Laura Bush Heckler Found Not Guilty Of Assault

061709loveit.jpg That protester who heckled Laura Bush and daughter Jenna Bush after their children's book tour hit the 92nd Street Y last year finally had his day in court, and a jury found him not guilty. Gary Talis, 24, wasn't arrested for heckling, but for allegedly assaulting the parents of a wheelchair-bound teenage girl when they tried to shut him up outside the venue. When Talis started yelling about how the First Lady is married to a war criminal as she left the Y, John Lovetro (pictured), allegedly responded, "What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books...Get out of here! You're being a moron!" Lovetro (pictured), his wife Wendy, and the couple's daughter, Maureen, who suffers from cerebral palsy, then got into some kind of altercation with Talis. All three Lovetroses, plus a Secret Service agent, testified that Talis attacked them, but Talis and another witness convinced the jury that the Lovetroses were in fact going after him.

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Why has no one commented on this story?

Don't you people realize this story is tapping into our society's zeitgeist?

You'll be thanking John Del Signore someday!

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Wait, is that Lovetro (pictured)?

Hitler had the same problem when he went to a children's book thing (I think it was a burning, but whatever). Some people just can't get perspective.

probably a million Iraqis - men, WOMEN and CHILDREN were killed on Bush's order...hilarious now his family trots around reading childrens books to the aristocrats in the uws. Wake up people.

HOLY CRAP!!
This is hilarious.

I used to be best friends with Gary (German) back in Junior High school and haven't talked to him or heard about him since.

I cant believe how much hes changed lol!
911 conspiracy people are complete whack jobs..

His grandfather Boris Talis is a pretty prominent businessman in Brooklyn.

It's easy to dismiss something that you know nothing about.

Clearly, many of the "911 conspiracy people" are much smarter than you are; see: 9/11 Truthers are Nuts! Or are they?
(A lengthy list of notable and respected individuals that doubt the Government's official story

See also: The Elephant in the Room
(independent (ie, not done by "911 conspiracy people") documentary about 9/11 Truth)

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