Won't work this time. Over at DU, they're 95% in agreement with us. The guy was drunk and disorderly and assaulted those kids. His apology and news conference sealed the deal.
Some toady over at the Washington Post tried to call it a hug and speculated that some evil right wingers "TMZed" Etheridge.
The reporter and Etheridge were relentlessly slammed by 95% of the respondents.
I guess liberals will take a lot of crap from a leftwing government, but a congressman assaulting some polite kid asking an innocous question is apparently just a bit too much.