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Dem Staffer Apologizes For Shoving Weekly Standard Reporter
The Plum Line ^ | 01/13/2009 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 01/13/2010 2:52:30 PM PST by Outside da Box

As you may have heard, a Dem staffer helping the Martha Coakley campaign was caught on video shoving a Weekly Standard reporter, prompting an explosion of outrage from national Republicans and the right-wing media, who alleged bullying and intimidation.

Now the staffer, Michael Meehan, sends over a statement admitting error (though not conceding bullying) and saying he also apologized directly to the Standard reporter, John McCormack:

(Excerpt) Read more at theplumline.whorunsgov.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; brown; coakley; democrats; dnc4violence; ma2010; mccormack; meehan; michaelmeehan; obama4violence; phrma; phrma4violence; scottbrown
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Coakley is a liar.


21 posted on 01/13/2010 3:36:46 PM PST by WaterBoard
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To: Outside da Box
Coakley didn't disparage McCormack as a macaka.

It was just another Democrat's physical attack on someone. What's the news?

22 posted on 01/13/2010 3:50:57 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Outside da Box

<<<...prompting an explosion of outrage from national Republicans and the right-wing media, who alleged bullying and intimidation.>>>

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I don’t know the background or bent of the plumline but this sentence grates on my nerves.

This more or less assumes that only Republicans and right-wing media could have a problem with a politician’s aide knocking a reporter to the ground.


23 posted on 01/13/2010 3:52:42 PM PST by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
“Coakley is a liar.”
As if we didn't already know that by her monkier- (D)
24 posted on 01/13/2010 3:56:13 PM PST by a02001 (Help the third world poor one person at a time- www.kiva.org)
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To: Outside da Box

I just wanna tell any of you liberals who are trolling on here this...you do that when I happen to be around and you better call a undertaker fast. Because I will track you down like a hound on a rabbit.


25 posted on 01/13/2010 3:58:53 PM PST by crz
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To: WaterBoard

Sorry about grabbing your graphic but it is powerful and I wanted to make sure it got around.


26 posted on 01/13/2010 4:06:36 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: TigersEye

I want charges against this guy!

Someone should contact the state Attorney General. Oh wait...


27 posted on 01/13/2010 4:18:13 PM PST by Ronin
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To: Ronin

It happened in DC so I think that is Eric Holder’s jurisdiction. He is a bought and paid for neo-com tool. A coward who doesn’t prosecute leftists. Think New Black Panthers wielding night sticks at a polling place.


28 posted on 01/13/2010 4:31:39 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: crz
I like the way he asked are "you ok?" ... hahahahaa... just like back in school. some rough boys used to bully kids just like that. You have to defend yourself fellas.

I love little wussies like that dem bully. It's his size and the fact that he's willing to fight that separates him from the reporter.

That's why ya gotta have a key in your hand.... you just get up and let him get real close.. right up to him so that there is no space at all. Turn your head to the right, bring your right hand to your head and wipe away from your runny nose and then to "steady yourself" by grabbing his shoulder.

Make sure you are chest up and keep your right leg outside of his left leg , like dancing.... then thank him and bring your knee up as hard as you can and start coughing... a lot.

Then as he's bent over, slap him as hard as you can on his right ear with your open hand as your coughing..... keep coughing ,

Most of the ladies that take self defense know that then , stick the key in his face as he turns left..... and pull....

The only way you beat a bully is by fighting him. That reporter is just trying to do his job, so was the thug. I like bullies. The ones you have to worry about are the ones that you can't see.

Please, for any conservatives that are at rallies or other "meetings".. take video so that you can show self defense. This democrat strong arm guy is just 60 years to late and missing his brown shirt.

29 posted on 01/13/2010 5:27:10 PM PST by erman
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To: TigersEye
What a POWERFUL photograph, TigersEye!

As I have posted elsewhere, God willing, this image could be her "hiding behind the baby" moment. :o)

From www.cleveland.com/movies:

Martin Sheen's baby hoist
"The Dead Zone" (1983)
Martin Sheen [as corrupt politician Greg Stillson]
commits a bit of a campaign slip-up in "The Dead Zone."

...but Stillson, with the gun still pointed at him, grabs a baby to shield himself.

A photographer records the scene, Stillson's career is curtains...


31 posted on 01/13/2010 5:28:41 PM PST by RonDog
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What a POWERFUL photograph, TigersEye!

It is and thanks go to WaterBoard for adding the graphics to it.

32 posted on 01/13/2010 5:36:05 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: Outside da Box

Watch Coakley’s two thugs as they sight McCormack and the big thug goes after McCormack.

Then, watch the last 30 seconds or so after the thug pushed McCormack down and continued to hassle, assualt and threaten him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyIVstNTa8

Please get this to your ping lists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyIVstNTa8


33 posted on 01/14/2010 10:16:49 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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