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Video: Rep. Etheridge assaults student on street
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/14/video-rep-etheridge-assaults-student-on-street/ ^

Posted on 06/14/2010 7:48:53 AM PDT by chessplayer

Meet Congressman Bob Etheridge, Democrat from North Carolina’s Second CD. Rep. Etheridge doesn’t much like people asking him whether he supports Barack Obama’s agenda, as a student camera crew on the street discovered when asking this elected official about his political positions. Etheridge interrupts his journey to a fundraiser thrown by Nancy Pelosi to assault the young reporter, first by grabbing the hand that holds the microphone and then by horse-collaring him, all the while demanding, “Who are you? I have a right to know who you are.”


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"Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v60oNUoHBYM

1 posted on 06/14/2010 7:48:53 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
Mark Antony heartily approves.
2 posted on 06/14/2010 7:49:58 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: chessplayer

I viewed it, and it looked like criminal conduct.


3 posted on 06/14/2010 7:50:06 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: chessplayer; Liz

Is this the correct headline? Who wants to bet the MSM doesn’t give a damn about this story? (Hint: it’s a dem doing the assult)

Chessplayer - put the “D” in the head...


4 posted on 06/14/2010 7:50:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: chessplayer; Liz

Is this the correct headline? Who wants to bet the MSM doesn’t give a damn about this story? (Hint: it’s a dem doing the assault)

Chessplayer - put the “D” in the head...


5 posted on 06/14/2010 7:51:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: chessplayer

Well yeah, but he’s a CONGRESSMAN!! You know...one of the IMPORTANT people. Some little schmuck kid should have been kneeling in his presence!


6 posted on 06/14/2010 7:54:43 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: chessplayer

someone should feature him in a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_FZVD5lsAw


7 posted on 06/14/2010 7:54:55 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: swain_forkbeard

I’m beginning to think they are all smoking crack. Either that or it has slowly dawned on some of them that they grinned like idiots while singing the praises of that colossal F*-up otherwise known as the precious one. Fasten your seat belts!


8 posted on 06/14/2010 7:55:28 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: chessplayer

Whoooo are you..whoooo whoooo...whooo whooo...I really want to knowoowhooo


9 posted on 06/14/2010 7:55:34 AM PDT by PoloSec (Note to Princess B H Obama: May PISS be Upon Mohammads Head...You Pervert)
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To: chessplayer

Looked like he was staggering back from a noon drunk. He passed the evil, white, high school, blazer/tie wearing threatening gang, and wheeled around back and went at’em.

He probably didn’t eat when he was drinking. The heat and humidity was building up on the DC street, the sun was bright and hurting his eyes, he was getting a throbbing headache from the alcohol and dehydration and then some punk, puke citizens starts asking an exalted royal some questions, rudely, with out first taking the usual MSM, knee to the ground, lightly hold the pant cuffs, demeanor of a real reporter.


10 posted on 06/14/2010 7:56:23 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“Who do these people think they are? Big Government provides a helpful “recap what we saw on this video. A sitting Congressman-a presumed living extension of James Madison and other founding fathers-was asked on a public street whether he supported the President’s agenda. His response was to hit away a video camera and assault a student. The age of Pericles this ain’t.” No, it’s the age of Gangster Government.”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026529.php


11 posted on 06/14/2010 7:57:22 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Etheridge? looks like he hits like a lesbian.


12 posted on 06/14/2010 7:58:55 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: chessplayer

The unspoken in the congressthug’s question is “to speak to me”. That is “Who are you to speak to me”? Servants are not to speak to their masters.


13 posted on 06/14/2010 7:59:10 AM PDT by all the best
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To: nolongerademocrat

Maybe the congressman figured out that his political carrer is toast by following the marxist kindergartener. Might explain his attitude. I hope he really loses it on camera again and again.


14 posted on 06/14/2010 7:59:35 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: chessplayer

I would sue. Plain and simple.
The video shows him saying hello and asking a question.
He could have kept walking if he didn’ want to respond.
He had no right to grab for the camera.
He had no right to grab the young man’s wrist.
He had no right to grab him up around the neck.
He had NO RIGHT to put his hands on that young man period.

The young man continually called him “sir.” (a stretch)
The young mand asked him to please let go of his wrist.
The young man said: “Whoa or the cameraman said that when the perp grabbed him in the neck area.”

It’s all on film. I would sue him for assault and follow through.

This supposedly representative of the people acted like a street thug. This young man has a case!!!


15 posted on 06/14/2010 8:01:23 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Leisler
"He probably didn’t eat when he was drinking. The heat and humidity was building up on the DC street, the sun was bright and hurting his eyes, he was getting a throbbing headache from the alcohol and dehydration and then some punk, puke citizens starts asking an exalted royal some questions, rudely, with out first taking the usual MSM, knee to the ground, lightly hold the pant cuffs, demeanor of a real reporter. "

Don't make excuses for the bastard, he's a democrat, and that's enough...assholes all.
16 posted on 06/14/2010 8:01:33 AM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: chessplayer
Let's let Ole Bobby know we're watching.....

Washington Office
1533 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4531
Fax: (202) 225-5662

Raleigh District Office
333 Fayetteville Street, Suite 505
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 829-9122 or North Carolina Toll Free Number:
1-888-262-6202 (BOB-NC02)
Fax: (919) 829-9883

Lillington District Office
609 North First Street
P.O. Box 1059
Lillington, NC 27546
Phone: (910) 814-0335 North Carolina Toll Free Number: 1-866-384-3743 (ETHERIDGE)
Fax: (910) 814-2264

M

17 posted on 06/14/2010 8:02:17 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: chessplayer

democrats are nothing more than repugnant pigs...do we really want to share our nation with them?


18 posted on 06/14/2010 8:02:39 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: chessplayer

Hah! Video gold. The arrogant (expletive deleted) has a liquid lunch, then steps out into the June DC heat and humidity. Some kid then cuts him to the quick by merely uttering the name of Dear Leader.

This clip needs to go viral.


19 posted on 06/14/2010 8:02:57 AM PDT by Stalwart
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To: chessplayer

The Congressman was just “getting in his face” as his messiah, Obama told him.


20 posted on 06/14/2010 8:03:11 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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