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Police Frisking Finally Goes Too Far for Matt Drudge

How many people must be frisked, Mr. President? Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

Matt Drudge has never been known as a crusader against police excesses. But conversions can strike at funny moments. Sometimes things can go so far that even a hardened crime fear-monger like Drudge has finally had enough. And for Drudge, that thing is the humiliation experienced by golfers forced to undergo a patdown by the Secret Service prior to the arrival of President Obama.

The story, reported in the New York Post, leads Drudge’s homepage. The details are chilling:

Regulars at the Vineyard Golf Club in Martha’s Vineyard were gob-smacked when President Obama unexpectedly strolled onto a nearby green and they were immediately frisked. “There was no warning he was coming,” sniffed a guest.


Meanwhile, black people in Ferguson, Missouri, are holding protests against the police merely for being executed. Yet daily humiliations like these, where a golfer cannot even finish his soup before undergoing a patdown, happen to people on golf courses every day.

Police Frisking Finally Goes Too Far for Drudge