Tonight, John McCain’s speech was interrupted twice by maladjusted hippies who had nothing better to do on a Thursday night.
However, there was one story of just simple everyday heroism that most everyone in that hall saw and cheered for that I am pretty sure no one at home saw. I was seated one level below this wacko. He had positioned himself on the very top seat at the very end of a row behind a large column. He was isolated and there was almost no way to get to him. So, when he started shouting and disrupting the speech, it took security a good three or four minutes to get to him. The crowd started shouting “USA! USA!” to drown him out, but he was a distraction.
As unnamed hippie held his sign away from the folks on his right that tried to grab it from him, a guy in an orange shirt had enough. He climbed on an adjoining bank of seats and around the column leaning over the rail (placing himself in great danger), grabbed the sign and destroyed it to the delight and cheers of the crowd.
Here’s what you saw on CNN
Before the hero intervened – hippie with sign
After he intervened – hippie with no sign
Very shortly after his victory suit, a group of secret service guys grabbed him by the shirt and hauled his ass out. My only regret was that I didn’t hear a loud “don’t tase be bro! AGGGH!” from his general direction.
I don’t know the name of the guy in the orange shirt, but I’d buy him a beer any day of the week.
Magnolia Tribune
