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Dems defend Etheridge, attack Breitbart
Politico ^ | 6/14/10 | Ben Smith

Posted on 06/14/2010 12:08:10 PM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010

Bob Etheridge's abject apology for roughing up an anonymous conservative videographer is being accompanied by a defense of the congressman from national Democrats.

"Motives matter, and I think you can see who was behind this," said DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse just now. "This was a Republican party tracking operation. If it wasn't a party tracker or intern, why is the face blurred and why is the source hidden? You know if it had been a right wing blog, they'd identify themselves and they'd be booking this person on TV all day. Republicans know if they admit their involvement in this game of gotcha it will undermine their credibility. One minute this guy is interviewing a member of Congress on camera and the next a video is released with his face blurred out? If that doesn’t tell you this is a Republican Party hatchet job nothing will."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: bloggersandpersonal; etheridge
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The "Email Bob" link on his official website has been disabled, LOL

1 posted on 06/14/2010 12:08:10 PM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

I called his DC office and gave them an earful.


2 posted on 06/14/2010 12:09:15 PM PDT by thethirddegree
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3 posted on 06/14/2010 12:10:45 PM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
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"Motives matter, and I think you can see who was behind this,"

The motive behind asking a question of those who work FOR US?

4 posted on 06/14/2010 12:11:24 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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5 posted on 06/14/2010 12:11:30 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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Calling all TEA PARTY-ers!!!! Assignment!!! To DE SEAT Etheridge and come along side Renee Ellmer’s!!!!!!!!!!!!


6 posted on 06/14/2010 12:11:48 PM PDT by pollywog ("Under His Wings".........Psalm 91:4)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

So let me see, calling a guy “macaca” is reason enough to put a guy out of his job, but grabbing a student and physically assaulting him is a Republican hatchet scheme?


7 posted on 06/14/2010 12:11:53 PM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

HAHAHA!! Good luck trying to defend this guy’s actions. Assault is assault and no amount of spinning is going to get this clown out of it.


8 posted on 06/14/2010 12:12:02 PM PDT by jessduntno (America is now just like Easy Company in Bastogne...and Obama is Lt. Dike. God help us.)
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I swore I saw George W. Bush in that video!


9 posted on 06/14/2010 12:12:10 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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Damned chick was just ASKIN to be raped.

Democrats: Defending the Indefensible Since The 1800's.

10 posted on 06/14/2010 12:12:22 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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After watching what the dems/libs are trying to do to the "interns" who exposed ACORN, they are right to blur their faces. Democrats are like the old German Gestappo...they will do whatever it takes to squelch any dissent.

I congratulate and applaud the "students"...they were on a project, it was the Dem congressman who lost it...boy, did he lose it.

Donate to his opponent, Ms. Ellmers ASAP.
11 posted on 06/14/2010 12:12:34 PM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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They defended the drunk killer whale from MA for years; this is just another case of being drunk while democrat; that is the norm for the democrat party.


12 posted on 06/14/2010 12:12:37 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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Not sure what the moron’s point is.

Must be that assault is okay when a Republican asks a Democrat if he agrees with his President’s agenda.


13 posted on 06/14/2010 12:13:04 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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The DNC comments were so outlandish, I had to triple-check that this wasn't satire.

Scappleface and The Onion ought to hang it up... reality is more bizarre than fiction now.

14 posted on 06/14/2010 12:13:27 PM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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I’m sure they blurred their faces to prevent democrat/SEIU reprisals.


15 posted on 06/14/2010 12:13:35 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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LOL! I love the smell of desperation.


16 posted on 06/14/2010 12:14:39 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

How many times have Conservative politicians been accosted by nasty liberal media types. They really hate taking their own medicine.


17 posted on 06/14/2010 12:14:46 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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“They defended the drunk killer whale from MA for years; this is just another case of being drunk while democrat; that is the norm for the democrat party.”

Ded Kennedy (D-HELL) established this behavior. Bubba cemented it. Elcee Hastings codified it.

Democrats are psychotic.


18 posted on 06/14/2010 12:14:47 PM PDT by jessduntno (America is now just like Easy Company in Bastogne...and Obama is Lt. Dike. God help us.)
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To: Kartographer

that says it all...


19 posted on 06/14/2010 12:15:27 PM PDT by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

Even if this were a GOP-run “gotcha” operation (which I doubt), I don’t see how that absolves Etheridge here. Regardless of the videographer’s motives, Etheridge could have answered his question respectfully, or just given a “no comment” instead of going crazy.


20 posted on 06/14/2010 12:15:36 PM PDT by random_user_827 (Boot to command line and run chkdsk)
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