The Internet demolishing Michael Tracy for claiming that Auntie Maxine shoved him gave me life

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Michael Tracy from TYT started by pretending Maxine shoved him. TYT was funded by a GOP donor, which ofcourse some on the left conveniently like to forget.

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He then wrote a whole statement about this shove

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Here is a video of the assault

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Then there is this clearly not sexist at all statement from him

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Then the internet happened to him, because claiming at 70 year old tiny lady shoved you, deserves a good smackdown.

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If he were not a white man, and he had so publicly lied about this, he would lose his job.

[Demsrule86]

1. Another reason to never never listen or watch the TYT

They also suck...and are funded by the GOP.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. +1

[emulatorloo]

2. Lose his job? TYT's Republican sugar-daddy will probably give him a raise.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. +1

[emulatorloo]

10. Most every comment in the thread is about what a liar he is, so that's good.

[apcalc]

5. Dumb little weasel

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. he wanted to be the next Ben Jacobs. LOL

[Wounded Bear]

7. Just another Trump sucking snowflake...

Haven't watched TYT in a long time. Haven't had a lot of incentive to.

[Raster]

8. suck it up, buttercup

[lillypaddle]

9. He is an ass

and so are TYT. Fuck them, whiney little babies.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. If that was a shove, then him not "meaningfully impeding her path" is kidnapping..

[suffragette]

12. He conveniently omits that she had just given him a long and thoughtful answer to his previous

question, then he exaggerates her merely brushing aside the mike as she discerns the motives behind his questions and chooses to leave.

He could not bait her into making a problematic statement, so now he tries to vilify her by misrepresenting her action.

Yeah, he's slime.

[Blue_true]

13. The guy seems like a rightwing troll. Going after Waters, attacking Jeremy Corbin.

That is rightwing stuff. Liberals that support TYT need to reassess.

[malaise]

14. This is a shove fool

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/trump-pushes-prime-minister-nato-summit/

[treestar]

15. So does he consider the Orange Idiot's

behavior to ever be "intemperate?"

[Scurrilous]

16. $%&* the Obama haters.

[SonofDonald]

17. Little girly man, Nancy boy, etc.

If that's a "Shove" I would have loved to take him crabbing back in the day, perfect for bait.

But it's obvious this "man" would never have left his bunk, sad......

[mountain grammy]

18. If he thinks she should be held accountable for this,

then he should be on record recommended a long prison sentence for the Congressman elect from Montana.

[aeromanKC]

19. More like get that Mic out of my face

She answered your question and now off to do the work of the People!!

[Honeycombe8]

20. No. What I saw: She raised her hands in the air; his mic just happened to be in the way a bit.

So her hand momentarily & slightly TOUCHED his mic, looks like. Didn't push it, shove it, or anything of the sort. In fact, it's possible the two didn't even touch. Hard to tell from that viewpoint.

NO WAY. They're dying to get a Gianforte type story on the left. Ain't gonna happen. As if an old pro, an elderly woman, is going to push anyone.

[SCVDem]

21. He kept moving to block her path!

You get one question, asked and answered, now move out of the way!

I doubt security would have been so gentle.

You just can't impede a persons path! He should watch how REAL reporters do it!

[world wide wally]

27. Looked to me like she just lightly moved an obstacle out of her way to escape.

Now can people stop posting TYT clips in here?

[certainot]

22. 1000 radio stations will exaggerate, compare, and use this to rationalize

cong gianforte's assault on reporter

limbaugh will say, knowing they can't see it, "anyone can see maxine was being 'thuggish'....."

and, so a dem congresswoman can do it but not a republican - where's the outrage, typcal liberal media.

just because she's a woman. just because she's black.

seriously, i'm not kidding, it's been like that for 30 years

[George II]

23. First, it looks like he put his hand on her shoulder at the very beginning, and....

....then, after she dismissed him and began walking away he shoved his microphone in her path. If anything, HE assaulted HER!

[paleotn]

24. What is it with doughy, white boys?

Cheeto chomping, dew swinging, fucking pigs who's closest thing to exercise is wandering from the TeeVee to the toilet. From a progressive, white guy to one of my heroes.....Congresswoman Waters, belt his ass next time! He has no right to even exist on the same plane as Maxine Waters, and no, I will NOT be nice anymore!!!

[Iplayoneontv]

25. What the fuck

I don't see anything weird about what she did. He was shoving something in her face so she moved it out of her face.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Maxine Waters is pushing 80 and she looks like she's 100 lbs. soaking wet.

I'm sure this poor man was horribly traumatized by this tiny old lady.

[Hekate]

28. Amen. The horror, the horror!

[dchill]

29. It's not a push or a shove. It's a flick...

Like what you'd do to a piece of lint. Or a snowflake.

[bobbieinok]

30. Hey! It's OK

He's male and white. She's black AND a woman. So who
of real importance in Trumpworld actually cares?? /sarcasm

[LiberalLovinLug]

31. Obviously a stupid thing to tweet about. Makes him look like a snivelling idiot

But I am disappointed and perplexed by the continuing assault on liberal media outlets like TYT....BY LIBERALS whenever there is the slightest opportunity to do so. Or maybe none of those in this thread that are so negative regard themselves as "liberal" or "progressive". But if you think of yourself at all as a liberal, shame for helping to shut out the already shut down voices from the left. I see it with Maher and others as well. The tiniest faux pas from a media personality from the left is a green light to give them the same vitriol as Brietbart. So damaging to our side. Such an unbalanced standard.

Maybe it was a loaded question, but it was also a perfectly reasonable one. ie... was it a mistake for the previous Democratic administration to trust Russia and not be more aggressive in Syria (as Hillary wanted and criticized Obama too about)

Now I appreciate and respect Maxine greatly, and this fool was indeed an embarrassment to his profession for this sniveling tweet afterwards, but all she had to do was politely answer in any number of more mature ways herself, like "that was another time and circumstances were different", or " it's never a mistake to try and find the diplomatic course first". Instead she got angry and accused him of simply being an "Obama hater" and walked off angrily. That part seems to be lost in this post.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

33. TYT is neither liberal not good for liberals.

Using the n word is not a slight issue.

Neither Bill Maher nor TYT is good for liberals. Bill Maher is exactly what people hate about liberals, condescending and snarky. TYT is just dishonest BS.

[Charlotte Little]

42. No, nope, no

Maxine Waters doesn't have to be polite to a man with a microphone in her face and that close to her personal space. Not to mention that he was trying to get her to contradict herself and putting blame back on Obama - a very sneaky tactic that the right uses all the time.

As for mature, you need to sit yourself down. I've listened to her speak in person - she's one of the most strident defenders of democracy out there. Shame on you for trying to shame her behavior. She can do as she damn well pleases without the peanut gallery trying to arm wrestle her into a traditional role. Politeness has been proven ineffective and a woman of her position, intellect and purpose does not need to act any particular way just for optics.

[JI7]

43. she knew what the racist right wing asshole was about. she doesn't have to put up with that shit

[geek tragedy]

32. His audience on Twitter is mostly white nationalists.

He's playing to his fans here.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

34. that can be said for most of the TYT audience.

[geek tragedy]

35. Tracey is especially obvious.

Does what he can to downplay anti-Semitism as well.

[OnDoutside]

36. Pressure should be put on Cenk, there's no way he should be allowed to ignore this.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

39. Same Cenk who was a republican until 2009 and took GOP money

To start his company. Same company that relishes in attacking democrats?

[OnDoutside]

41. The same. No one is calling him out on it, and there are lots of young people listening to his crap.

[JHB]

37. Re-enactment here...

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[ismnotwasm]

38. It's a beautiful thing

Bet he thought he was going to get points. Instead his name is synonymous with "useless punk" forevermore

[cwydro]

40. What a pathetic little twerp.

Sickening.