Politics Imagine for a moment ...
Posted by Max Brantley on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:17 AM
... if it had been House Speaker Nancy Pelosi escorted around an airport security feel-up station? (Rising Speaker John Boehner's avoidance of the hassle seems perfectly within established bounds, don't get me wrong. But you can imagine the Drudge-to-Fox-to-Limbaugh hilarity that would have ensued had it been the representative from Sodom sidestepping prying hands.)
A stray thought: Do football coaches with security details get exemption, too?
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