Newt Gingrich Heckled, Gingrich Staffer Strikes Photographer (video)

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[Nachum]

A protester and the crowd have a party

[Nachum]

Vid at link

I am frankly surprised the crowd did not throttle her. They showed a lot of restraint. Florida is very very angry. I think Newt wins this state in a landslide.

[livius]

Even the nitwit protester had to smile at one of his responses (”You’re one of Abraham Lincoln’s debating partners” - after talking about a quote from Lincoln where he said it was useless to argue with people who won’t agree that 2 + 2 = 4).

[digger48]

Strikes photographer?

at most, she put her hand on the lens and pushed it down.

was the cameraman there with the loudmouth, hoping to cause and then catch a confrontation on film?

[ConservativeInPA]

Maybe I missed it, but the staffer was ever so gently reaching out and adjusting the focus on the photographer's camera. As for so-called non-OWS wench (you know you can't tell the difference between OWS people and everyday democrats and most Ron Paul supporters) the crowd should have surrounded her and walked her away from the event. Notice the union police officer did nothing.

[pyx]

All citizens are guaranteed the Right of Free Speech. However, citizens are NOT guaranteed a soapbox to exercise the Right of Free Speech.

I am reasonably certain that the crowd were not attending that function to listen to a sloppy socialist (she/it whined about CEO pay) screech her political vomit.

[Political Junkie Too]

It sounds like somebody is trying to incite Gingrich into a "macaca" moment?

Isn't that what the "hecklers" do at rallies these days? Aren't these "hecklers" really workers for other campaigns that go to opposition rallies and try to disrupt until the candidate erupts out of annoyance?

-PJ

[GoCards]

Why do you think this. Im a nervous wreck about it. I just texted my family in Florida to tell them vote Newt and they said “I dont think I can do it.” I told them, NOT Romney write Elmo in!! If you love me of course. Nervous....

[Eleutheria5]

“If fact mattered, you’d be in jail.” I.e., in her opinion facts do not matter.

[bbernard]

In Fort Myers yesterday an heckler wearing an occupy 99 percent t-shirt caused an uproar and was cuffed and stuffed. People waited patiently to hear Newt. The officers did the right thing.

This officer in this video was doing the other citizens a disservice by not asking this witch to leave.

[I see my hands]

[LowOiL]

There has to be a way to keep Bozo from just disrupting meetings like that. Seems to me one would not be able to hear a meeting at all with a couple of harpies like that attending and just sounding off trash constantly. I did see one fellow yell in her ear like she was yelling out loud.

Does anyone have a strategy if such witches end up standing next to them at a rally? I would like to hear it. (Keep it legal please).

[manc]

They sent out mass mail telling their flea wearers to come if they’re dressed for a job interview, I kid you not.

Now how on earth do these flea wearers know what a job interview is.

[Marcella]

Looked like, at one point, the staffer couldn’t move with the mike stuck in her face and she was moving it away. If she accidently hit the photographer, too bad, give her some room.

There are some crazy people out there. I, too, am surprised someone didn’t clobber the shouter girl as I heard angry shouting (actually curse words I can’t repeat here) thrown at the yelling girl. Is that free speech? I don’t think so since Newt paid to have that rally and she was stealing his paid for time. DOWN WITH THE SHOUTER! GO NEWT!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Democrat union thugs regularly beat people up badly enough to cause permanent disabilities, so I’m not going to worry about this. And I remember the black guys with billy clubs out front of polling places. I’m sure they were there in support of McCain.

[Raebie]

Newt should have invited her onto the stage to debate him. She would have been curled into a fetal position in about 2 minutes.

[Hulka]

Indeed. Correct.

For liberals it is “free speech for me but not for thee.”

[Tzimisce]

There is such a thing as “fighting words”.

Verbally assaulting someone until they attack you physically isn’t Constitutionally protected speech.

[ConservativeInPA]

So she was an Occupier? Even if she isn’t, she’s still scum.

[maggief]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/25/florida-activist-disrupts-a-newt-gingrich-rally-in-coral-springs-florida.html

(Cara) Jennings said she was a 35-year-old grant writer. A Google search indicates she is an outspoken activist and no stranger to protests. She is a former City Commission member from Lake Worth, and referred to as a member of the Green Party.

A 2010 article in The Palm Beach Post described her as “someone who has loudly protested FPL [Florida Power & Light] and the Israeli embassy, even if it meant getting arrested for civil disobedience. Who created a labor center out of dilapidated shuffleboard courts at the center of town at the risk of being called an apologist for undocumented immigrants. Who gave up her job teaching life skills to at-risk high school students to live solely on her $14,000-a-year commissioner’s salary, growing her own food, keeping her own beehives.”

[maggief]

http://www.carajennings.com/