Westboro Baptist Church Protesting at Obama Children's school

[DearAbby]

First tweet

DavidShuster

Struggling with how we may cover protest this am outside Obama kids school. We don't want to give attention to the small fringe group. But,

second Tweet

DavidShuster

the protest is so beyond the pale and over the line, it's important that viewers see what our politics have become...


http://twitter.com/DavidShuster

Details in Post #3

Westboro Protesting outside Obama Girls' School

[DearAbby]

1. last tweet was about a half hour ago

any news about it?

[Xenotime]

2. Is this pugs? If so, they need to be shut down.

[intheflow]

13. It's Fred Phelps' group.

You know, the assholes who protested outside Matthew Shepherd's funeral. :puke:

[DearAbby]

3. Westboro Protesting outside Obama Girls' School

Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, is protesting this morning outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama.

http://digg.com/politics/Fringe_Anti_Gay_Group_Protesting_outside_Obama_Girls_School

[sakabatou]

6. Fucking SOBs

[Lex]

4. Sick assholes. Did they show up with signs of Holocaust victims

and Pres. Obama as Hitler, so all the little kiddies can see, including Sasha and Malia?

On Edit: Nevermind, it's other sick assholes, the Westboro bunch. What a freak show they are.

[virgogal]

5. My god--it's that despicable Phelps crowd again. They are truly mad.

[bluestateguy]

7. There will be some interesting conversation around the Obama family dinner table tonight

nt

[DearAbby]

8. And the other Children...n/t

[Warpy]

9. It's so easy to get rid of them

When they protested gay friendly policies at the local university, a couple of men who later said they barely knew each other went into a long soul kiss right in front of Daddy Phelps. The old fraud couldn't pack up his signs and freakshow family and get out of there fast enough.

The one thing that old fraud can't abide is a show of love.

[eShirl]

12. +1

:)

[eShirl]

10. Does he mean they're even MORE over the line than they usually are?

Or is he just unfamiliar with this bunch?

[LeftinOH]

11. Its the Westboro Baptist Church -n/t ("n/t" because there truly isn't any topic).

[louis-t]

14. I hope the teachers line up the kids at the window

and say "See kids, this is what lead poisoning does to you. Don't eat paint chips."

[cbdo2007]

15. Why don't they write them up for causing a public disturbance?

Or disturbing the peace?

[teenagebambam]

16. I would hope the Secret Service

has something to say about it.

[DearAbby]

17. Has Westboro or Phelps been involved in the Teabag Protests?

did they attend the Protests?

[walldude]

18. No they hate the tea baggers too...

Even Hannity called them "sick twisted people".. If you ever need an issue both Repugs and Dems could get behind it's that Fred Phelps and his family are assholes.

[oswaldactedalone]

19. Wouldn't be an act of terrorism

to blow that church up(late at night of course when no one's there,) it'd be an act of heroism. Sick, twisted people who will burn in Hell(if of course there is one to burn in.)

[niyad]

20. I keep praying for a tornado with them in the building.

[foxfeet]

21. Oh, PLEASE let them truly piss off the Secret Service.

Please.

[bluestateguy]

22. This is among the reasons the girls were sent to a private school

Private schools have more of an ability to keep such troublemakers out of the children's sight. A public school has fewer tools to do that.

[DearAbby]

23. UPDATE: Westboro Will hold Protest tomorrow at Sasha's school

Right wing fringe group says they will protest at Sidwell "lower school" in Bethesda tomorrow afternoon where Sasha Obama attends. Tweet from Shuster