Yes THAT is the horrendous attack that poor little Michael Tracey suffered at the hands of big mean Maxine Waters.Michael Tracey tweeted Maxine Waters "shoved" him. Here's the video. This is what he is calling a shove. pic.twitter.com/5LXc59eOcE— Zachary Fedell 🇪🇺 (@zatchry) June 3, 2017
Here is more courtesy of Raw Story:
Saturday evening, “Young Turks” reporter Michael Tracey tweeted that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) “shoved” him after a testy exchange in Los Angeles.
“Members of Congress shouldn’t be initiating unwanted physical contact with reporters,” he fumed, in an apparent reference to the vicious attack on Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs by Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte, which left Jacobs injured and his glasses smashed.
Tracey said that he asked the 78-year-old Waters two questions after a “March for Truth” event.
“(S)he became agitated, stormed off, and ‘shoved’ my arm,” he fumed, going on to say that while the move wasn’t “excessively violent,” it was “unwanted physical contact.”
He said that while he doesn’t want to argue “semantics,” the incident “shows Waters to be erratic, intemperate, and unprofessional.”
For one thing anybody attempting to compare this, in any way, to the Ben Jacobs body slamming is really demonstrating a pathetic cry for attention.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters is a tiny little woman, I doubt she could inflict any serious harm even if that were her intent.
Which clearly it was not.
The response from Twitter was quick and unsparing.
I'm humiliated for you.— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) June 3, 2017
You crowded an elderly woman half your size and whined when she brushed your arm as she walked away. I'm embarrassed for your entire family.— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) June 3, 2017
I have essentially ignored The Young Turks since the election, so I had no idea that they had become quite so pathetic.Let's all have a moment of silence for Michael Tracey's manhood, which was brutally snatched by Maxine Waters.— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) June 3, 2017
I can only imagine how much worse this would have been for this delicate flower if he had actually had physical contact with Greg "I'll body slam ya" Gianforte.
OMG! Ta;lk about fucking snowflakes! Those huge men can't handle a microphone rubbing against them? Fcuking snowflakes is all they are, maybe they dropped their balls somewhere on the way. Hopefully they fnd them she they aren't neutered for life.
ReplyDeletePoor huge hulking guy, it's not like he was in the mix for DNA test over Barstool Palin's latest leavings, get over it or...buck up or stay in the truck( to quote Sarah Palin).
ReplyDeleteMichael Tracey (the little snowflake) should have left well enough alone. He has succeeded in holding himself up to public ridicule. No one is going to be sympathetic to the man-baby after seeing that clip. The guy towers over Waters and when she clearly wants to leave he blocks her with his microphone. I might add she moved the microphone out of her personal space, she didn't shove his arm.
ReplyDeleteI generally like the Young Turks, even if sometimes Cenk rants just to rant. But their reporters (like Jordan Chariton, who let his Berniebro flag fly while covering Bernie's campaign and after) are borderline awful.
ReplyDeleteHe asks her a question about obama and Syria which had nothing to do with what the march was about. U would have thought he worked for Fox. And she walked through his microphone that he had in her face. If she shoved him she would have been on the ground, since she couldn't have moved him so she would push herself back. Go to am joy on MSNBC where the congresswoman was asked about it. She said something about being a 125 pound woman who didn't b able to push him out of the way.
ReplyDeleteMichael Tracey tweeted Maxine Waters "shoved" him. Here's the video. This is what he is calling a shove.
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Hillary Clinton showed the real what the leader of the free world is supposed to sound like as she blew Donald Trump’s tweets away with a dignified message of support to the people of London.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/04/hillary-clinton-blows-trump-classy-message-people-london.html
This mayor rocks!
ReplyDeleteOne thing everyone in Austin knows is that you can count on Mayor Steve Adler to protect the underdog. He is always there to fight for new low income housing for Austinites who are being pushed out by gentrification. Mayor Adler has also fought to build a new shelter to protect the many homeless citizens who have no place to be safe from the cold winter nights or call home. And, Super Mayor Adler will swoop in to protect anybody attacked by a misogynistic, malicious bigot who attacks women over a private showing of “Wonder Woman” at Austin based Alamo Drafthouse.
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/adler-respond-all-female-wonder-woman-screening-email/444672193
http://www.mayoradler.com/letter-wonder-woman/
http://heavy.com/entertainment/2017/06/richard-ameduri-a-wonder-woman-st-louis-steve-adler-austin-email-letter/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahjewell/inventions-by-women-that-changed-the-world
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ReplyDeleteSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller has been kicking off his investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia scandal with a bang. He’s taken over the Michael Flynn grand jury and the Paul Manafort probe, and he’s set his sights on targeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with the hope of getting them to flip on Trump and reveal the truth. Mueller is also staffing up in a manner that’s equal parts aggressive and almost uniquely symbolic.
Mueller has the authority to hire whomever he wants for his team. As it turns out, one of his first major hires is James Quarles, who is best known for the work he did on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in the seventies...
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/mueller-watergate-trump/3297/
How DARE that uppity black woman stand her ground!
ReplyDeleteWords about this guy...15 minutes of fame
More likely fifteen seconds. He showed how phony his subsequent outrage was by smiling for the camera.
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Trump Trolls London As His Administration Is Completely Unprepared For A Disaster
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http://www.salon.com/2017/06/04/trumps-russia-scandal-is-more-like-iran-contra-than-watergate-which-isnt-good-news/
ReplyDelete"For multiple reasons, we’d be much better served to use Ronald Reagan’s Iran-Contra scandal as our primary reference frame, and use Watergate only as a supplement. Iran-Contra was as messy, complicated and ill-defined"Trump-Russia scandal is perhaps even messier and more complicated than Iran-Contra was, and we shouldn’t try to pretend otherwise"a lifelong Republican appointed to the federal bench by President Dwight Eisenhower, investigated several dozen individuals and indicted a dozen of them, including Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, national security advisers Robert C. McFarlane and John Poindexter and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. Pardons by President George H.W. Bush effectively ended the prosecutions and effected a final layer of coverup over the whole affair. Walsh considered charging both Reagan and Bush, but did not, for reasons having nothing to do with culpability."
" First, Watergate perpetuates the illusion that “the system worked,” whereas Iran-Contra shows clearly how and why it did not. Second, Watergate was a narrowly focused domestic affair, while Iran-Contra was a far-flung enterprise involving significant foreign actors. Third, Watergate fostered the misleading impression that impeachment turned on breaking the law, while Iran-Contra made it clear that it was about abuse of power and the political elite’s collective willingness to restrain it. Fourth, Watergate was a relatively self-contained scandal, while Iran-Contra was connected with multiple other illegal international enterprises — a coalition of high-level international lawlessness. Fifth, Watergate occurred at the end of an era, in which a different set of norms and institutional constraints still held sway, while Iran-Contra reflected how badly those norms and constraints had been eroded in Watergate’s aftermath."
"Liberals generally understand scandal in terms of logos: a breaking of the rules, once hidden, brought into the light. It is very much about the facts of the case, an empirical investigative process. Conservatives generally understand scandal in terms of mythos, as unmasking a violation of the sacred order of things, that sacred order being that conservatives and those they favor are on top, and everyone else is beneath them"liberalism posits a fundamental equality of people, rather than an immutable hierarchy. For conservatives, scandal is a spectacle or a morality play, whose facts are largely determined by how well they resonate with pre-established meanings."
"So the very idea of investigating conservative scandals is itself a scandal in conservative eyes"
What an imbecile that guy is! It isn't even clear from his own little video that Waters deliberately touched him. I think she was just moving on, something he obviously cannot do. Look, he even smiled when the encounter was over. Was he smiling because he was going to milk the encounter for sympathy? None from me. Show more respect, buddy, for a member of Congress, especially one who has fought tirelessly for good causes.
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I stopped watching Young Turks after a few episodes a long, very long, time ago. As in I don't believe Bernie was even a candidate at that time. Something about Young Turks turned me off about their show. Gut feeling.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm embarrassed for them. Little whiners.