Republicans reacted angrily today after a video tracker was apparently pushed, threatened, and had his camera knocked down while shooting video of Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
The Warren campaign said the man involved was a private cabdriver, unaffiliated with the campaign.
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I'm not going to defend anyone here. Just wishing out loud that a technology existed that would show the "paparazzi" the invisible finger. Example..... I was picking up a car at Hertz in San Diego recently and nothing that was remotely operated worked. Not the key fob, not even my cell phone. I had no idea what was going on until I went inside to ask. Turns out that when a certain type of Naval vessel is in the area, that's what happens. I love it. I'd love to be able to have a miniature version of whatever they use and just fire it up when the obnoxious photographers get out of control. Odd juxtaposition since I'm a defender of the Constitution and most of the Amendments. Yep, I pick and choose. OK, I'm just venting but I'm ready for your blowback... let it fly!
Another tale of Lizzy the Harvard Law School professorial dunce. Sitting in a vehicle whose driver is tossing punches and causing harm to a GOP tracker who was doing some legitimate video recording of Lizzy. And some cab driver, not affiliated with Lizzy and her cronies, is the heavy? Why is that so hard to believe? Why would a cab driver challenge a person using a video camera to record Lizzy? Political love of the candidate? Maybe an Occupy movement flunky of Lizzy's mentoring vacationing on an island resort to see how the 1 percenters - you know, like Lizzy from Harvard Law - spend their summer days. Maybe...
Warren's campaign reacted correctly to this, no excuses: It was wrong, it shouldn't have happened. They're learning I guess!
The slugs act like slugs and then bleat and moan because someone stands up to them. Some of these "political operatives" are just trust-fund babies who got interested in politics because they don't *want* a real, working job ... much more fun to harass people on behalf of the puppeteers who pay well for this dung behavior. The worst of them, James O'Keefe, continues to bait people to create controversial video and even has legal protection as a non-profit organization. It's sad that people use our tax laws intended for good social work to this end.