Another Backwards B Moment?
First, let me say that what happened to a fundraiser for Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and her boyfriend at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference last weekend was horrible. These people were brutally attacked and sustained serious injuries. Plain wrong and inexcusable.
What’s also inexcusable…
Since then the story has been making the rounds of the right-wing interwebs. The claim was that the assailants were anti-Palin, anti-Jindal liberals attacking conservatives. A conservative blogger even published what purported to be a quote from the NOPD saying the attack appeared to be “of a political nature.” And that quote was picked up by a few other news organizations.
Alas, then things started going down hill. The New Orleans police denied ever saying anything like that. And now the actual police report has come out which not only contains no evidence of any partisan political intent but actually says that the assailants yelled misogynistic and homophobic epithets at the victims while the attack was taking place.
Talk about jumping the gun. What is it about these Republican “me too” moments? Gives new meaning to the phrase fake it, ’til you make it. And yeah, I’m looking at you, Eric Cantor – aka bullet boy.
Tags: Republican Crazy
I think Republicans have really felt the sting on the reports of rightwing violence and are desperate for a “Democrats do it too” storyline.
The political attackers are in the same place as the WMD.
….Gov. Bobby Jindal and her boyfriend? WTF?
a fundraiser for Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and her boyfriend
Fundraiser is a title, not an event in this sentence.
I was as confused as SRC. Thanks.
Yeah, the original source article is a bit confusing. It was an aide to Jindal (his fundraiser) and her boyfriend who were attacked.
Oops! Sorry, guys. When are we hiring an editor?
This has got to make the Republicans wonder about what sort of monster they have created.
The National Media ignored the story because it might be “political”…
If an aid to the Gov of Pennsylvania was brutally attacked in Philadelphia it would be national news.
If an aid to the Gov of New Jersey was brutally attacked in Newark it would be national news.
If an aid to the Gov of Florida was brutally attacked in Miami it would be national news.
As a straight crime story this should be headline news.
It was reported in the straight news. I heard about it the night it happened.
You did? Where?
After all, it happened on Friday, but there was NO PUBLIC RELEASE OF INFORMATION for three days. Indeed, the first articles in the NO press (where it happened) did not happen until Tuesday.
Might I respectfully suggest to you that you are mistaken (at best)?
I heard about it on Twitter.
On Friday night? On Saturday?
But the point remains that it did not hit the media until late Monday/early Tuesday — which I believe to be the point made by P.Schwartz. After all, Twitter is not a national MSM news source. I therefore continue to respectfully maintain a skeptical stance with regard to your “straight news” comment, and suggest that you are in error as to your characterization of the coverage.
Please note — I am going out of my way to make it clear that I am NOT accusing you of lying, because I do not believe your assertion that you saw it contemporaneously on Twitter constitutes a lie, though I find it odd that no one on the right side of the blogosphere noted that tweet before late Monday/early Tuesday in any of the many posts I’ve seen on the matter. Are you sure it was over the weekend?
I have no idea what night. Several people I’m following, including journalists, were at the conference, so I was hearing what was happening in real time. There was a report on Friday of some violence, but nothing specific. I’m not sure which day I saw that it was someone from Jindal’s staff. I know I had heard about it days before P. Schwartz cut and pasted something from rightwing blogs here.
It followed the normal news cycle I’m seeing: I saw it first on Twitter, then it was picked by some blogs, then Drudge, then the false Palin rumor started and was debunked, then the false police reports and debunking.
This is not intended to convince the trolls, but sane readers should note:
* The guy who was attacked was not an “aid” [sic] to Jindal. He was a fundraiser. By that standard, many of us are “fundraisers” for our governor, or for any of his predecessors. If we get beat up, it’s not “national news” either.
* Real news outlets have a job to maintain a healthy skepticism. When whacko Web sites wail that a political hit job took place, a dollop of proof or at least corroboration of the claim is in order. Neither occurred here.
JM you are a typical liberal, using a half truth to tell a bigger lie.
An Aide to Governer Jindal and HER boyfriend were brutally attached.
you are correct the young man with the broken jaw was not the Gov’s aide, the young lady with multiple fractures to her leg was.
My bad. She was the fundraiser, not he.
She does no work to help the governor govern. She works for the campaign, a bag-lady for donors.
She also wasn’t the target of a political whack. Even Jindal’s office agrees.
GOP apologists can be such fantacists.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/06/23/the-lessons-of-mark-sanfords-hike/
I wish the crime victim as speedy and painless a recovery as possible, and hope the assailants are identified and brought to justice.
if your a Dem victim, msnbc notices:
‘Kumar’ star reportedly robbed at gunpoint
msnbc.msn.com ^ | April 20, 2010
“Harold and Kumar” star Kal Penn, who under his real name Kalpen Modi works as an associate director in the White House’s Office of Public Engagement, reportedly was robbed at gunpoint in Washington, D.C., at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column.
A D.C. police official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the incident as “a basic street robbery,” says the newspaper, noting that the department typically does not name or discuss victims. Penn’s wallet and other possessions were taken, the official said.
Yeah, I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Penn is an actor.