{"id":10111,"date":"2010-04-16T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10111"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:55:48","slug":"tidal-wave-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10111","title":{"rendered":"Tidal Wave Of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conservative blogosphere – at least the A through D lists – have been really reticent about assigning blame in the \u00bb\u00a0 beating of Bobby Jindal aide Allee Butsch and her boyfriend<\/a> last weekend at the Southern Republican Leadership conference in New Orleans.\u00a0 Conservative bloggers, for example, led the way in showing that the couple weren’t wearing Sarah Palin pins, which was an initial story about the crime:<\/p>\n

Allee Butsch suffered a broken leg from the beatdown outside to the SRLC dinner at Brennan\u2019s Restaurant in New Orleans. She had her leg operated on over the weekend and it will take her months to recover. Her boyfriend Joe Brown suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw, and a concussion. They were attacked after leaving the Southern Republican Leadership Conference dinner at Brennan\u2019s Restaurant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Police have no suspects, and are doing their best not to release uncorroborated information to the public.\u00a0 And conservative bloggers aren’t jumping the gun in any numbers to call this a political hate crime – something that Steny Hoyer, Rep. Lewis, Rep. Cleaver, Nancy Pelosi and the Twin Cities AFSCME should try.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not going to jump to any conclusions, and I’ll say up front that the following execise is purely conjectural.<\/p>\n

But do me a favor and turn on <\/em>your stereotype radar when you read the lone description available among the five attackers:<\/p>\n

Police are looking for a Caucasian male who appeared to be dirty, in his 20\u2019s, 6\u20321\u2033 tall, thin build with a thin face. He had a beard and auburn color hair in a pony tail. He was wearing a light color T shirt and dark color pants. Up to 5 men beat the couple after they left the GOP event on Friday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A dirty twentysomething white guy in a ponytail.\u00a0 I mean, if it were a dirty fiftysomething in a ponytail and a beard, you’d think\u00a0 “a bunch of meth addicts jumped the kids”.\u00a0 But most twentysomethings have to spend a lot of time, money and effort to affect that kind of look.<\/p>\n

The Twin Cities AFSCME has not yet told us whether they consider this\u00a0 a threat<\/a> to them from the Tea Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The conservative blogosphere – at least the A through D lists – have been really reticent about assigning blame in the \u00bb\u00a0 beating of Bobby Jindal aide Allee Butsch and her boyfriend last weekend at the Southern Republican Leadership conference in New Orleans.\u00a0 Conservative bloggers, for example, led the way in showing that the couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10111"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}