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To Democrats, Words Are More Dangerous Than Physical Violence

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 15th, 2010 at 02:49 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The Democrats are crying foul over a college student videotaping Congressman Etheridge’s assault.

You see, it was a right-wing ambush and Bob Etheridge was justified in assaulting the college student. Caught on tape, Etheridge pulled the student’s hand toward him and the student asked to be released. Etheridge refused.

This all happened after the student asked Etheridge if the Congressman supported the Obama agenda.

Contrast this to the Democrats’ handling of the George Allen incident. Caught on tape referring to a Democratic operative shadowing him on the campaign trail as “macaca”, the Democrats declared Allen an open racist and, together with allies in the media, demanded apology after apology as they declared Allen unfit to serve the Senate and defeated him.

The level of outrage was overwhelming.

And now? The kid deserved it.

Apparently the Democrats are all going to the Kennedy School these days for degrees — degrees of felonies and misdemeanors that is.

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  • dforston

    Wasn’t Macaca the kids’ name also?

  • unclelefty

    Glenn Greenwald and Erick Erickson agreeing.

    http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/14/law/index.html

  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    WHURRRRE YU?

    We’re not allowed to speculate on whether Etheridge had gotten himself stumbling drunk at the Pelosi fundraiser he was coming from when accosted by the camera-wielding college kids. Certainly he looked, sounded and acted like he was in his cups, and the dancing-bear quality of his crude physical movements is consistent with a souse.

    Why not just call him a drunken lout who needs to be shown the gate and help Renee Ellmers kick his ass in November? That’s all we need to say. As for the left-wing media, the creative destruction of the free market is the long-overdue solution there.

  • spepper

    that’s been the Dems’ strategy for decades ever since the so-called civil rights movement days, in which they declared themselves the authority of who gets to say what, and more importantly, what NOT to say– and if you dare to say what they do not approve of, then OMG you are racist/sexist/homophobe/(insert favorite attack label here)– and physically assaulting an intern or student, however disagreeable but completely nonviolent he or she is, well they don’t find anything worth getting worked up about there, do they?

  • johnt

    Maybe DNC designated lunatic Brad Woodhouse? This might be a new concept in law.

  • redtillimdead

    I assume its a TV ad because of the “my campaign sponsored this ad” part at the end, which usually doesn’t go on web ads. Here it is- http://www.reneeforcongress.com/HelpStopBobEtheridgeDonatetoReneeEllmers/tabid/72/Default.aspx
    DONATE to keep it on the air!

  • Menlo

    You see the same thing when Democrats overlook Islamic terrorists in favor of “right wing domestic terrorists.” Guess which group they believe is more dangerous.

  • pamela1631

    and definitely disorderly in manner

    A normal person would have been arrested for UTI and thrown in jail.

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    Fears of the left:
    Anyone not complicit with or actively part of their agenda.
    Speech that they do not control.
    Truth.
    When the reaction to a question is violence without consequence then the consequence is living under a left wing dictatorship or removing them from power, whatever it takes.

    Prosecute this “representative of the people” or prove there is no justice for anyone not part of the left.

  • WarEagle01

    as long as it’s done by a Democrat. They even encourage it. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because their heroes are people like Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd of the KKK, now “conscience of the Senate.” They loves them some violence, these Democrats. Especially if it’s against a black guy or an elderly person. Like I said, scary.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    nt

  • ejstes2005

    I thought I was the only one here who also reads Glenn Greenwald. : )

    Believe it or not he sometimes has a very good perspective on current events if you take the blinkers off and forget that he is a major lib.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    is like asking a pediophile if he supports child molestation.

    In both cases, the answer is clearly “Yes!” but the mere broaching of the subject is sure to draw an angry response.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    I was walling down the street imagining I was Pete Townsend. OK, I’d had a few. Next thing I know, there’s this guitar in front of me, and–you know–I just had to smash it.

  • 56rebels

    If somebody asked me if I supported Obama’s agenda I think I would attack them also.

    Wasn’t this a prophecy that Democrats would deny Obama 3 times before Nancy Pelosi crows?

    http://56rebels.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/obama-asks-us-to-pray-i-guess-we-really-are-screwed/

  • fleta

    He certainly looked, sounded and acted drunk. Guess he had a little too much of Nancy’s home-made wine….made from her own grapes, picked by the Mexicans who will work “under the table” so she won’t have to pay them minimum wage.

    If he was not a Democrat, he would have gone to jail. We are now seeing that the law is not applied equally anymore…and the democrats as usual are taking a page from the clintons by attacking the messenger.

    You MUST NEVER ask a Democrat such a hateful question. How DARE that young whippersnapper to ask him if he supported his party’s agenda!!! I’m glad someone got it on tape.

  • 1stsgt

    This guy is lower than whale dung on the bottom of the ocean.