‘I Don’t Know if He Was There to Kill Me’: (Melissa Harris-Puker Alert)

Blaze ^ | Feb. 2, 2016 11:55pm | Oliver Darcy

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‘I Don’t Know if He Was There to Kill Me’: MSNBC Host Pens Harrowing Column About Iowa Incident Feb. 2, 2016 11:55pm Oliver Darcy

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry published a harrowing column Tuesday detailing an eerie incident that unfolded at a hotel lobby in Iowa the previous night.

“I don’t know if he was there to kill me,” the column began.

Harris-Perry said she was “sitting in a hotel lobby in downtown Des Moines” and “didn’t notice until he was standing right next to me, much closer than is ordinary or comfortable.”

“When he started he speaking it was like he was picking up in the middle of sentence, finishing a conversation we had begun earlier, but I couldn’t remember ever meeting him,” she wrote.

Image source: Facebook Image source: Facebook The MSNBC host recounted a short conversation the two had before he asked how she got “credentialed” on the network.

“I am not sure if it is how he spat the word credentialed, or if it is how he took another half step toward me, or if it is how he didn’t respond to my question, but the hairs on my arm stood on end. I ignored it,” she wrote. “Told myself everything was ok.”

Moments later, Harris-Perry said the man asked, “But why you? Why would they pick you?”

Now I know something is wrong. Now his voice is angry. Now a few other people have stopped talking and started staring. Now he is so close I can feel his breath. Before I can answer his unanswerable question of why they picked me, he begins to tell me why he has picked me.

“I just want you to know why I am doing this.”

Oh – there is a this. He is going to do a this. To me. And he is going to tell me why.

Harris-Perry said she froze momentarily before jumping up. The MSNBC host, who also serves as a professor, said one of her friends “jumps too” and “throws herself between he and I.”

“Together we raise our voices and make a fuss. He turns. He runs out. He jumps in a car. He drives off,” she recounted. “We try to explain to hotel security what has happened and how I receive hate mail and even death threats, how I have had people show up at my workplace, how this might be serious. They listen politely, but this is the Iowa caucus, and I am not a candidate, so they go back to their evening. And we go back to ours.”

Harris-perry said she didn’t know “what kind of harm he was prepared to do.” She guessed that it could have varied from a “barrage of hateful words” to “something worse.”

“I don’t know if he was there to kill me,” she wrote. “I know they were there to save me.”

[BenLurkin]

“The MSNBC host, who also serves as a professor”

Serves who?

[miss marmelstein]

Maybe he was upset he lost a job to her - his sonorous, gorgeous voice losing out to the worst lisp in the history of broadcasting.

[Army Air Corps]

I would wager that she could not diagram a sentence if her life depended on doing so.

[spiderpig]

Ironic her observations were made in the same fine city that periodically hosts a “Beat Whitey Night” inflicted by a predator class upon patrons leaving the Iowa State Fairgrounds. It is a local “knockout game” escape with a name all its own.

Local Law Enforcement wants to hold the position that this never happens, but look it up in your own magical computer box.

Somebody stood too close and breathed on her a little, wow.

[rockrr]

Yep. Filed under “another yarn told by a leftist”.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good thing he was a “obviously dangerous republican” and not an “innocent, kind and gentle Muslim” who really did intend on raping her.

Then again, is raping Harris a punishment to Harris, or to the next Muslim he tries interviewing In an ISIS steel cage.

[Celtic Conservative]

Please don’t feed the moonbats. it only encourages them.

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[wbill]

I would argue that the squeegee is useful, while she merely wastes oxygen.

[envisio]

If this is real and had happened in a dark alley, it sure would have been a good place to have a weapon, huh you insane drama queen.
But guns are bad, so maybe she could have asked permission to call the police.
But all police are racist killers, so maybe.... oh what to do, what to do.

[TBP]

I know. The Squeegee Protection Organization has already called.

[sparklite2]

Do they still do that? I thought diagramming
had died a natural death. It sucked, but it was
mildly useful.

[fungoking]

Wouldn't the crazy guy pick out someone famous or important to kill?

[VRWCmember]

The MSNBC host, who also serves as a professor, said one of her friends "jumps too" and "throws herself between he and I."

obviously not a professor of English.

[VRWCmember]

Do they still do that? I thought diagramming had died a natural death. It sucked, but it was mildly useful.

Diagramming sentences is only taught as part of a foundation in proper grammar; therefore you will not likely find it being taught in any public school in the US today. My older son had to learn it back in eighth grade, but that was at least 15 years ago.

[Lorianne]

I’d ask for corroboration ... lots of it.

[sparklite2]

“It was a purely American phenomenon,” Burns Florey says. “It was invented in Brooklyn, it swept across this country like crazy and became really popular for 50 or 60 years and then began to die away.”

By the 1960s, new research dumped criticism on the practice.

“Diagramming sentences ... teaches nothing beyond the ability to diagram,” declared the 1960 Encyclopedia of Educational Research.

In 1985, the National Council of Teachers of English declared that “repetitive grammar drills and exercises” -like diagramming sentences - are “a deterrent to the improvement of students’ speaking and writing.”

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/22/341898975/a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences

[GOPJ]

There are crazy people out there - some dangerous ... I doubt she would make this up. Let's be thankful she's OK... and for a moment put aside our total disgust with her unending bias and hatred of conservatives.

[Dr. Ursus]

I sense an Academy award for her next year!

[Farmer Dean]

If the guy really was there to kill her,she’d be dead.No questions,no conversation,just a quick double tap to the head.

[knittnmom]

He, who?