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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
The Wisconsin protesters are getting restless and angrier as the chants of “Fox News lies” grew louder and louder around reporter Mike Tobin. As some of the protesters eagerly tried to block the camera shot, the picture then switched away from Tobin out on the street to inside the Capitol building. Tobin’s voiceover continued as he exclaimed “a guy just hit me.”

Tobin said he has received much heckling, and that a teacher even told him she hates him because it made her feel good. The “utter lack of civility and harassment of reporters,” as anchor Gregg Jarrett described it, is truly breathtaking and seems like a weird strategy to try and win support for one’s cause.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com.

Watch the clip from Fox News below (via mediaite.com):

WI Protester Hits FNC's Mike Tobin

These despicable cretins! What's interesting is that Mike Tobin has reported for Fox News for years in the Middle East, and I think may have been one of the FNC reporters embedded with our troops in Iraq at the start of the war. He recently returns to The States, and ends up getting hit by a fellow American in the "war zone" of Wisconsin. Unbelievable...

41 posted on 02/28/2011 1:46:28 PM PST by nutmeg (God bless Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin)
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To: nutmeg

That’s battery on a Fox reporter. I believe that’s a felony.


43 posted on 02/28/2011 3:05:27 PM PST by floriduh voter (The culture of participating being replaced by the culture of taking. Animal Farm?)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


46 posted on 02/28/2011 8:30:14 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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