Posted on 10/09/2008 6:21:01 PM PDT by steve-b
Speaking Thursday to CNN's Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, Wooten gave his account of the Taser incident but denied ever drinking while driving.
He said that he was a new Taser instructor, and his stepson was asking him about the equipment. "I didn't shoot him with live, you know, actual live cartridge," Wooten said.
Instead, he said, he hooked his stepson up to a training aid "with little clips. And, you know, the Taser was activated for less than a second, which would be less than what you would get if you touched an electric fence. ... It was as safe as I could possibly make it."
He said his stepson was on the living room floor surrounded by pillows, that he "was bragging about it," and that the family laughed about it.
Asked whether it was a dumb decision, Wooten told CNN, "absolutely."
I have a stock answer when someone moans about Tasergate, I say "Hmm, how interesting to hear a liberal sticking up for a wife-beating Taser-happy rogue cop who drinks on duty. Guess if his union dues are paid up, he gets a pass from the Democrats, eh?"
-ccm
The democrats and the NYT are pushing for a specious indictment of Gov. Palin just before the election. Its their standard operating procedure. After 2004, they whittled away at the narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives by this very process. It never works the other way because no one makes the democrat crooks resign.
No,I didn't think so.
Times the paper who will be in line for a Government bailout soon.
Walter Monegan says he was fired from his job as public safety commissioner for not dismissing Wooten, a claim that eventually led to the politically charged investigation just before McCain chose Palin as his running mate in late August.
Palin says she fired Monegan over a budget dispute.
Todd Palin said he never pressured anyone, including his wife. In fact, he says that after repeatedly talking with her about the matter, she finally told him to “drop it.”
“Anyone who knows Sarah knows she is the governor and she calls the shots,” Todd Palin wrote. “I make no apologies for wanting to protect my family and wanting to publicize the injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge.”
Admitted to using a Taser on a 10 year old
Known poacher.
Says that he didn’t drive in his squad car having drunk beer.
Who wouldn’t fire him? Why wasn’t he fired?
Hi Fellow Conservative Friends,
This is my first post. I love Free Republic! I’ve been lurking for quite some time (couple years or so), so I finally decided to join up.
Anyhow, thought you all might like to see the E-Mail I sent to that so-called journalist at the NY-Obama Times. Here it is:
Listen, you liberal nut job! I really don’t care if Gov. Palin had anything to do with that trooper being fired! That trooper deserved to be fired, no matter how it had to happen. Someone wasn’t doing their job by not firing that trooper, and it wasn’t Gov. Palin! The guy admitted to tasering his 10 year old son, got reprimanded and written up many times (one time drinking in his cruiser). Are you some kind of an idiot or what? You want someone like that “protecting” your streets? I sure as hell don’t. My husband is a retired police officer, and let me tell you, I don’t know how that trooper kept his job for as long as he did. My husband wouldn’t have wanted to work with someone like that. Gov. Palin did her fellow citizens a good service by getting rid of him. And tell me why Gov. Palin has the best approval rating of ANY governor in the U.S. Where as, your buddy Obama and the liberal-majority congress has the lowest approval rating EVER, about 3 times lower than Bush’s 38% approval rating.
Why don’t you cover a story that’s worth something. Oh, I forgot, you and others like you don’t know how to be real journalists. Quit disguising yourself as a journalist, and go back to doing something you just might be good at - maybe flipping burgers or something. Or perhaps you could try to be a true journalist and cover stories that really matter - like your idiot friend Obama and his communist and terrorist goons he likes to hang around with. No? I forgot, that would be too much for you and your ilk. By the way, why don’t you change your name to Serge Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Suits you better.
Memo to Pinch Sulzberger: Hope your resume is up to snuff kid. You are going to be looking for work in less than a year.
Welcome and keep kicking butt!
Thank you for the welcome. Yes, I plan to keep kicking butt (LOL),even though I know it’s going to be a long fight. We’re up against so much in this election - never seen anything like it! But I know we can do it - just got to keep the faith.
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