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It's been an ugly 30 days:

Ted Nugent Has a Pleasant Meeting With The Secret Service and Another Lefty Meme Dies a Sad Death

No, the Nuge isn't going to jail for threatening Obama...mainly because he didn't threaten him:

So how’d things go with that much-anticipated summit between Ted Nugent and the Secret Service?

If you were expecting fireworks — understandable, given the ’70s heavy-metal star’s gift for bombast — we’re sorry to disappoint.

No charges, no arrest, and apparently no showdown of any kind came out of the Motor City Madman’s meeting with the feds, necessitated by some particularly (though not unusually) fiery comments he made at an National Rifle Association convention about chopping off the heads of Democrats and whatnot.

Nugent, 63, confirmed in a statement that “two fine, professional Secret Service agents” came to see him Thursday in Oklahoma, where he was scheduled to play Ardmore’s 2 Frogs Grill that night.

By his account, all parties concluded “that I have never made any threats of violence towards anyone. . . I thanked them for their service, we shook hands and went about our business.”

“The issue has been resolved,” Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary told us. The agency, he said, “does not anticipate any further action.”

You're going to need quite a scorecard to keep up with all the distractions and "scandals" the left has tried to create to undermine Romney. And all of them have died a sad lonely death.

They've got as much chance of surviving as a poodle at a White House State Dinner.

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I'm expecting Obama to blame the Secret Service scandal on Bush's budget cuts that left the agents short on cash to pay for hookers.

Secret Serviced

The Secret Service is one of the most professional law enforcement organizations around, but some of their people really blew it:

The dozen Secret Service agents sent home after a prostitution scandal in Colombia were busted after at least one of them refused to pay one of the hookers, sources said.

The scandal — a black eye for the United States’ reputation abroad — was revealed Friday just hours before President Obama arrived in Cartagena for the Summit of the Americas.

The 12 agents were part of an advance team assigned to secure a local hotel before the summit began, yet their attention apparently turned to taking advantage of Colombia’s policy of legal prostitution.

Five American service members were also accused of misconduct stemming from the scandalous incident at the hotel, according to the U.S. military.

“They had arranged to have a bunch of prostitutes come by and one of the agents refused to pay a prostitute,” said author Ronald Kessler, one of the leading experts on the Secret Service.

“Yes, doubly good judgment there.” Kessler, who was briefed on the investigation by his sources within the agency, told the Daily News Saturday that the spurned hooker told police about the lack of payment.

I wonder if any of these guys used to work on Bill Clinton's detail? Sounds like it would be right up his alley.

Former Secret Service Agent Dishes About The Clintons

It's unusual for former Secret Service agents to talk about protectees, but this guy apparently saw enough that he wasn't content to keep it to himself:

In a breach of tradition, a former U.S. Secret Service agent has self-published a book that savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and rude, suggests former first lady Hillary Clinton was aloof and charges that Bill Clinton endangered himself and agents for a “totally pointless photo op” on the South Korea-North Korea border.

In several anecdotes, former agent Dan Emmett revealed that Clinton’s young staff had “fundamental traits of rudeness and arrogance” that teetered on the verge of being dangerous at times. “Most of these youngsters were from wealthy families, and many viewed Secret Services agents as the hired help,” he writes in “Within Arms’s Length,” an autobiography that provides new details of the inner Secret Service.

In one case he told of an unnamed Clinton staffer who challenged a KGB agent during a 1993 presidential visit to Russia “as if he were dealing with a Wackenhut security officer in Toledo.”

In another, he wrote of a female staffer who wouldn’t listen to Emmett’s security advice. “She stared at me with a look as if her father had just told her she couldn’t go to the mall with her friends and get a tattoo or body piercing,” he wrote. “My patient attempts to reason were met with childlike emotion born of a past where no one in authority--probably beginning with her parents--had ever said no to her about anything.”

On the first lady, he describes her as aloof, someone who didn’t say “thank you” to agents while the president and former first daughter Chelsea typically did. He told Secrets, “she was not as out-going or cordial.”

I had a friend who was an agent for 20 years. At one point in his career her served on the team for one of Gerald Ford's kids, he headed up the Los Angeles office for awhile, and near the end of his career was part of the Clinton campaign detail in 1992. After seeing what America had elected he retired from the agency a few months after Clinton took office.

Medical Marijuana Delivery Goes Bad

I'm sure he was planning to use this for medicinal purposes - after all that's "legal*" in California:

The U.S. Secret Service and other federal authorities turned over the small-plane pilot who strayed into President Obama’s airspace Thursday morning to the Long Beach Police Department, saying the airspace violations do not appear to be of “protective interest.”

“A civilian aircraft entered the restricted airspace in violation of the temporary flight restrictions imposed by the FAA," said Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary. "The aircraft was diverted to Long Beach Airport, and the airspace restriction violations do not appear to be of protective interest.”

Officials with Long Beach police said they responded to the incident around noon and that “a large amount of marijuana” was found on board the plane.

“After federal authorities investigated, they released the man to the custody of the Long Beach Police Department, which will be conducting the drug investigation,” according to a statement from Long Beach police.

*Uh, not it's not. It's still a Federal offense.  But if he claims it's for medicinal purposes, even the Feds will look the other way.

The Idiot Glitter-Bombers Are Up Against the Secret Service Now

And I'm guessing they're not going to have much of a sense of humor about this kind of stuff:

A man was rushed out of Mitt Romney's speech in Colorado tonight by Secret Service agents. Gov. Romney's was shaking hands with the crowd who had gathered to hear his speech when the Secret Service quickly moved him away from a man who they appeared to view as a threat. They then grabbed the man and swiftly rushed him out of the room.

UPDATE: Officials report the suspect attempted to throw glitter on Gov. Romney.

With Santorum's rise yesterday they're going to need to start protecting him too, and maybe this will put a stop to some of the glitter silliness.

Of course, I'm hoping we get good footage of the next guy who tries it getting clocked by a Secret Service agent.

Secret Service Employee Should Have Kept His Bias Secret

At least he shouldn't have posted it on the official Secret Service Twitter feed:

Secret Service's finest hour -- Protecting the President of the United States is a difficult, stressful job, and sometimes you just gotta vent. Chris Moody: "The Secret Service joined Twitter only a few weeks ago, but after an accidental post complaining about having to watch the Fox News cable channel, it's clear that the agency is still getting the hang of social media. 'Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can't. Deal. With. The. Blathering.,' the U.S. Secret Service’s official feed read on Wednesday. It was promptly deleted. The agency's Office of Government and Public Affairs is responsible for the feed, and the misfired tweet was posted by an employee's iPad who thought it would go on a personal account, the agency said, calling it an 'unapproved and inappropriate tweet.'" This raises some interesting questions. Why does the Secret Service need a Twitter account? Why are they monitoring Fox News "for a story"? And how embarrassing is it to hire somebody who expresses frustration and contempt by making each word its own sentence, in the manner of a junior-high girl texting about a rival's new jeggings? 

I would assume that the keys to the official Twitter account would only be given to rather senior Secret Service employees. Kind of makes you wonder what's going on over there.

Hit-and-Run by Secret Service Vehicle UPDATE: State Department Vehicle

That's what Daily Caller blogger Jim Treacher is alleging happened to him in Washington D.C. last night:

Sometime between 7 and 7:30, not long after I got home from work, I walked to the CVS on 22nd and M to get some bread, milk, and a SmartTrip card. I was right across the street from the CVS, and I waited for the crosswalk light to tell me to go before I crossed. I had plenty of time left, according to the countdown clock. I was more than halfway there when a black SUV made an illegal left turn and hit me head-on. I absolutely had the right of way. I yelled something like, “Are you really doing this?” as it hit me before I could move. I landed on my face on the street and smashed my glasses and scraped my hand and immediately I knew something was wrong with my left knee. I lay there screaming and cursing for I don’t know how long, and a crowd of people gathered and told me to hold still. I was sprawled out right next to the yellow line as traffic went by. I gave one guy standing over me the number to the Daily Caller offices and he told them what happened. There’s a firehouse right across the street, so the paramedics were there in just a couple of minutes. They took me to Georgetown Hospital, where I was soon joined by my friends and co-workers Moira Bagley, Tucker Carlson, Neil Patel, and Laura Baños. All of whom I love. Unironically. I was x-rayed and CAT-scanned and given pain medication and told that my knee was broken. I almost passed out twice from the pain. They immobilized it, but if I tried to move it and didn’t get it exactly right, my whole leg tried to close up like a fist and I couldn’t get away from the pain. I’m typing this on Neil’s laptop on my chest on his fold-out bed in his basement and trying to move as little as possible. Now that I’ve written this out, maybe I can sleep. Sorry for the sloppiness, but I just wanted to get it out while it’s fresh in my mind.

One last thing: I’m told by multiple people that the SUV that hit me was Secret Service. If this is true, I want to know why that happened. I was crossing legally, and they just left me there. At the very least, I want an apology. What happened to me was wrong.

I don't think we've heard the last of this story.

UPDATE from Michelle Malkin:

However, the police added insult to injury by issuing Jim a citation for jaywalking, which Tucker Carlson tells me is “completely false and made up.” Tucker also talked to the driver today, who refused to discuss his employer. Keep an eye on the Daily Caller — this story has gotten stranger and may get stranger still.

UPDATE 2 From the Daily Caller:

The Daily Caller has been told by federal law enforcement sources that the Secret Service was not involved, and is working to confirm that the driver of the vehicle which struck Jim Treacher was a State Department security employee.

Another lengthy UPDATE from the Daily Caller.

Gate Crashers Now Trying to Sell Their Story

Imagine that:

A television executive says the couple that crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner is offering to talk to broadcast networks about it for a payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the network does not publicly discuss bookings, told The Associated Press that representatives for Michaele and Tareq Salahi contacted networks to urge them to "get their bids in" for an interview. The executive says the Virginia couple was looking for a payment in the mid-six figures range.

The couple's success in getting into the state dinner Tuesday without an invitation embarrassed the White House and Secret Service.

The woman, who was pictured at the dinner greeting both the president and Vice President Joe Biden, is a reality TV hopeful trying to get on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of D.C."

These people are perfect for "The Real Housewives" series. Shallow, obsessed with themselves and money, and not enough brain cells between them to make a normal person. They'll fit right in.

Barbarians at the Gate

And they got in:

The Secret Service is investigating "how two would-be cast members in the forthcoming The Real Housewives of Washington TV show crashed the White House state dinner," Bloomberg reports.

"It may have been the first time since the presidency of Richard Nixon that anyone crashed a state dinner, according to Ronald Kessler, author of a book on the Secret Service."

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports the cable network Bravo confirmed that its cameras were following and filming the couple.

Let's see, we have MTV's Real World being allowed to film behind the White House podium, and Oprah doing a Christmas show in the White House with The Obama's. No wonder Obama hasn't been able to come up with an answer for the problems in Afghanistan - he's too busy running a TV studio.

They Seemed to be "Friendly"

This story almost seem symptomatic of the problems with putting liberals in charge of important things:

DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.

Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on.

"Sure," said Lawrence, when asked if he was concerned by the great number of people who had gotten into the building without being checked. But, he added, the turnout of more than 17,000 people seemed to be a "friendly crowd."

I guarantee you the Secret Service did not make that call. Somebody in the campaign decided to stop screening the crowd because it was more important to have a full arena for Obama's speech than to make sure nobody got in with something they shouldn't have and they ordered the Secret Service to stand down.

Given all the comparisons to JFK, do you really think the Secret Service would want to take a chance with this candidate...in Dallas? No way.

Unfortunately, libs look at our enemies the same way they looked at this Dallas crowd - they "seem friendly" and therefore we should go talk and negotiate with them. It's a dangerous way to operate in a world where it only takes one nut to turn a "friendly" crowd into a deadly one.

Let's not forget Nellie Connally's words to President Kennedy in the motorcade in Dallas:

"You can't say that Dallas doesn't love you, Mr. President."

A few seconds later Kennedy was dead.