Please be sure to follow the first rule of filming those protesters the next time.
Have someone filming the filmer. or filmerette (is that a word).
Please be carefull and safe the next time.
Reporting from a hospital bed is no fun.

If there aren’t police at an event they will get violent. At the protest in Denver one guy (apparently a fireman, by the big FIRE on his jacket) walked up to me and said, “are you part of the Tea Party”? I said yes and he said “you’re a f***ing loser” and walked away. These people are not good people.

Be careful out there. And carry some pepper spray for brainwashed neanderthals like that. Any charges being pressed? I’m sure someone would be able to ID him from the video.

the irrational hatred comes from a Pavlovian response to the two things most antithetical to Unions – “freedom” and “work”… Keep fighting the good fight. Love the panda!!!

Your ordeal (and courageous action and video) is a vivid testament to why the Wisconsin battle is so important, and why Mitch Daniels’ swift surrender in Indiana is so unhelpful.

We can’t yield to these bullies. We must defeat them.

Glad you are okay.

Maybe carry a taser? I dunno if that is even legal.
But the pepper spray is a great idea.
Neandrathal indeed. :-O

Unfortunately this is all too typical of the union goons.

Thank God you’re okay – but do remember gekster’s tip about the second camera, it is what beat one Democratic congressman in November.

“This just can’t be tolerated anymore.”

I hope this means you are going to press charges. Nobody ever seems to press charges against these thugs, and it might send a message. Not only a message to the thugs to back off, but a messaage the press (or at least Fox) couldn’t ignore – unions are violent by their very nature, and conservatives are, well, conservative.

Please don’t let this slide.

I think we witnessed a crime, too bad the police are in the union and will not arrest any of their brotherhood. Fire any policeman refusing to arrest that thug.

And thanks for being out there in the line of fire for freedom.

These people cannot be allowed to get away with this. Please file charges against this guy.

I sympathize, but Ms. Hale’s own record of what happened shows that neither tactic would have been effective here.

Ms. Hale had no warning and no time to implement either method of self defense. She was on the ground and in need of assistence with the first strike by that CWA thug. They destroy your camera, and the evidence dies there. In a more lopsided or brutal situation (you just wait), any visible defenses would have been turned on Ms. Hale, and worse could have happened. See female reporters in Cairo. And I don’t mean Cairo, Illinois.

I have two suggestions.

Invest in a camera or operate your camera in a manner such that it cannot be forced into your face. Even if his attempt at harm were merely directed at the camera, Ms. Hale got caught unawares, and was incapacitated. Cameras can be replaced, Ms. Hale cannot.

Work in teams of three cameramen at a minimum. Two people should inconspicuously, and without becoming a threat, flank the main interviewer, and not necessarily shoulder to shoulder, but in a position where those two people can keep filming, or interpose themselves if threatened, or, if charged, can pry the offender off the third quickly giving time to escape unharmed. All with a view to get away safely, with damning film footage.

…to show all my liberal lefty friends who write me and say Glenn Beck should be “locked up for using speech to incite violence.” Yes, they said that and I wish I was kidding. To help beat a dead horse, please file charges against this waste of air.

oil wells may be opened again, someday, when The O gets around to it. Who can blame the thug, every once in a while a man has to stand up for his right to be lied to & hurt by the leftist politicians he supports.

Another idea is use mobile streaming upload sites like Qik or Ustream. With a phone app you can broadcast/archive live to those sites in case someone tries to confiscate your phone or break it.

It’d be cool to have a conservative channel on one of those sites to see the live video at these various events.

Citizen journalism is going to be key to defeating the lame stream media, especially with new technology.

This video makes my blood boil. I’m so glad you are ok. It makes me very angry to see one of ours attacked like this, totally unprovoked. It compounds the anger to recall how the main stream media has portrayed the tea party as violent and racist and yet the only violence or racism has come from the left – from people like this scum.

Stay safe, Ms. Hale.

That’s pretty delicious coming from the same folks who see no problem invading people’s homesteads. terrorizing kids and mothers of people they hate, etc.

Tabitha…
I am glad you are fine as well. I experienced what you did at a Gathering of Eagles Rally in 2007. I was simply holding a sign that was in support of the Troops and their service.

An anti person came up to me and noticed my veteran pin. He got in my face and said, “F-you, F your service and F this Country. Well, obviously I have defended our Country and could not believe what I witnessed.

As you said, this stuff cannot be tolerated. Most disturbing to me, is that my liberal friends are proud to be, yet they are blind to what goes on with the mentality that “Someone else is standing up for me.” If they really paid attention this would be shocking. Sadly, as the messenger and on the opposite side of the fence, I am shot!

Stand tall.

of their agenda than to be violent. They are in a panic because the majority of Americans are now against union criminal tactics and we will be voting accordingly in 2012 So glad you are OK.

Is it just me or do they only seem to want to pick on the weaker (no offense) or smaller ones at these events? This guy isn’t much of a man to strike a woman or anyone else that objects to actions. This is the America Obama wants for us. We must do all in our power to get him and his henchmen out of the whitehouse. We need a president AND a congress that will get us back to the fundementals this country was founded on. Glad you are OK. Please have this guy arrested. It obviously won’t be his first time.

While it is always better to wake up in the hospital than wake up dead, it is not always better to have to go there, instead of court, in the first place. Trust me, I’ve been there. Six days in the hospital for reconstructive surgery on my right eye-socket because I tried to be a good guy been there. No, I don’t shy away from trying to help, but I do remember the axiom: “When seconds count, the police (and emergency crews) are only minutes away”. Yes, be seriously aware of your surroundings, Yes, take serious self-defense courses. Yes, see if your “Electeds” and/or their “Appointee’s” think you’re trustworthy and important enough to be issued a CCW (Conceal Carry Weapon) permit. If they do (you don’t live in San Francisco, as I did at the time), take serious lessons and do serious practice. If they do not, then welcome to “Elitist America”. Where only the “Anointed” are “Allowed” to defend their Lives, Loved Ones, other persons and property as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Then join the NRA.

Rule of law and all that legal stuff. Put him in jail.
Just a whacky thought for a whacking guy…

has been filming these type of events for two years, and doesn’t know the dangers and doesn’t take the proper precautions it seems she was asking for it. Bad as it is, she should take the proper precautions. She should know these loons have no respect for anyone, man or woman, who doesn’t share their point of view. I she happens to read this, please Tabitha Hale, be more careful, The good people don’t want to see you hurt.

You have got to be kidding! Shame on you for even suggesting such a scenario. Yes, loon describes the male in this attack especially well, but your logic fails prior to that.
You have fallen victim to the rape defendants “she was asking for it” defense, which is indefensible!

Glad you were not seriously hurt, Tabitha. Keep working for freedom!

Dear Tabitha:

The video is NOT self explanatory. I saw it on several sites, described as capturing an assault, when the only thing that can be seen in the video is that the camera takes a tumble. Now you are saying that the Union man did hit you. Can you please describe this hit?

Maybe you gave a full description somewhere else and I missed it. If not, may I ask, was his hit directed at your hand, knocking the camera away? Did he knock you down (one possibility as seen in the video)? Did he hit you across the face? And HOW did he hit you? A slap? A punch?

If he just hit your hand, or even just your iphone, that is still an assault, but with all the attention this attack is getting, there really need to be some details.

…but be careful out there Tabitha. We don’t want you or anyone else to be hurt or worse. And NO…you weren’t asking for it. That is BS.

This proves we are winning. The other side is getting desperate to have to resort to this sort of thing. Steady as she goes folks. We’re on the right side of history.

Glad to hear, Miss Hale, that you’re okay.

We can’t give an inch to these thugs.

I think the idea of having many cameras rolling is a very good one. They’re so inexpensive these days.

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