Woman Arrested at Fahrenheit 9/11 Showing...

[Undertoad]

People, stop. Look at the story journalistically. It is practically a TOTAL FABRICATION. Read it again with this thought in mind:

Apparently the "reporter" only talked to one person: FRANK.

The reporter got one quote from the state police - not an individual officer, such as the one making the arrest. Here's guessing she got it from an ordinary press release or something, not from an individual. And where is the quote from the theater manager? Wouldn't that point of view be not only important, but critical to the reader's understanding of the event?

There is no quote, because this "reporter" got the entire story from Frank and wrote the story almost entirely from her point of view. (A point of view which we can now assume the "reporter" shares.)

[Beestie]

Here's the Philly Inquirer version written by someone other than a Bush-hatin' ho
Woman arrested at '9/11' film


By Jennifer Moroz

Inquirer Staff Writer

<!-- begin body-content --> A Chester County Democratic committee woman was arrested Saturday night for allegedly causing a disturbance while handing out voter registration cards at a local showing of the movie Fahrenheit 9/11.

Lani Frank, 49, of Berwyn, was handing out the cards about 10:15 p.m., as moviegoers at the Downingtown Regal Cinema Stadium 16 poured out of the documentary that slams President Bush and his decision to go to war in Iraq.

State police said they got a call reporting a disturbance. When troopers showed up at the cinema, just off Route 30 in East Caln Township, Frank had moved from the theater lobby to the parking lot.

"She continuously refused to leave the area and continued to cause a disturbance and left the troopers no choice but to arrest her," Cpl. Lawrence Wallick said.

Police charged Frank with disorderly conduct, a summary violation akin to a traffic citation.

Last night, Frank said she would fight the citation. Frank, who said she was acting as an individual and not as a representative of the Democratic Party, denied causing any disturbance.

"All I was doing was offering a convenient way to acquire a government voter registration form," she said. "I made no mention of candidate, of party, of how they should vote."

She said she had questioned the troopers' authority to stop her from handing out the cards in a public parking lot and refused to leave when asked because she believed she had the right to be there.

A theater manager declined to comment when contacted last night.