Meehan ADMITS He Shoved McCormack


Well well. After the media carrying Martha Coakley‘s water for an entire day, claiming that report John McCormack tripped instead of, as McCormack claimed, being shoved to the grown by Coakley aide Michael Meehan, Meehan has now issued an apology for shoving McCormack.

Yet again we have the bulk of the mainstream media carrying a Democrat’s water and buying wholesale their spin.

Will the AP and Boston Globe now run front page stories about the shove or is shoving not as big a story as a reporter tripping and falling?

By the way, Michael Meehan has been nominated by Obama to sit on the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Will the press tolerate a man who assails members of the press sitting on the Broadcast Board of Governors?

Probably. The reporter wasn’t on the press’s team.


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I'm sure Obama will denounce this. He only surrounds himself with people of integrity.

Mary Beth (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:24PM EST (link)

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Very funny Mary Beth nt

Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 6:16PM EST (link)

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I believe he intends to wait for all the facts nt

RoguePolitics (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 7:55PM EST (link)

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What is it with Democrats and their girlish violence?

WarEagle01 (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:33PM EST (link)

I mean it’s always shoving or biting or pulling hair. They’re just so effeminate. I don’t see how any real man would call himself a Democrat. (Sen. Webb, what were you thinking?)

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No kidding, huh?

Third Street (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:36PM EST (link)

Either deliver a good, clean sock across the chin or do nothing.

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McCormack sort of comes off as a whiney girl too

jackhammer Thursday, January 14th at 6:54AM EST (link)

I mean writing “someone owes me a pair of pants”….

Seriously, did he play soccer as a kid, where they dive and whine and do all sorts of theatrics, or did he play football, where you get no glory for going down (hope that miami herald writer doesn’t think that is some “outing” of Crist), but only if you bonce up from a hit.

The Meehan guy did try and thug it up a bit, and then blocked him in a laughable manner, but with our Griff Jenkin’s and McCormack’s, the reporters on the right are looking like the high school audio/visual crew.

Damn, republicans I know can put the fear of good in the sloppy looking SEIU and Teamster thugs the left are trotting out…..truckers nowadays are old…real old.

Get some of those Texas and Oklahoma Republicans, the type that are marines and were all state football players…..we need more of them hanging around…..

 
 

Oh boy

10ksnooker (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:34PM EST (link)

And the ‘I didn’t see nothing’ AG is caught on film LYING.

And why didn’t Massachusetts top law enforcement officer do something?

Probably not going to help.

The initial after her name does wonders, doesn't it?

Mary Beth (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:39PM EST (link)

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Not this time

10ksnooker (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:44PM EST (link)

The events are way to close to the election to not matter.

In the last week the voters watch events much more closely.

 
 
 

The other reporters won't care.

Brian Hibbert (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:44PM EST (link)

McCormack didn’t produce government certified credentials when Coakley’s thug demanded them.

Reminds me of:

SS Man: Papers please.
Civilian: Papers?
SS Man: I said PAPERS!
Civilian: I don’t have them with me…
SS Man: (pulls pistol and whacks the person then drags him in to be interrogated).

Watching crowd: I see nothing… I know nothing…

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We need Tea Party members and GOPer at the polls next week

neyney Wednesday, January 13th at 4:46PM EST (link)

With goons like Meehan as sop for the Dem party these days it will be important to have TP members and GOP ops at as many polling places as humanly possible in MA next week. No longer can the American public trust the Dem party to be honest in elections, especially elections that are as close as this one is projected to be. Just as with Meehan being caught on videotape being the cause of his admitting the truth only with spotlights and vigilance on “voters” in MA will the Dem cheating be stopped. Remember the Black Panther lesson from last year? Bring videotapes and try to keep the dead folks, convicts, Dallas Cowboy roster, illegals etc…from voting…twice for Coakley! As sure as the sun rises the Dems will pull out every dirty trick they can to stop Brown from being elected. Oh and then after he wins make sure the MA elections officials certify him before the HC vote and not be allowed to hold it up. Pitchforks and torches if necessary.

 

Coakley Also Blame the Episode on GOP "Stalkers"

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:52PM EST (link)

… maybe we should start a clock and see when she apologizes for that.

What a whiner and a liar.

Mary Beth (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:57PM EST (link)

She’s in the picture. There’s video. The press is there asking her questions (apparently Griff Jenkins had just asked her moments prior about why she was at the fundraiser in DC) and she knows exactly what happened and why.

She’s making a buffoon of herself with these kinds of…dare I say…transparent… partisan snipes. Are we to believe her characterization or are we to believe our lying eyes?

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Photo shopped

dwander Wednesday, January 13th at 5:07PM EST (link)

Didn’t you notice the obvious photo shopping of that video and picture?

[Never mind]

Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 5:11PM EST (link)

[I was tricked. Ban rescinded.]

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Erick Brockway (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 5:21PM EST (link)

These are too stupid to be fun.
Yeah, he admitted shoving a reporter in a photoshopped picture AND video.

 

You're a great moderator Neil nt

Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 6:21PM EST (link)

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I hope that's not sarcastic :-) (nt)

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Sucking up is NEVER sarcastic Neil.

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 6:46PM EST (link)

At least while you still hold the BlamStick. :-)

 

Speaking of sarcasm...

Mary Beth (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 6:53PM EST (link)

I saw this over at HotAir’s headlines:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/01/12/Company-creates-sarcasm-punctuation/UPI-55751263324278/?usesarctags

““Statements have the period. Questions have the question mark. Exclamations have the exclamation mark. When you see the newest punctuation mark for sarcasm, you’ll know the writer of that sentence doesn’t literally mean what they’re writing; they’re being sarcastic,” the company said in a release.”

//

How long before that’s installed on pretty much every forum or blog that allows comments? ;)

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Not sarc nor snark :-) nt

Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 7:08PM EST (link)

“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma

 
 
 

Eek!

dwander Thursday, January 14th at 12:07PM EST (link)

That must have been close. I was being snarky and thought it obvious. Sorry about the confusion!

 
 
 
 
 

EE, old trick...

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:55PM EST (link)

…the first lie is always remembered by the public as truth if filtered through “respected” media. So, when a mea culpa comes along a day later, no one’s paying attention.

It’s not enough to grouse about it…Make’em pay, especially the media. I have my ideas, I’d love to hear yours.

Make 'em pay,

rivahmitch Thursday, January 14th at 11:35AM EST (link)

My idea: Bismark said it first…

 
 

These creeps need to be surrounded

Common_Cents (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 4:59PM EST (link)

by citizen journalists w/ their cell phone video on at all times.

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That's how they took down Sen. Allen

Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 6:45PM EST (link)

The macaca himself was a lefty assigned to follow and pester him.

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Watching John McCormack on Cavuto right now

sharonmcp (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 5:05PM EST (link)

They showed the video, pics and Meehan’s apology. Earlier Martha said she didn’t “see what happened”.

Is it being too hopeful to predict that this episode just lost her the election?

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My bet, the electorate won't know about this in time....

jenniferjmilleresq Wednesday, January 13th at 5:16PM EST (link)

at least if they rely on their news from local tv, radio and newspapers. Also, I don’t understand the apology’s qualification that he did not see the reporter’s credentials and did not know he was a member of the press. I read the reporter’s account that he actually obliged the agressor and showed him his credentials “even though it was on a public street.” This was assault and battery, plain and simple, whether apologized for or not…and there’s video of it. As the state’s chief prosecutor, Coakley knows the legal elements of these criminal claims. Even so, I don’t think this is enough to win the election unless turnout is really low…and now it’s become national so that possiblity is diminishing.

I'm not so sure about that.

Mary Beth (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 5:29PM EST (link)

IIRC…the day after the left announced they’d stall putting Brown in if he won, Legal Insurrection said that the phone banks in Mass were getting a lot of people talking about that issue. They wanted to talk about it with these callers.

So I guess it depends on whether or not the same channels that passed that information around does the same with this information…and of course, whether or not the people are angered and motivated by it to the point of pushing them over the edge and forcing them to vote when they might not have. Or conversely depressing Dem turnout.

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Mass. isn't downtown San Fran

jackhammer Thursday, January 14th at 7:00AM EST (link)

They aren’t all lefties there. I got a tonne of relatives, who are all solidly R, and they have radio stations, even on the FM dial with lots and lots of right leaning talk, and lots of locals like Howie Carr who definitely aren’t all form the left.

So when the left acts like they own the state, there are people with New Hampshire proclivities who don’t take overly kindly to it.

but they still manage to vote for Kennedy's

kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 7:03AM EST (link)

always.

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it is solidly left, but not exclusively left

jackhammer Thursday, January 14th at 8:45AM EST (link)

There are lots of saab driving Kerry’04 sticker bearing cars putting around the state, but when people are amazed that anybody is outraged at the Democrats thinking they own the state outright, then people take offence.

They are high taxed, limousine liberals, not the poverty pimped urban crowd. so they think they are enlightened in making thier lefty choices, but piss them off too much, and they will feel taken advantage of.

It was said on here before that at least Ted Kennedy always went out and campaigned, right now it looks like they are just taking it for granted….and apparently not every constituency likes being taken for granted.

I never even registered, becasue an R vote in MA is normally a waste of anyones time, but for the first time in a long time we actualyl think they aren’t going to pull the football away….shame I am livign abroad and can’t register form here, otherwise I would definiteyl put in a vote ot match my donation.

 
 
 
 

Time for some PECAN tactics...

azaeroprof (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 5:40PM EST (link)

Pretty Evil Conservatives Activist Nutjobs

(The right-wing version of ACORN.)

Massachusetts is a progressive state. How progressive are there election laws? Could a hundred thousand or so conservatives decide to “suddenly” move there right before the election, register and vote?

I kid..I kid…kinda.

 

Get ready for the smear campaign counter.

Common_Cents (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 5:46PM EST (link)

“Update: A Dem gets in touch to remind me that McCormack had a similar dust-up with Dede Scozzafava — and that he even had the cops called on him over it.”

Mommy, he did something to someone else too! He made me do it!

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YouTube never fails.

Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 5:56PM EST (link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw

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First Amendment?

jimnden Wednesday, January 13th at 6:19PM EST (link)

Only applies to dissent.

 

Seems like I did time a while back

Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 6:28PM EST (link)

for shoving somebody like that. Let’s see, I think they called it thrid degree assault or something of that nature…

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If a leftist reporter were shoved..

Erick Brockway (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 8:27PM EST (link)

…charges would already be filed.
Time to go that route.
Battery?

 
 

Meanwhile, a new letter from...

swami7774 (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 6:58PM EST (link)

…Vicki Kennedy, basically begging the voters to stop that heathen Brown.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/vicki-kennedys-email/

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Why couldn't GWB have surrounded himself...

furious (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 8:17PM EST (link)

…w/people who roughed up reporters (Tony Snow — rest-in-peace — excepted)?

If he was going to be accused of trampling the Constitution anywyay, he could have at least have had some fun.

–furious

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the problem WAS

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 8:24PM EST (link)

GWB.

If you’ll recall Tony Snow smacked down an air-head reporter and got told to apologize.

It’s a real simple formula. If the guy in charge is getting heat and won’t defend himself, none of the enlisted are going to take one for the team.

 
 

Why couldn't GWB have surrounded himself...

furious (Diary) Wednesday, January 13th at 8:17PM EST (link)

…w/people who roughed up reporters (Tony Snow — rest-in-peace — excepted)?

If he was going to be accused of trampling the Constitution anywyay, he could have at least have had some fun.

–furious

“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader

 

Does anyone know ...

dabeall Thursday, January 14th at 7:05AM EST (link)

if this Meehan character is related to Marty Meehan, the former Congressman?

Yes, he is

gemimail Thursday, January 14th at 12:14PM EST (link)

I have read that he is his son.

 
 

In Obama's world the ends justify the means

jeannieology (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 7:55AM EST (link)

So why should Mike Meehan be embarrassed?

He was just making sure Martha Coakley was defended so all those ACORN workers don’t waste their time throwing the election.

http://jeannie-ology.com/?p=5043