# See, this is what happens when politicians go to military funerals uninvited.

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**Created:** [July 25, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-this-is-what-happens-when-politicians-go-to-military-funerals-uninvited/314054 "2005-07-25T14:48:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-this-is-what-happens-when-politicians-go-to-military-funerals-uninvited/314054/61 "2005-07-27T22:14:30Z")

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Remember, all you’re getting is one person’s biased account of what happened. There actually is no hard evidence that she tried to politicize the funeral.

I doubt a card was offered to anyone who was in the act of receiving communion. It may have happened afterwards, or before hand while people were lined up. A person unfamiliar with the ceremony might not realize it’s not polite to talk. It involves a degree of sitting and waiting as the line shuffles by the priest.

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**Author:** ![lexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-this-is-what-happens-when-politicians-go-to-military-funerals-uninvited/314054/62 "2005-07-27T22:24:58Z")

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I don’t think that a funeral is an appropriate platform for political activism, although, as many have pointed out, it’s unclear that Ms. Knoll actually engaged in any political discussion at the funeral. I just wanted to make a brief note:

> [@Airman Doors](#):
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> [Here](http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_356887.html) is an editorial from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, which I agree with wholeheartedly, and this coming from a “liberal” newspaper that actually is, remarkably enough.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is hardly a liberal newspaper; it’s owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, a long-time conservative activist (and leader of Hillary Clinton’s “vast right-wing conspiracy”), and is pretty well known for its conservative editorial content.

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