Gianforte Bodyslams Guardian Reporter

[handysr]

The politician obviously felt that the reporter was being an offensive bigot and decided it was appropriate to use violence to stop hate speech.

You liberals are getting exactly what you want. What's the problem?

After reading some reports that didn't come from the lame-stream media, I'll slightly tone back my previous response. Yeah, I still think he was a dumbass for what he did, but now I'm thinking that it wasn't such a big deal. This reporter came into a place he wasn't invited, was agressively asking questions after being told to stop and go away, and was acting belligerant. And he was the second reporter from the same "news" outlet to do the same thing that day. Gianforte apparently couldn't handle the stress and pushed the guy away, and the way it happened is being disputed, depending on which eyewitness reports what they saw.

It looks like Gianforte is getting what most people get from the police - a charge and a future court date. Not a big deal, so I don't care about that part. However... This type of thing has happened frequently when it involves crybaby SJW liberals, and they think they have the right to assault anyone who doesn't think the same as them. Actual recorded instances of assault for no reason (cowardly punching/hitting), rioting, etc, where there's absolutely no consequences. None.

Get your act together, liberal crybabies. If you think it's OK to assault Trump supporters or conservative / right-wing speakers, then you obviously are perfectly fine with some liberal crybaby getting the same abuse. Fair is fair, right?

I demand that journalists must have their 1st ammendment rights protected, just like everyone else. However, they don't have special rights that allow them to be antagonistic assholes without having to worry about getting called on their bullshit. I dare you to do an experiment - get in the faces of 100 people and act like this journalist did, then see how many times you get pushed away - at the very least.

Also, another instance of male violence.

We need to ban all men from entering this country until we figure out "what the hell is going on."

Prior to readmittance there will be mandatory courses in rape awareness, anger management, the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights. Starting with Trump.

There's plenty of instances of female violence as well. Every time a woman does this, she should be banned as well, right? Right? Prior to readmittance, she will have to take the same mandatory courses. And if you wanna be sexist about it, so can the guys, but I won't bring up the other class schedules.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Gianforte never actually answered the question that Guardian journalist, Ben Jacobs asked. And he still hasn't.

The question was quite simple. Gianforte had previously stated that he wanted to see the Congressional Budget Office score before saying whether he would have voted for the Affordable Health Care Act, the Obamacare repeal effort that passed the House on May 4. Late Wednesday afternoon, on the eve of Thursday's special election to replace Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the CBO released its report, finding that the bill would leave an additional 23 million Americans without health insurance by 2026 and cause the cost of insurance to soar for some populations, in particular for people suffering from drug abuse. Now that the score was out, Jacobs asked Gianforte what he thought.

Gianforte evidently considered misdemeanor assault preferable to a stated position on the law...


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/greg-gianforte-health-care-montana


What was it, that Gianforte wanted to hide ?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/...election-greg-gianforte-health-bill.html?_r=0

 

[Boxlicker101]

Here is a little more detail on the incident: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...s-gop-house-candidate-body-slam-reporter.html

 

[ChloeTzang]

And the moral of this little electoral tale is......

Smack a Lettie reporter and express support for President Trump and your percentage of the vote goes up. Americans exercising their real political views, not the fake ones the left wing media tries to bs us on. Way to go!!! MAGA

 

[adrina]

Nice spin.

More like early voting Montana making it pretty much a lock for a republican in a deeply republican state.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Consider this. Trump won by 20 points in 2016 in Montana. A deep deep red state--the kind of state that cheers on assault of the free press.

And yet:

Gianforte outlasted Democrat Rob Quist, a first-time politician with a background in music, and Libertarian Mark Wicks in the May 25 special election. He received 50.2 percent of the vote compared to Quist’s 44.1 percent. Wicks was at 5.7 percent

Deep deep gun-lovin' he-man Montana surged 14% more towards a special little snowflake folk singer, because Trump is such an unmitigated disaster.

Not only that: the RNC had to rush millions to an election they shouldn't have had to even think about, for one second. The DNC hardly touched it because they knew they were going to lose. The RNC had to fight hard against a folk-singin', peace-lovin', nudist camp guitar-playin' snowflake in MONTANA to get a win.

If 14-15% is the swing margin for Trump states . . . that is not good, no matter how you look at it.

Nice spin.

More like early voting Montana making it pretty much a lock for a republican in a deeply Republican state.