Jesus… did Dino Rossi whack somebody or something? I mean, if Republicans have to seal off Rossi events like a crime scene, what does that say about Rossi? I can only assume he has something to hide?
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That is hilarious. What a bunch of freakin’ cowards. They know they are so lame on a daily basis they can’t allow themselves to be video’d…or are they just straight up lying at their events? Or what?
Goldy, you’re making a CSI reference to Law & Order.
Jawana @3,
Shows you how much TV I watch. But I blame the state Dems for using the wrong theme song.
This is asinine. How many times can you run the same garbage about the Rossi folks not wanting Democrats to videotape for attack ads?
The WA State Democrats are just a little slow on the uptake I suppose.
LOL. Ok, but that has to be the lamest video ambush-style exchange I’ve heard in a long time. Max Blumenthal this is not!
P.S. – Do you know if they got the permission to use the Law & Order soundtrack this time?
Again we see that the “GOP” are simple cowards.
As to right wing asswipe JohnMarby – how about we’ll keep doing it until you cowards face up to the fact that running for office means serving the public – not just a few rich crooks that run the GOP!
The Dems need a better camera, more zoom and a more assertive photographer.
I am not saying that he should have started pushing but if it’s a city park then the guy should have been asking if the person worked for the city or “under what authority would you prevent me from enjoying this park or use of this camcorder”???
Wenatchee? Wasn’t that the scene of the biggest mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials? Didn’t a lot of crazy people in that Republican town send several dozen innocent people to prison for imaginary child abuse? I wouldn’t go near that place in a biohazard suit! They probably poison their lettuce, too.
You don’t get it, Goldy: Republican events are crime scenes!
@10 “They probably poison their lettuce, too.”
You don’t know the half of it. Those fuckers eat rabbits.
@12
“You don’t know the half of it. Those fuckers eat rabbits.”
Nah, I leave that to the dogs.
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This is just plain juvenile. You guys are the equivalent of the little monkey tied to the organ grinder who is supposed to be amusing, but ends up biting children.
If this had been the other way around, the camera man would have gotten spit on, cursed at and would have been shouted down with bumper sticker slogans.
Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zja97pocN8U
It just shows the difference between the uncooth and the rational.
@14
If it had been the other way around it would have been a Chris Gregoire event and there would have been all sorts of video cameras rolling.
Nice try though.
What’s the actual law on this sort of thing? It seems to me that as long as the person with the video camera was outside the roped off area he should be able to do whatever he liked.
We all know how much Republicans hate lawyers and nuisance suits. However, I see that Rudy Giuliani’s son is suing Duke University. Um, he’s claiming that he was wrongfully kicked off the school’s golf team.
How do the cowardly republicans get away with this? It’s a public park. The law in the US and in Washington is simple. You can photograph/video tape ANYTHING that is in public. There’s no expectation of privacy. I would have told the farm bureau – i.e., pig fuckers to try and move me. They could get arrested for kidnapping. These ass-licking cowards would run the state this way – they’d rope off anything and everything the public has a right to know because they think they are just special. What they are is cowardly. I wish someone would have stood up to them. Maybe I’ll go video tape the next one, bring professional body guards with me to deal with any thugs wearing GOP armbands and jackboots and tell em to eat shit. Better yet, I’ll hire some Democratic members of the Washington Patrol who run private security who will then be empowered to arrest and detain anyone who tries to stop me from exercising my Constitutional rights.
If you cowards want to hold private events, rent out some private property. Don’t abuse tax-payer land to hold your KKK meetings.
@#14 VolksMeinung
Stop the Presses! Punks spit on man with camera! Horrors!
Two guys with camera walk through large numbers of people at protest, most people that they engaged spoke with them civilly. The punks did not. Big surprise there, they spit on each other when they get together for fun. In the vid presented by Goldy, cameras and the people carrying them were verboten and no engagement was allowed. I’d bet a nickel he could have gotten someone to behave badly, had he been allowed in.
It would be like really unfortunate if yous guys camera was to find its way, I dunnoh, smacked up against your hippie mellon. I’m just sayin.
I’ll stop by for a little talk after I make my collections.
@20 “Never discuss politics with your Republican Limbaugh Fanboy barber while he is cutting your hair.”
Good one, Guido.
Nobody wants video cameras around when they have their Macaca moments….
Maybe he is preping for the election, we all know the dems stole the last one, maybe this will scare them off. heheehehe
@14:
Well, at least we can spell our SAT vocab words.
I can definately understand now WHY they roped it off.
@14
Well I watched your whole video. Your guys with cameras asked all sorts of folks all sorts of questions and people were more than happy to answer them. Then they asked questions of people who had chips on their shoulders and started to push their buttons and those people chose to push back. Big deal. That’s what happens when you act like an ass regardless of political views.
“I’m with the NAZI organization that put this on” – says the man. Shame full. More shame full than Puttysomething fucking a sheep while sucking off a donkey.
@23 Correction, Dog, the Republicans failed in their attempts to steal the last election. They’ll just have to try a little harder this time around if they hope to steal this one.
Those are some of the cleaner more articulate commie libs.
@29
Thanks, most of us cleanup pretty well.
So let’s further dissect the sophist ‘incident’. If this guy, who admitted he was an operative of the Democrat Party, wanted to protest Rossi’s predesignated, permitted activity, I’m sure he obtained the proper permits from the city prior to showing up and attempting to get footage.
If this is what we can expect from Recreate ’68 I think we’re going to be mighty disappointed.
I look forward to your inability to refute the obvious.
@31
Um… Permit? We need permits to use a camcorder in a park?
@31 Hey Nazi – you may like living in places where the government is in control of your every move, but patriots, Americans, free men like we Democrats don’t appreciate thugs violating the law and that’s EXACTLY what happened.
A citizen, standing in a public place, photographed an activity in that public place. No permits required here Nazi. Cowardly Rossi may or MAY NOT have had a permit – nobody has established that. Whether or not he did, it didn’t give him the right to stop lawful activity within the park. You don’t need a permit to take pictures or shoot video in Seattle. Prove me wrong ass – licker. Show me the statute that says different.
Now quick and scurry to Google like the insignificant bug you are to look for information only to find out you’re wrong and I’m not. Get used to it. Democrats rule and republicans practice cut and run, wide bathroom stall stances.
Republicans need secrecy, until they think either they won’t be caught or that they will have enough power to crush you.
Hey Nazi you’ve had an hour – what’s the matter? You gonna cut and run you little bitch? Show me the statute. Prove Rossi had a permit. Still waiting.
Yeah, that’s very poor quality. The State Party should invest in a HD handheld camcorder (you can buy them for under $400) and a microphone that picks up better sound. Oh, and maybe a monopod/unipod. But the guy was good in trying to keep the camera on the people when they approached him. But yeah, public place means he can stay.
Leave it to the Republicans to treat their campaign events as state secrets to which the public is not invited. It’s easy to understand why, once you know what Republicans want to do to your paycheck, your bank account, and your health.
People who act like they’ve got something to hide usually do.
@31: He was outside the police tape, he just turned his camera in the direction of the event while standing in the park.
This is what I meant in my original comment: if he wanted to do this right, following the rules of the genre, he would have infiltrated the event and been dragged out by Farm Bureau hacks/thugs. That would have made compelling video!
Has anyone besides me noticed the GOP behaves more like the Mafia every day? Why would anyone vote for these ratfuckers — unless they hate themselves?
@14 “It just shows the difference between the uncooth and the rational.”
I have deducted 1 point from your grade for misspelling “uncouth.” I’ll bet you’ve never opened a dictionary in your entire miserable life, you ignorant redneck.
I spent too many of my formative years in Wenatchee, even having graduated from WHS. I skedaddled as soon as I could (at 17), the hell out of there, even though I love eastern Washington. Chelan County is as wretchedly rightwing Republican as this state gets. Is that why Dino goes there, over and over again? Indeed, wasn’t Chelan County where he went to challenge his gubernatorial loss four years ago? There should be a bounty on idiots like Dino and on those who would vote for him.
@41: He must be getting his Ayn Rand on iTunes!
Public Not Invited
If you’re merely an American citizen, you’re not invited to Republican campaign events in public parks.
And if you’re merely an American worker, you’re not invited to participate in our country’s economy.
You see, the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of a for-profit organization variously calling themselves the “Republican Party” and the “G.O.P. Party.”
Looks like I’ve run yet ANOTHER cowardly republican off a HA thread. Man this is just too easy. The fucking Nazi is nowhere to be found now that I’ve called BS on his BS. Who the fuck is next?
31 V
Isn’t “Recreate ‘68 ” McCain’s campaign theme?
And did he mention that he was a POW in ’68? Would you like to hear it again?
That was a funny video. What are they afraid of? It would be fun to blatantly stand outside the roped off line with an obvious boom mike, just to remind them that what they say is being recorded.
If asked to stop, reply that it’s as legal to do that as bush’s warrentless wiretaps. Though probably the parallels would be lost on them.
Ok, let me make sure I’ve got the particulars here.
The Washington State Farm Bureau (a non-governmental organization) reserved a portion of a public park for a private function. Ok, there’s nothing all that unusual about that.
The portion of the park reserved by the WSFB was taped off, and non-participants were not allowed in. Ok, still nothing unusual.
Officials of the WSFB told the person taping that he wasn’t allowed to do so, even though he was outside the perimiter of the event. Wait. Here’s a problem. WSFB personnel have no police powers, and there is no law (that I’m aware of) prohibiting recording events on public grounds.
Essentially, while the WSFB personnel can say whatever they like, they have no authority to enforce what they say.
A much smarter move on their part would have been to send four of their widest members to get together and sing off-key barbershop in front of the camera.
But I have to wonder why the cameraman didn’t politely tell the WSFB people that while he appreciated their opinion, he was within his rights to record anything happening within a public park, then promptly ignore anything else they said.
I wouldn’t even bring up things like wiretaps, as it would just confuse the issue. Just, “no, you’re wrong, and you have no right to stop me from peacefully using a public area of this public park”.
Of course, we might then end up with a tape of four fat Republicans singing “Sweet Adeline”, but that’s the chance we’d have to take.
This would have been perfect!
tune: I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
I’m looking over my dead dog, Rover,
Who I hit with the power mower.
One leg is missing, the other is gone,
A third leg is scattered all over the lawn.
No need explaining the one remaining
Is spinning on the car port floor…
I’m looking over my dead dog, Rover,
Who I over-looked before!
“It’s a public park, but you are not allowed to be here” In other words, Dino hand picks the audience to which he speaks. Nice….
What’s the matter Dino, can’t handle the “tough questions”?
Not even questions….
He’s afraid of having his words, spoken in a public place, be recorded for a wider audience, being recorded for posterity.
One additional note. I think that the chances of anyone from the Rossi campaign actually having both the intelligence and the sense of humor to come up with that sort of solution is minimal at best.
While we have events that are open to all comers, we also have private events where we’d object to having Republicans disrupt things.
That being the case, I can’t get too worked up about the idea of the Republicans having an “invitation only” event, even in a public park. Until I hear otherwise, I’ll presume that the WSFB properly reserved the area and got any required permits.
And considering how often Republicans have been caught in gaffs on-camera (not to mention situations where the candidate’s opinion changed with the audience) I understand them being a bit touchy about Democrats with video cameras.
The telling thing I see here is that the campaign chose confrontation over humor. This could have been handled by a bit of intelligence and wit.
Fortunately for us, those seem in rather short supply over in the Rossi camp.
If it were me outside their perimeter and they politely asked me to stop filming. I wouldn’t.
IF those two goons came up and tried to intimidate me, I’d only keep filming.
IF those two goons tried to stop me . . . let’s just say it would’ve ruined their whole day. I mean, going to the emergency ward to get your arms reattached after being beaten silly with them sort of puts a damper on the festivities.
I’m just sayin’, fair warning to you Lossi supporters.
@53 “it would’ve ruined their whole day”
The left definitely needs more people like yourself – someone willing to stand up to the bullying tactics of the right-wing thugs.
Actually, GBS and Steve, we tend to be careful to instruct observers at right-wing events to be polite and courteous to a fault.
If the observer gets into a physical confrontation with the right-wing “thugs”, then the story is that a bunch of out-of-control Democrats disrupted a peaceful Republican gathering.
We still don’t get the tape, but we do get a bunch of bad press. Consider how the story would read in the Seattle Times.
There would be pictures of little old Republican ladies juxtaposed with screaming, red-faced Democrats.
Despite the constant claims that the mainstream media is somehow “liberal”, you must remember that it really isn’t. The best we usually get is neutral, and anyone believing that Mr. Blethen is liberal either needs to go back on his meds, or stop using that stuff he gets from the maid.
We’ve got to be more careful, more courteous and more responsible than the Republicans, because we’re under closer scrutiny.
Fortunately, that isn’t difficult.
All right, Chief Barelli, let me explain the nuance. I’m not REALLLLLLY going to rip someone’s arms off and beat them with the bloody stump, but on the other hand, I’m not going to submit to their bullying tactics.
See Steve’s comments at 54. He got it.
I’ll relate a true story to you that happened to me the other day that captures the essence of what I mean and Steve picked up on.
I was walking in to a store and someone behind me said “What do you think of these high oil prices?”
Thinking he was just making polite small talk I plainly said, “These sky high prices are getting crazy.”
Then, this PUNK ASS Republican had the BALLS to say to me, a complete stranger to him in a public place, “Thank your LOCAL Democrat for it!!”
I turned to him and said, “Do you honestly think that LOCAL Democrats are to blame of high oil prices????” And, this little punk said “Yes! Because they won’t let us drill offshore!”
Believe me when I say I raised my voice a few levels and sternly gave him the facts on the Enron Loophole, how speculators run up the price of oil, how oil is bought and sold on the world’s markets, then I said one notch louder “NO AMERICAN LOVING PATRIOT IS VOTING REPUBLICAN THIS YEAR!!”
When I was finished blowing his hair back I gave him the opportunity to respond. Know what that little punk ASS bitch did??
He stared at me for 10 seconds or so turned around and walked off. Not a word. The bully had his fucking hair blown back and didn’t know what to do.
Later, after I was checking out he spotted me walking out of the store, he looked like he wanted to say something else to me, then I shot him one of my “don’t fucking piss me off or we’re going to immediately get into a fight” look and he opted to just keep walking. Wise choice.
Point of the story: Do NOT let these loud mouth pussies get away with their bullshit any more. When I’m approached by some right wing nut, I don’t let them get away with their Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity approved RNC
lyingtalking points!!You should do the same.
Well, seems to me that this is a typical Republican activity – use of public assetts for private purposes, profit, and power-grabs, keep the public in the dark, and while they are at it restrict everybody’s else’s lawful use of the park.
Of course, a Republican idea of a public park is one where the public pays for it, they out-source it’s operation to a private (Republican) firm which charges “user fees” to the public to use it, raking in the profit along the way, and then complains about the taxes used to pay for supporting the park being too high.
GBS
I understand your point, but we’ve got a few folks here that actually seem to advocate violence against Republicans.
My post advocated politely standing put and continuing to videotape, and yours seemed (to me at least) to advocate more active resistance.
And yes, I’ve run across folks like the individual you described as well. We know they’re out there, because somebody is still listening to Michael Savage and Ann Coulter.
(I believe that I have already told of the fellow trying to hide Al Gore’s book at the Navy Exchange, where it was one of the top five sellers. When I undid all his hard work, then bought a copy for myself, he got positively livid. It’s that “passive-agressive” streak in me.)
Unfortunately, we have folks that really do advocate taking a much more agressive stand. Although my suspicion is that at least one of these folks is really a neo-con troll, posting for the purpose of making us look bad, some are not.
And with the Rossi campaign doing everything it can to distort, mislead and simply lie it’s way into office, it’s already much too tempting to simply go after some of these folks with a big stick.
But… It would only be a momentary pleasure, and bound to get us talked about in unfavorable terms.