Coakley staffer knocks Weekly Standard reporter to ground

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[gopphoenix]

http://twitter.com/ericwilson

[ConfidentConservative]

And in the blog at Weekly Standard...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/tws/daily/daily.asp#blog-318166

[Lorianne]

Wow. That certainly looks bad.
I’m sure more will be known about this soon enough.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Based on that better quality video, it looks more like an accident on a dark crowded sidewalk rather than a deliberate assault.

[Centurion2000]

If MA voters do not vote in Mr. Brown and continue to vote in kooks (Markey, Frank, Kerry, Kennedy, et al) we should boycott their state until they regain sanity.

Been doing that since 1992 ....

[gopphoenix]

I don’t think so. You need to read the account that is linked a few posts above.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Then again, after reading the accompanying blog entry, it now certainly looks like a planned blocking maneuver, with built-in plausible deniability.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Just did, and you’re right. The guy was blocking for the Rat.

[paulycy]

This video definitely shows someone getting pushed around and some dialog saying "do you have a problem." More convincing, not definitive.

[chiefqc]

Gee another name to call a common goon, staffer.

How PC of them.

[AAABEST]

Based on that better quality video, it looks more like an accident on a dark crowded sidewalk rather than a deliberate assault.

From the horse's mouth:

After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. She didn't reply.

As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.

He asked if I was with the media, and I told him I work for THE WEEKLY STANDARD. When I asked him who he worked for he replied, "I work for me." He demanded to see my credentials, and even though it was a public street, I showed them to him.

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[Ticonderoga34]

The Dems are really desperate.

“Teddy’s Seat” and health care are riding on this election and now they are in a dog fight. In one the most liberal states in the Union. With a bad candidate. Yeah, the Dims are panicking big time.

[OKSooner]

Guilty.

[SuziQ]

Bump for later reading

[GeronL]

is she related to Dede Scozzafava??

[HerrBlucher]

Gee, whoda thunk dems are thugs? Shocking!

[GeronL]

He must have a magnetic personality... heh

[noiseman]

"Where do the DIMS find these wierdos?"

My wife and I play a game while watching the various news shows called "spot the liberal." When someone comes on who we have never seen before, before they speak I say "liberal or conservative?" Based upon looks alone, we get it right at least 95% of the time. Bottom line: They are crazy, and it shows.

[Rome2000]

[HereInTheHeartland]

He was definitely pushed/blocked on a public street.

[rod1]

Her staff must have trained under Stuart Smalley. Shoving down people at campaign events is his moniker.