[kristinn]

Actually, The Hayride says in their 2:08 p.m. update they are open to the couple not wearing Palin pins based on the photo, but they don't say whether they've followed up with their source

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.

[Jane Long]

It's odd to me that N.O. security cams recently caught the tragic last minutes of a Houston oil exec as he left a bar and then walked several blocks to his demise - falling off a gang way into the Mississippi river.

Yet, where are the security caps of these thugs?