Kim Paisley

Freedom loving runner who loves dogs and cats, outdoors, bourbon, beer, and 🇺🇸 We’ve got this one Silent Majority!

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

The land of the free. They taught the world to hate middle America - then the world came to middle America and people fell in love.

[Kim Paisley @mikeandkimp]

@KathyGodin @PTNickB @mariashriver And why don’t you, as a Canadian, tell us who we should have voted for?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Dr. ALVEDA KING just said it PERFECTLY on Capitol Hill

"I still have a dream. I dream that one day we will move beyond black power and white power and embrace GOD'S power and human dignity!"

"I reject the notion that Americans who hold traditional Christian beliefs should be treated as THREATS or TERRORISTS simply because we disagree with a prevailing political thought!" 🙏🏻

"I dream that Americans will one day see each other, not as enemies, but as neighbors. I dream that we will hear each other, see each other, and recognize that every human life has value from the womb to the tomb and beyond."

"We are as scripture teaches, one blood, one human race. And if we remember that truth, we can build a future worthy of the sacrifices made by those who came before us."

"We must speak out for truth and against the forces that would manufacture hate, fear, division, and violence simply to line their pockets and further their political ambitions."

"God bless America, God bless you!"

🇺🇸🇺🇸👏🏻

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Amen Sophie 🙏🏻🎯

[Kim Paisley @mikeandkimp]

@hebs007wrx @etoliver1986 @DerekDonuts @FoxNews @grok

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

A K9 appeared to be suspicious of White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen but was pulled away just seconds before Allen charged through security.

The dog was seen following Allen through a doorway but was pulled back by its handler.

Immediately after the handler turned away with the dog, Allen was seen charging through security.

What a massive failure on every level.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

TRUTH NUKE: Lydia Moynihan on Jimmy Kimmel: “When Obama was president, there was literally a clown at a rodeo in Missouri who made a joke about Obama getting gored by a bull, he got fired. So, unless it's Trump, we have a very high standard for what we expect of entertainment employees and what we expect in terms of being respectful to the president.”

“There was another ass*ssination attempt at the Hilton, obviously against Ronald Reagan the last time. And after that incident, the country was so shaken. Johnny Carson, who was a Democrat, decided to postpone the Oscars because he thought it would be inappropriate to be celebrating and cheering when there was such an act of political violence.”

“And you juxtapose that with Jimmy Kimmel, who continues to double down and ridicule and make fun of Melania, it would've been so easy for him to say, I screwed up, I apologize, and take some responsibility, and instead he just wants to continue to victim blame Donald Trump for getting shot at. Seriously?”

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.

The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.

A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.

Everything else was improvised.

I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

That's priority.

The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.

A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.

That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.

I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.

A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

[Kim Paisley @mikeandkimp]

@maxquinn32 Shame on you dude.

[Ben Owen™️ @hrkbenowen]

Retweet if you’d like to see @JimmyKimmelLive fired.

@ABC and @Disney are tagged.

[Kim Paisley @mikeandkimp]

@ImKnotTheOne 🤣🤣🤣

[Kim Paisley @mikeandkimp]

@RepJeffries Can you even look yourself in the eyes when you look in the mirror?

[Jennifer Lawrence @JenLawrence21]

You vile hack @NorahODonnell. Reading a deranged shooter’s “pedo, rapist” filth wasn’t “journalism.” It was a deliberate smear, hoping the poison would stick and incite more lunatics. You knew what you were doing. Pathetic. @realDonaldTrump exposed you

[Kim Paisley @mikeandkimp]

@ChrisDJackson @JoeBiden 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If they’re willing to die to assassinate, imagine what they will do if they gain political power