Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

Post by Speaker to Animals » Wed May 24, 2017 6:02 pm

TheReal_ND wrote:Well assault will bar him from a TWIC card so he won't be doing any campaign speeches from a railway, refinery or port unless politicians don't need one.

The judge would likely withhold adjudication. He would have to pay to replace the glasses.

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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

Post by adwinistrator » Wed May 24, 2017 6:03 pm

Speaker to Animals wrote:
TheReal_ND wrote:Well assault will bar him from a TWIC card so he won't be doing any campaign speeches from a railway, refinery or port unless politicians don't need one.

The judge would likely withhold adjudication. He would have to pay to replace the glasses.
Is that a campaign expense?

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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

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adwinistrator wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:
TheReal_ND wrote:Well assault will bar him from a TWIC card so he won't be doing any campaign speeches from a railway, refinery or port unless politicians don't need one.

The judge would likely withhold adjudication. He would have to pay to replace the glasses.
Is that a campaign expense?

Who cares. It's worth it.

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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

Post by adwinistrator » Wed May 24, 2017 6:05 pm

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle will broadcast the press conference re: Gianforte incident live on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/dailychronicle/

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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

Post by TheReal_ND » Wed May 24, 2017 6:08 pm

adwinistrator wrote:The Bozeman Daily Chronicle will broadcast the press conference re: Gianforte incident live on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/dailychronicle/
Nice. Thank you so much for this thread man. I hadn't laughed this hard in days

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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

Post by adwinistrator » Wed May 24, 2017 6:09 pm

TheReal_ND wrote:
adwinistrator wrote:The Bozeman Daily Chronicle will broadcast the press conference re: Gianforte incident live on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/dailychronicle/
Nice. Thank you so much for this thread man. I hadn't laughed this hard in days
My pleasure. I'm as big a fan of the absurd nature of reality as any of you :D




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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

Post by adwinistrator » Wed May 24, 2017 6:15 pm

Full Ben Jacobs interview with Chris Hayes

Bonus:
Missoulian editorial: Gianforte, we're not the enemy (4/27/17)
This week, in an interview with the Billings Gazette editorial board, he offered an apology for his comments about the press and said he fully supports the First Amendment. He also said last week’s comments were just a joke.

While his apology is appreciated, Gianforte needs to take pains to set a better example of civility from now on. As a potential federal officeholder, he should embrace all of the Constitution’s amendments – not just the second one – and live by them. That means demonstrating his unequivocal support in both words and deeds, even when his audience might be egging him in a different direction.

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And Backus wrote that toward the end of the candidate’s talk, a man in the audience said to Gianforte, “Our biggest enemy is the news media” and asked, “How can we rein in the news media?” The man followed up his question by turning to Backus, who was sitting next to him, and “raised his hands as if he would like to wring his neck.”

Gianforte smiled, pointed at the reporter and said this: “We have someone right here. It seems like there is more of us than there is of him. I don’t have a simple solution for you. I will say that doing town hall meetings and getting out and visiting with people is very important.”

This “joke” made at the reporter’s expense wasn’t funny at all. In fact, on its face, the statement demonstrated Gianforte’s agreement that news media are “the enemy.”

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Post by TheReal_ND » Wed May 24, 2017 6:19 pm

I don’t have a simple solution for you
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Post by Smitty-48 » Wed May 24, 2017 6:24 pm

Pfft, took the media troll's bait and now he's given him an even bigger soapbox to bloviate from, this is why you should just disappear them without a trace, there's no constitutional violation, if it "never happened".
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Re: Montana House Candidate Greg Gianforte Just Body-slammed a Reporter

Post by TheReal_ND » Wed May 24, 2017 6:26 pm

Given who a soap box? This shit is wildly popular. I must have got close to a hundred up boats on this thread I copped from adwin