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Skriven 2010-04-22 16:57:00 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
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 TR> This just in:

 That article was posted 4-16-2010.

 TR> Beaten Jindal Staffer Says Protesters are the Perpetrators -

 Wrong!

 TR> by  Connie Hair

 TR> 04/18/2010

 TR> The mother of one of the victims of a brutal beating in New
 TR> Orleans outside of a Southern Republican Leadership
 TR> Conference (SRLC) event has confirmed in a new interview
 TR> that the two victims assaulted outside of the high-dollar
 TR> GOP fundraiser believe their attackers were part of the
 TR> crowd of protesters outside the event.

 Wrong! The video of the interview, on Fox News, is avaialable
 on Real Clear Politics, and is linked to by Connie Hair. What
 the interviewer asked was whether or not the mother had any
 problem with the police report. The interviewer said the public
 affairs officer claimed political insults were hurled during the
 attack. The mother refused to answer that.

 A transcript is on Human Events.

 ...

 TR> Bautsch's leg was "stomped"� by her assailants causing

 That has been blogged incessantly. So far all that has been
 *reported* is that she was knocked down and screamed her leg was
 broken.

 ...

 TR> The assailants were described as five Caucasian males, the
 TR> main assailant looking "dirty"� (but not homeless), with
 TR> dark red ponytail and a beard.

 TR> During her first interview with Fox News (reported and
 TR> transcribed in full on HUMAN EVENTS) Bautsch's mother,
 TR> Della Berning, confirmed reports of the political nature of
 TR> the attacks but was reluctant to discuss that aspect of the
 TR> assault.

 No, she did not confirm any political aspect whatsoever. Look at
 the video on realclearpolitics.com

 TR> In her latest interview with Yahoo News (via The Hayride,
 TR> h/t Pat Dollard) Berning went a bit further, saying her
 TR> daughter Bautsch and her daughter's boyfriend, Brown,
 TR> believe the attackers were a group of political protesters
 TR> who followed them after they left the GOP event.

 Believe, but they also say they cannot be sure. And the taunts
 were non-political.

 TR> And they are not alone. Louisiana GOP Chairman Roger
 TR> Villere, Jr., the host of the fundraising event that took
 TR> place April 9 at Brennan's Restaurant in the New Orleans
 TR> French Quarter, said when he and his party of a half-dozen
 TR> people tried to leave the event, the front door was blocked
 TR> by protesters.

 That was shown in the video from New Orleans business news. No
 news there.

 TR> As reported in an interview with Villere by Lincoln Parish
 TR> News Online, when Villere's group left through the back
 TR> door, they were spotted by a faction of the protesters who
 TR> gave chase.  Villere and his group managed to jump into a
 TR> cab before the protesters in pursuit caught up with them.

 Which means nothing happened.

 TR> Bautsch and Brown left the restaurant about an hour later.

 Note that, an hour later.

 TR> According to Berning, Bautsch's mother, the beaten couple
 TR> was also targeted from the moment they left the restaurant.

 TR> "things were said to my daughter and to her boyfriend that
 TR> basically everything was about money," Berning said. "From
 TR> the time they were walking out of the restaurant things
 TR> were being said to them."

 Yep, and most of those things are not repeated in the article.

 TR> The couple was not robbed by the group of five assailants,
 TR> only beaten.

 Oh, and only one actual attacker for sure.

 TR> Mick Wright at the Tennessee Conservative has an extensive
 TR> array of photographs  of the actual group of protesters in

 Where is your link?

 ...

 TR> anarchist group in the vein of those who make news in

 Note: Anarchist. Not democratic not republican not liberal not
 conservative, anarchist.

 ...

 TR> Connie Hair is a freelance writer, a former speechwriter for
 TR> Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and a former media and coalitions
 TR> advisor to the Senate Republican Conference.



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