W.Va. Bush Protesters on "Hardball"

(photo courtesy of crooksandliars.com)

Since settling their lawsuit against government officials for $80,000 earlier this month, Nicole and Jeffery Rank appeared on the MSNBC program to talk about their case.

As related here earlier, the couple had refused to remove anti-Bush T-shirts at a Fourth of July 2004 rally featuring the president on the state Capitol grounds. They were arrested, though the charges were later dropped.

Crooksandliars.com has an item on their TV appearance, and also offers video in several formats.

(Thanks to West Virginia Blue, which posted about this last week.)

Also in the wake of the Ranks' settlement, The Washington Post reported on the "Presidential Advance Manual." Unearthed in the course of their lawsuit, the document "gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of 'deterring potential protestors' from President Bush's public appearances around the country,"the Post reported.

The Associated Press also reported on the manual and its revelations last month. But credit should go to the Rocky Mountain News for first revealing the manual. It reported on the document and its contents in late June, when the Ranks joined with a Denver couple allegedly treated similarly at a Bush event to sue in Washington, D.C.