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Another Hate Hoax? Democrat Worker Attacked Denver Campaign Office UPDATED With Important Correction

Posted on | October 13, 2012 | 10 Comments

Sometimes, when news breaks, you just wait for the expected sequel, so I didn’t jump when I saw this yesterday via Memeorandum:

Shot fired at Obama campaign field office in Denver

Oh, really? 3, 2, 1 . . . FAKE!

One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.
Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts . . .
Schwenkler is charged with criminal mischief and is to make his first appearance in Denver County Court today.
He is accused of doing an estimated $11,000 in damage and could face a felony conviction.
On the last day of the 2008 Republican National Convention, he was charged with misdemeanor unlawful assembly in St. Paul, Minn.
Court records provided through the St. Paul Pioneer Press show he was jailed about 2 a.m.
Schwenkler received $500 in November 2008 to walk door-to-door in support of Democrat Mollie Cullom, who lost her race to Republican state Rep. David Balmer of Centennial. . . .
Schwenkler was one of dozens of paid canvassers bankrolled by the Colorado Citizens’ Coalition, a political 527 committee funded by labor groups and well-known, wealthy liberal donors.
In those disclosures, Schwenkler’s address is listed as Derailer Bicycle Cooperative, a free community bicycle collective that operates just around the corner from the Democratic headquarters. . . .
Balmer said he suspects the vandalism might have been aimed at making the GOP look bad.
“This sounds like the type of Democratic tactic from the left fringe trying to make Republicans look mean-spirited,” Balmer said. “In this case, it blew up in their face. He was caught red-handed.”

(Via Coalition of the Swilling.) Such desperate gestures are expected when “Democrats are in ‘Last Days of Pompeii’ mode.”

UPDATE: Oops. Didn’t check the date. The Democrat worker attacking the Democrat HQ story is from 2009. In the current investigation, silence prevails:

Neither Democrats, Republicans nor police wanted to speculate whether the assault was random vandalism, or an attack related somehow to the heated presidential campaign. Multiple national media outlets picked up on the story.

Sorry about the false alarm.

Category: Colorado, Crime, Democrats, Election 2012

Comments

10 Responses to “Another Hate Hoax? Democrat Worker Attacked Denver Campaign Office UPDATED With Important Correction”

  1. False-Flag Troll, IRL : The Other McCain
    October 13th, 2012 @ 11:27 pm

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  2. nudsPundit
    October 13th, 2012 @ 11:32 pm

    They were just hoping for a week of changing the narrative to #BlameRighty and then the retraction would get buried in a correction that nobody would ever see. Typical.

  3. W J P
    October 13th, 2012 @ 11:38 pm

    That Denver Post article is from 2009.

  4. Grammie
    October 13th, 2012 @ 11:45 pm

    I think you’re a bit premature in praising the media for exercising restraint in light of the 2009 incident. This is Mediaite’s take via Twitchy:

    “In its coverage of the shooting, Mediaite points to “a rash of anti-Obama vandalism” in 2008 which the campaign “made a conscious decision to downplay … to avoid escalation.” “

  5. Amy Lidster
    October 13th, 2012 @ 11:46 pm

    friggin democraps would rape their own mothers to further their disgusting narratives

  6. Aestro
    October 14th, 2012 @ 12:57 am

    Republican blogger, citing media example of media rushing to blame without knowledge of the incident, rushes to blame without knowledge of the incident.

  7. Adjoran
    October 14th, 2012 @ 4:58 am

    The difference of course being that once McCain discovered his error, he immediately and publicly corrected it.

  8. firefirefire
    October 14th, 2012 @ 7:56 am

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_BLACK_FAVORITISM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-10-13-14-08-26

  9. Saul
    October 14th, 2012 @ 11:01 am

    How do you spell LOL? Acknowledging an undeniable error is no great virtue. Searching for facts to support a preconceived narrative is a bad habit for a reporter. It can put you in exactly this situation: where you decide you have something that is too good to fact-check.

  10. scooby509
    October 14th, 2012 @ 12:06 pm

    “Searching for facts to support a preconceived narrative is a bad habit for a reporter.”

    Given the sheer number of false conservative / republican acts claimed, reported straight, and then quietly corrected when it turned out to be a liberal / democrat activist, this isn’t a preconceived narrative but a historical record.