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The guy who stepped on Lauren Valle’s head in Kentucky is Tim Proffitt, a volunteer regional coordinator for Paul. Proffitt came forward and apologized, possibly after a progressive Kentucky blog ID’d him as the perp. The guy who tackled her (and groped her, as far as I can tell from some frames of the vid) is apparently a guy named Mike Pizzano. If I was ReputationDefender I wouldn’t bother returning their calls.

***Update***

Proffitt has already disappeared from Paul’s internet pages (of course). Paul may have a harder time scrubbing the full-page ad in today’s Lexington Herald-Leader that cites Proffitt by name.

***Update 2***

The AP is full of it. Proffitt didn’t apologize at all. He downplayed the incident and blamed the police because they didn’t get between his foot and her head soon enough. In other words he’s the real victim here. Way to keep your eyes on the prize, kid.

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  4. 4.

    celticdragonchick

    @eemom:

    She was released from the hospital this morning after being treated for a concussion and several sprain injuries.

  6. 6.

    morzer

    Tim Profitt, a volunteer with the Republican’s U.S. Senate campaign, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the camera angle made the scuffle Monday night appear worse that it was. He criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.

    This is an apology?

  7. 7.

    licensed to kill time

    __

    MoveOn’s political director Ilyse Hogue tells us that Valle suffered a concussion and sprains to her shoulder and arm as a result of the stomping. We’ll continue to keep you updated as information unfolds.

    linky

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @celticdragonchick: They will be. If the cops take a few extra hours to make sure they have everything right, it is not a bad thing. You don’t want one of these guys to skate because a cop or prosecutor violated his rights, do you? I don’t. Also, I don’t want a cop or prosecutor to violate these guys’ rights because I don’t think their rights should be violated. Better safe than sorry.

  12. 12.

    Legalize

    That’s NOT an apology. It’s whining that he was FORCED by powers other than himself to stomp a woman’s head while she was pinned to the curb by a fellow knuckledragger. Fuck him. Why aren’t these assholes in orange jumpsuits? Personal responsibility, bitches.

  13. 13.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @morzer: “Sorry officer, I didn’t see you when I drove by doing 90, or I would have slowed down.”

  20. 20.

    Martin

    @morzer:

    He criticized police animal control for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist vermin.

    Translated back to teahadist.

  21. 21.

    Earl Butz

    He criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.

    Who had every right to be there and protest.

    He won’t suffer any criminal sanctions – this is Kentucky, after all, where beating women is the state sport – but that video is going to cost him some money. Enjoy the civil suit, asswipe.

  22. 22.

    General Stuck

    He can apologize after pleading guilty to aggravated assault, at the sentencing. Means nada now,.

  23. 23.

    Dennis SGMM

    Why is that son of bitch not in jail? Why are his accomplices not in jail? If a black man had sent a female teabagger to the ER then he would already have been hanged.

  24. 24.

    morzer

    Proffitt has already disappeared from Paul’s internet pages (of course).

    Before the cock crows, Rand Paul will have said “I do not know him” three times.

  25. 25.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    APNewsBreak: Paul volunteer apologizes for scuffle, says video makes it appear worse.

    Yeah, it’ll do that.

    “The act recorded on video makes the attack appear far, far worse than the completely fabricated version I was going to report”.

    That one should be made into T Shirts.

  26. 26.

    Art

    Let’s see….

    1. Stomp on woman in defenseless position.

    2. ?

    3. Proffitt!

    Is that how it works?

  28. 28.

    feebog

    If this doesn’t finish Rand Paul then this country and especially the State of Kentucky is seriously fucked.

  31. 31.

    bemused

    That was some “apology” but not surprising at all. I cringed watching the video. The guy could have easily broken the victim’s neck and he is busy spreading blame around to anything and anyone other than his own decision to do this. Pathetic.

  33. 33.

    morzer

    @feebog:

    It won’t. Rand Paul never knew the man who wasn’t anywhere near the non-event at which he didn’t brutally assault a defenseless woman who wasn’t on the ground with a non-kicking, Your Honor.

  34. 34.

    trollhattan

    This is pretty crappy “political theater” libs, trapping some sad Patriot like this. Hrrrumph.

    Awaiting the Malthouse triangulation on why this proves her original point (whatever that may have been). Also, too, McMegan on why typing “curb kicking” is indeed worse than actual, you know, real-live curb kicking.

  35. 35.

    aimai

    @morzer:

    Yeah, I pulled that iin a comment at alicublog and pointed out that the accusation that “the police should have stepped in” is really square in the tradition of authoritarian followership that libertarians are supposed to eschew. Basically, the argument goes, the individual is not responsible for his actions at all–if government or authority doesn’t step in and tell you exactly what to do, or what not to do, then the individual isn’t to blame. Its a weird inversion of “society’s to blame.” Reminds me of the old phrase used of women with loose morals “no better than she should have been.”

    aimai

  36. 36.

    Obliterati

    His name is Profitt??

    An out-of-control glibertarian named Profitt…jesus, you can’t make this stuff up.

  39. 39.

    Sarcastro

    From the AP:

    “I’m sorry that it came to that, and I apologize if it appeared overly forceful, but I was concerned about Rand’s safety,” Profitt told The Associated Press.

    Still not, actually, an apology for his actions but I believe that’s what the AP headline refers to.

    “A friend of mine went up to three policeman before Rand got there, and told them about the girl who was standing there with that wig on and that she was getting ready to do something,” Profitt said. “The policemen looked at him and said that’s not our job.”

    The perfidy of “something”!

  40. 40.

    celticdragonchick

    BTW…LGF has been going nuclear on this.

    Charles has likened the wingnut treatment of the stomping victim to virtual rape.

  41. 41.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    Paul volunteer apologizes for scuffle, says video makes it appear worse.

    I think that’s because the camera adds ten pounds.

    @morzer:

    He criticized police for not stepping in

    Really! Anyone could have been able to tell that I was part of a crowd of jerkwads that could turn ugly at a moment’s notice! The police should know better than to trust people like me to behave themselves.

  42. 42.

    morzer

    @aimai:

    When I am in power, I favor tyranny.
    When my friends are in power, oligarchy pleases me.
    When the other side wins a democratic election, I become a libertarian and denounce their statist oppression.

  43. 43.

    General Stuck

    @stuckinred: Sadly, I fear you are right. My home state has gone over the edge with the tea bag – get the darky out of my WH – fervor, just like most of the southern and border states. There once was a deep strain of labor democrat voters there that sent folks like Conway to election victories, and a nut like Paul would never have become a viable candidate. The new siren call of old dixie has changed all that.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    Next meme: “She weren’t bein’ held down, she was worshippin’ ‘Sneaker Buddha’.”

  46. 46.

    lacp

    I call bullshit, libtards. Obviously none of you clowns has checked the kerning on his sneakers.

  47. 47.

    mantis

    More fun from Box-o-wine, who has already speculated that the attackers were liberal plants (because they wore wingnut-wear; nice logic, counselor!), she’s followed up with another great theory:

    AND: Perhaps the reason the crowd did not detain the men is that, in person, it did not look as brutal as it seems in the short video clip — a clip that has the words “head” and “stomp” near it.

    See? We think it was an ugly, violent attack because of words near the video wherever Ann Franziahouse happened to see it tell us to, not because of, you know, the actual video.

    I don’t know how, but it gets better:

    Also, look closely. There is no head stomp. The head is on the curb, but the foot presses down on the shoulder. That ends pretty quickly. That restraint might be a reason to speculate that the men were part of some Moveon.org theater, but it could also mean that the men felt they needed to stop her — because she was in disguise and rushing toward the candidate? — and they reacted quickly.

    Interesting admission that a lack of brutality leads her to believe that it was not actually Rand Paul supporters that did it. “I don’t believe it. Real conservatives would have surely killed her for her political views. Must be MoveOn plants. Pansies”

  48. 48.

    pharniel

    Celticdragon – isn’t that what they’re doing? trying to violate her in every way possible so she jsut wants the problem to ‘go away’ and then they can continue curb-stomping motherfuckers?

    that’s pretty much the stock-in-trade of the frichtards – intimidation, invasion, violation until you loose everythign you have or give up.

    sometimes even if you give up just to make an example of you.

  49. 49.

    DonkeyKong

    If you replay the video in slow motion you can clearly see she had an ACORN spider on her.

  50. 50.

    gwangung

    Paul volunteer apologizes for scuffle, says video makes it appear worse.

    Yeah, right. You gave her a concussion, asshole. That rates as assault and battery in ANY STATE, even Kentucky, dickwad.

  52. 52.

    celticdragonchick

    This just breaking.

    66 Gus 802 Tue, Oct 26, 2010 12:53:57pm replyquote

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    The Plum Line – Cops share more details on probe of stomper

    UPDATE, 3:36 p.m.: The Lexington police confirm it in a statement, adding that Profitt is now a suspect (I’ve edited the above to clarify):

    The Lexington Division of Police has identified a suspect in connection to the October 25, 2010 assault of a woman at 600 Cooper Drive.

    On the 25th, at approximately 7:00p.m., officers were alerted to an active assault at 600 Cooper Drive (Kentucky Educational Television Studios).

    Officers responded to the scene of the assault and made contact with the victim. She identified herself as a member of MoveOn.org and stated she was assaulted while attempting to take a picture with candidate Rand Paul. Division of Police patrol officers took an assault report and forwarded the case to the Division of Police Bureau of Investigation.

    Today, October 26, 2010, detectives identified the suspect, involved in the assault, as Tim Profitt. Mr. Profitt is currently being served with a criminal summons ordering him to appear before a Fayette County District Court Judge.

    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/66/8727076

  53. 53.

    me

    He criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.

    I thought Paultards were big believers in “Personal Responsibility”.

  56. 56.

    morzer

    @trollhattan:

    Neither Rand Paul nor his supporters would ever hold a woman down and force her to worship any Buddha, whether sneaker nor aqua. Any such accusation is a vicious attack on our Christian faith and suggests impaired vision. Please note that Rand Paul Inc. has a special this week on self-certified eye glasses for all your vision needs.

  58. 58.

    mslarry

    @Dennis SGMM:

    If a black man had sent a female teabagger to the ER then he would already have been hanged.

    was gonna correct you and say if a black man had sent a white female to the ER, but then i remembered female teabagger=white female

    carry on

  59. 59.

    Tsulagi

    Tim Profitt, a volunteer with the Republican’s U.S. Senate campaign, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the camera angle made the scuffle Monday night appear worse that it was. He criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.

    Amazing how wing/teanuts never fail to be the victim in their minds.

    Now victimized by a liberal camera angle. And by the police for not stepping in to prevent him from stepping on a woman’s head. Gotta love that vaunted sense of personal responsibility and accountability.

  60. 60.

    General Stuck

    @gwangung:

    And the thing about KY, is it’s a Commonwealth, and even if the victim doesn’t press charges, the state is bound to if it has the evidence to prosecute, and a video, unless there is a cop doing the assaulting, is pretty solid evidence.

  63. 63.

    morzer

    @FlipYrWhig:

    I suspect that Rand Paul might be deeply afraid of people trying to take pictures of him. I bet he doesn’t show up in mirrors either….

  67. 67.

    The Other Chuck

    Party of Personal Responsibility, ladies and gentlemen.

    If the campaign silently scrubbed the guy off, then they’re accomplices after the fact as far as I’m concerned. At the very least they should incur civil liability.

  70. 70.

    Barb (formerly gex)

    Curb stomping women, pushing teenage girls,…etc.

    The old right wing white guys can really bring it to a fight. So long as they are picking on children or ganging up on women. How can we have this many violent men around when we are lacking soldiers for our many wars?

  71. 71.

    celticdragonchick

    More from that linked story…

    However: It looks as if this may not result in an arrest. Based on the footage of the incident, cops are treating the case for the time being as a fourth degree assault case, which puts this in the realm of domestic violence scuffles and barfights, she tells me. She says they’re treating this as a “misdemeanor, not a felony.”

    Cops have to witness a scuffle like this firsthand in order to make an arrest, she adds. If they do identify the suspect, the victim, Lauren Halle, has the right to ask a judge at Fayette district court to bring charges. In other words, this is likely to be up to the court.
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/69/8727079

  72. 72.

    WyldPirate

    @Martin:

    He criticized police animal control for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the lesbian, librul, activist vermin.

    Fixed to add more adjectives to induce the proper level of rage for the Teahadists.

    We need a small image to paste in to represent spittle-flecks flying….

  74. 74.

    Linda Featheringill

    @mantis:

    AND: Perhaps the reason the crowd did not detain the men is that, in person, it did not look as brutal as it seems in the short video clip — a clip that has the words “head” and “stomp” near it.

    So what about the lady who rushed in and pushed away the guy holding the MoveOn woman down? I think she thought it looked brutal. And what about the man who came up behind her and talked Joe Stomper away? I think he thought it looked brutal.

  75. 75.

    Bella Q

    @General Stuck: But, in a Bell County election report I received after my friend from Pineville spent a week with some childhood friends:

    My friends from Pineville have been Republicans all of their lives. Two out of three said they will have a hard time voting for Rand Paul. They said, we are conservative, he is crazy. They didn’t have a problem with the outsider thing. They just think his positions are too extreme. They also blame the Northern Kentucky Republicans for this mess. They said if Bunning/Grayson feud hadn’t lasted so long, Paul would have never gotten the nomination. One of my friends has college-age kids. She said she is worried because the young people like Paul.

    I’m somewhat heartened to hear this, as here are actual KY Rs who are troubled by Baby Doc.

  76. 76.

    JPL

    Somehow, I don’t think the Kentucky Police are going to take kindly to Profitt’s statement blaming them.
    He criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.

  77. 77.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @me:

    I thought Paultards were big believers in “Personal Responsibility”.

    Only as it pertains to anybody other than themselves.

    Just like it’s gubmint welfare unless I’m the one getting the farm subsidy check, or the big tax break.

  78. 78.

    morzer

    @4tehlulz:

    Al Gore probably sharpened a pencil aggressively this morning, so clearly it was self-defense by poor frightened Astroturf Jr.

  79. 79.

    General Stuck

    @Bella Q:

    I don’t know though, as most polls have Paul ahead statewide. It will be a sad day if KY elects this dangerous fool. I guess we will know in a week.

  81. 81.

    celticdragonchick

    @4tehlulz:

    Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, a liberal did a thing, so this is not a big deal.

    Idiots at McMegan were actually telling me teh libruls are worse because of what a guy did in 2006 in fucking Denmark.

    Denmark.

    Oh, and Acorn Weathermen Black Panther dudes with second hand berets and sunglasses are coming to rape their lilly white butts when they vote in Philadelphia, or something like that.

  82. 82.

    MattR

    @me:

    I thought Paultards were big believers in “Personal Responsibility”.

    They do. As in, that woman from moveon.org has a personal responsibility not to put herself in a position where real Merikans will be forced to act in that way.

  83. 83.

    batgirl

    AP headline calls that a “scuffle.” WTF! That is an outright assault. There goes our liberal media again.

  84. 84.

    Midnight Marauder

    @morzer:

    Fake picture, comrade, fake picture. Have you forgotten everything that Comrade Malkin taught us?

    DAMNIT! How could I have been so naive?!

  85. 85.

    Barb (formerly gex)

    @me:

    I thought Paultards were big believers in “Personal Responsibility”.

    Not for the ubermensch. Just for the parasites that take from their Galtian betters.

  86. 86.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @mantis: I give it a week before enhanced videos emerge showing that it’s not his foot, but two other footmen on the grassy knoll.

  87. 87.

    mantis

    @FlipYrWhig:

    So are the Paulites suggesting that they were worried she was going to assassinate him or something?

    Seems that way. From the scumbag fascist’s “apology”:

    A Rand Paul supporter is apologizing after he was seen on video stepping on a liberal activist’s head.

    Tim Profitt, a volunteer with the Republican’s U.S. Senate campaign, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the camera angle made the scuffle Monday night appear worse that it was. He criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.

    What did they warn the police about her? She was wearing a wig. Obviously an assassin, then.

  90. 90.

    WyldPirate

    @General Stuck:

    There once was a deep strain of labor democrat voters there that sent folks like Conway to election victories, and a nut like Paul would never have become a viable candidate.

    That was back in the days before civil rights movement (and well after for the most part) when the best shot most black folks had at a “good” job was sweeping floors in the south. It was before the days of Hispanics moving in and off-shoring of manufacturing and before Reagan crushed the Unions.

    Many of the retired Teahadists raising such a stink remember the days when they could buy a home and support a family on one income and not even have a high school diploma.

    The wealthy are good at misdirecting the rage of the proles. They always have been.

  92. 92.

    Bella Q

    I’ll say it here, again. Mock me now (and remind me in 8 days if I’m wrong), the good folks of the Commonwealth are not going to elect anyone as batshit crazy as Baby Doc. Especially after his Bourbon County Coordinator (a fine Paris fellow apparently) gets caught on tape in “a scuffle” with a short young woman armed with only a wig and a sign, and then is caught with his name and title in a large Rand Paul Herald Leader ad the very next day. Even if she was a Yankee agitator, it won’t fly.

  93. 93.

    celticdragonchick

    Some of the love from the freepers…

    *******************

    I dont have a problem with this…

    I dont F’ing care if the leftists do…

    Honestly, Im game for putting any leftist POS who even thinks about acting stupid in the GD hospital.

    It is NOT our fault it had to come to this. but it HAS come to this and its our duty to MAKE them understand that its in their best interests to go the F away. We have always been able to put these people down but have shied away from it because we know that once we start to cross that bridge we have to go all the way. We gave up A LOT to avoid this from happening but the F’ers just kept on pushing… Now they have pushed us onto that bridge and we ARE going to cross it. Enough is enough…

    Act like a F’ing IDIOT at your own peril.

    […]

    I’d have shot the b**** and been done with it.

    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37446_Right_Wing_Bloggers_on_Stomping-_It_Was_Faked_It_Was_Staged_She_Deserved_It/comments/

    I don’t want to believe the ugly comments at almost every right wing blog about the woman assaulted by Rand Paul supporters last night. Has the entire wingnut blogosphere turned into a pack of rabid animals?

    Yep.

  94. 94.

    morzer

    @Bella Q:

    I deeply hope you are right, but my guess is that the so-called moderates will manage to hold their noses just long enough to vote for Rand the Aqua Jackboot of Liberty.

  95. 95.

    Chris G.

    @MikeJ: I think you mean a private company would have stopped it, if she’d paid her $75 anti-being-curb-stomped fee.

  96. 96.

    Joseph Nobles

    @mantis: Wow, it “didn’t look as brutal” from their angle according to Box-a-Wine? Memo to all concerned – forget about the head stomp. The yanking down and slamming on the ground all by itself is brutal enough to have called foul. That is what “too brutal” looks like from any angle. Please memorize this and apply in the future.

    WWJCS?

  99. 99.

    celticdragonchick

    @WyldPirate:

    The wealthy are good at misdirecting the rage of the proles. They always have been.

    This. What the “white trash” have never figured out is that they are just as despised and mocked by the top two percenters as the uppity black folks are.

  100. 100.

    Steve

    I would note that Ashley Todd also claimed to have been assaulted shortly before an election, which goes to show you that both sides do it.

  101. 101.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @mantis: She was violating their first amendment rights by being there. Just like Juan Williams’ rights were violated by being fired.

  103. 103.

    celticdragonchick

    @Chris G.:

    I think you mean a private company would have stopped it, if she’d paid her $75 anti-being-curb-stomped fee.

    I’d laugh on another day, because that is actually pretty damned funny in a sad, cynical way.

    I can’t find the laughter today, though.

  104. 104.

    morzer

    @celticdragonchick:

    Actually, they sort of know. But they always had the black folk to look down on, so they could feel good about their relative “superiority”. That’s no longer true – and it’s not surprising that so many of the teabaggers are the sad sack white Southern resentment artists who were in or approaching adolescence when Civil Rights passed.

  107. 107.

    chopper

    it’s okay, paul is finally condemning the attack:

    The Paul for Senate campaign is extremely disappointed in, and condemns the actions of a supporter last night outside the KET debate. Whatever the perceived provocation, any level of aggression or violence is deplorable, and will not be tolerated by our campaign. The Paul campaign has disassociated itself from the volunteer who took part in this incident, and once again urges all activists — on both sides — to remember that their political passions should never manifest themselves in physical altercations of any kind.”

    hear that? it doesn’t matter how awful liberals are, violence on both sides is wrong!

    jesus, this guy just can’t admit when his guys fuck up. he’s a born senator.

  110. 110.

    General Stuck

    Ms Valle is saying her attackers knew who she was and pre meditated the attack.

    The woman who was dragged to the ground and stomped by Rand Paul supporters outside of the Kentucky Senate debate last says her assailants recognized her as a regular anti-Paul protester and premeditated their attack.

  112. 112.

    mantis

    @Poopyman:

    Proffitt’s been “disassociated” from the campaign.
    Whatever that means in Randspeak

    Same as at Fox. He’s been promoted and given a raise.

  114. 114.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Poopyman: It means he’ll have to look for new stomping grounds.

    Sounds like they might have bars, from what I’m reading.

  116. 116.

    Hunter Gathers

    This guy is fucking screwed. No defense attorney will want to have that video shown to a jury . Proffitt better clam up, lawyer up, and plea bargain his ass off unless he wants to spend his time in federal lock-up. Even if he gets off with a simple misdemeanor, the guys he’ll spend time with probably won’t find what he did very funny. At all. Guys who assault women get the shit kicked out of them when they get tossed in the drunk tank.

  117. 117.

    Barb (formerly gex)

    @mantis: Remember the guy in Chambliss’ office that posted “all fags must die” on a blog?

    He was “removed” too.

    If you think he was fired, though, you’d be mistaken. He was moved to a different office so subsequent posts won’t trace back to the Senator’s offices.

    That’s how they reward the anti-social elements they turn loose on the world while disavowing any support of their actions.

  118. 118.

    Dennis SGMM

    @morzer:
    Bingo! I was born in 1948 so I do remember the days when a high school diploma and a job were enough to float a stay at home wife and a family. Later I learned that the top marginal tax rate in those halcyon days was 90%.

    My country ’tis of thee has grown older but no wiser.

  119. 119.

    mantis

    @Barb (formerly gex):

    If you think he was fired, though, you’d be mistaken. He was moved to a different office so subsequent posts won’t trace back to the Senator’s offices.

    Of course! They can’t let great young conservative talents like that slip away. They are the future!

  120. 120.

    Bella Q

    @Poopyman: My favorite quote from that article:

    Jesse Benton, Paul’s campaign manager, said the campaign has heard rumors of others involved in the incident but has not provided names to Lexington police.“We would be happy to receive their phone call and would help in any way we could,” he said.

    Of course they can’t pick up the telephone – that’s not the glibertarian way. Such fucks.

  121. 121.

    Martin

    @Poopyman: It means they keep his name off the website, and he’s welcome to keep curbstomping people as a private supporter of Rand, given that he makes bail.

  122. 122.

    freelancer

    @Poopyman:

    Proffitt’s been “disassociated” from the campaign. Whatever that means in Randspeak.

    It means their excuse is that the perps went batshit like Bill Pullman in Lost Highway.

  124. 124.

    WyldPirate

    @morzer:

    Actually, they sort of know. But they always had the black folk to look down on, so they could feel good about their relative “superiority”.

    Now they have the”librul elite”, Mexicans, Muslims, homosexuals, etc. The list is endless and the fans get flamed 24/7/365 on your AM dial and Fox News.

    The “two minute hate” used to be much more focused in the south and amongst the working class than it is now. The fan-flaming was much more subtle in many ways as well. Hell, there were even some times when the oppressed blacks and whites banded together to some extent (Great Depression).

  126. 126.

    Poopyman

    @Poopyman: I also have to say I found the story headline to be amusing, in a bitter sort of way:

    Rand Paul supporter booted from campaign despite being sorry for stepping on woman’s head

    ETA: The final prepositional phrase is the “bitter” part.

  127. 127.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Brett Farve fractured his foot in two places and did not cry about it. Therefore, using Logic, I conclude that Brett Farve is likely a Teabagger, and not an agitator at MoveOn.org.

  131. 131.

    Poopyman

    @Brick Oven Bill: WTF are you talking about? How does an athlete making umptymillion a year to get hit by large men compare with a woman on a street getting taken down by a bunch of guys?

  133. 133.

    General Stuck

    I reckon Aqua Buddha moves in mysterious ways, though not necessarily in line with the gooper narrative a week before an election. Thankfully, Ms Valle is recovering from this vicious assault by REPUBLICANS.

    Praise Aqua Buddha

  135. 135.

    Poopyman

    @brendancalling: Well…. (leans back into a thoughtful pose) I suppose that for someone lacking any empathy for fellow human beings it would be instructive to him. Possible do him a world of good. In the long run, at least.

  140. 140.

    bemused

    Ooooh, she was wearing a wig, looked suspicious. This is where my spouse chimes in for the umpteenth time to say these people are scared shitless about everything.

  142. 142.

    Jay C

    I don’t want to believe the ugly comments at almost every right wing blog about the woman assaulted by Rand Paul supporters last night. Has the entire wingnut blogosphere turned into a pack of rabid animals?

    And this, from Charles Johnson, no less: who – not that long ago, used to be cited freely as the very example of the “rabid wingnut blogger”! He, at least, seems to have come to his senses….

    And if he thinks the Starboard Blogosphere is worked up now, just wait til after Election Day: anything other than a 1994-level GOP sweep is probably going to send the wingers right over the edge!

  144. 144.

    Poopyman

    @Jay C:

    And if he thinks the Starboard Blogosphere is worked up now, just wait til after Election Day: -anything other than-Everything including a 1994-level GOP sweep is probably going to send the wingers right over the edge!

    I tend to lean towards the edited scenario.

  146. 146.

    anticontrarian

    I think we can all agree that Valle should just thank her lucky stars they didn’t go all Second Amendment on her ass and STFU. She was totally asking for it, trying to use that blonde wig to disguise her Muslim or possibly Hispanic swarthiness. If she’d got close enough, she might’ve miscegenated Rand Paul, and then who would all those Kentuckyan patriots vote for?

  147. 147.

    JD Rhoades

    @trollhattan:

    Whatever you do, don’t read te comment section on McMegans’ blog. Some of her idiot followers are arguing that “he didn’t actually stomp her head, it was her neck and shoulder.”

    I seriously want to punch one of these fuckers right now and go, “hey, don’t say I broke your nose, it was your jaw, get it right.”

  148. 148.

    bemused

    Charles Johnson didn’t notice that the entire wingnut blogosphere had turned into a pack of rabid animals quite some time ago? Where has he been?

  153. 153.

    Remember November

    I think they want to acertain the extent of her injuries. I’m sure there will be dozens of FreeMarket attorneys just itching to sue Profitt for a profit.

    Ironic name, he haz it.

    Obviously the McMegan sycophants don’t understand how the neck and C-1-5 vertebrae attach to the head.

    Because theirs is obviously attached to their pelvic vertebrae.

  157. 157.

    Stefan

    APNewsBreak: Paul volunteer apologizes for scuffle, says video makes it appear worse.

    Well, they say the camera does add ten pounds to the force of a man’s foot pressing down on a woman’s head.

  158. 158.

    PaulW

    So the woman was going to approach Rand Paul with a sign and a paper to mock his approach to the event. What was the serious threat she posed: the possibility of a severe papercut?!

    The Randians quite simply over-reacted to her presence. Instead of hastening to any police officer that ought to have been on duty at such an event and try to defuse through legal means any kind of embarrassing moment, they took matters into their own hands… and feet.

    What’s horrifying about this incident is that A) the attackers believe themselves justified in attacking the lone woman, B) they attacked without thinking, jumping entirely by instinct into a fray that shouldn’t have even started.

    The emotional state of our entire nation is on raw nerves now. We ARE at the point where violence is going to become a norm, not an accident.

  159. 159.

    Uloborus

    @PaulW:
    Let me make this worse. They did actually go to the police first. The police said ‘You’ve got to be kidding me’ and ignored it.

    Actually, I think the official phrasing was ‘That’s not our job’ but… yeah.

  160. 160.

    Cris

    @PaulW: The Randians quite simply over-reacted to her presence.

    Check out the video with the sound up: as they’re dragging her to the ground, you can hear people shouting “Call the cops!” Like she was obviously doing something dangerous. With a piece of paper. You know.

  161. 161.

    Kirk Spencer

    @Cris:

    Check out the video with the sound up: as they’re dragging her to the ground, you can hear people shouting “Call the cops!”

    Actually, my opinion is that it’s the cameraman doing the yelling, calling for help. I’ve noticed that one voice is fairly constant volume even though the camera has moved.

    Even if it isn’t the cameraman, that may have been the intent – to protect her, not her assailants.

  162. 162.

    Sharl

    Kirk Spencer is pretty much right, according to a Kentucky blogger who was there (post link). The excerpt below comes from the comments, and is also from the author of the main post (comment link).

    __

    By the way, the voices in the video saying call the police were absolutely positively not Rand Paul supporters. One of those voices was me. The people wanting the police called were the people wanting to get these goons off her and have the police investigate.
    __
    To those who ask why no one intervened: I was less than 10 feet away. I did think about literally jumping in, but by the time I realized what they were doing and had that thought, they were already being pulled off her.
    __
    It also occurred to me that it could quickly become a full-blown riot, and since the injury to the victim was over, I thought that wouldn’t help anything.
    __
    I will testify in court against this guy. I got a real good look at him and followed him afterwards. I don’t think this goes beyond Assault in the Fourth Degree, but that is still a class A misdemeanor, and carries up to 12 months in jail. That’s a significant potential penalty.

  163. 163.

    The Other Chuck

    From Lauren Valle herself:

    I have been at a bunch of events before, the previous debate, and the Rand Paul campaign knows me and they have expressed their distastes for my work before. What happened last night was that about five minutes before Rand Paul’s car arrived they identified me and my partner, Alex, who was with me. They surrounded me. There was five of them. They motioned to each other and got behind me. My partner Alex heard them say ‘We are here to do crowd control we might have to take someone out.’

    This is way more than fourth degree assault. This is pound-me-in-the-ass-prison premeditated conspiracy stuff.

  164. 164.

    AxelFoley

    @Dennis SGMM:

    Why is that son of bitch not in jail? Why are his accomplices not in jail? If a black man had sent a female teabagger to the ER then he would already have been hanged.

    Ex-fuckin’-actly.

  165. 165.

    Mnemosyne

    @Cris:

    Check out the video with the sound up: as they’re dragging her to the ground, you can hear people shouting “Call the cops!” Like she was obviously doing something dangerous. With a piece of paper. You know.

    I dunno, if I saw 5 guys chasing a woman and then slamming her to the ground and kicking her in the head, I’d be screaming, “Call the cops!” too. I think you’re seeing bad motives where they don’t exist.

  166. 166.

    Ozymandias, King of Ants

    Obvious, I know, but still apt:

    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine Tim Profitt’s shoe stomping on Lauren Valle’s face — forever.”

  167. 167.

    Petorado

    Remember when it used to be that the thing to fear was the mythical jackbooted government thugs wrestling our women to the ground and abusing them? Now, in reality, it’s the jack-tennishoed anti-government thugs wrestling our women to the ground and abusing them that are the big threat to our nation’s well-being.

  169. 169.

    Cris

    @Sharl: Thanks for setting the record straight on that one, you all. I know somebody mocked this phrase the other day, but: I’m glad to have been wrong.

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