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Not to gloat at the president’s frustration, but this was the classic case of a successful act of civil disobedience in more ways than one. First, the president personally heard and felt the burgeoning rumble of discontent among LGBT Americans in a way that has not touched him since he entered the insular walls of the White House over a year ago.
And equally important, so did many, many others. That night, the subject line of the dispatch issued by the pool reporter covering Obama’s speech read, “Pool report 5 — NEWS gays rights protesters interrupt.” The “pooler,” by the way, is the reporter assigned to take notes and record the developments at an event that is then distributed to all the other reporters who were unable to cover it.
