posted
This fine, upstanding young Republican was filmed at the convention, kicking a woman who was being held down by authroities.
The original video (on the New York ABC affiliate's site) doesn't seem to work. Maybe it's just me, or maybe they got too much traffic. But this page has a truncated Quicktime version of the film.
Basically, the woman was one of the protestors who managed to get inside the RNC. This character snatched her sign away, then shoved her. Once the men in suits (reportedly Secret Service) had pulled her to the ground, this guy started kicking her until one of the suits pushed him aside.
It's not in the Quicktime version, but apparently the news people interviewed him, and, when they asked him if he'd kicked a protestor, he said he didn't know.
The future, ladies and gentlemen.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
-------------------- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ~ohn Adams
Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
You're just babbling incoherently. ~C. Montgomery Burns
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
I posted about him on my blog, so that if people actually read it, maybe it would spread the word. Is this gratutious self-promotion getting on anyone's nerve yet?
-------------------- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ~ohn Adams
Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
You're just babbling incoherently. ~C. Montgomery Burns
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
Oh but that man needs to get an old-skool pummeling.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
Well, the Republicans are big on Christianity. We could assume he was doing unto others as he would have them do unto him.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: I put forth the suggestion that few presidential elections in U.S. history have been this consistently venomous.
I read something very similar the other day but applied to Blair. The piece was by William Deedes who's about 180 and, according to him, there's been a shift from anger towards those in public office that people disagree with to hatred of them. Apparently even Mosley wasn't hated as much as Our Dear Leader.
-------------------- "I am an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman, which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-bitch when it suits me." --Jubal Harshaw
Registered: Feb 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
Hmm. I was under the impression that Guy Fawkes Night (Day?) was celebrated with a certain vigour by many during the Thatcher years.
(And while researching this post, I learned that the word guy, which is getting weirder and weirder the longer I look at it, comes from his name. Which is neat.)
Of course, contemplating my own post a bit more, I'm not sure the 2004 election really compares to, say, the 1860 election, which resulted in a President so hated that half the nation figured this would be a good time to start that Civil War they'd been thinking about, and who was later shot in the head. Mean campaign ads and even outright falsehoods lie some distance away on the continuum of political antagonism.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
Printer-friendly view of this topic
