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Presenting To You, Congressman Bob Etheridge…

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… Democrat, 2nd District, NC, and Grand Imperial Poobah of the Fraternal Order of Arrogant Douchebags.

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I think it’s pretty obvious that this jerk has forgotten who the hell he works for.

That would be you, voters of North Carolina. Time to remind ol’ Bob of that fact, by putting him in the unemployment line.

Good thing you were in Washington, Congressman. You’re a southern boy, and you have to know that behaving like that back home would earn you a good, old-fashioned ass-kicking.

This one needs to go viral, folks. Anyone who reads my blog, I challenge to re-post this on your own blogs or Facebook page. Encourage your friends and readers to do the same. These people don’t fear us, and it’s about damned time they did.

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Posted by on June 14, 2010 • Filed under: Uncategorized

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1787673798 Eric Ford

    Done, posted to FB because I dont have a blog

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1787673798 Eric Ford

    Done

  • http://www.ambulancedriverfiles.com Ambulance Driver

    I know. I’m just adding my voice to the mix. I saw it on PDB’s Facebook page yesterday. ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1787673798 Eric Ford

    Done, posted to FB because I dont have a blog

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1787673798 Eric Ford

    Done

  • Jonathan Pelham

    Methinks the representative is rather suspicious.

  • http://thedrawncutlass.blogspot.com/ Robert

    Actually, you're a little late to this dance, AD. Just about everyone has already blogged on this one. *grins*

  • Buttdart

    Douchebag committed douchebaggery…

  • Totwtytr

    Fox was all over it, of course. He's apologized, but personally I think he should resign. The kids did a good job keeping their cool. I'd have kicked the crap out of him. He was the aggressor, it would just be self defense.

  • Reddavewilson

    I have a feeling that if a stranger rushed you while yelling and sticking his hand in your face, you might react similarly, AD.

  • Ambulance_Driver

    Um, who are you talking about Dave?

    Because the only aggressor there was Congressman Etheridge. Nobody rushed him, and nobody stuck a hand in his face. And there was no yelling.

    The Congressman turns toward the cameraman, advances, and asks who he is. When he doesn't get an answer fast enough to suit him, he strikes at the cameraman.

  • mmorsepfd

    I've had a few cameras stuffed in my face, I just ignore them and keep working. I do think it is rather rude to walk up to somebody in the street and start filming them and asking questions. The congressman should have kept walking, the kids should have set up an interview if they wanted to talk to this guy.

  • Sewmouse

    I think the ones who need an arsekicking are the “students”. The Congressman asks a valid question “Who are you”. Instead of answering and starting a dialog, they persist in refusing to give their names or affiliation and asking vague and undefined questions.

    What would be so terrible about saying “I am Bob Smarmypants and this is Bill Smartaleck, and we are students at BillyBob University working on a journalism project, may we ask you a few questions, Sir?”

    This is Geraldo-esque Gotcha “journalism”. My sympathies lie with the Congresscritter.

  • Chrystoph

    Facebook shared, and why hasn't this man been arrested?

  • xioc1138

    You don't know much about the rights of the citizens of the US. They have the right to not give up their private information to a Federal Employee, especially since they weren't committing a crime.

    The senator oppressed (lightly, but the action is still there) those kids for no real reason.

  • Anonymous

    If my favorite Republican legislator were accosted by ACORN or SIEU operatives, who did nothing more than film him with a camera and ask him uncomfortable questions, and he assaulted the cameraman and grabbed the wrist of the other party, I’d vote for that legislator’s opponent in the very next election, no matter who it was, because that man has lost touch of who runs this country.

    By the way, he did more than grab one man’s wrist. He also bodily grabbed the cameraman, and shoved him.

    I will repeat, you do not get to assault people, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, just because they stuck a camera in your face and asked you a question. You do not have a legal right to know who they are, and you have no reasonable expectation of privacy on a public street.

    You don’t get to shove people around just because they annoy you.

    Let’s turn this around, shall we? Let’s say these two young men did identify themselves, and asked Congressman Etheridge a legitimate question on, say, health care policy.

    When the Congressman refuses to answer, they tackle him, one of them grabs him in a wrist lock, and demands, “Answer the question!”

    By your logic, that sort of thing would be okay. By mine, the Congressman would have been justified in kicking their asses, and both of them would be in jail for assault.

    But that’s not what happened in this case, because the man doing the assaulting was a U.S Congressman. They think the rules don’t apply to them, because they’re better than you or me.

    And you giving him a pass on his behavior just reinforces that erroneous assumption.

  • Ambulance_Driver

    Sewmouse, the question they asked was “Why do you support President Obama's agenda?”

    While that's pretty vague and undefined, it's hardly grounds for an ass-kicking. And of course, further questioning kind of gets thrown out the window once the man you're questioning starts slapping around your cameraman and grabs you by the wrist. Kinda hard to remain on topic when you're being assaulted, you know? The whole focus of the encounter becomes the assault, and not the original question.

    And the fault for that lies with the asshole who did the assaulting.

    Just so I understand you correctly: You think it's justified for a U.S. Congressman to assault two people just because those people asked him a question? Really???

  • Sewmouse

    I think the ones who need an arsekicking are the “students”. The Congressman asks a valid question “Who are you”. Instead of answering and starting a dialog, they persist in refusing to give their names or affiliation and asking vague and undefined questions.

    What would be so terrible about saying “I am Bob Smarmypants and this is Bill Smartaleck, and we are students at BillyBob University working on a journalism project, may we ask you a few questions, Sir?”

    This is Geraldo-esque Gotcha “journalism”. My sympathies lie with the Congresscritter.

  • Chrystoph

    Facebook shared, and why hasn't this man been arrested?

  • xioc1138

    You don't know much about the rights of the citizens of the US. They have the right to not give up their private information to a Federal Employee, especially since they weren't committing a crime.

    The senator oppressed (lightly, but the action is still there) those kids for no real reason.

  • Ambulance_Driver

    Sewmouse, the question they asked was “Why do you support President Obama's agenda?”

    While that's pretty vague and undefined, it's hardly grounds for an ass-kicking. And of course, further questioning kind of gets thrown out the window once the man you're questioning starts slapping around your cameraman and grabs you by the wrist. Kinda hard to remain on topic when you're being assaulted, you know? The whole focus of the encounter becomes the assault, and not the original question.

    And the fault for that lies with the asshole who did the assaulting.

    Just so I understand you correctly: You think it's justified for a U.S. Congressman to assault two people just because those people asked him a question? Really???

  • Ambulance_Driver

    It wouldn't surprise me at all if these kids were Republican operatives, and expected just such an encounter with the Congressman. He may have been set up.

    All the same, Congressman Etheridge's reaction demonstrates one singularly ugly fact: he thinks we work for him, and not the other way around.

    And government is full of men just like him. They need to go.

  • Sewmouse

    The congressman was walking along quietly. Instead of politely approaching him, these “students” (I agree, this may very WELL have been a Faux News or Republican plant), accosted him and stuck a mic in his face, refusing to give their names or affiliation.

    You will note that they have very “cleverly” removed their own faces/identities from this video, and if it has been edited in that way, I can only assume that it has been edited in other ways as well.

    While holding on to the “student's” wrist was perhaps a bit over-the-top, and perhaps technically “assault”, it is stretching the point, IMNSHO. I would, btw, feel quite the same way if someone with a Democratic agenda were to pull this kind of shenanigans on a Republican legislator.

  • Ambulance_Driver

    If my favorite Republican legislator were accosted by ACORN or SIEU operatives, who did nothing more than film him with a camera and ask him uncomfortable questions, and he assaulted the cameraman and grabbed the wrist of the other party, I'd vote for that legislator's opponent in the very next election, no matter who it was, because that man has lost touch of who runs this country.

    By the way, he did more than grab one man's wrist. He also bodily grabbed the cameraman, and shoved him.

    I will repeat, you do not get to assault people, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, just because they stuck a camera in your face and asked you a question. You do not have a legal right to know who they are, and you have no reasonable expectation of privacy on a public street.

    You don't get to shove people around just because they annoy you.

    Let's turn this around, shall we? Let's say these two young men did identify themselves, and asked Congressman Etheridge a legitimate question on, say, health care policy.

    When the Congressman refuses to answer, they tackle him, one of them grabs him in a wrist lock, and demands, “Answer the question!”

    By your logic, that sort of thing would be okay. By mine, the Congressman would have been justified in kicking their asses, and both of them would be in jail for assault.

    But that's not what happened in this case, because the man doing the assaulting was a U.S Congressman. They think the rules don't apply to them, because they're better than you or me.

    And you giving him a pass on his behavior just reinforces that erroneous assumption.

  • maddmedic

    Done did it!
    Hmmm reminds me of a Minnesota Clown err Senator, Al Franken!! He went off on a college student during the last farce of an election here in Land of 10,000 Loons errr Lakes!!

  • laisladlisa

    Hunh. I went in the opposite direction than you on this one and think the kids owe the congressman an apology. Utterly disrespectful.

  • Ambulance_Driver

    So you're okay with the Congressman's actions, and think the kids acted inappropriately?

    WOW.

  • laisladlisa

    Hunh. I went in the opposite direction than you on this one and think the kids owe the congressman an apology. Utterly disrespectful.

  • Ambulance_Driver

    So you're okay with the Congressman's actions, and think the kids acted inappropriately?

    WOW.

  • Jsleight

    You're a congressman, a representative of the PUBLIC, you should be used to people walking up to you and asking you questions, and you should respond in a kind manner, no matter how annoyed you are, remember the public controls your life when you hold public office. Hell I think the congressman should be voted out of office, I don't care who his opponent is! If you wish to serve the public, you should be open to being approached in public, and not in your confortable office after your staff has prepared your answers for you…

  • Jsleight

    You're a congressman, a representative of the PUBLIC, you should be used to people walking up to you and asking you questions, and you should respond in a kind manner, no matter how annoyed you are, remember the public controls your life when you hold public office. Hell I think the congressman should be voted out of office, I don't care who his opponent is! If you wish to serve the public, you should be open to being approached in public, and not in your confortable office after your staff has prepared your answers for you…

  • Larry

    Yep. (sigh) That's my congresscritter (at least until the next election).

  • SeanEddy

    And what happens when they fear the people that they work for? They push bills to give the President power to silence the internet. But hey, it works for China!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1caZvxMUWk&feat…

  • SeanEddy

    And what happens when they fear the people that they work for? They push bills to give the President power to silence the internet. But hey, it works for China!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1caZvxMUWk&feat…

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