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Weekly Standard Editor in Charge of Stalking Female Candidates Who Are Not Sarah Palin Because That Is Matthew Continetti’s Job, So BACK OFF, SPARKY John McCormack is just one of those guys who can’t take “no” for an answer and this gets him into all kinds of wacky and crazy situations where McCormack is eventually hauled off to jail while wearing a torn and stained wife-beater and crying “I love you baby. I’ll be good to you. I swear…”.
Tuesday night he was stalking that nice Boston lady who is running against the nude model guy and he learned what basketball players talk about when they talk about setting a pick:
After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. She didn’t reply.
As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.
He asked if I was with the media, and I told him I work for THE WEEKLY STANDARD. When I asked him who he worked for he replied, “I work for me.” He demanded to see my credentials, and even though it was a public street, I showed them to him.
I eventually got around him and met up with the attorney general halfway down the block.
“Attorney General, could I ask you a question please?” I said. “We’re done, thanks,” Coakley replied. She walked back toward the restaurant, apparently searching for her car. She remained silent as I (politely) repeated my question.
It was only three months ago when McCormack had a run in with that nice Republican lady who was forced out of running and thus handed a reliable Republican seat over to the Democrats (GOOD JOB, YOU GUYS!):
So after the dinner, I asked Assemblywoman Scozzafava if she supports card check. “Yes, yes I do,” she replied.
At that point someone from her campaign placed himself between Scozzafava and me and told me I should direct all my inquires to the campaign’s spokesman. I nonetheless asked Scozzafava if her signing of the Americans for Tax Reform pledge not to vote to raise taxes means she would oppose any health care bill that raises taxes. “What kind of taxes?” she replied. Then another couple of gentlemen interposed themselves between Scozzafava and me as Scozzafava headed for the door.
I spotted Scozzafava later as she was walking to the parking lot, and asked her: ” Assemblywoman, do you believe that the health-care bill should exclude coverage for abortion?” She didn’t reply. I asked her twice more. Silence.
After she got into her car, I went to my car and fired up my laptop to report the evening’s events.
Minutes later a police car drove into the parking lot with its lights flashing. Officer Grolman informed me that she was called because “there was a little bit of an uncomfortable situation” and then took down my name, date of birth, and address.
“Maybe we do things a little differently here, but you know, persistence in that area, you scared the candidate a little bit,” Officer Grolman told me.
“[Scozzafava] got startled, that’s all,” Officer Grolman added. “It’s not like you’re in any trouble.”
All lady candidates should just get restraining orders against John McCormack right now because they will probably need them one day. Also, pepper spray. Pepper spray is good too…
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Why does he keep approaching female candidates while wearing only his signature white briefs? I think any candidate – including Larry Craig – would find this unsettling.
So does this “reporter” ever get a question answered, or do his stories consist entirely of how he gets roughed up by security?
Will the carnage in Haiti shift the focus of Americans from what really seems to have us concerned?
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Enjoy.
Does this slapdick ever ask questions at a press conference? What’s with following women out to the parking lot AFTER an event ends?
Creepy douchebag.
To cite the old joke about the hunter and the bear: face it, John, you don’t come out here for the hunting…
Ahhh, the time honored-tradition of “ambush journalism.”
Heh. We
reporttweet, you decide.Well, it’s not like he’s all that different from the rest of the “journalist” mob. If 25 people do it with lights and cameras, it’s good TV news, but if one guy does it, it’s stalking. But then maybe the white briefs do make it a little different.
Did he once work for BillO?
Maybe if he added a brown fedora with a “press” card stuck in the band? It might look a little less unsettling with his tidy whiteys.
He asked her in the press conference about her claim the other day that there are no more terrorists in Afghanistan. Fortunately, this statement was not made by Sarah Palin or another Republican, or it would be proof of their ignorance of international affairs. Since Coakley is a Democrat, she can say any ignorant thing at all and be given a pass by the press. And of course, by all of you finely educated and enlightened citizens. She ignored the question, and the reporter followed her, trying to get an answer. the reporter was shoved to the ground by a Democrat consultant. If the party allegiances had been reversed, all of you would be crying fascism. But since the shover was a Dem and the shovee someone questionning a Dem, all of you have no problem at all, in fact, it is the reporter who is to be faulted and ridiculed. You people have not a sliver left of moral or intellectual integrity.
BTW, I signed up on this site with this absurd handle, when Jane Hamsher was trying to blacklist Hadassah Lieberman for her husband’s daring to oppose absolutely any health care bill the Democrats deem he should vote for. All of you no dount think that was fine too, even as you continue to wail about those horrible blacklists of the 50s. No intellectual or moral integrity at all.
Crabby old fart, aren’t you? No worries, there’s metemucil in the pudding on Wednesday nights. Your mood will pass.
Don’t for the the basset pictures – they always lift my mood.
Also – classic projection. Almost textbook.
He writes for the Weekly Standard. Not real journalism. So, media fail.
that’s what I was thinking. How could someone from the weakly standard get press credentials?
I unwittingly picked up a copy of the Weekly Standard while stuck in a doctor’s office last week. I realized my mistake when I when I saw the cast of characters listed on the table of contents. This was no satire. No sign of Tbogg anywhere. I’d never seen so much mediocrity gathered in one place before. Plus, it took a whole can of Bon Ami to wash the smell of ass off my fingertips.
Also. I won’t speak for “You people” but, when when joemccarthy says it, I am actually proud of “have[ing] not a sliver left of moral or intellectual integrity.”
Wolverines!!!!