?”

After that Futrell was escorted out by security. Gee, really?

Okay well as it turns out this Futrell guy has his own blog and seems to be a professional conservative asshole of some kind, and an attention whore in his own right.

This was how he rationalized his actions:

He didn’t consider it as heckling, he said. 

“I saw it as commentary. I went on an LDS mission to Ireland. I know heckling.”

Okay I stand corrected this guy is a professional MORMON conservative asshole, who seems to feel that interrupting a comedian during his show is NOT heckling. So I stand corrected again, this guy is a professional Mormon conservative RETARDED asshole.

So far there are no corroborating reports that Maher did indeed call Trig a retard. And I have to admit that it does not SEEM likely that he would. Not because he cares about being politically correct (See what I did there?) but because it doesn't seem like it would be funny.

However corroborating evidence or not, this one claim by a guy who seems to love to stir up trouble was all it took to rouse a certain Grizzled Mama:

Audience Member Confronts Bill Maher After Comic Slammed Sarah Palin's Special Needs Child shar.es/wLtXO via @breitbartnews
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 13, 2013

Hey bully, on behalf of all kids whom you hatefully mock in order to make yourself feel big, I hope one flattens your lily white wimpy a#*.
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 13, 2013

I'm in your neck of the woods this weekend, little Bill. Care to meet so I can tell you how I really feel? shar.es/wLpR6
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 13, 2013

As we all know Plain hates her some Bill Maher, and has been freaking out that nobody will talk about her anymore, so the opportunity to both attack Maher AND get some sympathetic attention is too much for a certain Tundra Twit to let go by.

Getting back to this Futrell character it is important to note that he took the opportunity to not only attack Maher, but the "liberal" audience as well for laughing at the joke.

Maher chose to make a joke about Palin’s son, Trig and in the process he used the “R” word to describe this 5 year old special needs boy. Of course, since Trig is Palin’s son, he is a target of the left. Special needs be damned, there are jokes to be made by “caring compassionate” liberals. I was so disgusted and a bit surprised that I forgot the exact joke. Perhaps he saves this joke for live audiences only. The audience of more supposed compassionate, caring leftists loved the joke and roared with laughter.

He  "forgot the exact joke?"

You know if I had been so upset by a joke that I got myself thrown out of a comedy show, I would be able to recite that joke from memory for the next thirty years.

I mean it just seems the details of such an event would stay with you for awhile, don't you agree?

By the way I follow Maher on Twitter and as of yet he has made NO mention of this kerfuffle. So I am taking all of this in with a big old grain of salt.

Let's see what more we learn about this as the day goes on. Though it is important to note that both Futrell and Palin got out of it what they wanted to get out of it.

President interrupted three times during speech on drones.

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Courtesy of MSNBC:  

President Barack Obama was repeatedly interrupted by a heckler whose taunts slowed the delivery of a major national security speech in the Washington, D.C. area. 

The unidentified heckler began shouting at the president toward the tail end of his highly-anticipated address, when he touched upon U.S. policy toward detainees suspected of terrorist acts.  

Obama was forced to pause three separate times and talk over the protester, interrupting the flow of the closing section of the speech at National Defense University. 

“I'm about to address it ma'am, but you've got to let me speak,” Obama scolded the woman. “Why don't you sit down and let me tell you exactly what I'd do." 

The antiwar group Code Pink, which often interrupts high-profile political events with vocal protests against U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy, said its founder Medea Benjamin was the person responsible for the interruption. 

Though the president appeared somewhat irritated by the interruption, he said he was willing to cut the woman “some slack, because it’s worth being passionate about.” 

He added after another interruption: “The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to. Obviously I do not agree with much of what she said. And obviously she wasn’t listening to me and much of what I said. But these are tough issues, and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong.”

I think he handled that pretty well. And he is right, this is something many of us feel very passionately about and he, and his administration, need to recognize that.

Here is the transcript of the entire speech in case, like me, you missed it earlier.

President Obama responds to heckler while giving speech in Israel, receives standing ovation. Heckler 0 - President Obama 7 million new Israeli fans. Update!

Courtesy of TPM:  

A heckler briefly interrupted President Barack Obama's speech to the Israeli people Thursday at a university in Jerusalem, which drew boos from the crowd. 

"This is part of the lively debate that we talked about. This is good," Obama said, brushing off the interruption and drawing applause. 

"You know, I have to say, we actually arranged for that, because it made me feel at home," Obama added. "You know, I wouldn't feel comfortable if I didn't have at least one heckler."

There's more analysis of the speech here.

Update: Here is Obama receiving the Presidential Medal of Distinction from Israel's President Peres.

 You know because the relationship with Israel is all strained and all.

Bristol Palin emerges victorious against defamation lawsuit filed against her by bar heckler.

Courtesy of TMZ:  

A judge has tossed out a defamation lawsuit filed by the man who famously heckled Bristol Palin on her reality show … and even ordered him to pay her attorneys fees … TMZ has learned. 

As TMZ previously reported, Stephen Hanks filed a lawsuit against Palin and A&E (parent company of Lifetime) following his encounter with Palin in a Hollywood bar that aired as part of her show, "Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp." 

Hanks went after Brisol and A&E on several levels. First, he claimed he never signed a waiver to appear on the show. Second, he claimed the show invaded his privacy by airing Bristol's comments about Hanks being gay. And third, he claimed Bristol damaged his reputation when she later gave an interview saying that Hanks' hurtful comments are what caused her leave Los Angeles and move back to Alaska. 

But a judge ruled in favor of Bristol and A&E on every count -- saying the show was protected by the First Amendment and that Hanks did not have his privacy violated because no unknown facts about him were disclosed (A&E had argued that Hanks is out as a gay man on his social media accounts). 

The judge also ruled that Hanks has to cover Palin's attorney's fees. 

You know I am sort of conflicted on this.

On the one hand what the guy said, which was so over the top that I have long thought it was scripted for him by the producers, was disgusting, and he should have known how it would look when recorded by the cameras that he certainly could not help but see all around him. (I mean after all the guy IS a talent scout!)

On the other hand, if indeed he did not sign a release, they had NO right to show his face and use the confrontation as a marketing tool to advertise that crappy reality show of hers.

Something about this whole things still smells really fishy to me. What do all of you think?

P.S. If you are one of the very few who did NOT see this confrontation at the Saddle Ranch just click here.

It looks like court cases against Bristol Palin are being dropped all over the place. Hmm, just in time for the start of DWTS. Interesting.

Yesterday we learned that Levi's custody case against Bristol for more custodial rights and visitation, was dropped due to "inactivity," and now we learn that the defamation lawsuit filed by Stephen Hanks after that infamous barroom incident last year has ALSO been dropped:

Hanks' lawsuit alleges Palin called him a homosexual when she confronted him about the heckling, and accuses her of invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He was suing her for unspecified damages. A one-page document filed Sept. 5 in Los Angeles Superior Court by Hanks' lawyer says the action to drop the defamation suit was being taken "without prejudice," meaning Hanks can proceed with the case in the future. 

The lawsuit had first been dismissed in federal court before it was re-filed in state court. Hanks is still going forward with a suit against Lifetime, claiming he did not sign a wavier to appear on the show, though footage of the incident was broadcast by the cable channel.

I do find it interesting that all of these cases are being dropped so close to Bristol 'sdebut on Dancing with the Stars. Coincidence?

Somebody mentioned the other day that the Palins have a gift for having court cases against them dropped, and that certainly seems to be true.

Though Palin had no problem showing up to testify in order to put college student David Kernell in jail, and filed a restraining order against the Christy's (Before her attorney's had them prosecuted for harassment.), other than that the Palins have seemingly had a Teflon coating when it came to avoiding lawsuits, or having to appear in court.

That is really too bad as I cannot think of too many things I would enjoy more than watching either Bristol or Sarah have to testify under oath.

Oh the mind fairly reels with the possibilities.