O'Reilly's Metric

O'Reilly has successfully become a poor caricature of Glenn Beck.



Might as well have said "Did you know that Soros shops at Macy's twice a week? Should that shock America? Is he attempting to manipulate middle class mothers who are about to Christmas shop?"

Not only that, and to echo a point made by Bob Cesca, is O'Reilly really going to go the route of "look at all the mean things these people say" to claim that the modern conservative movement is somehow morally superior?

Then again, conservatives are more incensed when a woman is called a bitch while not taking violent assault against a liberal woman seriously.

Reality Shifting

Anything to excuse a man from violently assaulting a woman.

At POWIP, video of the girl rushing to Rand Paul's car and, yes, assaulting him, by pushing a placard against his face.

Yes, that's assault and battery. You cannot just reach out and touch whoever you like. Particularly when you're doing so in a menacing manner -- like running up to an open car window while wearing a disguise to hide your appearance.

They allowed her to commit assault once -- how many times should she be permitted to commit? When she rushed him a second time -- her intentions already made clear by the first assault -- should she have been permitted to re-offend?

Let's see this "assault":



This sign never even makes it in the car, so how was he "assaulted". Well, I do suppose that attempting to hand someone a non-lethal piece of cardboard constitutes a terrorist action when it comes to the Tea Baggers.

But more to the point, if Rand truly was assaulted, why didn't he say so in his interview on Fox"News" regarding the incidents of that night?

The more conservatives attempt to deflect from the real crime of the evening, the more that they come off as the unhinged masses they claim the left is.

And where was this "second assault"?

Randian Responses

Not only does Tim Profitt, the man who stomped MoveOn.org's Lauren Valle's head into a curb, think it's perfectly acceptable to attack a woman, but he also thinks that she owes him something:

Lexington Police began an assault investigation identifying Profitt as a suspect. "Well I'll just say it, if the police had done what they were supposed to do, it would have never happened," Profitt said.

The Paul campaign is not alone in its reaction. Another man involved in the altercation, Mike Pezzano, who held down Ms. Valle, tells NEWSFIRST he doesn't condone Profitt's actions. Valle has said she believes Paul supporters planned an attack on her. Pezzano asked not to appear on camera for an interview, but he denies that accusation and says he barely knows Profitt and didn't even know Profitt was there. As for Profitt, he remains defiant. "I don't think it's that big of a deal," Profitt said.

And when asked if he would apologize to Valle. "I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you," Profitt said.

The modern conservative movement has just moved from metaphorically attacking women to the quite literal and blatantly vulgar reality of having nothing more than unvarnished contempt for them.

UPDATE:

Far-right conservative blog First Things, a site that is often featured on the Fox"News" hate-site Fox"Nation", seems to think they have the smoking gun that shows Valle meant to do Rand Paul harm and that she isn't some innocent victim.

Apparently trying to hand someone a sign is grounds to violent physical assault:



As an interesting aside to this, the defacto leader of the Republican party is putting forth narrative that what is clearly seen in the video isn't what really happened:



It doesn't surprise me in the least that Limbaugh would go to bat for a Tea Bagger that assaults a woman. But apparently he didn't watch the video - or is more than willing to explain the subtle nuances of how to stomp on someone.

But what is readily apparent, and should honestly give all his listeners pause, is that he is claiming that this Lauren Valle got precisely what she deserved.