by Jack Lee
It was supposed to be just another mild mannered republican political rally they were going to disrupt. So the MoveOn.org characters were dispatched to the event to act up and disrupt the keynote speaker Rand Paul, but there was just one minor problem:
This wasn’t exactly a republican event, nor was it even a Tea Party event, this was really a Libertarian event for Paul who is running under the (R) in order to get the votes needed to win a crucial election.
Unfortunately the liberals from MoveOn. Org didn’t understand who they were dealing with, but they soon found out. The hapless protestors walked right into buzz saw.
I watched as a female protestor was dragged to ground where somebody put a boot on her head.
She now claims to have suffered a concusion and the mainstream media is giving her a lot of press. Odd the same media that was eager to talk to this protestor, but in September 2009 the networks failed to give any coverage to a man having his finger bitten off by a MoveOn.org supporter at a California ObamaCare rally.
At the September 2 event, 65-year-old William Rice, an ObamaCare opponent, got into an altercation with an unidentified MoveOn protestor, who proceeded to bite off the tip of Rice’s left pinky finger. Not only did CBS not interview Rice about the violent attack, but it offered no mention of the incident at all.
“I watched as a female protestor was dragged to ground where somebody put a boot on her head.”
And the laudatory aspect of this behavior is?
Somebody disagrees with you and you pummel them to the ground?
Oh, we are losing it.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail?entry_id=75494
Yep the mainstream media is all over this one and yet they did NOTHING when the table was turned and it was a Moveon.org protestor biting a 65 year old man’s a finger off! It’s disgusting reporting, absolutley shameful. Hypocrisy at it’s worst.
Hm. I had been told that the entire bedrock of libertarianism rests on the foundation of non-violence.
Interesting.
People are people Chris, and capable of just about anything. political and ideological leanings don’t guarantee behaviors of any kind.
What bothers me more than inflamatory incidents like this are well planned and deliberate provocations or attacks.
“People are people Chris, and capable of just about anything. political and ideological leanings don’t guarantee behaviors of any kind.”
In this case I think that applies. For the record, I don’t see any link between this incident and libertarianism as a whole.
I still think Rand Paul is nuts, though.
“Yep the mainstream media is all over this one and yet they did NOTHING when the table was turned and it was a Moveon.org protestor biting a 65 year old man’s a finger off!”
To be fair, the biting victim did assault the Move On protester first.
“Then I threw a second punch, and my fist ended up in his mouth,” Rice said. “He bit my pinky finger off.”
http://www.newshounds.us/2010/03/31/neil_cavuto_trots_out_another_right_wing_victim_to_drum_up_more_anger_against_democrats.php
I’m not sure if the identity or the intentions of the biter were ever revealed, but when your fist ends up in someone’s mouth you have to consider the possibility that a finger might get bitten off, even unintentionally.
Also, isn’t the offender in the most recent case an actual member of Rand Paul’s campaign? That makes a difference as well as to how much attention such a story would get. There’s also the fact that the Rand Paul event got caught on video, which is always good for ratings.
Furthermore, the link I gave shows that ABC, NBC, CNN and CBS at least reported the biting incidents on their websites.