With Republican Scott Brown surging in the race for Massachusetts’ open U.S. Senate seat, TWS reports Democrat candidate Martha Coakley — apparently incapable of winning the seat through civil discourse — has called out her brown shirts to intimidate and physically attack reporters who dare ask her direct questions.
After a Washington, D.C. fundraising event last night, John McCormack reports he was assaulted and shoved against a metal railing, while Coakley looked on, by an individual who has since been tentatively identified by a tipster as Democrat Senate Campaign Committee operative Michael Meehan, pictured above. Ironically, Meehan was reportedly hired to help Coakley camp with “messaging”. Get the message?
More of the action can be seen in this YouTube video. Massachusetts voters might ask themselves whether Coakley, who apparently sees no need to issue an apology for such Stalinist brutality, could possibly represent them in the United States Senate better than down-to-Earth, personable Scott Brown who appears along with Doug Flutie in the video below.
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I would ask the voters in Massachusetts to study Georgia and see what happens to a once powerful state that turns red.
Umm, really? What happened? Is this some kind of threat?
I take it that you approve of Coakley’s thuggery?
I don’t have enough information to disapprove. I see a verbally aggressive man approaching a female candidate on a dark street after an event is over with an object in his hand. He’s lucky it was Meehan and not a security guard with a gun, the outcome might have been different. I would protect any female I’m with, wouldn’t you? Obviously in this case the reporter thinks the world should stop because he has a question.
As one whose car has been struck several times by the rapidly deteriorating infrastructure of the Republican Georgia, it’s not a threat, it’s a warning.
jaxspp,
Why would a guy dressed in a suit come up to a U.S senator, ask a question, and then try to mug her in front of dozens of people? It makes slightly more sense that a reporter would approach a senator in this fashion.
After reading the Wall St Journal story by Dorothy Rabinowitz, on
Martha Coakley’s handling of the Amiraults case when she was an aggressive young DA shows that with her, anything is possible. It is a nightmare story of abuse at the hands of the law. It will curl your hair.
Read it
athttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862.html.
You talk about Stalinist-style brutality. This was a Soviet-style show trial, designed to promote her career. It destroyed an entire family with use of tainted evidence.
Having been mugged, you really don’t know what is going to happen until it happens.
Who knows, you could be at a perfectly normal press conference, suddenly two shoes come flying at your head.
Oh, Jax, let’s leave the arguing to those who possess some amount of logic within their minds.
We should be careful, they might mug us if we try to discuss things with them in a civilized manner. Especially if you’re in the terrifying Red Georgia. They get really violent there, I hear. . .
Seg, why don’t you leave the arguing to people who are not anal-retentive?