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Woke Up This Morning, Got a Blue Moon in Your Eyes

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Michael Grimm, a Republican representing Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, won the State of the Union Republican Asshole of the Day Contest after an interview with a home-town cable news reporter:

“So Congressman Michael Grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his campaign finances,” Scotto said before tossing back to the station. But as the camera continued to roll, Grimm walked back up to Scotto and began speaking to him in a low voice.

“What?” Scotto responded. “I just wanted to ask you…”

Grimm: “Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I’ll throw you off this f—–g balcony.”

Scotto: “Why? I just wanted to ask you…”

[[cross talk]]

Grimm: “If you ever do that to me again…”

Scotto: “Why? Why? It’s a valid question.”

[[cross talk]]

Grimm: “No, no, you’re not man enough, you’re not man enough. I’ll break you in half. Like a boy.”

There’s video at the link.

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  1. 1.

    PurpleGirl

    As you can expect this is big story on NY1 this morning. People are surprised at the Congressman’s actions since he could have seen the camera was still there and Scotto was still holding his mic. It should be assumed that the mic on still on and the camera still running. Stupid reaction on Grimm’s part. His constituency might like it, think it shows he’s a tough man but it shows, I think, that he’s a stupid man.

  2. 2.

    Cermet

    What a total asswipe and worst, the low IQ’s that voted for this complete filth will be pround of that clown’s actions; be sure, the coward making those threats would get his clock cleaned if he had tried to act on those empty words. What a joke all thugs are but that piece of shit is near the top (except that shit like him – sinks.)

  5. 5.

    gf120581

    Grimm’s excuse for this idiocy is that the reporter didn’t “respect” him.

    Why is the image of Fredo from “Godfather II” in my head?

    “I’M NOT DUMB! I’M SMART AND I WANT RESPECT!”

  6. 6.

    maximiliano furtive, formerly known as dr. bloor

    “I was extremely annoyed because I was doing NY1 a favor by rushing to do their interview first in lieu of several other requests.

    Hey, everybody, settle down, what he did was OK because he was annoyed.

    He isn’t even a current target in the finance thing–it’s a straw donor thing. Guilty conscience much?

  8. 8.

    mai naem

    I’m wondering if there is tape of Dawn Zimmer at the public tv event with the Richard Constable fellow when he allegedly told her that the rumor in Trenton was that she was against the Rockefeller project and that governor wanted to move on it. I just thought it was odd that she specifically mentioned that the mikes were on when he said this, almost because she had evidence.

  9. 9.

    Botsplainer

    I’ve had guys try to pull this act on me outside court in post-divorce confrontations on several occasions. They’re usually abusive fucks unhappy that I’ve beaten them in court.

    My response is to double down-I lean in, drop my stuff, and invite it by telling them they get first swing. I go a step beyond after that, saying “but it better be a good one that puts me down, because if it isn’t a KO, then it’s on.”

    Works like a charm every time. The bully wannabes never take me up on it.

  10. 10.

    GRANDPA john

    @gf120581: What is it with assholes and respect. Did nobody ever take thm aside and tell them that respect has to be earned , it is not an entitlement. One thing I have learned is that most of these POS that have to demand respect have never done anything to earn it

  11. 11.

    Jay

    @PurpleGirl: Not only that, nowadays, you should assume that the camera is on, even when you can’t see a camera or mic, and that everything you say can, and will be posted on the intertoobz

  15. 15.

    Cervantes

    There was an article in the New Yorker a couple of years ago in which Grimm is alleged to have said (about his date’s husband) that he would “make him disappear where nobody will find him.”

    So … still an idiot.

  16. 16.

    MikeJ

    @GRANDPA john:

    What is it with assholes and respect. Did nobody ever take thm aside and tell them that respect has to be earned ,

    Republican: not allowed to ask questions during an interview unless sufficiently respectful
    Democrat: you may yell, “you lie!” during the State of the Union.

  17. 17.

    Ash Can

    I’m amused by the roundup of tweets (from various reporters) on this subject that commenters at LGF are posting. The general consensus is that Grimm’s is the only Republican response that anyone’s talking about this morning.

  18. 18.

    Cervantes

    @Ash Can:

    The general consensus is that Grimm’s is the only Republican response that anyone’s talking about this morning.

    If true, that’s exactly as it should be.

  21. 21.

    mai naem

    @Ash Can: Well, I am not a Republican but here’s the transcript of my response(I taped in my basement living room festooned with my Obama picture, my Yes We Can poster, my various Obama bumper stickers, and ofcourse my limited edition Franklin Mint Obama commemorative plate. I was dressed in my Obama 2012 polo and khakis and had water in my Obama tumbler close by so I wouldn’t do a Marco Rubio.) Also too I had the musleemee symbol thing hanging off my gold rapper chain and a black panther arm band.
    “The President showed a lot of leadership tonight. He’s a constitutional lawyer so I am sure his executive orders are all legal and stuff. And his wife looked hawt tonight. Also, the injured soldier was just a great rhetorical flourish. Anyhow, President Obama is the greatest president of our time and this is the greatest State of the Union address of our time. Thank you and Allah Akbar”

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Well, this should stop anyone from asking about the campaign finance investigation that Mr Grimm so sensitive about.

    Also, too, he is not a bully. (I’m pretty sure he was one of the first to speak up for Christie, before Giuliani or Barbour)

  27. 27.

    RaflW

    @GRANDPA john:

    What is it with assholes and respect.

    When this is what one of Grimm’s peers in the US House of Reps has to say, then no, I don’t think respect is to be accorded to any of these dicks. The GOP has become a sewer of anger, resentment and ill-mannered jackals. They can ‘t show even basic decorum about the POTUS, so they don’t deserve to receive any in return.

    @TXRandy14
    On floor of house waitin on “Kommandant-In-Chef”… the Socialistic dictator who’s been feeding US a line or is it “A-Lying?”

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    Shocked that he did that in front of a camera.

    Poor impulse control.

    How possible is it for a Democrat to win Grimm’s Staten Island district?

  31. 31.

    Rex Everything

    You have to admit Grimm is pretty tough for standing up to an intimidating fella like Michael Scotto. My hero!

  32. 32.

    Cervantes

    @Elizabelle:

    How possible is it for a Democrat to win Grimm’s Staten Island district?

    Possible — but as currently constituted, the district is more likely to elect a conservative Democrat than a liberal one.

    (By the way, it’s Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn.)

  34. 34.

    MattF

    @Elizabelle: I’d guess that it’s a gerrymandered district, safely Republican. Unless the current representative does something exceptionally stupid…

  35. 35.

    Suffern ACE

    Blah. I woke up this morning with watery eyes, drippy nose, stuffy head and a sore throat. I’d threaten to sneeze on reporters. No need to break anyone in half.

  40. 40.

    RaflW

    @MattF:
    NY-11 is rated lean Republican by the Cook Report. It’s only R+2.

    Saw somewhere last night that even before this incident, Grimm was one of the more vulnerable Rs in ’14.

  41. 41.

    scav

    Smartypants sure managed to get his little locally confined issue of campaign finance shennanigans national attention. ChiTrib certainly had no reason to bother before, let alone the Guard. Still, Great bouts of back-slapping among the PRTeam, no doubt. Personal Publicity Achieved, and with his own schtick too! Next time he can do it with his Mexican Wrestler mask on. Wheeee!

  43. 43.

    Glocksman

    Aww, go easy on the Congressman.
    He was probably expecting the bootlicking that Dancin’ Dave would have given him.
    An actual journalist asking actual questions was more than he was ready for.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    Michael Grimm has landed himself in The New Yorker, which provides a recap on his various legal scuffles over the years. He’s also got a history of getting into it with reporters.

    Is Michael Grimm Man Enough to Serve?

    Grimm, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a former F.B.I. agent who worked undercover

    Ah. He massages the “law and order” nerve of his constituents. But it’s his own law:

    In Grimm’s world, there are men of great character, whose conduct stands above questioning, and boys, who come—as Grimm once put it to me—only to “demean and belittle” it.

    … The exchange with Scotto had a familiar ring to it. In 2011, I travelled to Grimm’s Washington office to interview him about his work as an undercover F.B.I. agent with a paid informant and con-man named Josef von Habsburg. I also asked Grimm about a 1999 night-club incident in which Grimm, who was an agent at the time, was accused by an off-duty N.Y.P.D. officer of threatening a fellow patron (“I’ll fuckin’ make him disappear where nobody will find him,” Grimm is alleged to have said), waving a gun at the officer (“I’m gonna fuckin’ kill him”), and using racially-charged language in the fracas’s aftermath (“All the white people get out of here”).

    Grimm denied all of these allegations—and did so again, later, through a spokesperson. He also called me a “liar” working on a “chop job.” “You don’t rate to come and question me on it, quite frankly,” he said, before dismissing me from his office.

    Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. New Yorker article is short and worth a read.

  49. 49.

    chopper

    @scav:

    of course. easiest way to make sure the skeletons stay in the closet is the physically threaten a reporter. amirite?

  51. 51.

    Citizen_X

    @Elizabelle:

    In Grimm’s world, there are men of great character, whose conduct stands above questioning

    What an asshole. So, as a Marine, he had problems with civilian control; as a fed, with upholding the law; as a congressman, with serving his constituents. Got it. Investigate his whole fucking adult life.

    Besides, didn’t he commit a felony on TV last night? “Issuing Terroristic Threats” usually involves too much he said/he said, but Grimm was stupid enough to do it on camera. Shouldn’t he be facing charges?

  53. 53.

    PaulW

    Always talk in public with the expectation there are cameras on you and people are documenting your rants. Save your rage for the shadows… where your ninja squads await your orders…

  54. 54.

    LanceThruster

    Not that I’ve read it (and neither has Congress) that buried somewhere in the Patriot Act it defines overt threats of violence and mayhem in the Capitol as ‘terrorism.’

    Thank you for your service, and though your enlistment helped the cause of freedom and gives you the right to be a dick, your position in government means that you are a public servant in another context.

    “The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.” –Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823

  55. 55.

    LanceThruster

    ETA:

    Not that I’ve read it (and neither has Congress) but I’d bet that buried somewhere in the Patriot Act it defines overt threats of violence and mayhem in the Capitol as ‘terrorism.’

    Thank you for your service, and though your enlistment helped the cause of freedom and gives you the right to be a dick, your position in government means that you are a public servant in another context.

    “The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.” –Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823

  56. 56.

    Paul in KY

    If I was the reporter, I’d have laughed at him and said something to effect of ‘Go ahead, I’ll get a Pulitzer for sure!’

  59. 59.

    jon

    “Representative Grimm, you may think you are some big powerful guy. But I’ve seen a man throw a boy off a balcony and break him. I know Jaime Lassiter. I REALLY know Jaime Lassiter. And you, Ser, are no Jaime Lassiter.”–Cersei Lassiter

  68. 68.

    CDon

    @MattF: Check out his facebook page. His constituents don’t see, too happy with him either. I couldn’t be more proud of my old home of Bay Ridge Brooklyn, they see him for the punk he is.

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