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Hush comes to shove (Coakley thug throws Weekly Standard reporter to ground for asking a ?)
The Boston Herald ^ | January 14, 2010 | Michael Graham

Posted on 01/13/2010 10:16:58 PM PST by pietraynor

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To: maggief

Marxists don’t do well unless they can silence the press and the opposition. It must frustrate these neo-communists to no end to have to pretend to respect the 1st Amendment. I think they hate it more than the 2nd Amend but it wouldn’t look good to be too open about that.


21 posted on 01/14/2010 9:56:53 AM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; nutmeg; STARWISE; neverdem; Travis McGee; Jack Black; BOBTHENAILER

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


22 posted on 01/14/2010 10:13:18 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: maggief

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


23 posted on 01/14/2010 10:14:43 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: pietraynor

Just more proof of my 2009 tagline which will be my 2010 tagline.

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, assault and threaten him.

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

Please get this to your ping lists.

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


24 posted on 01/14/2010 10:25:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: Grampa Dave; Sub-Driver; grey_whiskers; LucyT; neverdem; Recovering_Democrat; SunkenCiv; ...
The film linked to in post #24 is much longer than the one I saw yesterday on FR and suggests a somewhat different interpretation of events.

According to what I see, Coakley comes out of the restaurant site of the fund-raising event with her aides (goon squad) and conducts a one-minute press conference on the busy Washington street. That in itself seems like a very unusual event, considering the timing, location, and cold temperatures. How would the press have been notified and who would be checking credentials in advance? Was this intended to be, perhaps, for friendly (pro-Dem) media types only?

Only three questions are asked at the quickie conference. McCormack asks the second of them, the one about terrorists in Afghanistan that embarrasses Coakley and which she refuses to answer.

Then, after the very brief outdoor event breaks up, McCormack walks in the same general direction as Coakley and her aides, a bit in front of them, when he is shoved down from behind by Meehan. Seems as if the only motivation for the shove was reprisal for McCormack's question to Coakley seconds earlier.

Then, strangest of all, after McCormack gets up, Meehan, acting as if he's law enforcement official, continues to hassle him on a public street about his press credentials. McCormack, obviously intimidated by the bigger man, complies and walks away.

No question that Meehan committed a misdemeanor-level assault and harrassment. But what was McCormack thinking, walking (deliberately) ahead of the Coakley party as if he was may have been trying to get in another question or two after being snubbed at the brief conference? Not saying McCormack committed any crime, but he may have been a bit over the top in pursuing Coakley after the event had concluded.

25 posted on 01/14/2010 12:39:10 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
I don't think he was "over the top" - reporters ask questions - it's what they do...

Fox did a "thing" on it when dems were questioning the right of conservative journalists to "follow them" - the FOX clips showed liberal journalists doing that and worse FOREVER and NO ONE objected.

This is the double standard.

Trust me, if a Republican had done that to a liberal New York Times reporter, he'd have to resign.

26 posted on 01/14/2010 1:28:01 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama's US is "harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend" - Bernard Lewis warning...)
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To: Grampa Dave

The conduct of Meehan AFTER he knocks down McCormack is criminal menacing

http://definitions.uslegal.com/m/menacing/

McCormack said he is not pursuing charges. He would be doing a service if he did.


27 posted on 01/14/2010 1:45:57 PM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: dervish

I’m disappointed that he is not filing charges.

We know of two separate cases of severe bullying at two schools where kids were pushed, hit and spit on by the bullies.

The parents got no where until we told them to press charges. When they pressed charges, positive things happened. At one school, they were going to transfer the girl being bullied, after the parents got a lawyer, that bs stopped. Then the bullies were transferred or had massive behavior changes. The civil lawsuit would have been against the bullies, their parents, and the school administrators for protecting the bullies instead of the girl being bullied.


28 posted on 01/14/2010 3:30:17 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: dervish

Thanks for the term, “Criminal Menacing!”


29 posted on 01/14/2010 3:32:15 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: GOPJ; ml/nj; firebrand; ExTexasRedhead; rmlew; SoCalPol; EternalVigilance; Yaelle; chicagolady; ...
This is the double standard.

Unfortunately, there is double standard in political journalist behavior, just as in other aspects of political life. That stems from a different value system, a different sense of what is morally right and decent.

the FOX clips showed liberal journalists doing that and worse FOREVER and NO ONE objected.

Yes, that kind of leftist "in your face" pursuit of a "right wing" target is epitomized in Michael Moore's movie Roger and Me. Since Moore is an icon of the left, it's hardly surprising that many of the others in their camp use similar tactics and condone their use, with no second thoughts about intrusion on their adversary's private space.

30 posted on 01/14/2010 3:33:56 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yeah. They must feel real lonely among the land of the whale.


31 posted on 01/14/2010 4:04:44 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: Grampa Dave

I sent him an email at the Weekly Standard site where he posted the apology from Meehan. I asked him to press charges for the sake of all the intimidations by the left.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/apology-accepted (”Respond” button)


32 posted on 01/14/2010 4:27:00 PM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: Grampa Dave
We know of two separate cases of severe bullying at two schools where kids were pushed, hit and spit on by the bullies.

The parents got no where until we told them to press charges. When they pressed charges, positive things happened. At one school, they were going to transfer the girl being bullied, after the parents got a lawyer, that bs stopped. Then the bullies were transferred or had massive behavior changes.

Parent's need to lawyer up quickly - the schools ARE run by liberals ...

33 posted on 01/14/2010 4:41:39 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama's US is "harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend" - Bernard Lewis warning...)
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To: GOPJ

“Parent’s need to lawyer up quickly - the schools ARE run by liberals ... “

Yes, indeed, and they are overly protective of PC bad behavior kids and illegal kids, who often do the bullying.


34 posted on 01/15/2010 8:00:50 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: dervish

Good for you.

Does John have an email where you don’t have to sign up and promise your first born son and grandson to send emails?


35 posted on 01/15/2010 8:06:00 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: Grampa Dave

the link I sent involved no sign in. Unless I signed up a long time ago and don’t remember now. Did you check it out?

Try this

http://www.weeklystandard.com/send-comment?id=318166


36 posted on 01/15/2010 10:23:44 AM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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