Lachlan Markay – Effects of Anxiety

The man who jumped over the White House fence and sprinted through the main floor of the mansion could have gotten even farther had it not been for an off-duty Secret Service agent who was coincidentally in the house and leaving for the night.

The agent who finally tackled Omar Gonzalez had been serving on the security detail for President Obama’s daughters and had just seen the family depart via helicopter minutes earlier. He happened to be walking through the house when chaos broke out and the intruder dashed through the main foyer, according to two people familiar with the incident.

Multiple layers of security fail at the most famous residence in the country?

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 30, 2014

Agents didn’t fire because they assumed he was unarmed? Assumed he wasn’t wearing explosives, too?

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 30, 2014

Who’s in charge here?

So the White House is basically being protected by Campus Security.

— Alex Soti (@Ajsoti) September 30, 2014

Surely we can do better than that!

@lachlan I can't wait for Paul Blart foiled fencejumper's plan.

— Alex Soti (@Ajsoti) September 30, 2014

EXCLUSIVE PHOTO of the Secret Service officer who foiled the White House fence-jumper pic.twitter.com/DI20SjXZdP

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 30, 2014

Unnamed off-duty Secret Service agent: "I'm not even supposed to be here today." pic.twitter.com/Wkcnj1YzdT

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 30, 2014

Thank goodness that guy was around. Still, we’d feel much better if the White House called in the big guns:

U.S. Secret Service responds to recent mistakes with reassuring new hire: pic.twitter.com/fHoaVZh2vH

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 30, 2014

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‘Story of the night’: A gunman shot the White House 7 times and the Secret Service didn’t know about it

Secret’s out! US Secret Service needs refresher course in protecting WH

‘Have fun storming the White House’! Secret Service mocked mercilessly over fence jumper

Is this why the Secret Service screwed up handling that WH fence jumper?

What? No way! Guess what Secret Service blames for WH fence jumper foul-up

‘You got to go, lady’: Time for bumbling Secret Service director to hit the road?

‘Ever heard of these guys?’ Rep. John Mica has some advice for Secret Service [photo]

‘What the … what?’ This Windows 8.1 install option is hilarious [pics]

http://twitter.com/#!/comradejoe2/status/427834381370019840

Haha, floppy disks! Oh wait …

http://twitter.com/#!/JontheGeekGuy/status/392300402257190912

Snicker.

Wow! The future is totally awesome!

http://twitter.com/#!/IamJoogle/status/427508823549435904

The hilarious and flabbergasting likely Photoshop is making the rounds again on Twitter. Terrible pirated install? Photoshop? Too funny to check? In any event, the result is many giggles.

http://twitter.com/#!/billmurphy/status/428188969835446272 http://twitter.com/#!/vrzone/status/427761611735314432 http://twitter.com/#!/jerrykuch/status/428032151859109888 http://twitter.com/#!/ericnakagawa/status/427995340902375424

And for the geek-mockery win:

http://twitter.com/#!/w0ts0n/status/427514501622398976

Gasping!

This Twitter user brings it all home:

http://twitter.com/#!/mdrache/status/428188656143052800

Oh dear.

http://twitter.com/#!/ChrisBarnhart/status/428189233845501952

‘CASE CLOSED SIGN myself UP’! Ezra Klein contends ‘for single-payer, within one graphic’ [pic]

http://twitter.com/#!/Oh_Kitty_O/status/453895483660836865

Ezra Klein actually really really loves him some single-payer healthcare! Which morning hours, he made a rock-solid instance due to this.

Behold:

http://twitter.com/#!/ezraklein/status/453893858904928257

Whoa. Whoa. We have observed the light!

http://twitter.com/#!/rocket1124/status/453894943627808768

Everything may’re witnessing below, females and guys, is genuine journalism:

http://twitter.com/#!/justkarl/status/453899165316022272 http://twitter.com/#!/nycconservative/status/453899354949308416

Precisely what happened ended up being that he ended up being without a doubt constantly destined is a shameless hack.

http://twitter.com/#!/ThePantau/status/453897906274459648

Ponder over it done:

http://twitter.com/#!/Slublog/status/453899179224748032 http://twitter.com/#!/DrewMTips/status/453901469016551424

We audition for @vox.com CC: @ezraklein @mattyglesias

What you should check out Democratic guide in one photo http://t.co/TIx8BN67mq— (@DrewMTips) April 09, 2014

http://twitter.com/#!/exjon/status/453900731909550082 http://twitter.com/#!/jeffneufeld/status/453906648143126528 http://twitter.com/#!/OrwellForks/status/453906165630398464 http://twitter.com/#!/JacobReses/status/453900941956497408 http://twitter.com/#!/BrianFaughnan/status/453897874322231296

This could assist response that concern:

http://twitter.com/#!/JGreenDC/status/453897108144132097

Oh, Canada.

http://twitter.com/#!/SHannitysHair/status/453896133170176000 http://twitter.com/#!/Kevin43309163/status/453895063504818176

In fact, Ezra. these days you wish to see a lot more visuals. And don’t constraint you to ultimately Canada. There clearly was lots more nations around!

http://twitter.com/#!/AG_Conservative/status/453898504352444417

Here’s another artistic that people believe’d be helpful:

http://twitter.com/#!/ishapiro/status/453895596987133952

This may be an amazing start:

http://twitter.com/#!/willcollier/status/453894970424836098

Another promising concept:

http://twitter.com/#!/DJB627/status/453898350476398592

But that’s only crazy talk! Right, Ezra?

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Relevant:

Ezra Klein suggests that single-payer is way to ‘absurd’ american health care system

Hey, Ezra Klein, you will require a single-payer alternative? Here’s just how in one single simple truth-boom

Entire Twitchy defense of Ezra Klein

Get more information: http://twitchy.com/2014/04/09/case-closed-sign-me-up-genius-ezra-klein-argues-for-single-payer-in-one-graphic-pic/

Alleged pants-dropping politician inspires contender for ‘lede of the year’

http://twitter.com/#!/sdwinkler/status/512606796570054656

Guess not. But we’re thinking NJ.com might’ve anticipated the entertainment value:

Lede of the year http://t.co/p59OehlGTo pic.twitter.com/a2B2F35U8V

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 18, 2014

OK, that’s fantastic. Read the whole thing.

"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?" RT @lachlan: Lede of the year http://t.co/oBg8qUZqvy pic.twitter.com/symJwHLLgg

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) September 18, 2014

@irishspy @baseballcrank @lachlan Councilman Costanza?

— Brian Gutherman (@NJNuke) September 18, 2014

Sounds about right.

made ‘final decision’ on Bergdahl swap [video]

http://twitter.com/#!/Doc_0/status/476732916035100672

And ’round and ’round we go.

Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee today, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel dropped an interesting little bomb:

http://twitter.com/#!/ChadPergram/status/476735543795908609 http://twitter.com/#!/AndrewStilesUSA/status/476730885065420801

Let’s go to the videotape:

Transcript via Gateway Pundit:

“That same day President Obama received a personal commitment in a personal telephone call from the Emir of Qatar to uphold and enforce the security arrangements and the final decision was made to move forward with the exchange on that day.“

Wait … what?

http://twitter.com/#!/AG_Conservative/status/476734462605422592 http://twitter.com/#!/lachlan/status/476734845792821249

Flashback to earlier this week:

http://twitter.com/#!/OutFrontCNN/status/476145559129300992

Hmmm … There seems to be a slight discrepancy here.

http://twitter.com/#!/Doc_0/status/476733148353822721 http://twitter.com/#!/The_Autopen/status/476735546434547712

This could get ugly.

http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/476734601675956224 http://twitter.com/#!/RonD1954/status/476737114676416512 http://twitter.com/#!/gatewaypundit/status/476733575417454594 http://twitter.com/#!/MLynnRN/status/476734925283287040

Your move, Obama:

http://twitter.com/#!/Matthops82/status/476736227085791232

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