BREAKING: Coakley’s Thuggish Entourage Strikes Again, Rush Blasts Dishonest Globie Reporting

*** UPDATED BELOW ***

*** DEMS CLAIM SHOVING INCIDENT WAS SET-UP ***

*** THUG WHO SHOVED REPORTER IS OBAMA APPOINTEE ***

*** HERALD: COAKLEY BLAMES ‘GOP STALKERS’ ***

*** SHODDY WBZ COVERAGE: McCormack ‘Fell’ ***

*** RUSH LIMBAUGH BLASTS DISHONEST GLOBIE REPORTING: Limbaugh slams Globies for falsely claiming reporter “takes stumble chasing Mass candidate” ***

*** GLOBIES TAKE DOWN ORIGINAL STORY AFTER LIMBAUGH MONOLOGUE, REPLACE WITH NEW VERSION ***

Here’s another issue WTKK’s delusional Margery Eagan won’t want to talk about: the thuggish behavior that seems to follow Martha Coakley as she travels to and from events.

Earlier, we noted a disturbing incident that occurred as Coakley arrived at Monday’s debate and was greeted by Brown supporters.

Now, video of a second violent dust-up has emerged, this time outside the DC restaurant where Coakley was attending a fundraiser hosted by piggish K Street lobbyists. This time, it was a Weekly Standard reporter who was on the receiving end of a violent outburst from someone in Coakley’s entourage. John McCormack says he was “pushed into a railing” by “someone with the Coakley campaign”.

Here’s the best clip, though far from conclusive, to emerge so far:

From his account posted at the Weekly Standard:

After taking a question from a CNN reporter on the street outside the restaurant, I asked her:

TWS: Attorney General Coakley, you said last night that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan–that they’re all in Yemen and Pakistan. Do you stand by that remark?

COAKLEY: I’m sorry, did someone else have a question?

GRIFF JENKINS, Fox News: I did. Why are you in Washington tonight?

COAKLEY: We planned an event after the primary that would be a unity event in Washington. We’re also in the middle of a very intense campaign [...]

After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. She didn’t reply.

As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.

He asked if I was with the media, and I told him I work for THE WEEKLY STANDARD. When I asked him who he worked for he replied, “I work for me.” He demanded to see my credentials, and even though it was a public street, I showed them to him.

Red Mass has more and for added entertainment, their comment section has apparently been hijacked by the Party Opposite.

UPDATE: This story appears to have legs after all. The Boston Herald has a story in today’s edition, while an AP photographer appears to have caught some portion of the altercation:

As he continued to walk down the street, he said a man who appeared to be associated with Coakley’s campaign pushed him into a freestanding metal rail.

“I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street,” he wrote.

McCormack said the man asked him whether he was with the media and he responded he works for the Weekly Standard.

His online entry includes a YouTube video of the incident, in which you can hear a man ask McCormack if he’s OK after he fell. The reporter then tangles with the same man, showing him a press credential as he tries to make his way around him.

McCormack wrote he eventually caught up to Coakley, who declined to answer his question.

He said Coakley staffers informed him they don’t know who pushed him. In an updated blog post, McCormack writes he believes he was pushed by Michael Meehan, president of Blue Line Strategic Communications in Washington, D.C. The Associated Press also identifies the man as Meehan, based on photos and videotape of the incident.

A Coakley spokeswoman could not provide an immediate response to a Herald inquiry about McCormack’s account. Meehan did not immediately return an phone message or e-mail.

A message left for McCormack was not immediately returned.

Here’s the dishonest version of events asserted by The Globies / AP:

Reporter takes stumble chasing Mass. candidate

January 13, 2010

BOSTON—A reporter trying to question Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley was involved in a scuffle with one of her aides.

John McCormack of the Weekly Standard fell Tuesday night as he tried to speak with the Democrat while simultaneously videotaping her and trying to pass a metal grate on a Washington sidewalk.

Photos and video of the incident show Coakley aide Michael Meehan trying to help McCormack up. A scuffle broke out as Meehan tried to block McCormack and determine if he was an operative of a rival campaign.

Coakley is seen ignoring McCormack. The trip prompted criticism, since Coakley was in Washington seeking money from lobbyists while polls show a tightening race.

First image of incident: AP

Second image of incident: AP

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