Presidential town hall and gun show

[prog]

Boy do I have a bad feeling about this.

This is probably the first time I really have to ask what usually strikes me as a lame question: can you imagine what would have happened if anyone pulled this shit around our previous president?

Comments

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Fascinating.

But it's this ambiguously worded sentence that distracted me:

At Obama's town hall there, one man was arrested for having a gun hidden in his car after the Secret Service found him at Portsmouth High School hours before Obama arrived carrying a pocketknife.

Based on context I assume the it was the man who had a gun hidden in his car, not Obama, who was carrying the pocketknife. But that's not what it says, so it gave me a "sheesh, *giggle*" moment.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I had exactly the same response! "Why are they mentioning that the President was carrying a pocket knife?"

Pardon me...

[taskboy3000.livejournal.com]

...but your modifier is dangling.

[xach.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of my favorite tortured passage from the AP:

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday he expected the league’s
competition committee would review the rule that possession could not
change because the whistle blew during the offseason, as it has in the
past.