Brown should be using this photo today in all his ads, posters and press appearances. Thank God there was a Weekly Standard photog there to capture this 'gang' violence.
Just keep your hands in your pockets, Martha.
Go, Scott!
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Even Politico CAN'T ignore it, and has VIDEO up on their website.
The Weekly Standard's John McCormack, on whom the husband of Dede Scozzafava (remember her?) called the cops, gets pushed around after trying (with no success) to ask Martha Coakley an unfriendly question:
As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.
He asked if I was with the media, and I told him I work for THE WEEKLY STANDARD. When I asked him who he worked for he replied, "I work for me." He demanded to see my credentials, and even though it was a public street, I showed them to him.
I eventually got around him and met up with the attorney general halfway down the block.
"Attorney General, could I ask you a question please?" I said. "We're done, thanks," Coakley replied. She walked back toward the restaurant, apparently searching for her car. She remained silent as I (politely) repeated my question.
Coakley staffers told me they didn't know who the man was who pushed me, though by every indication he was somehow connected to the campaign.
It being the YouTube era, any Boston pols want to tell me who the guy is?
UPDATE: McCormack says it's a consultant the DSCC DNC brought in to the race; a DNC spokesman didn't immediately respond to a question about the incident."
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LOL ... the Dems are kicking desks, hitting walls, going ballistic, muttering to themselves, castigating each other, and in a magnificent malignant frenzy today. Our angel in the whirlwind is pretty busy these days, thank God.