Republican candidate 'body-slams' Guardian reporter in Montana

[rogue emissary]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/greg-gianforte-bodyslams-reporter-ben-jacobs-montana?CMP=edit_2221

[grantcart]

1. unbelievable

[LisaM]

2. Wow.

He looks like a jerk.

[MyNameIsKhan]

3. CNN covering it exclusively

[welivetotreadonkings]

4. What is it with the modern Republican party and their hatred for the free press?

I'm sure Trump will approve.

[rogue emissary]

10. Chris Hayes has a reporter on making that exact point.

The targeting of the MSM as the enemy or as the other has consequences. Donny has been playing up their fake, incompetent and luckily this reporter wasn't hurt too bad.

From the reporter in WV being arrested for public disturbance and now this incidence. The reporters that don't work at Fox or other right wing suck ups are in real danger. This was a question about the CBO score for goodness sakes.

[regnaD kciN]

5. I bet he goes on to win...

"Kicking the shit out of some liberal reporter" is just the sort of thing that will make him a hero to Montana cowboy types.

[enough]

6. Exactly. They were praying for an opportunity like this, and the more

publicly it gets, the better they like it.

[grantcart]

9. I bet he doesn't have many friends

Montanians like the first amendment too

[2naSalit]

13. Yes we do!

I think it might bite him in the ass... I sure hope so.

[2naSalit]

14. Only in some circles...

The race is suddenly much closer than many expected and guess who is getting real nervous about it.



I voted absentee so my vote is already counted for Quist.

[Takket]

7. not making an excuse for this loser but.........

this is a byproduct of the anti-press hate frenzy the GOP has been whipping up.

[MarcA]

8. They know how evil their agenda is and the world knows

how they bow to their corporatists masters. It can get to them and they will crack.

[wildeyed]

11. Helluva way to wrap up an election.

I think his internal polling went south. Pence and Trump are robocalling for him. Guy can't handle pressure AT ALL. Clearly not cut out for the job.

[2naSalit]

12. He's from NJ...

and that's where he learned his thuggish behavior. I hope this bites him in the ass really hard. (I'm from the North East and this is a common practice for ne'er do wells.)

His campaign is nervous, I overheard some thumpers in the grocery store today commiserating about how they suspect there might be voter fraud and one commenting that there "...better be a republican there when those votes are counted!" and then some worrying "...but what can you do?"

I recall how Ryan Zinke was caught overseeing vote counts in Billings when he was forbidden by law to be anywhere in the building as it was a warehouse.

I just sent this little tidbit over to the Quist campaign, they used the Russian investments thing right away after I sent them a message about it... I'm sure I wasn't the only one but they were on top of that.