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WaPo: Who TMZ'd Rep. Bob Etheridge? (Rep. "acting strangely")
Washington Post ^
| June 14, 2010
| David Weigel
Posted on 06/14/2010 7:59:54 AM PDT by maggief
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To: TommyDale
I feel sorry for you. Now you can feel sorry for me as mine is Butterfield who is in lock step with Obama.
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posted on
06/14/2010 8:36:02 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: maggief
...just by riling up a member of Congress...Riled up by simply asking whether the Congressman supports the Obama agenda? Another insulting moment brought to you by the pro-Dem MSM.
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posted on
06/14/2010 8:37:22 AM PDT
by
torchthemummy
("About everything we do around here is government intrusion in people's lives." Ray LaHood)
To: maggief
Let me see if I understand this correctly.
The MSM goes ape-sh_t for days over a non-existent spitting incident related to a tea party activist — with no evidence whatsoever to corroborate this manufactured incident.
In contrast, the victim is villified when the assaultant is a Democratic member of Congress and the evidence is available on tape.
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posted on
06/14/2010 8:40:50 AM PDT
by
mwl8787
To: maggief
The Congressman made his mistake by putting his hands on the student.
From that moment he was in the wrong.
He could have ignored them.
Must mean he supports the Obama agenda.
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posted on
06/14/2010 8:44:21 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: mwl8787
Yes, that's about right. How DARE a serf ask the new royalty such a question. "Off with his head!"
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posted on
06/14/2010 8:47:47 AM PDT
by
PogySailor
(BHO - Dividing the country into tribes since 2008.)
To: Marty62
If the Congressman was going to or returning from a session in Congress than doesn’t he have immunity?
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posted on
06/14/2010 8:55:10 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
I think the immunity extends only to actions on the House or Senate floor. Otherwise, the jerk from Buffalo would not have resigned.
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posted on
06/14/2010 8:58:35 AM PDT
by
mwl8787
To: driftdiver
Said he was going to a FUNDRAISER.
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posted on
06/14/2010 9:05:51 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(marty60)
To: driftdiver
Said he was going to a FUNDRAISER.
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posted on
06/14/2010 9:06:15 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(marty60)
To: driftdiver
If the Congressman was going to or returning from a session in Congress than doesnt he have immunity?
He cannot be arrested while on the way to a session of congress. But a warrant for his arrest can be issued and the cops can pick him up as soon as congress ends its session. The founding fathers put the law in place to prevent the president having opponents arrested right before a key vote, and then dropping the charges before a trial, but after it was too late for them to vote on the bill. The English king had done that several times.
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posted on
06/14/2010 9:10:18 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: maggief
“Amazing the WaPo wants to identify an assault victim, and ignore the CRIME!”
that’s not amazing; its alarming...because the implication is occult federal retribution....can you say IRS ladies and gentlemen...?
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posted on
06/14/2010 9:34:45 AM PDT
by
mo
To: Dixie Yooper
This is what the guy did who roughed up the reporter during the Scott Brown election. Made movements that could have been deemed supportive if pulled out of context.
To: maggief
One - when will these public figures learn about video phones?
Two - it wasn’t a fuzzy picture, very clear indeed and very damning.
No matter how much of a good face the Po tries to put on this, it was horrible behavior from the congress critter. Horrible.
He’d better be in a dang safe district.
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posted on
06/14/2010 10:07:31 AM PDT
by
altura
To: indylindy
“Must mean he supports the Obama agenda.”
Why would any Dem be ashamed to admit support of the Obama Agenda? They MUST know it is another criminal Chicago piece of thuggery.
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posted on
06/14/2010 10:11:26 AM PDT
by
coldoc
To: mo
Wasn’t the WaPo guy, Weigel, the one who came out in defense of stalker McGinnis when he moved next door to the Palins in Wasila?
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posted on
06/14/2010 10:14:51 AM PDT
by
nuvista
(Obama-care - you think that arrogant Marxist "cares" about you?)
To: elpadre
Butterfield is my Congressman too. He is such a joke.
I attended his health care “town hall” meeting back in mid 2009. It was a complete farce.
To: maggief
Notice how,
with the full video linked by the Drudge Report going viral, the Washington Post chooses to ONLY post the video of the camera that was knocked down so that the Washington Post readers cannot see, with their own eyes, Congressman Etheridge committing physical acts that meet the legal definition of simple assault.
All the Washington Post readers are allowed to witness is a black screen with the audio still on.

"Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. If The Washington Post doesn't want you to see something, you ain't seeing it."
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posted on
06/14/2010 11:12:59 AM PDT
by
Polybius
To: fullchroma
I’m not a lawyer, but I think that a hug might be worse for him...I think that unwanted intimate contact triggers other statutes.
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posted on
06/14/2010 12:07:26 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: maggief; penelopesire; hoosiermama; STARWISE; Liz
I finally saw the video. The victim, Etheridge is NOT.
Plus, he apologized.
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posted on
06/14/2010 3:28:23 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Sarah/Michele 2012)
To: maggief; onyx; penelopesire; All
Yes they will! Breitbart’s got another
one .. the victim IS the student.
Etheridge acted deranged .. I’m sure
they’ll come up with stress, illness,
family problems, etc. to excuse him.
Thank God it’s Andrew. He won’t stand for
another ACORN soap opera or Landrieu farce
.. he’s fearless.
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posted on
06/14/2010 3:45:27 PM PDT
by
STARWISE
(The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, hunker down & go Galt)
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