Posted on 11/04/2006 6:42:39 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
BTTT
Ah, and this is how the 'unbiased' AP reporter would have reported that scene - It was alleged that Stark shoved a conservative Allen supporter, but Stark only gently brushed passed him as the Allen supporter and his conservative thug cohorts tried to block Stark's exit through the door.
My thoughts exactly. They're practically in convulsions on the blogs.
If they are so confident, what's up with that?
One of their biggest drama queens is running a headline asserting that Lt. Governor Bill Bolling said Allen would lose at a breakfast this morning.
That's news to Bolling and the people who were actually at the breakfast.
Make no mistake about it. They know as much as we do that this is about turnout and they're trying to whip their folks into a frenzy.
Isn't that evidence of assault and battery?
Of course in Minnesota that's merely "exercising the constitutionally guaranteed right of political free speech" - if the person is a DFL'er
Does anyone have info about their turn-out efforts? Anyone received literature or phone calls?
Won't graduate much less pass the bar.
Ted Kennedy wound up at the University of Virginia and he never passed a bar without stopping.
November 1, 2006 8:27 AM
The Real Story of the Attack on George Allen
Democratic activists, Internet pranksters, rumor-mongers, and the Washington Post come together to hit the Republican candidate.
By Byron York
In late August, a man named Mike Stark posted a plea on the popular Democratic website DailyKos.com. He was a political prankster, Stark explained, and he’d been pulling pranks on conservatives for quite a while. He had had some success slipping past Rush Limbaugh’s call screeners. He managed to slip onto a radio program to ask Newt Gingrich about his first marriage.* And once, during an episode of Hannity & Colmes, he held a sign up behind Sean Hannity that said HANNITY SUCKS ASS. Stark proudly recounted his work on the DailyKos and on his website, Callingallwingnuts.com.
But now, Stark explained, he wanted to do more. A big election was approaching, and the time for pranks was over. More direct action was needed, and Stark asked his fellow Kossacks for help. “I’m about to ask y’all to trust me. A lot,” he wrote on August 31.
“As you know, I’ve been involved in a coupla incidents that resulted in Republicans and their cronies being a little bit embarrassed.”
“Recently I’ve been thinking about how to put these ‘guerrilla tactics’ to use where it matters: winning elections,” Stark continued. “After a lot of thinking, I’ve developed a plan that will impact one election in a big way. Unfortunately, I can’t afford to do it by myself. It will require hundreds of donations. I need, at a minimum, $3,000.”
Stark, who had just moved from New York State to Charlottesville, Virginia, would not say what he had in mind. “I wish I could tell you exactly what it is I’m looking to do, but if I were to do that, the project would lose some of its effectiveness,” he wrote. Still, he gave a hint. “Do you enjoy guerrilla media as applied to close elections? If you do, I ask you to contribute today.”
More...
http://tinyurl.com/y5tsrm
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That’s where Mike Stark came in. His bit of theater with Allen in Charlottesville got wide coverage. And in today’s Washington Post, sure enough, Stark succeeded in getting the spitting rumor into print. “W. Michael Stark, who identified himself in an e-mail after the incident as a University of Virginia law student, yelled a question at Allen about whether he had ever spit on his first wife, an unsubstantiated charge that has been circulating on liberal blogs on the Internet,” the paper reported.
“On the video, Stark was heckling Allen about rumors that embarrassing material is contained in records from the senator’s divorce,” the paper continued. “Those records have been sealed by a judge and are not accessible. Allen’s current wife, Susan, is his second and the mother of his children.”
“Allen aides accused Democrats and the Webb campaign of orchestrating the event as a way of getting news organizations to write about the Internet rumor.”
Mission accomplished. The spitting story is now officially in circulation. The incident shows what a dedicated activist — no longer a prankster — can do, with a little brazenness and a willing press. Stark is delighted, as are his supporters at the DailyKos. No doubt they’ll give him more money, if he asks for it. And why not? With a good plan, and his friends at the DailyKos, there’s no telling what he can accomplish.
Author’s Note: In the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that I have had an encounter of my own with Mike Stark. He approached me at an event at the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas last June and asked whether I would do an interview about politics for his website. I had never met him or heard of him, but I could figure that a site named Callingallwingnuts.com indicated that he was a true Kossack. (In his view, I was the wingnut.) I agreed. Then he told me that what he really wanted to do was debate me on the question of abortion. I declined. After that, even though our encounter hardly rose to the level of harassing Rush Limbaugh or a U.S. senator, Stark wrote about it and called a number of conservative radio programs to describe it. That was the last I had heard of him before yesterday.— B.Y.
My Story
Published by Mike Stark November 2nd, 2006 in Uncategorized
It doesn’t get better than this. The only part they edited was a private phone call I rec’d in the middle of their interview. This is the first time I saw the beginning of the incident. The video I was watching (you won’t be able to see it) shows that I was clearly assaulted immediately after asking the senator to tell us what he was arrested for.
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/4545351.html
In addition, I know many of you visiting would be interested in hearing me ask Senator Allen about his use of the n-word. If you click the “play” icon at the bottom of this post, the audio will play.
A first year law student?
Yeah, how many times?
Don't be too sure of that.
Back in the "Free Speech" movement days at UC Berkeley, a goodly number of Boalt Hall law students took part in those disruptions and many of them are prominent in legal circles today.
I personally know one of them who has had "private audiences" with president clinton and is a major contributor to dem party candidates and causes. He was a Phi Beta Kappa grad in 3 years, graduated Boalt 3rd in his class, was a frequent contributor to the law review, passed the bar his first time, taught legal writing at Stanford law his first year out, then clerked to federal judge Zerpelle. After that he started up a law firm with a couple of his law school friends. It has since grown steadily and he is very wealthy.
There are a surprising number of people who are crazy but not stupid.
The Democrat Crime Syndicate minions are coming unhinged.
It was Robert Kennedy (not Ted) who attended University of Virginia -- the law school, which was not top-rated back then.
I have two words: RI CO.
Why RICO? He has received monies in support of his activities to interfere with the civil rights of a Senator and his supporters, threatened, harrassed, stalked, manhandled...
Not sure if this applies. VA State Bar:
http://www.vsb.org/profguides/index.html
hopefully this StarkRavingMad character will have wasted so much time harassing Sen. Allen that he fails out of UVA law school and goes back to NY
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