Thousands of pounds of steamed Maine lobster went to the birds rather than to the famished legacy press.
A shooter – an apparent would-be assassin – made his way into the association’s annual dinner Saturday night after guests got their spring pea and burrata salad.
But the next course – Maine lobster – never got plated.
“Wondering what happened to the lobster for 2,600 people that never got served,” Nico Perrino posted on X.
Perrino is executive vice president of a group calling itself Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, its mission “to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought.”
The foundation is the same group that recently went to bat for Bowdoin College Socialists when the Maine school’s dean tried to shut down their political actions.
So if the crabby members of the White House press have a beef over a missed Maine lobster it might fall to Perrino to craft their appeal for a rain check.
As for the fate of the lobster, probably too late to file that appeal unless the other dominant voice for freedom – People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals – has a direct line to God.
PETA’s most recent involvement in Maine occurred over the summer when it went to court (unsuccessfully) to try to stop the Rockland Lobster Festival.
