June 14, 2010 10:49 AM
Rep. Bob Etheridge, NC assaults student
What an ugly scene:
These people are so disengaged! No longer public servants but overpaid, overpensioned recipients of lobbying gifts, and all the pork they can allow each other.
Not to mention the ones who stuffed Obamacare down our throats while keeping themselves and their staffs luxuriating in Cadillac care.
From Andrew Brietbart's BigGovernment:
Expect more of this. The hard, progressive left captured the Democrat majority in Congress and forced them to enact a fantasy grab-bag of legislation that is increasingly unpopular with the American public. We're on the cusp of a deeper recession, millions of unemployed Americans have no prospect for work, taxes are about to spike higher and we've maxed out the national credit card. The Democrats were given a chance to run government and they've only succeeded in running it into the ground.So, yeah, Democrats who are up for reelection this November are a bit testy.
Fortunately, Rep. Etheridge isn't one of those gerry-mandered political welfare queens. According to the Cook Report, his district is an R+2 district. He has a credible opponent. Check her out here.
Here's the other camera:
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Comments
Very shocking! This congressman has lost his mind! No wonder we are in the mess we are in with men like him leading us. Very very sad.
Posted by: Julie | June 14, 2010 11:21 AM
Time to get this guy out! What a creep!
Posted by: Sue from Buffalo | June 14, 2010 3:09 PM
According to our local television station here in NC, Etheridge has apologized. But the story posted on the station's web page has no video showing him apologizing or any quotes from a formal apology.
Sometimes, when people feel out of control, their "true colors" are exposed....
Posted by: von | June 15, 2010 7:20 PM
My comment won't be popular, I don't know anything about this Congressman, and he probably does have to go if that is what the rest of you think, but I am disturbed by this video.
The Congressman asks several times who the young man is, he states he has a right to know who he is. Since he is filming him, I tend to agree. The young man answers he is a student on a project several times. Why did he not give his name, where he is from, the school he attends? This seems very odd to me. If he had said I am Joe Smith from Georgetown University doing a project for a government
class, I think the reaction may have been very different.
Has it been reported who this young man was? What school he attends? What project he was working on? I have missed it if it is out there.
I don't want to defend tis Congressman, because I think I probably disagree with most of what he stands for, but this
video looks like a set up to me, and I don't feel as if the
young man on the tape was innocent of wrongdoing.
Posted by: Danielle Murdock | June 16, 2010 2:09 PM
Danielle, the student took his picture first and a little too up close, in my opinion. The problem is that the congressman immediately grabbed the student's wrist and demanded to know who he was. He wouldn't let go. He demanded. THAT was wrong.
As a servant of the people, he is not supposed to be grabbing us like that and making demands. If the shoe was on the other foot, the student would have been arrested.
Posted by: Sue from Buffalo | June 16, 2010 3:31 PM
