Possible Clues:

• Short piece taken from a film, text, etc
• Rule out involving Romeo in piece
• Cutting room, initially in bar
• Republican arrested in bar? That’s only part of the story
• Cutting remarks, principally in bar
• Reader's Digest offering
• Selected passage from larger work
• It's a short clip not including Republican
• Bit right inside, but outside
• Run into bar for scrap?