Scott Brown: "We Can Do..." WHAT to Coakley With a Curling Iron???
By anniepa
@anniepa (27955)
United States
January 18, 2010 11:40pm CST
Let the spin begin...
At a Scott Brown rally yesterday, a supporter shouted (referring to Brown's Democratic Senate opponent Martha Coakley), "Shove a curling iron up HER butt!"
: http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-scott-brown-respond-to-sodomize-coakley-remark/
At first it was being reported simply that Brown smiled at the supporter and continued with his message when he said, "We can do this." However, if you look at the video you might agree it sure looks like he was responding to the remark.
One thing is certain - he didn't denounce it in any way!
Any comments?
Annie
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10 responses
@irishidid (8687)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Annie, just stop! You'd believe it if someone said a republican was eating corpses and dating Daffy Duck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-Z9IXJ9DM&feature=related
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
19 Jan 10
And I'm certain you believe it too. You believe any lie from the left and you've proved it over and over again. I like ya, but you're lost and have been for a long time.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
19 Jan 10
If that is all that Democrats have to complain about Brown then they must be really getting scared to be scraping the bottom of the barrel. This Brown smear is so trivial when one thinks all of the much bigger things going on the with our political parties!
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Taskr36 You are so right. I agree it was probably a plant as Brown is squeaky clean. I think is shows just how desperate the Obama and his crew must be. What I am worried about is how they are going to cheat on this election.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Does this mean Levi Johnston will be a super-clean rising star in the GOP twenty-some years from now...lol?
On a more serious note, IF Brown was indeed responding to the crude and disgusting remark by this attendee of his rally, regardless of whether the attendee was an actual supporter or not, this is NOT a trivial matter at all.
In politics it's only human nature that those who support someone will be more likely to give them the benefit of the doubt in a situation like this while those who don't support them will be more likely to assume the worst.
Annie
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Annie, apparently you didn't even bother to read your own link in its entirety
"UPDATE: Brown told reporters this morning that he didn't hear the remark, that it was "inappropriate" and that he would have "said something" had he heard it."
It's no surprise to me that you repeatedly attack republican candidates for things said by people at their rallies (even when you have no proof), but I have not once seen you do that to a democrat. When things this ridiculous are said at a rally my bet is that they are said by the opposition who show up at these rallies saying ridiculous things to make them look bad.
Tee hee!! Great response Taskr36@anniepa (27955)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Gee, what a SHOCK!! After he discovered the video had surfaced he claimed he hadn't heard the remark! Obviously, nobody can "prove" what someone else heard or didn't hear or what he'd have done had he heard it. I'll gladly concede that point. I'm wondering (NOT!!) if you'd be so generous if it had been a Democrat who had appeared to respond to a similarly crude remark about a Republican woman...
PLEASE give me some examples of things said by people at Democratic candidates' rallies and I promise to attack them as well! Unlike your side, I'll admit there are people who support Democratic candidates who have said and done things that are wrong. I guess all the people with the vile and vulgar signs at the tea party rallies were also sent there by the opposition to make the movement look bad, right?
Annie
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
19 Jan 10
"I'll admit there are people who support Democratic candidates who have said and done things that are wrong."
Really? This is the first time I've ever seen you admit it. I, on the other hand, have never hesitated to state that some people at such rallies are out of line. I just happen to think this statement was so ridiculous that it's hard to believe someone would say this unless their intent was to raise a stink like this.
You do agree that opponents of a politician ALWAYS go to their rallies looking for dirt aren't you? It certainly wasn't a supporter of Brown that rushed this to Thinkprogress. He1l Obama's own regulatory Czar has recommended "infiltrating" groups to undermine them.
http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/01/18/stealth-propaganda/?test=latestnews
Of course you've had no problem supporting candidates who joke about helping terrorists kill the president, call women wh0res, or try to have people jailed for raising money for their opponents. I think everyone here knows that the rules for acceptable behavior for you are 100% dependent on which letter follows a politician's name.
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I really do not understand why politicians condone rude behavior from their supporters. But, then again, I don't understand why people who are so wrapped up in politics have to act like children.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Between the speaker system, the crowd and everything else making noise at those events he probly did not hear it. It is hard to hear things there. Heck I have been to a few were you could barely hear the person speaking...even with a microphone and speakers. Tons of chatter and noise.
As for the comment....well he can't control what people say anymore than any other politican and both sides have their share of stupid people who say stupid things. Niether can do much about them. If they spent their time denouncing every person who said something they did not agree with.....that is all they would spend their time doing.
As for the person who said it....shame....shame...shame.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
19 Jan 10
You make a good point about the noise. Do you remember the incident with Howard Dean back in 2004, when he seemingly had a "meltdown" when he shouted all of the states he was going to take? I thought it made sense when I heard the explanation that he really didn't sound that way in person, that he had to "scream" to be heard over the crowd of enthusiastic young people.
Thank you for being objective and not insisting the person who said that HAD to have been sent their by the Obama camp!
Annie
@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I have been to enough of those rallies to know that both sides have more than their share of stupid people show up that EVERYONE wishes would have stayed home.
They don't need to send anyone in to any rally to make the other side look bad. There are enough idiots already there to make that happen.But there is not much either side can do about it but live with it.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
19 Jan 10
By the way...I always thought they were way too hard on Dean. He had to yell to be heard over the crowd and he was excited about what he was talking about. There are worse things in a candidate you know. I never thought it was a "meltdown" and I thought the press was making too much out of it. THey say that it "killed" his campaign and career....but for the life of me I can't understand why an excited yell would do that.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Unless he said it himself, and he did say that he didnt support that comment. I think it is crap and just people trying to find reasons against him. He is going to take Mass. and it will be good.
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
20 Jan 10
Ok, after watching a few raw unedited videos and after fixing your link...I am finaly ready to comment...I think. First, let me say I am neither endorsing Brown or oposing him. I don't know enough about him and he isn't running in my state. Seemss like an ok guy, but I just don't know.
Now, it is pretty certain from watching this event that his response had nothing to do with the curling iron shout out. It just doesn't make sense when you put the two together. Then there is the volumes of the two sound sources (Brown and the shouter), yes, I pay attention to this type of thing, i'm an audio engeneer and a musician. Im also a maticulous analyst and a spirited debater so i'd be going over this with a microscope anyways. I am fairly certain Brown couldn't have even heard the comment, and even if he did, there is no way that what was reported as his response was could have fit in with the comment from the shouter. Media is making hay out of a bare field here.
The guy's shout out was completely and utterly uncalled for, immature, chauvenistic and boorish, there is no excusing it and I wish idiots like him would stay home and shut up. Don't get me wrong, I think Coakley is a complete and utter trainwreck, a ditz and an elitist, but no woman deserves a comment like that, it's ungentalmanly and crude, utterly disresectfull towards women in general.
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
20 Jan 10
"The guy's shout out was completely and utterly uncalled for, immature, chauvenistic and boorish, there is no excusing it and I wish idiots like him would stay home and shut up. Don't get me wrong, I think Coakley is a complete and utter trainwreck, a ditz and an elitist, but no woman deserves a comment like that, it's ungentalmanly and crude, utterly disresectfull towards women in general"
Yeah, it was a bit off base. But I think this has to due with the fact Coakley tried to release a baby raper without bond after he sodomized a 2-year-old with a hot curling iron.
In no way does that excuse a remark like that, but the context of it wasn't because she was a woman, nor was he advocating rape -- it was one of those "see how you'd like it!" comments. Like when somebody doinks a kidnapping or the whole waterboarding to save lives thing and people shout, "What if it were your kids!"
It's certainly uncalled for because of the crude nature, but loons who try to release baby rapers (assuming the story is true... I'm not sure I want to read all about it) have at least some foul insults coming.
And, again, assuming it's true, I'm certainly glad she's not in office. We have enough of these wholly disconnected people in America who habitually let molestors and rapists off the hook.
@6precious102 (4043)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I pulled the link up that you provided, but all I heard was accusations and denigrations from Keith Olbermann's mouth. Since Olbermann is famous for denigrating anyone and everyone on the right, I won't say he's lying, but I won't automatically believe him. Do you have another link that might verify what Scott Brown said or did?
