Candidate for Montana House seat attacks reporter

[pete311]

Exactly, he apologized. He was 100% wrong using any force, and will have to face the courts for that. But I simply find it funny, seeing many liberals thinking that guaranteed a win for them, and it didn't. And seeing the outrage from many today.

I made a funny about the Guardian, and then another funny that the (R) won anyway. I never stated his behavior was funny. I never championed him. So stop putting words... you know what I mean.

Montana will never vote in a Dem

[jimnyc]

Montana will never vote in a Dem

Have no clue. I never even heard of this guy until the supposed assault. But ya never know sometimes. I heard that about a lot of Dem strongholds over the years, only to see a R win. Didn't a republican win in Massachusetts sometime in the past 5 years? But I do get your point.

Maybe that's why he clocked him, he knew he could get away with it!

[Kathianne]

Montana will never vote in a Dem

Huh? http://www.montanademocrats.org/our-...cted-officials

The Democrat governor and other officials might beg to differ.

[jimnyc]

Huh? http://www.montanademocrats.org/our-...cted-officials

The Democrat governor and other officials might beg to differ.

Oh man, I just assumed they were like NY, I took Pete's word for it. Why would I do that?

Take that, Pete! This is you ----->

[Bilgerat]

A Dem does this and you guys would lose your minds. I don't know why you find such behavior funny. He apologized and you still champion him. Quite strange. Civility is dead. Bullies reign.

Democrats DO this Pete, you have a short (or convenient) memory

And the "way back" machine turns on

Way back in June 2010, North Carolina Congressman Bob Etheridge, a seven-term elected Democrat, was asked by a student reporter if he supported the “Obama agenda.” Etheridge promptly attempted to grab the reporter’s cell phone camera, then grab the reporter’s wrist, demanding, “Who are you! Tell me who you are… I have a right to know who you are!” One of the student’s friends, who caught the incident on camera, said, “We’re just here for a project.” When the student in Etheridge’s grip asked to be released, Etheridge instead grabbed him by the neck.

Pics or it didn't happen:

Democrats rallied to Etheridge’s defense. Here’s Politico reporting at the time:

"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." A national Democratic Party official e-mailed around a set of talking points about an hour ago, under the subject heading, "Etheridge Gotcha Video Background."

Etheridge apologized, and the media let it go.

[Gunny]

Words do not justify physical force. End of story.

NOTHING justifies you being in MY space and I WILL put you out of it, one way or the other and it is completely justified to most actual men.

[Gunny]

A Dem does this and you guys would lose your minds. I don't know why you find such behavior funny. He apologized and you still champion him. Quite strange. Civility is dead. Bullies reign.

Civility ended when idiot boy got in his face. There's nothing civil about harassing people and/or invading their privacy.

Turn it around. If a gradschool teach got in kid's face and harassed him/her, the teacher would be all over the media as some sort of Nazi heathen and bully. Apply your lefteing rules equally or not at all.

[gabosaurus]

If you saw the report on Fox News and listened to the tape of the incident, you can see how the incident really went down. It made no difference in the outcome because two-thirds of the state's eligible voters had already cast absentee ballots.

[Kathianne]

If you saw the report on Fox News and listened to the tape of the incident, you can see how the incident really went down. It made no difference in the outcome because two-thirds of the state's eligible voters had already cast absentee ballots.

Correct, which is why I think that the widespread use of early/absentee voting needs to be gone, with only restricted absentee voting allowed.

[jimnyc]

if you saw the report on fox news and listened to the tape of the incident, you can see how the incident really went down. It made no difference in the outcome because two-thirds of the state's eligible voters had already cast absentee ballots.

w.g.a.s.

[Gunny]

Correct, which is why I think that the widespread use of early/absentee voting needs to be gone, with only restricted absentee voting allowed.

I disagree. I had to vote absentee the entire time I was a in the military.

What needs to happen is no one have access to the numbers until the appropriate date. It IS possible to do.

I don't like ANY advance poll reporting to include final results in East Coast states that could possibly affect the votes in the West. Everyone wants to talk lax security but this one to me is a no-brainer. Everyone should get the final results at the same time.

[aboutime]

A Dem does this and you guys would lose your minds. I don't know why you find such behavior funny. He apologized and you still champion him. Quite strange. Civility is dead. Bullies reign.

petey. In a way. You are correct. But...you left out the most important aspect of that.

The MSM, and Liberals everywhere would NEVER REPORT this as quickly. In fact. Like Obama, and the rest of the DNC. They would find a reason to BLAME somebody else.

[Elessar]

Words do not justify physical force. End of story.

Even when asked politely to back off and give space, much of the aggressive media keeps pushing.
What is left for the one being verbally assaulted or having mics and cams shoved in his face to do?
Walk away as if he is a push-over, thus over-inflating the aggressor's ego more?

A Dem does this and you guys would lose your minds. I don't know why you find such behavior funny. He apologized and you still champion him. Quite strange. Civility is dead. Bullies reign.

Civility among the media aggressors is dead, but it is O.K. for them to be bullies? Strange bunch
of values the lefties wear. Riot, loot, destroy property, shout in people's faces, push into people
they disagree with? That is leftist civility? BUT...then start crying when someone turns the tables on them?

[Kathianne]

I disagree. I had to vote absentee the entire time I was a in the military.

What needs to happen is no one have access to the numbers until the appropriate date. It IS possible to do.

I don't like ANY advance poll reporting to include final results in East Coast states that could possibly affect the votes in the West. Everyone wants to talk lax security but this one to me is a no-brainer. Everyone should get the final results at the same time.

Wrong, obviously military would be an automatic for absentee voting. Those serving don't have the ability to wait for the latest to happen in order to exercise the franchise. Neither does someone perhaps caring for a loved one whether at home or far away. Ditto someone with serious illness, etc.

Those though that just want to vote 'early' to perhaps gin up numbers or to vote in second location in another state? Take away those possibilities.

Then there are those that just got in the habit of early voting, too bad. Nearly everywhere the polls are open from 6am-7pm.

[Gunny]

Wrong, obviously military would be an automatic for absentee voting. Those serving don't have the ability to wait for the latest to happen in order to exercise the franchise. Neither does someone perhaps caring for a loved one whether at home or far away. Ditto someone with serious illness, etc.

Those though that just want to vote 'early' to perhaps gin up numbers or to vote in second location in another state? Take away those possibilities.

Then there are those that just got in the habit of early voting, too bad. Nearly everywhere the polls are open from 6am-7pm.

There's no "wrong". Seems to me the problem is with the administrative and (lack of) punitive process for getting caught. Taking away absentee voting solved NEITHER.

It's like anything else. Was a bunch of time and money and cheaters will just figure out how to beat the latest greatest. Absentee voting is not the problem. It's not even a symptom of the problem.

Dishonest people are the problem. Nobody has EVER fixed THAT.