Posted on 04/23/2013 5:52:33 AM PDT by i88schwartz
Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, explains to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell how he and other "journalists" prevented Capitol Hill police from removing an anti-gun advocate from the Senate gallery after she yelled and heckled Senators who voted down an amendment to expand background checks.
"I interviewed her along with a number of other journalists right afterwards," Grim said They were trying to escort her out of the building, but journalists kind of formed a human shield around her because they all had their microphone in front of her. The Capitol Police realized perhaps arresting a hero of Tucson, right after the Senate knocked down this sensible gun bill, wasn't the best move, so they let her continue to talk.
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The press in this country is an absolute disgrace.
why weren’t they arrested?
A “hero of Tucson”?
A bat-sh!t crazy son of Progressive Democrats murdered a conservative judge. What do they mean by “hero”?
THe corrupt MSM is nothing but a front group for the DNC.
Does freedom of the press trump obstruction of justice? I don’t know.
The bravery of our press continues to amaze me </sarcasm>
Where were the tazers? They needed first hand training.
Yes, the press is a complete disgrace. And the Huffington Post is not press. It’s a joke of Ariana and not worth the bytes it takes up on the internet.
So now a qualification to be a reporter is to be a human sheid for an activist!
The choice of term seems imminently appropriate.
Seems almost every time a “Human Shield” is used, it is a rogue regime using it as a tool in the commission of unconscionable criminal acts.
The MSM motto:
“We make the news so you don’t have to.”
Proud of being a good little propagandist?
I wonder if soviet-era press were as gleefully willing as the current american media.
At least until they were FORCED to say what they were told to say.
What I wouldn’t have paid to see some burly Capitol Hill Police Officer, pick up a couple of these reporters, then face plant them HARD into the marble floor of the Senate Rotunda and slap on the cuffs. Of course the police have probably been warned that the press are “untouchable” and that is why they knew they could be effective human shields.
And the country edges ever closer to revolution.
Anyone forming a “human shield” around someone breaking the law just became an accessory to the crime.
They practicing for being human shields for Iranian bunkers.
The more the merrier!
I might consider listening to them when they actually know the basic components of a firearm.
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