The reporting that they were wearing Palin buttons has beed proven false.
The Hayride hasn’t retracted their reporting on the Palin pins. They have noted that Jindal put out a statement saying they weren’t wearing Palin pins.
It should be noted that the “Rantburg” post is a re-hash of our initial report about the Palin pin issue. We have a source who says the couple were wearing Palin pins, and Jindal’s spokesman Kyle Plotkin denies – pretty vigorously, as it happens – that they did. We’re prepared to go with Plotkin’s account, since the photo of the incident doesn’t show them. Subsequent disclosures about the incident, including the Fox News interview with Allee Bautsch’s mother which we’ve summarized below and Human Events’ Connie Hair has transcribed in full, substantiate the underlying meaning behind the “Palin pin” issue, namely that the attackers identified Bautsch and Brown as attendees at the Brennan’s fundraiser and descended upon them for that reason. The Palin pin is a relatively inconsequential detail, in our view.
Thanks for the correction. Only saw the early reports which stated that one of the thugs spotted the pins and called out to the others. But I would still stand by my recommendation to be armed and prepared. I am sick of seeing the left think they can do these things without paying a heavy price.