Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies. That seems to be the theme Martha Coakley was following earlier tonight when one of her thugs roughed up John McCormack, a reporter for The Weekly Standard.
According to McCormack, he tried to ask Coakley a question after she attended a Washington, DC fundraiser with lobbyists for ObamaCare. That’s when things got tricky.
After taking a question from a CNN reporter on the street outside the restaurant, I asked her:
TWS: Attorney General Coakley, you said last night that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan–that they’re all in Yemen and Pakistan. Do you stand by that remark?
COAKLEY: I’m sorry, did someone else have a question?
GRIFF JENKINS, Fox News: I did. Why are you in Washington tonight?
COAKLEY: We planned an event after the primary that would be a unity event in Washington. We’re also in the middle of a very intense campaign [...]
After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. She didn’t reply.
As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.
Read the rest of the sordid tale at The Weekly Standard.
Welcome to the age of Thug Politics.
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In Chicago, that’s not roughing up.
It’s simply considered being rude.
We can thank Barry Big Ears for that.
Having said this: If it was I who was sent to the ground….Let’s just say it would have gotten really ugly really quick.
“I don’t think so..Homey don’t play dat!”
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Heh! I was thinking they should hire me. Calling myself 5’2″ is an overstatement. Wouldn’t it be funny to catch them on video roughing up a little mommy blogger like me?
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Thats roughing up???
My gawd you guys are a bunch of wusses.
Are you gonna like, start crying or something?
And thats gonna make me want to vote for your candidate?
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Yeah, but this tough guy gets the vapors and wet his bed when a terror asshole gets a bit of water dribbled on his face.
Dem party is in tatters, go suck your thumb.
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Excuse me but it seems to me it’s my fellow republicans who are running scared and always screaming that the terrorists are going to get them! (Just the reaction the terrorists hope to get, they thank you very much) Tough it up.
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What does this have to do with the topic of this thread?
“Fellow Republicans?”
Are you REALLY a Republican?
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Hey Schmoe:
Let someone bigger than you push you to the ground and see if you come up feeling all glad and happy.
Was the reporter too persistant and the Senator felt “threatened?” Perhaps.
Did the Senator ignore the questions and walk away as if she was above it? You’re damn skippy she did.
Bourgeois Bitch
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