Posted on 04/18/2010 4:06:03 AM PDT by abb
Friday, Allee Bautsch’s mother Della Berning appeared by phone on Fox News to speak about the events of last weekend on behalf of Allee and her boyfriend.
Video of that interview follows:
Earlier today, Yahoo! News posted a story with another interview with Ms. Berning in which her confirmation of a political cause for the attack on her daughter and her boyfriend is more explicit:
Contrary to our initial report, the NOPD is now saying that it does not know whether or not the attacks were politically motivated and the police report lists the motive as unknown. However, Allee Bautsch’s mother, Della Berning, has now joined a friend of Bautsch’s in telling Yahoo! News that, contrary to what Brown initially told police, Bautsch and Brown do believe that the attackers were a group of political protesters who followed them after they left the event. Their recollection is not conclusive, of course, and they admit to having no knowledge of the attackers’ underlying motivations.
According to Berning, Bautsch and Brown are recovering from their injuries and the trauma of the attack, and so are not speaking directly to the media. However, the couple authorized her to come forward with their account of the attack. Berning told Yahoo! News that she reconfirmed with her daughter each detail of the account she offered via email and phone.
For the most part, the police report and Berning’s account of the assault on Bautsch and Brown line up. Bautsch and Brown attended a Republican Party fundraiser that coincided with the Southern Republican Leadership Conference that happened in New Orleans that week. The event drew protesters, some of whom remained after it concluded.
And a little more:
The police report and the subsequent account of the attack that Bautsch and Brown gave to Bautsch’s mother mainly differ on the question of whether the attackers were from the group protesting the fundraiser. According to the police report, Brown told them that he “was unsure if the attackers were protestors.” Berning says her daughter and Brown believe that they were.
Berning explained that on the night of the attack, because of the furious nature of the assault and the late night, the two didn’t want to say for certain that they knew the identity of the attackers. “You don’t want to say something like that to the police” and get someone in trouble with the law, she explained, “unless you’re absolutely sure.”
But while they don’t claim certainty, Bautsch and Brown believe the attackers did come from the group of protesters. Berning said the two felt followed immediately after leaving the restaurant where the protesters were, and the attackers looked like some they had seen in front of the restaurant.
But while the Yahoo! News story appears to grudgingly admit the obvious, that the protestors at Brennan’s produced the attack, reporter Bret Michael Dykes still manages to inject an obnoxious and insulting paragraph toward the end of the piece:
Of course, even if Bautsch and Brown’s recollection is correct and the attackers did come from the group protesting the event, they can’t know for sure what their motives were. Their account of the non-political nature of the verbal assault matches the one Brown gave police and the homophobic, misogynistic nature of the insults would be unusual coming the kind of person one might expect to protest a Republican fundraiser.
So anarchist thugs who attack people on the streets for their political beliefs are still morally superior because only Republicans are homophobes and misogynists? Seriously? This actually made it into a story Yahoo ran on their site?
(Hat tip: Pat Dollard)
http://thehayride.com/2010/04/media-and-evidence/
A Rant on Media, Evidence, and Cowardice
Posted on April 17th, 2010 by Ryan Booth
What is Della hiding? She sounds like she is afraid this will be blamed on the leftists.
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I imagine she’s afraid for her daughter.
Bless her heart, she’s probably apolitical and quaintly expects the NOPD to arrest someone and the courts to actually do something about it.
It is time to fight with everything we've got.
Agreed 100%.
Random thought. I wounder if the hospital nurses are SEIU or other leftist union affiliated?
Dunno. But the more we keep this entire thing high-profile and in the news, the safer Brown and Bautsch are.
Maybe not ‘fear’ - more like apathy. Some of us were apathetic and gave our beloved country over to leftists and community organizers. Now we are reaping what we’ve sown. Hopefully a foundation will remain when we take our Congress back this fall. Then we can start the hard work of rebuilding.
http://themunz.blogspot.com/2010/04/protest-mob-also-targeted-host-of-gop.html
Protest Mob Also Targeted Host of GOP New Orleans Fundraiser Before Allee Bautsch Mauling
These people are failing to protect their own kids and grandkids, you can't do any worse than that!
Agree with cowardice. More folks should attend a TP - nothing to fear there!
Are there no photos of the protestors????
If the victims can ID them from protest photos, the case against them is solid.
If not...
Lots of photos and they’ve been forwarded to the NOPD. See this post here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2494882/posts?page=143#143
Yep. I agree 100%. The side that will win is the side that will fight for their beliefs.
A small handful of Bolsheviks won Russia in 1917 with a putsch in the Duma/Parliament.
If the traitor socialists are more willing to fight than freedom-loving cowards who stay home and hide, they will win.
I’m still confused as to why the gov. hasn’t spoken out about this, I don’t mean anything political, but just a bring these criminals to justice kind of statement, like any good CEO would do.
A quote...
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Samuel Adams
When a parent has feelings for a miscreants that harmed her children, this is sick!
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more of these kinds of brutal attacks against republicans. I say do not be afraid, but prepare yourselves.
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