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Thu, Sep 23, 2010 (9:14 p.m.)
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What on earth would let a man think he could attack a woman like that in front of everyone?
The media have turned us into a nation of haters. I can't imagine this happening two years ago. I blame fright wing radio and FOX for whipping people into a hateful frenzy.
@derek u are right. right and teabaggers and fox whipped up hatred if they don't get there way or try to push there way on other people. I'm sick what have this this nation is now. hatred toward other people race. hatred toward other people religious. thank u bush and tea baggers and fox. spreading this hatred toward other people.
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We are beginning to look more and more like some kind of banana republic with this sort of behavior. It is sad that we can't even try to listen to one another anymore. Instead of a role model for democracy around the world, we are debasing it.
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So this is what reasoned discourse has degenerated into.
Jerry Springer for President!
At least they both like the same shirt!
The fight started because the two ladies were trying to pass by the seated man and he push one lady out of the way then the second lady went off on him. He looked like he tried to restrain himself but things got out of control. This wasn't about politics it was about a lack of common courtesy. He should have apologized to the first lady and the second lady should have restrained herself. People need to learn how to respect the people around them.
I see a man defending himself and his companion from some very rude attendees.
I see two very angry people.
I don't happen to see "liberal" or "conservative" plastered to anyones forehead.
I also don't see who might have "started it." But I'd love to talk to someone seated right behind them.
Is this the depth to which we've descended in our public discourse? Do we really wish to conduct ourselves in this manner? This scene reminds me of a news clip from the parliament of Thailand or some other third world hellhole in which politicians and citizens regularly brawl with each other. Eventually, if this behavior continues unabated someone is going to employ what Sharron Angle has referred to as "a Second Amendment solution," and there will be bloodshed. With the level of vitriol in today's political campaigns, I am truly surprised that no one has been killed.
I attended one of the healthcare town hall meetings during the congressional recess in the summer of 2009. I was standing next to a man who was holding a sign that bore the Thomas Jefferson quote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." He was also carrying an AR-15 rifle with collapsible stock, a single-point tactical sling and a red dot sight. It scared the hell out of me and I'm a life member of the NRA. I actually own such a rifle, but it seemed neither the time nor the place to display it.
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why am I not a trusted commenter without having to provide my personal phone number to the Sun? ha! what malarky.
in any event, what difference does it make it one of the two was a woman? you want equality or don't ya?
usually it's the democrats who start this kind of dispicable behavior.
Derek & Perry - You two are such dishonest people. Although, this man's actions are deplorable, do not try to say that this is the way of the right. Everyone knows that the left wrote the book on violent protests. There are countless videos on youtube proving this. Go to youtube, grab some popcorn, and watch liberal violent protests all day.
Stop pizzing in the wind and telling us it's raining!
The blame is all on FOX and the crazy, desperate
republicans.
VOTE SANITY, VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
Teamster - Yeah, teamsters are real sane. Just like those Chrysler employees drinking beer and smoking pot during their lunch break. You saw that video, right?
Do teamsters get loaded at lunch time to keep their sanity? If I were a Democrat, I'd probably get loaded on my lunch break too.
The photos show that the man was trying to block the women from passing in front of him. In photo #2, you can see how the first woman has to lean over to get around him. Bottom line is that there were plenty of witnesses, and it was the man who was arrested.
And yes, Fox, Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, AND Angle do everything in their power to stir up hatred and divisiveness, to the point of calling for an armed revolution. May I remind people that the U.S. government has been elected by a majority of Americans. The losers are all mixed up about American history. The Boston Tea Party was a rebellion against the King of England because colonists believed "that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives." America has elected representatives, but the rightwing is trying desperately to lie, cheat, and steal their way back into power. Just in the last few days there have been multiple reports documenting that the insurance and oil industries are contributing millions to pay for misleading attack ads against Democrats. This has got to stop.
I have met Mrs. Angle. She is a decent person and is one of us (the forgotten middle-class). She is polite, engaging and totally interested in what one has to say to her. Her only shortcoming appears to be her choice of press/communications/scheduling personnel. Why did her campaign allow her to go on this live when Reid was on tape? No one could heckle Reid but his ill-mannered supporters were allowed to sit there and take shots at Angle during her entire presentation. Hello!
derek and perry, you are both wrong and I love how the radical left immediately jumps in and attacks the right. I think ktpinnacle said it correctly. Two very angry people, they aren't liberal or conservative. Just the norm for the Las Vegas valley. We are in big trouble!
VOTE SANITY? Teamster we would all be insane to follow your logic. Thanks for contributing to this forum, you have been good for a laugh.