Is a Horrific, Politically Motivated Beating Newsworthy?
The following is, of course, satire — though the author continues to wait for the AP, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the MSM and political class to give the New Orleans beating the coverage it deserves.
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(AP) BOSTON – Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s chief campaign fundraiser is recovering from injuries she suffered in a Friday night altercation with a group of people in Boston’s Back Bay, the governor’s office said Monday.
Bautsch Allee suffered a broken leg and her boyfriend suffered a concussion and a fractured nose and jaw in the incident, which happened after a fundraising event at Bouchee restaurant on behalf of the Massachusetts Democratic Party on Friday evening.
Patrick was at the fundraising event at the restaurant, but was not present when the incident occurred.
Pyle Klotkin, a Patrick spokesman, said Allee had surgery during the weekend and is facing a recovery time of two to three months.
The Democratic fundraiser coincided with a rally for the so-called “tea party” movement in the Boston Commons. The rally was led by former Alaska Governor and unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
According to police and governor’s office sources, Allee and her boyfriend were accosted by individuals who may have been among a group of conservative activists protesting outside Bouchee during the fundraiser. Sources described the assailants as “middle-class white people” wearing “chinos and polo shirts.”
Response to the horrific outbreak of political violence was swift. The White House released a statement from President Barack Obama, a close friend and political ally of Gov. Patrick, stating:
As president, I condemn this outrageous attack in the strongest possible terms. While political dissent has a storied place in our nation’s history, outright violence against political opponents has no place in our society. I call on the leaders of the Republican Party to denounce this terrible attack, and I am ordering Attorney General Holder to place the full powers of the federal government at Governor Patrick’s disposal. We must and we will find the criminals responsible for this atrocity, and we must all work to silence the voices that oppose our nation’s transformation into a new and better place.
Attorney General Eric Holder, also responded swiftly, ordering the FBI to assist in the investigation. Holder also activated lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to initiate an investigation into possible violations of civil rights laws.
Members of Congress also voiced their condemnation of the attack. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement calling the attack “the predictable result of these so-called ‘tea parties’ and the anti-government rhetoric they spout.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke briefly to reporters, saying, “I hope every American is made aware of this terrible attack, and learns just how far the right wing is willing to go to meet its political ends.”
Media condemnation of the assaults was also swift. All three broadcast networks broke into prime-time programming with coverage of the attacks, and the cable news networks have carried wall-to-wall reporting and analysis since the news first broke.
CNN on-air personality Anderson Cooper defended the 24/7 coverage by noting:
We’re a news organization, and when the aide of a prominent governor is beaten nearly to death within a few yards of an opposing political group’s protest … well, if that’s not news, I don’t know what is.
MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were more direct. “This may be the greatest outrage in American history,” Olbermann said on his Countdown program. “The president would be completely within his rights to order a severe FBI crackdown on these ‘teabaggers.’” Maddow called for the immediate arrest of Palin on suspicion of fomenting treason and a second civil war.
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Author’s note: The preceding story is, of course, fictional — with a few exceptions:
The first four paragraphs are copied from a news story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune from April 12, 2010, with a few changes. The location of a vicious assault on Governor Bobby Jindal’s aide Allee Bautch and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, was changed from New Orleans to Boston, and Bautch’s name was reversed. I apologize in advance to the owners, employees and patrons of Boston’s Bouchee restaurant for using Bauchee as a stand-in for Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans; certainly Bouchee holds no more responsibility for the fictional attack than Brennan’s does for the real one. I also apologize to Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin for re-spelling his name in the fictionalized story.
The young lady should probably learn to shoot, then carry. Since we’re talking about Boston, I’m sure the governor could get her a license. Her life is, demonstrably, at risk due to her political free speech. My own daughter, in the 8th grade in California, just earned her second degree black belt in karate. It’s a good alternative, but you have to start when you’re three. So learn to shoot, and when necessary, defend your life. The National Guard and the Army Reserve are looking for a few good persons…the training is excellent. Women are welcome. Given the attack, she might well have been dead or quadriplegic. Nobody deserves that, so arm yourself and take them down.
The actual violence is from the left, and is ignored:
- the guy who flew his plane into the Texas IRS building? A lefty.
- the woman who gunned down her University of Alabama co-workers? A rabid Obama supporter.
- the guy who shot up the Pentagon? A lefty.
- the guys who beat up the black tea party guy selling Tea Party stuff? Lefty thugs.
- Obama mentor and friend Bill Ayers blows up the Pentagon, is honored with lofty position.
- Obama calls for his followers to bring guns to knife fights and to “get in their faces?” Merely campaign rhetoric.
Lefties are not nice, regardless how they view themselves.
It’s only newsworthy when the victim is a liberal…otherwise, there’s nothing to see here, move along…
Seriously though, this assault will become more and more common as the new leftwing inspired Brown Shirts (or purple) begin to assault those that are important to conservative causes. Nor will this new wave of politically inspired attacks be reported in the liberal media. Just keep that in mind and start to exercise your right to defend yourself.
The stupid idiot (to be distinguished from the useful idiot) of the left, N. Chomsky, claims that we’re in a “Weimar Republic” phase. All signs are that we’re in a “Kerensky” phase – where the new Trotsky, Lenin or Stalin are about to emerge, as the Kenyan/Indonesian Kerensky is about to find himself pushed aside by the likes of Soros and Buffett of all people.
What a nice state of pickles; did anyone imagine back in August 2008 that in 2010 we’ll be forming a sentence containing Buffett, Kerensky, Trotsky, Kenya and Soros within it?
Since Hitler was socialist to the core, the Weimar Republic analogy may not be that far off. Massive inflation is around the corner and the left is willing to blame violence that it is commiting on it’s opponents in order to move forward it’s agenda.
Thanks for the comment, but I still insist the Russian case more closely resembles our case.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s the Spartacists (the German Communist Party) were not in power while enjoying a 10-15% popular support, while the Weimar Republic was a Liberal Democracy. The Nazis were exploiting the nationalist fervor of the average German in a Germany mared by economic depression. The Weimar Republic lasted from 1919 to 1933.
On the other hand, in the 1915-16 period, the last two years of the Czarist regime, there was no economic depression in Russia yet but an on-going war against the Germanic Empires of Austria/Hungary and Germany. Kerensky (a personal friend of Lenin) was a member of the Socialist opposition to the Czar and in power at various capacities throughout 1917. He was overthrown in late October 1917 with the second and decisive Bolshevik revolution. Kerensky spent his last years at Stanford’s Hoover Institution in the US (a piece of information of some note).
Now you tell me which one of the two describes best (of course, not exactly but simply best) the current situation, Germany of 1931 or Russia of 1917?
when I started reading the story…I had to re-read. I had read the Allee Bautsch (republican) story in New Orleans paper and on line.
NOPD has been slack in finding out what really happened , and actually ignored it at first ..they have to make the crime stats better than the gutter dragging stats that really exist. These people were hurt badly, for being Republicans. Jihdal himself was no where to be seen/heard on the matter..
Guess we will all need to carry a gun, a tazer…get rid of the liberals…
when I started reading the story…I had to re-read. I had read the Allee Bautsch (republican) story in New Orleans paper and on line,as I missed the satire part.
NOPD has been slack in finding out what really happened , and actually ignored it at first ..they have to make the crime stats better than the gutter dragging stats that really exist. These people were hurt badly, for being Republicans. Jihdal himself was no where to be seen/heard on the matter..
Guess we will all need to carry a gun, a tazer…get rid of the liberals…
Jindal fumbles again on the one yard line. This deplorable incident would have been a perfect opportunity to call out the crazy left and to raise the curtain on the media double standard. That the incident is known only in conservative alternative media circles is a function of Jindal’s dicklessness. The lady is his chief fundraiser, fer chrissakes.
Yeah, what is it with Jindal in this case?
Unless he knows something we don’t about the nature of the case, it doesn’t make sense for him to pull punches. When are Republicans going to learn to grow a pair and put the gloves on?
Don’t be afraid to call evil, what it is; evil. It’s ok with the MSM if a conservative gets beat up because the Left and the MSM and the White House are filled with haters. Haters are evil. Got that? Just try enforcing the law against some law breaking illegals (can’t call them poor because they are better off then a lot of unemployed legal Americans). Then the haters will come to the defense of the law breakers. So what does that make the left? They hate the rule of law, they hate the hard working Americans, they hate capitalism, They love crony (crooked) capitalism (theft), they hate God, they hate Israel, they hate truth. That makes the left, the MSM, the White House, evil. See it’s not that hard. Look for every red flag waving freak to come out from under every rock to condemn those who would uphold the rule of law.
Peace through strength, if honest hard working people want to stay safe they need to be prepared at all times defend themselves. This is the truth on the ground now. Haters are on the loose in America. Don’t let them get away with their lies.
Just as war is diplomacy by other means, the media’s preference for imagined teaparty voilence over actual brownshirt thuggery is the logical, physical expression of Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance.
Violence committed by approved greivance and victim groups is always ignored, excused, rationalized and contextualized. Similarly, the Left considers its free speech rights to include vandalism, assault and interference with the free assembly rights of others. At the same time, it seeks to restrict political opponents to ever more limited space in the public square.
That’s why there aren’t any demands by media poodles for Democrats to denounce (or asking if they endorse) the increasing level of violence emanating from the Left.
I wonder if the Jews felt this way in Europe in the late 30′s? I look at that time period and wonder how it happened, but maybe this is how. It was ignored, pushed under the rug, and out of everyone’s face. I don’t know; it’s terrible, I know that.
The NO beating got about as much MSM coverage as the assault on police officers at the pro illegal immigrant protest in Phoenix.
Good point rancher. Also, the poor rancher killed down in AZ by (believed to be) illegals barely got any MSM attention either.
The assault was just the oppressed lashing out at the Evil Western Capitalist Imperialist Oppressors. Vive la Revolucion!
So you think five thugs beating up two people (with one of the two being a petite woman) is a great idea? You’re one sorry excuse for a human being. One of these days, you cowards will attack someone who is armed and can fight back. So much for your revolution then, amigo.
Slow down granny, I think EscapeVelocity is kidding.
The sad thing is that you cant really tell I was being sarcastic these days. We are going to have a reckoning on this planet in the not to distant future.
Yes, when the rule of law is a hurdle in the road to power, the schools are tools of statist indoctrination, and the news media is merely a propaganda ministry, no other ending is possible other than an upheaval, leading to a great reckoning.
I can very easily explain why this story was not picked up by the news organizations as a politically motivated attack. It was because the final police report showed there was no evidence of it being politically motivated. By the way if Fox news is the most watched news network does that mean it is now the Main Stream Media? Anyway let us not forget about last election cycle where a woman claimed that male, black, obama supporters carved a B into her face.
14. Brian N
Sorry Brian, but that doesn’t cut it. Whether the attack was politically motivated or not is a convenient strawman, since you know damn well that if the situation were reversed the media would have this as front page news for weeks no matter what the police report said.
As for the woman who carved a B into her face, that story was ignored by the MSM only until it was discovered to be a hoax. And it was a conservative–Michelle Malkin–who was the first to questioned its authenticity. On the other hand I’m still waiting for the self-righteous, hate-denouncing media coverage of the arson/attempted murder at Sarah Palin’s church, the threats of gang-rape against her daughters, the current tweets threatening to kill her family, and the scum who carry signs and t-shirts emblazoned with “c**t”, “igloo whore”, “spay the bitch”, and “MILP: Mom I’d Like to Punch” replete with artwork of her getting her teeth knocked out.
Projection. No one does it better than the left.
Andrew Britebart (sp) is still offering 100,000.00 for any evidence that Tea Partiers hurled the N word at congressmen when there were several News Cameras, and hundreds of Cell Phones recording the event in question.
The total and complete lack of any evidence hasn’t stopped the MSM from repeating the story even to today.
Sorry Brian N, but you haven’t explained anything.
jd
I am sorry, but there is a large difference between the two. In one instance it has been already proven that in a positive sense that the attack was not politically motivated. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/04/police_report_jindal_aide_atta.html . As in the people who were attacked do not themselves claim it was politically motivated to the police. The protesters had apparently left an hour before the attack occurred. So this issue has been positively dispelled as something false that this author is conjuring up to attack liberals. What you posit about the racial slur is that the lack of evidence equals lack of even taking place. You are saying because there is no video it could not have happened, but this is a logical fallacy. Not only that but the congressman claimed it happened, and that is enough to run the story. On the other hand the only person who is claiming it was political is this author who was not ever there. Note that Jindal’s office has not come out and said it was politically motivated. You would think the republican governor would say something about it if it was actually a political attack. What we have here is people unrelated to the incident without having done any research on the matter making up claims themselves, and you buying into it like a sheep.