Fresh Loaf

1. Injured cops video Shirley probably doesn’t want you to watch (What’s going on in the video made one man so mad, he said he wanted to hit Mayor Shirley Franklin with a baseball bat. Bad idea.)

2. Brenda Lee forcibly removed from Obama press area (Macon reporter — and not the ’60s songstress — makes a spectacle of herself while being dragged away from Air Force One.)

3. Perception of Crime watch (According to the mayor and police chief, Atlanta isn’t experiencing a crime wave — it’s experiencing a perception of crime wave. Have you been a victim of a perception of crime? If so, please fill out this form.)

4. Vindictive, thin-skinned mayor acting vindictive, thin-skinned (Franklin wants the feds to investigate the police union president who made the bat statement. See No. 1.)

5. State Sen. John Wiles confuses MARTA with car wash (Lawmaker so frustrated with transit agency, he says he wouldn’t let them wash his wheels.)

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Rev. Brenda Lee of Macon’s Informer newspaper was forcibly removed from the press area adjacent to Air Force One in Los Angeles today.

NBC Los Angeles says the incident took place after Lee said she wanted to hand President Obama a note about same-sex marriage.

Thank you Jeff Emanuel at Peach Pundit for finding the story, and also for directing me to the Informer’s web site where, among other similarly alluring anecdotes, Rev. Lee claims she is “one of the first women to have my feet washed on Maundy Thursday in Rome by Father Paul Maloney.” Okie-doke then.

And just so there’s no confusion, the Brenda “dragged away by Secret Service” Lee is NOT the same person as Brenda “born in Atlanta and moved away to become of the most popular singers of the 1960s” Lee.

Here’s that Brenda Lee:

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