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Brenda Lee forcibly removed from Obama press area

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

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: