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VRWC: Calling in window rock strikes on 30-story buildings!

Ever get the feeling that the Left secretly thinks that we're all *gods* in disguise over here?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 25th, 2010 at 10:30 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The Seattle Times (bolding mine):

Protesters have been demonstrating at Driehaus’ Ohio home, said Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the anti-abortion Democrat who joined Stupak in voting for the health bill. A rock was thrown through the window of Driehaus’ Cincinnati office Sunday, and a death threat was phoned in to his Washington office a day later, Mulvey said.

Instapundit:

Justin Binik-Thomas emails from Cincinnati that Rep. Driehaus’ office “is on the 30th floor of a skyscraper downtown.”

Seriously.  It is:

The only way you’re going to get a rock up that high is via Federal Express. On the other hand, maybe they’re worried about their profits taking a, ahem, header from this health care monstrosity. Everybody else is, after all.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

[UPDATE]: As can be seen in comments here, they are correcting this aspect of their story (a print correction is likewise promised). I nag print media enough times when they sanitize an oopsie that I should also note when they own up to something.

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  • http://truthupfront.blogspot.com jsanzone

    Sounds like one of those ‘stage your own burglary’ hoaxes where all the broken glass is found in the flower bed outside instead of the living room carpet. “I seen him break in through this window, officer. He climbed right through!”

    But what else is to be expected after the “they called me N***** [but none of a dozen or two cameramen caught it on tape]” lies?

  • wannabeanncoulter

    Was the broken window in question an interior window or glass partition? Has anybody found anything with more details?

  • wannabeanncoulter

    The Seattle Times seems to be the original source for the “rock through the window” story regarding Dreihaus’s Cincinnati office. I think the Seattle Times, which said it based its story on multiple sources, including the NYT, mashed up two different stories based in Cincinnati. This is how the incidents were described in the NYT, emphasis added.

    In Cincinnati, protesters demonstrated outside the home of Representative Steve Driehaus, another Democrat who voted for the bill, after his home address was published on a conservative blog. Mr. Driehaus has received a death threat, and someone threw a rock into the headquarters of the county Democratic Party.

  • joayn

    Ahhhhhhh, thanks, Moe. Nothing beats a good laugh at the expense of the incompetent MSM donkey-lovers.

  • darjon38

    Where are the reds scouts?? Sign this guy up, he must have one fantastic arm.

  • spepper

    or might have used a tater gun– you know us rednecks carry one behind the backrest of every pickup truck……

  • jcincy

    I work in Carew Tower.

    At 50 stories high, it is the tallest building in Cincinnati. Driehaus’ official Cincinnati office is on the 30th floor. There are campaign offices all around the city in 1st district as well. I have heard no reports of any vandalism in Carew Tower.

    Here is the story from the local paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer:
    http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100325/NEWS0108/303240066

    As for the rock throwing incident… it happened the Democratic HQ in Hamilton County (Cincinnati). According to the Enquirer story the Executive Director of the office didn’t even file a police report. Why wouldn’t you file a police report? Wouldn’t you want to catch the person that did this? Or may be you don’t want the police to catch the person that did this.

    BTW, Jean Schmidt, the GOP congressman from a neighboring has reported and turned over evidence of a threat left on her voice mail to the authorities. This didn’t make the headlines however.

  • mbecker908

    why the Cincinnati Reds aren’t running ads for the guy who threw that brick. I’m sure their pitching staff could use him.

  • 6eorge Jetson
  • wannabeanncoulter

    As for the rock throwing incident?

    I had a feeling the Seattle Times had garbled this up.

  • wannabeanncoulter

    As for the rock throwing incident?

    I had a feeling the Seattle Times had garbled this up.