Posted on 11/20/2017 8:22:34 PM PST by Kaslin
Well, this was a rather awkward moment. NBC reporter Kasie Hunt described the assault on Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as “one of her favorite stories.” Of course, this isn’t the best phrase to describe this incident, with Hunt trying to correct herself on air but opting to continue with her report. She concluded that Paul’s assault by neighbor, Rene Boucher, was caused by a landscaping dispute, declaring that as the reason for the attack. This was not a simple push and shove. Paul was severely injured, with six broken ribs (via Politico):
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday he had sustained six broken ribs and a build-up of fluids between his chest and lungs as a result of an altercation with a neighbor last Friday, revealing additional maladies about the previously reported incident."I appreciate all of the support from everyone. A medical update: final report indicates six broken ribs & new X-ray shows a pleural effusion," Paul tweeted. The pleural effusion, which was previously undisclosed, results in a buildup of fluids around the lungs.
A top adviser for the senator had previously announced Paul had only sustained five broken ribs, including "three displaced fractures."
Doug Stafford, Paul's chief political strategist, had previously cautioned that the senator's condition could prove more severe than the initial prognosis.
“Displaced rib fractures can lead to life-threatening injuries such as: hemopneumothorax, pneumothorax, pneumonia, internal bleeding, laceration of internal organs and lung contusions. Senator Paul does have lung contusions currently,” Stafford said Sunday. “This type of injury is also accompanied by severe pain that can last weeks to months.”
Boucher is expected to face federal charges over the assault. Yet, there have been multiple reports disputing the landscaping claim. Still, and yes, we’re still playing this game, if a Democrat got the crap kicked out of him (or her) over grass clippings, “favorite story” probably wouldn’t be the descriptor—though we would have a lot of interesting takes about how all of this was somehow Trump’s fault. Oh wait:
Look no further than 'Rand Paul was asking for it' to see why these outlets are absolutely despised pic.twitter.com/SmR6ZIY6cK— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 20, 2017
> Kasie, (who dreamed up that name?) a blindside cheap shot is not a fight.
It’s the only way liberals know how to win a fight. BTW, the libs at reddit celebrated this attack on Paul. They’re pure evil.
btt
Like when Harry Reed got beat up.
John 8:44!
NBC reporter Kasie Hunt, Partisan Media Shill -- thanks Kaslin.
I guess it would’ve been her all-time fav had Rand been killed by that psycho. What a bitch.
Wow
Her physical address pops right up on google and sale price
Scary
I was curious if he was still employed.
Checked and yup, by the Russians.
https://www.rt.com/shows/news-with-ed-schultz/
Even the female liberals are thugs... well spoken, well groomed ... thugs.
I have to admit I am guilty of this kind of thing, but probably it is more interest in irony than actually liking that someone got assaulted. I think this reporter just likes it that Rand Paul was assaulted.
I admit to finding irony and grim humor in the case of Judge Susan Dlott a ultra-liberal judge who was involved in one of the biggest cases on racial profiling in Ohio (she got appointed after her husband raised huge sums of money for the Democratic party) who had three black men break into her house and assault her and her husband in their $8 million dollar mansion, and the first thing out of her mouth was the assailants were black, a fact she repeated several times to the 9-11 dispatcher.
She was known for being extremely lenient to defendants accused of just this kind of crime, then became a victim. I suppose it would have been even more ironic if the assault had been carried out by someone she let off.
A liberal being mugged, but too stupid to become a conservative. I admit to finding entertaining irony there. So, I guess I am guilty of it as well.
And we all have read “Kenneth, what’s the frequency?” on Free Republic enough to laugh at Dan Rather a risible figure who was pretty much deserving of derisive laughter.
Another mugged liberal.
Last I heard he had landed a job at the state-run Russian propaganda network RT (Russia Today). Not kidding. Makes sense, though.
RT isn’t run by the state its funded by the state and Ed Shultz does a fairly good job presenting the news on it.
No question that Shultz is a red blooded American either, albeit a liberal minded one.
Which is more than we can say about the likes of you.
Screw you, you Putin butt-kisser. You have the nerve to talk about “red blooded Americans”. If this were my site I would have kicked your phony behind off of here years ago. Same goes for the other Russia trolls.
RT has also been accused of spreading disinformation[19][20][21] by news reporters,[22][23] including some former RT reporters.[24][25][26]
The United Kingdom media regulator, Ofcom, has repeatedly found RT to have breached rules on impartiality and of broadcasting “materially misleading” content.[27][28][29][30]
On 13 November 2017, RT America officially registered as a “foreign agent” with the United States Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Under the act, RT will be required to disclose financial information.
The creation of RT was a part of a larger public relations effort by the Russian Government in 2005 that was intended to improve the image of Russia abroad.[31]
RT was conceived by former media minister Mikhail Lesin,[32] and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s press spokesperson Aleksei Gromov.[33]
At the time of RT’s founding, RIA Novosti director Svetlana Mironyuk stated: “Unfortunately, at the level of mass consciousness in the West, Russia is associated with three words: communism, snow and poverty,” and added “we would like to present a more complete picture of life in our country.”[32]
It is registered as an autonomous nonprofit organization[2][34] funded by the federal budget of Russia through the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.[35][36] ...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, with Mikhail Lesin during a meeting in Moscow
Nov 2015...
"Nicknamed the 'Bulldozer', Lesin was one of the key props of the Putin presidency, personally masterminding a wide-ranging media crackdown which has left the vast majority of Russian TV stations and newspapers obedient to the Kremlin."
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The following article is from December *2014*
"Mikhail Lesin has stepped down as head of major state-controlled media holding Gazprom-Media, the company said late last week.
Gazprom-Media, whose holdings include independent radio station Ekho Moskvy, said Lesin's resignation was due to family reasons, Russian media reports said Friday.
The holding's board of directors will finalize his resignation at an upcoming meeting, Gazprom-Media was cited by Ekho Moskvy as saying. No replacement has been named.
Earlier, a flurry of reports of Lesin's imminent resignation appeared on Russian news wires, all based on undisclosed sources and giving divergent accounts of the motive.
Forbes Russia cited sources in the media and government as confirming the resignation, with one of the individuals claiming that the decision was made personally by President Vladimir Putin."
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/513690.html
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UPDATE: MAR 2016...
A former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin found dead in a Washington hotel room was killed by a blunt force trauma to the head, U.S. authorities said Thursday.
Mikhail Lesin, 57, was found dead on the floor of his room in Dupont Circle on November 5.[2015]
Autopsy results show that he died from “blunt-force injuries of the head,” according to a joint statement Thursday from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported by NBC Washington , but the exact manner of death was undetermined.
Also contributing to his death were “blunt-force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities,” the statement said.
Russian media originally reported that Lesin, a former government minister, had suffered a heart attack. ...”
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"On Friday, November 6 [2015], RIA Novosti reported that Lesin died of a heart attack citing a spokesman for the family as saying: "Today, Mikhail Lesin died ... His death came supposedly from a heart attack."[35][38]
RT [Russia Today] reported the next day that the cause of death was a heart attack.[31][39][40][41]
https://web.archive.org/web/20161026095000/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lesin
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"When he [Mikhail Lesin] quit Gazprom Media in December [2014], a move seen as a shock, he cited ‘family reasons’ although there were unconfirmed claims he had fallen out with other influential figures close to Putin. ..."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315994/Vladimir-Putin-s-media-mastermind-dead-DC-hotel-murdered-FBI-informant-alive-claim-Russians.html
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" [RT (Russia Today) founder, Mikhail] Lesin was a central figure in the early Putin years, spearheading the Kremlin's effort to silence the country's independent television, the first step in the consolidation of authoritarian rule.
The first target was NTV, at that time Russia's largest and most popular independent TV channel, whose hard-hitting news broadcasts, talk shows, and satirical programs criticized the government over growing corruption and the war in Chechnya and gave airtime to the opposition.
In June 2000, a month after Putin's inauguration, NTV's founder and majority shareholder, Vladimir Gusinsky, was arrested and placed in Moscow's infamous Butyrka prison.
While he was there, the information minister made an offer: Gusinsky could have his freedom if he agreed to transfer his media holdings to Gazprom, the state-owned energy monopoly. ..."
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/vladimir-kara-murza/ominous-return-putins-media-enforcer
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