Assailant Was a Coakley Staffer on Loan from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee?

Weekly Standard ^ | January 13, 2010 | John McCormack

[maggief]

Or just a really good lookalike?

A tipster tells me that the man who was pushing me outside of a Capitol Hill fundraiser Tuesday night for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley is Michael Meehan.

Meehan heads up a firm called Blue Line Strategic Communications along with his partner David DiMartino, who was outside the fundraiser with Coakley tonight and introduced himself to me there. The AP reported on Monday that Meehan is also working for Coakley: "The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging."

[sscoots969]

... under

[LikeLight]

...to assist the Coakley camp with messaging

Irony so sweet the Mass voters are choking on it

[nhwingut]

He was a Dem talking head during the Kerry campaign. he was on Hannity & Colmes quite a bit. Real POS.

[InvisibleChurch]

Chuck Brain? What a great name!

[mnehring]

So, the Attorney General (Coakley) stood right there and watched the commission of a crime and didn’t do anything about it?

[depressed in 06]

"The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging."

"Media consultant", it that the new term for "wiseguy?"

[rod1]

Doesn’t MA have a “Meehan” who is a US House Member?
Is the present RAT Staffer thug a relative?

Which reminds me, what is Barney Frank’s mouthpiece sister up to these days? She is another MA RAT.

[maggief]

Ya’ think a “media consultant” would know of the Weekly Standard.

Video:

Coakley staffer knocks Weekly Standard reporter to ground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIYOntogJs

[mo]

“....Pharma and HMO lobbyists to the rescue”

the Fascism is becoming open in the Dems Desperation....

[maggief]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWU4NDVjNjhmNjhhYjYyYzRlZGUzNmExMmVmZWU3OGI=

Turning Point in Massachusetts [Michael Graham]

For the first time since the race began, I’m prepared to say a Scott Brown victory is a real possibility.

Just two weeks ago, I said “absolutely not.”

One week ago, I was thinking “Well, it’s a long shot but maybe...”

But everything changed yesterday.

The video of the Coakley staffer—most likely DNC hack and former Kerry campaigher Michael Meehan— shoving the Weekly Standard’s John McCormack to the ground, and then repeatedly shoving him again and again in view of AG Coakley, is a watershed moment. It could turn out to be a campaign killer.

First, it highlights the fact that Coakley had left Massachusetts to attend a lobbyist fundraiser in D.C.. Taking big bucks from Big Pharma in the middle of this fight? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Then there’s the guy who got shoved. McCormack is the reporter who asked the question about Afghanistan that literally stopped Coakley in her tracks. After a few blinks of incomprehension, she answered by asking “Does anyone ELSE have a question?” This issue is a disaster for Coakley because it reveals her utter lack of experience or (apparently) basic knowledge on foreign policy, just two weeks after a terrorist successfully got on a U.S. airplane.

(snip)

[Riflema]

Meehan, scumbag, but well connected scumbag apparently: "In November, President Obama nominated Meehan to be a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors pending Senate confirmation." http://www.bluelinesc.com/profile/michael-meehan

[Stentor]

Considering that he is still vertical, this cretin must be very careful about who he pushes around.

[savedbygrace]

This is the photo that cooks Coakley's goose:

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Also, the video of the incident shows Coakley continuing to look back at the two men as Meehan keeps pushing McCormack. She was approving of the thuggish tactics.

[madameguinot]

Their excuse will be that McC was the aggressor.

[madameguinot]

The ‘media consultant’ was there to help her with ‘messaging’. Oh my God, this is classic Sopranos!

[BallparkBoys]

can you post a link to that video. That other video didnt show anything...Thanks..

[Diogenesis]

Blue Line Strategic Communication Assault for Coakley, DNC, Holder, DOJ, ACORN.

“I am cracking heads for Jim Lehrer, Martha Coakley and Barack Obama.”

[madameguinot]

Cut and paste this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw

Coakley Thug Roughs Up Reporter

Watch it until the end. Coakley’s thug not only pushes McCormack down but then physically blocks him from catching up with candidate. McC prevails in the end.

[savedbygrace]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/tws/daily/daily.asp#blog-318166

[WVKayaker]

Wearing purple.... Hmmmmmm. I've seen that color before...