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Birther Disrupts Congress
A woman doubting the natural born citizen status of US President Barack Obama disrupted a reading of the American Constitution during the Thursday morning opening of the US Congress. “Except Obama! Except Obama!,” shouted the woman, after Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., read the passage from the US Constitution that says “no person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States” is eligible for the presidency. “Help us, Jesus!,” the woman cried ...

Heckling birther disrupts Congress
Stumble This! WASHINGTON — A woman screaming that President Barack Obama was not legitimately elected to the White House disrupted a symbolic reading of the US Constitution in the House of Representatives on Thursday. Capitol police removed the Protester, who shouted "Except Obama! Except Obama! Help us Jesus!" as Democratic Representative Frank Pallone read the passage that spells out the requirements for becoming president. Some of Obama's arch-conservative opponents have leveled the un...

Jon Stewart Roasts The House's Reading Of The Constitution (VIDEO)
Jon Stewart was excited to hear that the Constitution would be read in its entirety on the House floor yesterday, but he ended up being less pleased with the results. "Well, you've done it," Stewart said last night. "You've managed to make the reading of one of our nation's most treasured and sacred founding documents and combined it with the efficiency of the DMV and the dramatic chops of family members who demand to be called to the bima during your bat mitzvah." [TPM SLIDESHOW: Sanest Of Th...

Birther outburst during Pallone's reading of the U.S. Constitution
As designated by the House GOP majority, Thursday morning was set aside for a full reading of the U.S. Constitution. During one part of it, a spectator in the gallery exercised her First Amendment right of Freedom of Speech. What set her off? No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to th...

Birther Interrupts Reading Of Constitution
As New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone read the “natural born citizen” clause of the Constitution, a birther shouted from the gallery, “Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!” He was, in particular, a great source to the late Robert Novak, who outed Daley in his memoir (page 451) as the anonymous Midwestern Democratic source of an incendiary remark on Michael Dukakis’s failed attempt to keep Jesse Jackson’s profile low at the 1988 Democratic convention. &...

Birther Reportedly Arrested After Interrupting House Constitution Reading (VIDEO)
A supposed birther spectator interrupted the House's reading of the Constitution Thursday, as a representative read the natural born Citizenship clause mandating that only Candidates born in the United States are eligible to serve in the Office of President. "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!" the woman interjected over Rep. Frank Pallone's (D-N.J.) recitation of the Second Article clause. Politico reports that the woman was arrested by the sergeant at arms after being scolded by Rep....

Conflict Constitutionalists
As promised, the very reverent reading of the Constitution was staged in the hallowed halls of Congress today. The tragicomedic production was not without its moments of high drama. When they got to the "President shall be a natural born citizen" clause, a Birther in the audience burst out in an anguished solliloquy. Help us Jesus indeed. But the drama wasn't entirely confined to the gallery. The GOP went all PC on the script and decided on an abridged version of the Sacred Document, leaving ...

No More Mister Nice Blog
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, WingnutS "Bummer," whined A -list right-wing blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit after the House Republicans' Constitution-reading stunt was crashed by a birther. Well, boo-hoo, Jim -- your side enables these people, so you get what you deserve: An apparent member of the Birther Movement seated in the gallery of the House of Representatives on Thursday interrupted a reading of the Constitution. The woman yelled out "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!" as Rep. Frank...

'Birther' disrupts Constitution reading
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A woman was arrested in the U.S. House gallery Thursday after shouting she believed President Obama wasn't a natural-born U.S. citizen. The woman shouted, "Except Obama" as Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., read the section of the Constitution mandating only a "natural-born citizen" may be president, Politico reported. After being ordered removed by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, who was sitting in the speaker's chair, the woman yelled, "My name is Theresa," as an officer led ...

Birther interrupts reading of Constitution
Our new Congress dealt with exercised free Speech at its finest today. The House of Representatives' reading of the Constitution was rudely interrupted by a woman questioning President Obama's eligibility to be president. She shouted, "except Obama, except Obama," as Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., read, “no person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States is eligible for the presidency.” Obviously this was a violation of House rules, and as a result Capitol polic...

Birther Arrested During Reading of Constitution
(Politico) — A woman was arrested in the House gallery Thursday after interrupting a reading of the Constitution by yelling out her belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States. When Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) read the part of Article II, Section 1 mandating that only a “natural-born citizen” may be president, the woman, seated in the front row of the public gallery, screamed “Except Obama, except Obama. Help us Jesus.” R...

Constitution read on House floor
The U.S. House of Representatives today read - for the very first time - the entire text of the U.S. Constitution, on the House floor. Watch below (to go to the next video, click the link in the lower right corner of the video). Oklahoma's 5th District Congressman James Lankford read Section 3 of the 25th Amendment. Overall, there were few instances of the reading being interrupted. A Protester shouted "Except Obama! Except Obama!" during the reading of the section requiring the president to be ...

Video: Birther Interrupts Reading of Constitution on House Floor
As the newly installed 112th Congress began its session by reading the entire U.S. Constitution, a woman in attendance interrupted by loudly questioning Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president. As Rep. Frank Pallone, D-NJ, read Article 2, Section 1 — which declares “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States…shall be eligible to the Office of President” — the woman yelled, “Except Obama! Except Obama!” She...

Meet the House party crasher, the U.S. House, that is
The woman who burst out with "except Obama" when New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone today read on the floor of the U.S. House the Constitution's requirements for the president, including that he be a "natural born Citizen," says she felt compelled to let representatives know of the absence of proof for Barack Obama's eligibility. Theresa Cao, who was arrested by Capitol police, given a court date and then released, told WND in a telephone interview after her release, while she was standing in fr...

Birther Interrupts Constitution Reading
As Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the Constitution's stipulation that the president must be a natural-born citizen, a woman in the gallery of the U.S. House shouted, "Except for Obama! Except for Obama! Help us Jesus!" She was immediately removed. So much for the sanctity of our nation's most-revered document. Labels: birthers, Mental Illness, Racism, U.S. Constitution, U.S. House New! Share this on Facebook: Share ...

Birther Chickens Come Home to Roost
Crazed birther disrupts Constitution reading in House when "natural born citizen" passage is read on the floor. ...

And on the second day, they read
Day Two of Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives was highlighted with a reading of the 223-year-old Constitution — the document that formed the American government and guides it to this day. It’s often a raucous scene on the House floor. Today, it was raucous in the visitors’ gallery, when a woman calling herself “Theresa” disrupted the recitation of the Constitution at the exact point in which a lawmaker read that the president must be a “na...

Moths to the Flame
While Reps were reading the portion of the Constitution covering presidential eligibility ("natural born citizen", a feral birther disrupted the proceedings from the Gallery, yelling "except obama, except obama. Help us Jesus." ...

Video: Protester Interrupts Reading of the Constitution in the House
A representative is reading about eligibility of the President and a Protester starts yelling from the gallery. He is removed politicoA woman was arrested in the House gallery Thursday after interrupting a reading of the Constitution by yelling out her belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States. When Frank Rep. Pallone (D-N.J.) read the part of Article II, Section 1 mandating that only a "natural-born citizen" may be president, the woman, seated in the...

Birther interrupts the reading of the Constitution in the House (Video)
The Republican effort to improve their image by reading the Constitution aloud in the House has created Controversy on a number of fronts.  Earlier today Vanity Fair revealed the recital likely cost Taxpayers around $1.1 million due to staff salaries which had to be paid to hold the event.  Later critics noted the absence of certain provisions of the Constitution, which were conveniently edited out by Republicans.  When the House finally got around to actually reading the Constitu...

Constitution reading provokes political tussling
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took turns reading the Constitution on the House floor Thursday, a nod to tea partiers who put Republicans in power. Even the nation's founding text got caught in political tussling: Democrats questioned omitting amended sections that reflect how the document has changed over time, such as one that classified slaves as three-fifths of a person. Republicans, celebrating their second day as the majority power, saw the event as an affirmation of their campaign promise...

Nevada House lawmakers didn't attend Constitution recital
WASHINGTON -- As promised by new Republican leaders, the U.S. Constitution was read aloud Thursday in the House of Representatives. None of Nevada's three House lawmakers participated in the 90-minute exercise, nor attended as observers. The reading was conducted by 135 volunteers -- 63 Democrats and 72 Republicans. A few dozen others sat in the chamber during all or part of the event. In a nod to Tea Party-backed Candidates who had campaigned on adherence to the Constitution, Republicans touted...

Absolutely pathetic! Brian Williams blames John Boehner for the birther heckler
Absolutely pathetic! Brian Williams blames John Boehner for the birther Heckler No bowing by Brian Williams this time, like he did to Obama in 2009, but plenty of blame and vitriol. I guess I should expect this against John Boehner (or any Republican), and especially from NBC. Of course there wouldn’t be much difference from CBS, ABC, or CNN either. But somehow, according to Williams, John Boehner should feel responsible for the birther heckler who interrupt the constitution reading earl...

Constitution Reading Provokes Political Tussling
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats took turns politely in a historic recitation of the Constitution from the House floor Thursday, but the decorum hardly meant they were in agreement. In a nod to the tea partiers who put the Republicans in power, GOP lawmakers took time out from their campaign to change the way government works to read the document upon which the government was founded. Democrats went along but pointedly questioned the Republicans' insistence on omitting sections tha...

Boehner on Birthers: "It's Not Up to Me to Tell Them What to Think"
House Speaker John Boehner was asked by NBC's Brian Williams today about how much responsibility he feels for an incident on the House floor this morning in which an apparent "birther" yelled out from the gallery while the Constitution was being read. As Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) read the portion of the Constitution mandating that only a "natural-born citizen" may be president, a woman in the gallery shouted, "Except Obama, except Obama." You can watch the video at left. Williams noted tha...