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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 doesnt 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
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
I called his DC office and gave them an earful.
To: thethirddegree
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
"Motives matter, and I think you can see who was behind this,"The motive behind asking a question of those who work FOR US?
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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)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
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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.")
To: thethirddegree
Calling all TEA PARTY-ers!!!! Assignment!!! To DE SEAT Etheridge and come along side Renee Ellmer’s!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/14/2010 12:11:48 PM PDT
by
pollywog
("Under His Wings".........Psalm 91:4)
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?
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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.)
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.
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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.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
I swore I saw George W. Bush in that video!
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posted on
06/14/2010 12:12:10 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
Damned chick was just ASKIN to be raped.
Democrats: Defending the Indefensible Since The 1800's.
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posted on
06/14/2010 12:12:22 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
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.
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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.)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
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.
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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)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
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.
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posted on
06/14/2010 12:13:04 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
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.
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posted on
06/14/2010 12:13:27 PM PDT
by
kevkrom
(De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
I’m sure they blurred their faces to prevent democrat/SEIU reprisals.
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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)
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
LOL! I love the smell of desperation.
To: reaganrevolutionin2010
How many times have Conservative politicians been accosted by nasty liberal media types. They really hate taking their own medicine.
To: RJS1950
“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.
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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.)
To: Kartographer
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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!)
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.
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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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