None Dare Challenge King George

It's one thing for a known antiwar protestor to be thrown out of the State of the Union (although she was there as a guest of an elected official, and all she did to incite the Secret Service, apparently, is take off her sweatshirt). It's quite another for an Republican elected official's wife to get the same treatment:

The wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young said she was ejected during President Bush's State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt that said, "Support the Troops Defending Our Freedom," a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Beverly Young said she was sitting in the front row of the House gallery Tuesday night when she was approached by someone who told her she needed to leave, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

After reluctantly agreeing, she said, she argued with several officers in an outside hallway.

"They said I was protesting," she said in a telephone interview with the newspaper Tuesday. "I said, 'Read my shirt, it is not a protest.' They said, 'We consider that a protest.' I said, 'Then you are an idiot.'"

No, they're doing their job. You see, in King George's America, only he gets to have an opinion. Anyone else's opinion has the potential of being irresponsible, and therefore must be silenced.

At least, that's the way it is in the America within the line of sight of the King. I'm a little flabbergasted that he thinks he can run an address to Congress the same way he runs one of his pre-screened "dissent is treason" town hall meetings.