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Meet Representative Alan Grayson (D, FL-08).

He has difficulty keeping his hands to himself.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 25th, 2009 at 07:28 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Literally.

I’ve read the Constitution several times, but I’ve never seen the part that says that elected officials are allowed to physically assault people who’d like to ask questions. Like, say, about his questionable earmark habits:

Congressman Alan Grayson has had a close relationship with the civil rights group for which he tried to get hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. As WDBO first reported, the freshman Representative requested $350,000 for the Florida Civil Rights Association, despite its history of controversy, and being run by a man the state says is not trustworthy enough to be a bail bondsman.
(H/T: the NRCC)

Finding the constraints demanded by the dignity of the office too much to bear, Rep. Grayson? Because that’s easily fixed.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Dave_in_Fla

    He just looks like the characterture of a corrupt politician. Put him in a white suit and he is Boss Hog.

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

    Hey Dave……. Glad you didn’t say put him in Daisy Duke’s, because Katherine Bach, he ain’t ! ;)

    Cheers !

  • earthmover

    but what happened to treating our elected officials with dignity? Why doesn’t he deserve some respect? Your video is absurd and shows/proves nothing whatsoever. If you had approached him and asked him if you could ask a question and tape his response for your blog, you might have found him to be reasonable. Posts of this sort are a complete waste of time and are the exact same type of “gotcha journalism” for which we spend so much time deriding people like Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson.

  • duke

    …why couldn’t Grayson have simply talked and walked at the same time. I mean, it’s not like he was also chewing gum or anything that would make it impossible for him to multi-task.

    I’ll bet when he ran for office he talked a steady stream of crapola while walking in parades, down sidewalks at his rehearsed video ops, and anyplace he could stick his mug in front of someone’s camera. Now the only voice we hear is “Why are you videotaping,” and some ACORN and/or union stooge saying, “Quit acting like a jackass.”

    My, how the attitude changes once you put a liberal into office.

  • duke

    …our elected officials are to treat US with dignity, since we give them a job and pay them a salary. It’s NOT the other way around!

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Fascinating.

  • aesthete

    There was nothing wrong in the way that this blogger (I’m assuming it’s Moe) treated this official. His question was asked respectfully, if insistently, asked, and there’s nothing wrong with asking a question of a public official. OTOH, the “elected official” (I encourage all readers of my comment to replace the descriptor with a more unsavory term :) ) not only refused to answer the question, (which he was in his rights to do) but he also did so rudely, and then, worst of all, messed with the blogger’s camera (and apparently pushed him). If one has a problem with the blogger in question after that showing, I have to say that that the person in question has both a easily triggered and selective sense of outrage.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    I’m merely the guy giving this a bit more of an airing. :)

  • earthmover

    So in duke’s analogy the employee is required to treat the boss with dignity, but dignity is not expected in the boss’s relations with the employee. That seems odd to me.

    Explain to me at what point basic dignity and respect stopped being expected of everyone regardless of their position.

    Moe: No, I do not think that Grayson [was entitled to] push around that guy. I neither said nor implied anything of the sort.

    It is not possible that the exchange would have had a better result if it had begun in this manner:
    Congressman, how are you tonight, sir?
    Well, I’m fine, and why are you videotaping me?
    Well I just had a couple of questions for you, sir, and I’d like to post the video on my blog.

    Instead [and this is the great irony of this video], the videotaper refuses to answer Grayson’s question. Granted, Grayson ultimately acted inappropriately [and the guy in front of the door is a fool], but the entire exchange is nothing more than a “gotcha!” moment and is completely meaningless other than giving people a chance to say, “Oooooo, look at the Democrat being rude.” Who cares? What does this achieve? How does it advance any sort of debate?

    Grayson may have cornered the market on shoving the cameraman, but there are probably dozens of other congressmen of both parties who would also act rudely when approached in this manner.

    I’m done. This video deserves no more of anyone’s time, and a group of adults should not find themselves in an argument over the Golden Rule. This is the stuff of first graders.

  • blooch

    “Well I just had a couple of questions for you, sir, and I?d like to post the video on my blog.”

    Now *that* statement might have made this video give Buzz a run for his money.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Retract the “first graders” bit, complete with an apology. No ‘sorry if you were offended,’ twenty words or less, next post.

    Thanks in advance.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Grayson’s clearly got anger-control issues.

  • blooch

    in front of a bulldozer.