What was Rahm Emanuel doing with a Secret Service agent at a movie?
This story in POLITICO is really strange:
No rest for Rahm at the movies
A surprised fellow moviegoer passes on word that Rahm Emanuel took time out Saturday night to see The Wrestler at the E Street Cinema last night with a Secret Service Agent.
It was not a quiet night out.
“The guy sitting next to Rahm — literally sharing an armrest with him — had a seizure of some kind,” the moviegoer tells me. “Rahm used some vulgarities to impress upon the movie theater staff — who wanted to move the guy out of the movie theater so they could restart the film — that they should wait until EMS got there.”
Emanuel stayed and helped, I’m told, until EMS arrived.
It’s strange because the White House Chief of Staff is not assigned a Secret Service detail.
Back in the Clinton administration, Republicans forced reforms at the Treasury Department that severely curtailed what was lampooned as a baroque attachment of endless Secret Service details to all manner of officials, past and present. As a result, rules were changed, and the Clintons became the last First Couple to receive Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. The George W. Bushes will receive Secret Service protection until 2019, ten years after Bush left office. All former presidents will only receive that protection for 10 years after they leave office.
To our knowledge, Vice Presidents lose their details almost immediately after they leave office. And, per the new rules in the 90s, others not part of direct presidential succession do not have Secret Service protection, which is very expensive.
So, why was Rahm Emanuel, who is no longer an elected official, is not part of the line of presidential succession, and is merely an adviser to the President (and not a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate), going to a movie with a Secret Service agent?
Was it a date?
Because, it sure sounds like a date.
The two of them, at a movie together, in the dark, possibly sharing popcorn (“Extra butter, motherf***er!”, shouts Rahm, we imagine). Canoodling? Sounds highly plausible.
We hope Rahm and the unidentified Secret Service agent (on duty, or off?) go see Confessions of a Shopaholic on their next date night, because not only was it fabulous, and right up Rahm’s alley (entendre included), but it’s a good lesson for all Democrats on just how badly spending sprees can go, and how hard it is to dig yourself out from mountains of spending debt.
Wear your green scarf when you go, Rahm. You can re-enact scenes from the movie with it later!
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A date, the mother fu&*(%$ popcorn, you are funny as heck. : ) Is he married?
All kinds of people are married. Governor Charlie Crist is all kinds of married too. So was Rock Hudson. So are Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
Marriage is a sacred union.
So is my son-in-law. Unfortunately he’s married to my bi-polar, alcoholic daughter instead of my gay son. Talk about dysfunctional unions/families. This Thanksgiving could be a hoot at our house. Movie rights, anyone?
Does your daughter know? That’s what we wonder about the wives of the others. Do they know? Or do they really not see what we see?
Keep good notes, Auntie Lib, and get back to us in December.
Oh my goodness auntie lib…! I had a good chuckle at your expense.. or that I apologize but golly that was funny.
Okay… Tom Cruise? an Exorcism? and a Green Iguana? I don’t know any of this stuff…. really Tom Cruise???
Daughter so desperate to seem “normal” she’d marry anything with pants who’d ask. Son-in-law so desperate to be straight he’d marry anything in a skirt who’d say yes. Gay son – only one with a clue.
I’m telling you – this one has potential. I’m just not too sure for what. Stay tuned.
Oooh…Rahm’s cheating on Barry!
Zoinks! That’s what I was thinking. O must have been so jealous that he used his magic powers to strike a siezure on the poor sap.
No second date for Rahm!
“Extra butter, motherf***er!”, shouts Rahm”
Hah! That one made me laugh out loud.
Rahm must think he has the worst luck in the world for his quiet (secret?) evening to be disrupted in such a public way.
I ADORE you guys.
I. LOVE. YOU. Hillbuzz. My life would be so dull without you.
I love when you post this kind of stuff. I wonder about one of your posting during the campaign about some guy in the same building as BO’s gym – and then there was never anything further. Was that nothing?
Obama still goes to his friend Michael Signator’s private gym when he visits Chicago. Strangely, those visits still last only about 15 minutes, and the press does not use Signator’s name anymore.
No one has any idea what he does when he goes in there, or why it takes only 15 minutes. Back in October, Vogel at Politico wondered what Signator and Obama were doing because all of it is so odd. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14713.html
Whatever it is, they’re still up to it now:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090214/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1823814,00.html
Hmm, very curious. Is V. Baker still doing laundry on that island ?
Vera Baker is still on Martinique as far as we know. There’s been riots on Guadalupe, and they think Martinique will have chaos soon too, so Vera might move back to Chicago soon.
Not DC?
I’m confused … which isn’t all that unusual. The way the story is written, I can’t decide if it was the Secret Service guy who had the seizure or some fellow seated on the other side of Rahm. Unless, of course, Rahm was seated on the aisle, in which case the point is moot. Question: Did Mrs. Rahm move to D.C. with the kiddies, or do they continue to dwell in that fine home located in Chicago’s property tax-free zone?
If Obama’s picking up steroids from Mr. Signator, clearly they’re not working.
Didn’t I read a few places that Rahm knew and covered for Mark Foley?
Burds of a Feather Fluck together…..hmmmm……..
RARE PHOTO OF MICHAEL SIGNATOR
http://www.mahalo.com/Michael_Signator
Michael Signator Is The “Bodyman” of Barack Obama
http://www.huliq.com/1/70973/michael-signator-bodyman-barack-obama
“Though Michael Signator owns a home in suburban DuPage County — about an hour west of the Obamas’ Chicago home — he also rents an apartment on the 16th floor of a high-rise called Regents Park, located just a few blocks from Obama’s house in the leafy Kenwood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.” – Michael Signator Is The “Bodyman” of Barack Obama
http://www.huliq.com/1/70973/michael-signator-bodyman-barack-obama
“A body man is, in American political jargon, a personal assistant to a politician or political candidate.
A body man accompanies the politician or candidate virtually everywhere, often arranging lodging, transportation or meals, and
providing companionship, snacks, a cellphone,
and any other necessary assistance.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_man
lol Too funny….
Obama’s Becoming a Gym Rat
By AP Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008
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(CHICAGO) —Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Barack Obama is running for president of the United States or Mr. Universe.
The Democratic presidential contender exercises regularly, but over a 24-hour span this week, he took it to a new extreme.
Twice on Wednesday and again Thursday morning, Obama traveled to a lakefront apartment building near his Chicago home to work out with a friend at his gym. On Wednesday night, Obama also spent an hour at the East Bank Club, a mammoth exercise facility just north of the city’s famous business Loop where he is known to play basketball.
On the former occasions, reporters accompanying Obama saw him get in and out of an SUV wearing a baseball hat, white T-shirt and black sweat pants. On the visit to the East Bank Club, Obama was dressed casually as if going out to dinner, wearing slacks, a blue blazer and flip-flops.
A distinct lack of visible sweat on the Illinois senator triggered questions about whether he was actually exercising or using the gym visits as cover…
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1823814,00.html
Hillbuzz,
It has been my experience, that women who marry gay men know it. They feel safe with them and have a very intimate relationship. Women are so complex, and guys just aren’t. Women will mistake a very close intimate relationship, as love, even though they know he is gay. They do not make the distinction between friendship and love. Of course, I am sterotyping women I know, but I am talking about the ones that would marry someone who most likely will NEVER love them the way they deserve. Women have this stupid notion, and I don’t know where it comes from, that they can change a man. Well, it make work in some cases, but the chance of getting a guy to love you, when he has attractions to men are so slim, it isn’t even funny. The same kind of women will marry the drug addicts, and child molesters. They know there are warning signs, but they chose to ignore them, because they are afraid to be alone. I guess it is one reason, a strong independent woman, is so admired.
this sounds pretty homophobic. two guys can’t hang?
My thoughts too. I’m queer as hell but have straight,gay and lesbian friends. And yeah,we do hang out,go hiking,biking,dinner and yes,even attend movies.
BTW,he was right in NOT moving the seizure victim until after the EMS had arrived.
Governor Charlie Crist is all kinds of married too.
I keep hearing that. But I keep wondering why the chickens haven’t come home to roost if they’re true. He’s been in office for the most part for the past 17 years.
So are Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
*snork* Nice South Park reference.
One can watch the relevant South Park clip.
# 15 Aggie:
Tom Cruise and John Travolta ARE gay.
Everyone in Hollywood knows it.
I love that South Park clip.
SO funny….
‘Extra butter on the popcorn, Mother***er’, shouts Rahm. HAHAHAHAHAHA (Good job, Hillbuzz, TOOO funny)
oops, laughing so hard I left out an *