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Thugs for Social Justice: Union Goon Gets Rough With Tabitha Hale on Video

Posted on | February 23, 2011 | 50 Comments

AFL-CIO rent-a-mobsters, including members of the Communications Workers of America, descended on the D.C. offices of FreedomWorks today for a protest. Tabitha Hale had a video camera going when she got shoved by a CWA goon:

Michelle Malkin has more details.

UPDATE: “There Goes the Union Civility Again.”

The Underground Conservative: “Is this what Rep. Michael Capuano meant when he said ‘Get a little bloody when necessary’”?

UPDATE II: Tabitha’s Tweet about the incident:

UPDATE III: Dana Loesch reacts:

Mike Capuano could not be reached for comment.

UPDATE III: Duane Lester: “Perhaps in lieu of compensation, Mr. Union Thug will just have to go through some counseling at the new civility institute in Arizona.”

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit recalls that FreedomWorks was targeted by death threats last year.

Now a Memeorandum thread.

UPDATE IV: Dan Riehl: “So much for civility, it appears it’s given way to assault and battery.”

Bryan Preston points out the obvious: “One of the absolute dumbest things anyone can do is take a swing at another person when that other person has a video camera on and recording. The momentary swing become permanent evidence of assault.”

CWA is obviously recruiting its goons from the shallow end of the IQ pool these days. I mean, hitting a girl? “There was a time when even union thugs would have left a young lady alone,” Da Tech Guy says.

Professor Glenn Reynolds: “[T]ake a look at the video and you’ll see the angry, yet impotent face of today’s labor movement.”

UPDATE V: Linked by Doug at the Daley Gator — thanks!

UPDATE VI: OK, pay attention here, because this confused me at first. Allahpundit was carrying on about speculation that this was Tabitha’s fault:

And so an obvious Narrative question presents itself: She must have been asking for this somehow, but … how? Perhaps she was invading this fine gentleman’s “personal space?” Or perhaps she somehow “manufactured” the confrontation to precipitate a little thuggery, thereby painting poor liberals in a bad light.

What? What was Allah getting at here? Then I saw that Allah had linked a Tweet by Nathan Wurtzel, who was calling attention to Tweets by Oliver Willis of Media Matters:


Willis has denied that the first of those Tweets had anything to do with this Freedomworks incident, and the second was his reaction to Wurtzel’s accusation that Willis was saying this was a “manufactured” incident.

OK, fine: If Willis says this was merely coincidental, I’m prepared to accept his word for it. Total coincidence — nothing whatsoever to do with the chatter that was all over Twitter. Willis just happened to have this sudden sense of foreboding about “manufactured conservative confrontations.”

And this is the point in the movie where Haley Joel Osment tells Bruce Willis: “I see manufactured confrontations.”

UPDATE VII: Linked by Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress — thanks!

UPDATE VIII: Let’s engage in a little hypothetical scenario, shall we? Suppose that a liberal activist had been assaulted on camera at a Tea Party event — on the streets of D.C., three blocks from the Capitol, in broad daylight. Do you suppose sucn an incident would have been mentioned by a mainstream news organization or two?

I ask this, because as of 8:25 p.m. ET, the only Google News results for the Tabitha-gets-thugged incident are from conservative outfits, including Powerline and the Daily Caller.

The Journolisters never report any story that portrays the Left in a bad light. But let a psychotic left-wing Zeitgeist cultist commit a mass murder, and watch the Journolisters rush to blame that on the Right. And even after the leftist leanings of the gunman are revealed, the Journolisters will refuse to acknowledge their error, nor will they admit that the error was caused by their habit of recycling Democrat propaganda and calling it “news.”

It is a key tenet of Democrat propaganda that the Right (and only the Right) is crammed full of hate-filled kooks who can be incited to violence by the “vitriolic” rhetoric of their spokesmen. In order to foster that perception, however, the Journolisters must be careful never to call attention to acts of violence (or expressions of hate) emanating from the Left.

So it is that these supposed arbiters of objectivity present a twisted picture of the world as distorted as the reflection in a funhouse mirror.

UPDATE IX: Little Miss Attila: “This is why we should try to have a second camera, so we can record it when the person with the first camara gets attacked.”

UPDATE X: Dave explains that this is the “New New Tone” — as opposed to the Old “New Tone,” which was what liberals demanded while they were falsely accusing the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh of inspiring mass murder. Then there was the Slightly Newer New Tone, which was when liberals accused conservatives of being “defensive” because conservatives kept pointing out that false accusations of inspiring mass murder were, in fact, false.

UPDATE XI: “Bad Jew!”

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  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    I’m a law and order kind of guy but sometimes incidents like this makes me wonder if vigilante justice isn’t called for at times.

    Just thinking out loud. That’s all.

  • http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com The Underground Conservative

    I am beginning to see that as a legitimate option. Why? Because the only punishment thus thug would face through the legal system is a slap on the wrist.

  • Mpw280

    She needed to kick this thug in the nuts and then in the face when he dropped. After that they could have cuffed him and called the cops, they have the proof that it was in self defense. The smirk after he hits her is enough proof that the guy gets off on hitting people and knowing that since he is union that he will get away with it. mpw

  • Annieo

    Amen! Bet the pos wouldn’t dare hit a guy. I’d knock the coward’s nuts right up to his chin! Union F&*$^&% scumbag!

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  • Crawford

    This is why concealed-carry exists.

  • Anonymous

    B-a-y-o-n-e-t-s!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ Proof

    She’s got the tape. She’s got witnesses. She should let the local police and court system teach this goon some civility.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    I must confess I would have liked very much for Mr. Thug (that’s the name — that name again is Mr. Thug) to have been set upon by a truncheon-wielding mob, like he and his ilk used to love to do to “scabs” during a strike.

    It would have been horrible, and wrong, and damn fun to watch.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    let the local police and court system teach this goon some civility.

    If only they would.

  • Anonymous

    Scratch a Leftard, find a violent thug. Every. Single. Time.

  • ThomasD

    Goon on film needs a name.

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  • Mpw280

    Wisconsin Republicans can fix that Concealed Carry problem while the Dems are AWOL, now that would be just a great thing to have happen. mpw

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ Proof

    I really think the time for polite tolerance of bad behavior has passed. These clowns throw eggs, they assault people, they have no respect for property. The litter they leave behind collectively (pun intended) could fill a dump.
    IMHO, we need to start holding these thugs accountable for their less than civil (often criminal) behavior.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    There’s the thing. You’re taking what Willis says seriously.

    Your best bet is to view him as comic relief..

  • AMartel

    Nice snarl, Santa Paws. You are truly a profile in couratge.
    Pleased to meet you, hope we get your name!

  • kansas

    Somebody needs to donate some IQ points to Oliver Willis so he can get into double digits.

  • PCPSmoker

    The solution is easy as pie. Place the barrel of the gun right between his eyes and pull the trigger. In less than a second, the world will feature one less scumbag.

  • Anonymous

    This is why we need an actual Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, it was a great idea when Hillary proposed it.

  • Anonymous

    I believe there is justified disparity of force. The man clearly hulks over Ms. Hale. She would be only defending herself, stopping the threat.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJ6LM2GJLBRZRAZUDSLDPKL35E Tim Burns

    “Let’s engage in a little hypothetical scenario, shall we? Suppose that a liberal activist had been assaulted on camera at a Tea Party event — on the streets of D.C., three blocks from the Capitol, in broad daylight. Do you suppose sucn an incident would have been mentioned by a mainstream news organization or two?”

    As I recall, it did get reported when it happened in Lexington. I can only imagine your outrage when that Tea Partier “stomped”that lady! I bet you denounced him like no one’s business…

    It’s not far now, when the people who control our politics start hiring Clodious’s and Milo’s to roam the streets intimidating anyone they don’t like.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Lexington?

    The Kenneth Gladney indecent was in the St. Louis area.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/08/eye_witness_to_st_louis_scuffl.asp

  • http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com The Underground Conservative

    “that lady”

    Lady? Lady? You call that a lady? Reminds me of the old vaudeville joke: “Who was that lady I saw you with last night?” “That was no lady. That was my wife.”

  • Anonymous

    Don’t even try that re-writing history shit, Tim. I wrote extensively about the Kentucky at the time, so let’s be clear about what happened:

    1. The woman in the incident was a paid provacateur from MoveOn.org, sent to Kentucky for a propaganda campaign to depict Rand Paul as a tool of “billionaires.” She had been stalking Paul for several days as part of this effort.

    2. The incident occurred before a televised debate between Paul and Conway. Noticing the woman on the scene, Paul’s supporters approached a police office and warned him that they feared the woman was going to try something. The officer ignored their warning.

    3. When Paul arrived, the woman frantically charged toward the candidate’s vehicle, despite efforts of Paul’s supporters efforts to block her path.

    Then, and only then, did the stomping incident occur, for which the person responsible (a volunteer county coordinator) was kicked off the campaign and subjected to criminal prosecution for assault.

    Far from being ignored by conservatives, this incident was extensively covered by Jim Hoft, Melissa Clouthier and John Hawkins, among others, and more to the point, was covered by such mainstream outlets as the Louisville Fox affiliate and CNN.

    So how, then, is the Kentucky incident in any way analogous to what happened to Tabitha Hale? In fact, the situation is the diametic opposite:

    1. It was the MoveOn.org activist (not Tabitha) who initiated a “manufactured confrontation,” to borrow Oliver Willis’s term.

    2. By contrast, Tabitha Hale was interviewing members of a labor union who were staging a protest of her employer. (I hesitate to imagine what might have happened if FreedomWorks activists had picketed CWA headquarters.)

    3. And, as I said, the mainstream media have utterly ignored this union thug’s attack on Tabitha, as have liberal blogs, whereas in the immediate aftermath of the Kentucky incident . . . well, see for yourself.

    You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.

  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    How about “Peter the Beater”?

    What, too easy?

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJ6LM2GJLBRZRAZUDSLDPKL35E Tim Burns

    For God’s sake, I was agreeing with you. A right wing dude attacked a woman and it was everywhere. A left wing dude attacked a woman and it’s nowhere.

    Still, I bet it will be somewhere soon. The media will cover just like they covered those two kids who tricked that Congressman into grabbing them.

    I will note the irony that on a thread where the entire first page of comments is made up of violent fantasies and veiled threats at that guy (and leftists in general), you chose to vent outrage on me for agreeing with you.

    Clodius and Milo, Stacy, are just around the corner.
    http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_pennellhistoryofrome31.htm

    Crassus supposedly said that a man wasn’t truly rich until he could buy himself an Army. I think we’re about a decade from that happening on both sides.

  • Anonymous

    As I pointed out earlier, TX law allows use of deadly force to defend others, and doesn’t allow the defender to be sued.

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  • daveinboca

    Does anyone have the name and employment situation of the bearded POS that shoved Tabitha?

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Oliver Willis is still around? Is there NOTHING affirmative action can’t achieve.

    I did enjoy his childhood career as the little computer geek in Bloom County, though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Coffer/1296650908 Chuck Coffer

    Whatchoo talkinbout, Willis?

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  • Anonymous

    She headbutted his foot.

  • Anonymous

    Probable the best outcome would be for this guy to become famous for hitting a woman. Naturally many of of HuffPo’s commenters and other loonies would consider him a hero, that’s even better. I doubt that his neighbors or the Gal or Guy behind him in the grocery store line will consider him a hero. I’ll bet that there are still enough folks in this country with a sense of shame and a sense of “Shame on You”. If not bayonets.

  • Anonymous

    When one kills or injures with a firearm, someone who has broken into their home or apartment DC law provides for that resident to be prosecuted for illegal possesion of a fire arm and illegal possesion of the amunition. I used to read about cases like this two or three times a year when I lived across the river in Arlinton. No doubt any physical action against a union member no matter how justified is a hate crime in DC.
    The 1973 DC Home Rule Act should be repealed before the Bolshviks regain control of congress and award Statehood. Prior to 1975 DC’s Mayor was appointed by the president.

  • Cole Sear

    Nothing here. No charges filed. More bullshit from the ass-sniffing teabagger pussies.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    Isn’t there a toddler somewhere you need to punt into traffic?

  • Random Thinker

    How about we find a conservative (maybe a Marine or a SEAL) as much bogger than this thug is as the thug was bigger than Tabitha and let the conservative whale on the unionist a while…

    Oh, sorry. I’m supposed to use civil discourse…

  • Stoop Davy Dave

    “knowing that since he is union that he will get away with it. ”

    Speaking of that, how long has this video been moving around on the internet, with this a-hole’s face all over it, with him NOT yet under arrest in DC?
    Somebody needs to explain why not!

  • Anonymous

    Being Civic doesn’t allways require being civil.

  • Anonymous

    Because this happened in D.C. Every body who works for the city or the feds is UNION.

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Quoted from and Linked to at:
    Look For The Union Fable

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Whitey Coyle

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    Whitey Coyle

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