8.27.2004

First Casualty of GOP Convention: PD Officer Assaulted by Armed Boob?

One of the funniest stories I've heard this week is one the media keeps telling about how they've already had an officer hurt by a group of protestors.

Now, bear in mind these protestors were buck naked. There were just 11. The ones I saw looked slightly out of shape. At most, they held a soft banner.

NY police, OTOH, this week are done up in full commando gear, looking like fat Michelin men with their personal body armor, their guns, and nightsticks, etc.

And no details of how that officer was hurt are ever provided. What happened? Did the buxom woman accidentally slap him in the cheek with an oversized mammary?

As much as I love a good piece of fiction, this just doesn't smell right. It's more propaganda to pump up anti-protestor sentiment.

Then, on Hardball, they had a chubby little fellow named Duberstein who openly talked about how little the president liked New York (what a complete surprise!). And Duberstein, seeing a group of moms with their strollers (Mothers Opposed to Bush) walking across the Brooklyn Bridge with John Kerry t-shirts. He called them the extreme left and laughed about them.

So a mother concerned with her child growing up in a world of constant, US-issued war is a lefty pinko communist? Nice.