Posted on 04/16/2010 12:10:54 PM PDT by kristinn
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly has finally broken the wall of silence on major news coverage of the brutal beating of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s top fundraising staffer. A full transcript follows below.
Della Burning, mother of Jindal staffer Allee Bautsch, confirmed that her daughter had been savagely beaten. She refused to discuss whether or not politics were involved (although at one point in the interview she did say the report was “accurate” when New Orleans Police Information Officer said slurs hurled at her daughter during the attack were “political in nature”).
Burning confirmed her daughter's leg is broken in four places and she has five surgical scars and a steel rod now running from her knee to her ankle with seven screws holding it all in place. She did not fall and break her leg as was reported in the lonely and inaccurate story done by the Associated Press. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ikzm03fmGCMbjFoF2UvfkbGhPm2wD9F2GLOG0
Burning also confirmed that the attackers did not rob her daughter or her daughter’s boyfriend.
The attack happened one week ago today as Bautsch and her boyfriend left a $10,000-per-plate Republican fundraiser at Brennan’s Restaurant in the French Quarter where a local group of anarchists, the Iron Rail Collective, were among radical leftist groups that organized a protest outside. Attendees had to run a gauntlet of these aggressive protesters hurling slurs as they left the event. (more details at local news outlet The Hayride http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story/ )
[A quick transcript, all errors mine.]
SNIP
KELLY: One reporter says that he spoke with the Public Information Officer at the New Orleans Police and that Public Information Officer said that insults of a political nature had been hurled at your daughter and her boyfriend during the attack. Do you have any problem with that report?
BURNING: Honestly this is not a Republican or Democrat problem, this is a problem that a young girl and her boyfriend were attacked and the story hasn’t really come out. And I just want to make sure that these guys are found. That’s the important part of this. There is accuracy in the story. I just think that yes when you do the investigation you do look at the people who were in the area at the time, to be able to bring the right people in for questioning. That’s the really important part.
SNIP
KELLY: We certainly hope so. Della how’s your daughter doing?
BURNING: This was very serious. She has four breaks in her leg. It’s her left leg. She has a rod that goes down the entire center of her leg with seven screws. She has a screw through her entire ankle.
KELLY: Oh, my goodness…
BURNING: For a mother, it’s a lot… you know the recovery is enormous. She has five different scars that she’ll have from this. So this isn’t just something that, you know, that she was pushed down on the ground or something or that she fell. That is not the case.
KELLY: They were stomping her.
BURNING: Joseph and Allee, it was such a terrible thing that, I think that coming out of it, it took a really long time to even be able to make sense of the whole thing. You can understand when something like that happens to you.
KELLY: I know that the report says she broke her leg in five places, he broke his nose, as well…
BURNING: He has a fractured jaw, a broken nose, a black eye…
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Bump.
Interesting...
You’d think that a real attempt to do so by a new committee chairman of the healthcare committee would be to dissolve it, or put it on a lengthy adjournment pf at least a couple of years...
The screams from the left will be incredible...hehehe
This young couple was beat severely, concussion, and a broken leg that required an operation. This was far more than mere words that was said in a crowd that hurt someones feelings. You take this incident, the one where a left wing nut job bit of the finger of a tea party guy, the incident where the union thugs beat a black man because he held different views, and you clearly see a pattern of violence that is out of control.
As much as I want to correct the mistakes at the ballot box, it is far past time that we factor in protection at any place where we meet in public. I don't care if it's off duty police officers or a professional security staff, it now must be factored into any event where our folks meet. The media will continue to ignore the real criminals so we must protect our own with professional protection and professional people to record every move at these public meetings.
Why wasn't this type of protection offered in New Orleans of all places? If we cant protect our own we wont have many people willing to make their voice heard or show up. Let's face the facts folks, the media will focus on Bill Clinton and his absurd comparison with OK bombing to tea-party people and totally ignore us when the wrong side does the beatings. Our side seems to be slow when it comes to the beat and run tactics of the left. Wake up people, they are scared and desperate, lets take the steps to protect each other.
what took them so long Kristinn?
Remember he publicly said: "Talk(?) to your neighbors, get into their faces," huh???
Not one made of tobacco, anyway.
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