They can dish it out, but they can't take it.

Buh-
Buh-
Buh-Gawk!

Not that this is a surprise or anything, but the White House has a manual that details exactly how its staffers are to quash opposing viewpoints at presidential appearances.

White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters

...Among other things, any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers. Those entering must be screened in case they are hiding secret signs. Any anti-Bush demonstrators who manage to get in anyway should be shouted down by "rally squads" stationed in strategic locations. And if that does not work, they should be thrown out.

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The manual offers advance staffers and volunteers who help set up presidential events guidelines for assembling crowds. Those invited into a VIP section on or near the stage, for instance, must be " extremely supportive of the Administration," it says. While the Secret Service screens audiences only for possible threats, the manual says, volunteers should examine people before they reach security checkpoints and look out for signs. Make sure to look for "folded cloth signs," it advises.

To counter any demonstrators who do get in, advance teams are told to create "rally squads" of volunteers with large hand-held signs, placards or banners with "favorable messages." Squads should be placed in strategic locations and "at least one squad should be 'roaming' throughout the perimeter of the event to look for potential problems," the manual says.

"These squads should be instructed always to look for demonstrators," it says. "The rally squad's task is to use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform. If the demonstrators are yelling, rally squads can begin and lead supportive chants to drown out the protestors (USA!, USA!, USA!). As a last resort, security should remove the demonstrators from the event site."

Of course, anytime this administration actually exposes its people to the American public, they get treatment like this. Or this. (Headphones required)

Pretty sad state of affairs.

Even sadder than the guys who wrote this manual would be the volunteers actually in the "rally squads." I ask you, how pathetic are these guys?

"Yeah, um - I was tasked with protecting the president's from learning what people think of him."

Weak.