Posted on 05/25/2017 9:30:35 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Sorry dude. You messed up.
Any time the media jump all over a story that looks terrible for a Republican, I smell a rat. And when the poor, innocent victim is a mainstream journalist, I smell a double rat. My instinct is usually that it’s all just a little too perfect, and usually when I look into it I find that I was right to trust my instincts.
So when I heard that Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate in the upcoming Montana special congressional election, had assaulted a reporter for asking him questions about health care, my first thought was, “What aren’t they telling us?”
Was the reporter the aggressor?
Bombshell: Montana Fox News Reporter Changes Her Story, Admits No Neck Grabhttps://t.co/MYB61SrgEA— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 25, 2017
Bombshell: Montana Assault Witness Changes Story, Admits No Neck Grab
NEWS FLASH!!
Greg Gianforte, the Monatanan running for Congress who body slammed UK reporter, Ben Jacobs last night has changed his party affiliation to Democrat!!!
All charges have been dropped. The media now believes he was justified and the initial reports were exaggerated. The Russian are believed to have paid the UK reporter to “collude” and provoke this action to help in the election outcome.
The Sheriff’s department announced this morning that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute because,although reckless in his behavior, there was no “intent” to break the reporters glasses.
He had it coming.
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Yep - Dan jumped the shark - I find it refreshing to have a Republican running who isn’t afraid to get in the fray when the leftists get pushy...we need more fighters and less “lovers”.
I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere. Its probably not a good idea to go around assaulting reporters.
But if its already happened, your best move is to own it. Do not apologize. Say, I did it and I’ll do it again.
It’s pretty stupid to allow yourself to be goaded into beating up a reporter.
The reporter went into the situation hoping to create exactly the result he got, and it worked. You can use a microphone and an aggressive question in such a way that you can trigger a person’s fight or flight midbrain response, and that would appear to be what happened here. Gianforte clearly chose fight, not flight.
Whether it hurts him or not electorally, it certainly brands him for better or worse. In the same situation, not sure I would have reacted any differently though.
Preparing to not perjure herself .....in the police investigation she falsely started
Gianforte should say:
“Jacobs tried to hit me in the mouth with his microphone. I was defending myself.”
Just an "Attitude Adjustment".
He’s now a shoe-in.
He couldn’t buy such advertisement.
After all, this is Montana.
And...?
I don’t think he could have anticipated that when the guy shoved a phone in his face and he tried to grab it, the guy would grab HIS wrist and pull them both down ....this was a set up- he should have claimed a neck sprain, called an ambulance for a neck brace, and filed charges first
BTW there is a picture of this journo posing with journalist-assault-stalker Michelle Fields
He’s now a shoe-in.
He couldn’t buy such advertisement.
After all, this is Montana.
That’s what I’m thinking. He raised his cred. Went cowboy on the reporter’s ass.
He’s now a shoe-in.
He couldn’t buy such advertisement.
After all, this is Montana.
I don’t know where Dan Calabrese lives, but in my world, when you bust in and accost me and refuse to leave when I tell you to, then you are going to get tossed out.
I wonder if she's buddies with the Lewandowsky body slam hoaxer. Sister, so to speak. I hear Jacobs and fields are a couple.
Oh good for you...
Too bad elements of the story are being walked back...
But, Bravo...brave man...
I went over to Dan’s column and posted the following:
Dan, you and I share that same first instinct. You should have stuck with it until the evidence is in. There’s a strong possibility that the reporter, by grabbing at Gianforte as reported by his staff, may have pulled the candidate down on top of himself. The incident, doesn’t have to be resolved for the Dem operatives with bylines until tomorrow or later bc the damage is done today. An incident like this on the eve of the election? C’mon. The citation? The sheriff is a donor to Gianforte and may have overcompensated to avoid making things like favoritism. In any case, he pulled a Comey on this one. Don’t be like the newspapers who rush to judgment in pulling their endorsements. Remember, they’re the same people who lecture us about rushing to judgment every time a nail bomb goes off and kills innocents. Even with a citation, this is still a he said-he said situation, and you just came down on the side of an act of downright desperation by the side most likely showing internals of a huge loss. I imagine a lot of Montana citizens like me read your columns and agree with you most of the time. Rushing to judgment as you did in today’s piece, on our election day, puts you in league with the Dem operatives with bylines. Be honest now, you’re no relation to Comey, are you?
By the time I got back here, I found the link to the witness recanting the neck grab story. I went back to Dan and added this:
Dan, an update. The reporter in the room who at first said she saw the candidate choke the reporter changed her story in a very public way on the Laura Ingraham show. See what I mean about rushing to judgment? I have a journalism degree, too, I’m embarrassed to admit, and on of the cautions I learned early on is: The First Report Is Always Wrong. You know it, too. You blew it on this one, sir. You should edit your column or pull it.
This is the kind of garbage that happens when Republicans and so-called conservative pundits rush in to prove how open-minded they are. It isn’t just that Dan rushed to judgment . It’s that he did a huge disservice to my fellow Montana voters by doing it on election day in Montana.
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