Angry Diner Confronts McConnell at Restaurant, Tosses His Doggie Bag on Street

[babylonsister]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/mitch-mcconnell-confronted-by-angry-diner-at-louisville-restaurant.html

Angry Diner Confronts McConnell at Restaurant, Tosses His Doggie Bag on Street
By Daniel Politi
Oct 20, 20185:37 PM
Video at link~


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t have the most enjoyable of dinners on Friday night when he was repeatedly confronted by angry diners at a Louisville Cuban restaurant. TMZ published a video showing one heckler coming up to the Kentucky Republican and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, while they were at the restaurant. “Why don’t you get out of here?” the men can be heard yelling at McConnell. “Why don’t you leave the entire country?” Others in the restaurant told the man to leave the senator alone. That man also “slammed his fists down on McConnell’s table, grabbed his doggie bag and threw the food out the door of the restaurant,” the woman who recorded the video told TMZ. The main heckler was apparently angry about the senator’s stance on Social Security and health care.

Another witness confirmed the altercation to the Louisville Courier Journal. The man “took McConnell’s to-go box off the table, opened the door to Bardstown Road and dumped the food on the sidewalk,” the paper reported. The witness also said there were other confrontations before the one caught on tape. Earlier, a woman approached McConnell’s table and called him a “traitor” while others in the restaurant clapped. McConnell remained silent but Chao loudly called on the protesters to leave them alone.

A spokesman for McConnell said the senator and his wife “appreciate those who spoke up against incivility” and insisted the pair enjoyed their dinner. “They hope other patrons weren’t too inconvenienced by left-wing tantrums,” Robert Steurer said. “As the leader often says, the Senate will not be intimidated by the antics of far-left protesters.”

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. plants?

Paid hecklers?

[eleny]

4. McConnell didn't appear too fazed so you may be right

If the guy was a sincere stranger I don't believe that McC would have sat there so calm. He would have been frightened since you never know what someone will do next. It looked to me like he was just watching the prepared show.

[rainy]

5. My thought as well!

[VOX]

7. I'm wondering this as well. Since the Repugs are using the "angry mob" as their rallying cry...

It would behoove them to create a paid, portable “angry mob” to insure false-but-juicy material for the Fox talking heads to repeat into their echo machine.

Jesus, what a world.

[guillaumeb]

2. McConnell is a political whore with no allegiance to anything but money.

His policies, if implemented, will literally kill his fellow citizens, but he calls for civility?

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Americans are speaking up ... no way will we be silenced by these thugs anymore...I laughed...

with their description of the protesters as 'far left'...still think that these protestors are not main stream, but I think not, I think that this is everyday Americans finally speaking up by the droves, and are speaking out against these repugs. Our voices will not be so easily silenced.

[John Fante]

6. The Far Left spends as much time attacking Democrats as the reich-wingers do.

These are ordinary, center/center-left Americans speaking out. McConnell'a polls about as well as an STD or a tax audit, so maybe there are a few despondent Republicans protesting too.

[Vinnie From Indy]

8. False flag

This was staged.

[dhol82]

9. Still don't understand how he keeps being re-elected.

[smirkymonkey]

10. He is the least popular senator in the nation.

Yet he somehow keeps getting re-elected. Sounds fishy.

[dhol82]

11. D'uh

What is it with Kentucky?

[global1]

12. Wouldn't A Senate Majority Leader Have Some .....

body guards or a security detail assigned to them?

Given the edgy climate in politics now - why would McConnell go out on his own without some security?

Sounds to me this was a staged dirty tricks event to accentuate the meme of a Dem Mob.

I'm not buying it?