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Six Days Left in Stomping Season

Posted on | October 27, 2010 | 9 Comments

Manhattan and Georgetown are both a long way from Kentucky, but folks at MSNBC evidently hear hobnailed boots goose-stepping through the streets of Lexington, as the Dark Night of Fascism descends.

If recent polls have any predictive utility, by midnight Nov. 2, I expect Chris Matthews to be weeping hysterically over the defeat of Alan Grayson. Keith Olbermann “Special Comment” on the evening Nov. 3 will invoke Martin Niemoller (“First, they came for Mary Jo Kilroy . . .”) while Ed Schultz will congratulate Glenn Beck on retaining his eyesight long enough to witness the destruction he has brought about.

Excuse my dismissive tone toward the these professional paranoiacs, who have been trying to convice us that the now-infamous stomping of a MoveOn.org activist was a portent of a totalitarian future if Republicans win next Tuesday. Coincidentally enough, that’s exactly what the MoveOn.org “RepubliCorp” campaign is all about. Allahpundit posted this video yesterday:

You see? A ready-made dystopia for Democrats who don’t vote. This was the project that was being promoted Monday in Kentucky. My latest American Spectator column:

Lauren Valle wanted to create bad publicity for Rand Paul’s Senate campaign by having herself photographed next to the candidate while displaying a sign that mocked him as a tool of corporate interests.
Miss Valle’s stunt didn’t go off as planned, but the 23-year-old MoveOn.org activist certainly succeeded in her larger goal of creating bad publicity for the Kentucky Republican’s campaign. After she shoved her way through a crowd awaiting the candidate’s arrival for a debate at a TV studio Monday in Lexington, some of Paul’s supporters grabbed Miss Valle, pulled off the blonde wig she was wearing as a disguise and wrestled her to the ground. At least two TV news cameras recorded the most outrageous moment of the melee, when a man wearing a “Rand Paul for U.S. Senate” T-shirt stomped his foot on Miss Valle’s shoulder as she lay helpless on the pavement.
The trademark rapidity of news in the Internet Age took it from there. At 11:03 p.m., Atlantic Monthly senior editor Joshua Green posted an article headlined: “MoveOn Supporter Brutally Attacked by Rand Paul Supporter,” complete with a YouTube video from a Kentucky TV station. The video clip was, as Green said, “truly awful.”
Awful as it was, however, that footage didn’t tell the whole story. Yet no one online nowadays waits for the whole story before reaching their conclusions. “Rand Paul Supporter Stomps Head of Female,” said one “progressive” blogger. By midnight, a liberal blogger in Kentucky (who also happens to be a state employee) had pronounced the incident the work of GOP “Brownshirts.” . . .

Please read the whole thing — before those eeeeeevil Republicans make it illegal to read!

Category: Election, Kentucky

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9 Responses to “Six Days Left in Stomping Season”

  1. KingShamus
    October 27th, 2010 @ 8:58 am

    “At least two TV news cameras recorded the most outrageous moment of the melee, when a man wearing a “Rand Paul for U.S. Senate” T-shirt stomped his foot on Miss Valle’s shoulder as she lay helpless on the pavement.”

    Kenneth Gladney was unavailable for comment.