Washington State: Another Conservative Man Assaults Liberal Woman
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According to a Sheriff’s deputy report, Christie Stordeur, 23, Richland, was one of five protesters standing about 40 feet from the entrance of the office at 343 S. Second Ave. at 10:25 a.m. Friday.
Also standing in the area was Victor R. Phillips, 72, of Walla Walla, who had a camera.
According to the report, Phillips said he wanted to get a picture of the protesters, who were wearing bags over their heads and holding a sign that looked like a check.
The deputy said he saw Phillips walk over to Stordeur and lift her bag off her head. Stordeur lifted her arm in defense, and that is when Phillips hit her arm with ‘force.’
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This is who they are.
That said, from an outsider’s perspective having lived abroad for two years, it couldn’t be more clear that 30-40% of America lost it’s fucking mind after the election of a black man as president. To state the obvious, there were no Teabaggers before a black guy got elected to the highest office.
Koreans think the same thing, fwiw.
Not surprising since this is the same bunch of morons who think that if they loose the election the Constitution gives them the right to overthrow the government.
Thanks, Republicans! Way to trade sanity for power! This can only turn out good!
I don’t understand what makes this nut think he can just go over to her and take off the bag on her head and think that’s an okay thing to do. Why not just ask them if he could take a picture of them? Sheesh.
Compared to the Kentucky incident, this one seems pretty tame. But it does take an incredible sense of entitlement to think it’s OK to just stroll over to somebody and start rearranging their stuff. I wonder why the old guy thought it would be allright to just yank the bag off her head.
Kind of makes you wish November 2 would get here sooner just so nobody gets hurt.
Interesting disclosures:
Initial reactions and what they said then,
…..and what they say now.
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“To state the obvious, there were no Teabaggers before a black guy got elected to the highest office.”
To state the obvious, there was no Tea Party until the country ran a Trillion dollar deficit.
Let’s go over what we know about these two incidents.
The video of Kenneth starts out with him standing over an SEIU member on the ground. A 2nd SEIU member then pulls/pushes Kenneth to the ground, falling to the ground himself. They both get up, then the third guy gets up. Then lots of yelling.
Then Kenneth decides to fake a whole bunch of injuries (knee, back, shoulder, face). He put out a statement that the SEIU members jumped on top of him, kicking and punching him. He shows up at a press conference in a wheelchair.
Summary: grown man gets in shoving match with other grown men, isn’t hurt, lies about it.
The video of Valle starts with her either starting to fall or being pushed over, hard to see. Then two or three guys grab her and push her to the ground, and another steps on her shoulder and jams his foot down onto her head. They stop, she lays there for a minute.
Then she understates things (“they weren’t very nice”, “stepped on my head”, a “little headache”).
Summary: woman gets attacked by 3 or 4 grown men, is hurt, doesn’t lie about it.
It should not be hard to see why any sympathy Gladney might have received was lost when he started fabricating stories.
Now, we have another story of a man attacking a woman over politics. Yes it is tame in comparison, but troubling none-the-less.
Woooo! Three for three! Classy guys!
tim, sorry, but you didn’t show where Gladney faked his injuries or lied about anything, you just said he did. What a great way to appear objective in your comparisons.
As for Ms. Valle, you don’t know that she was hurt other than she complained of a headache, or that she understated anything. You’re saying she understated the degree of the force of the foot on her shoulder/backof the head simoly because her use of the phrase “stepped on” has been morphed into “stomped on” by all the liberal blogs to evoke imagary of fascism as a lead-in to their claims that this is fascism and 1030′s Germany.
In short, you’ve been sucked in like a trained seal. Yes, what happened to that woman is wrong and it’s troubling, but it’s not fascism. Making that association is wrong and troubling too, but it’s something you guys seem to love to do.
Explain that to me, please.
And tim, if you do wish to explain any of that to me, please refer to someone else besides MMfA in claiming Gladney lied or faked his injuries. SEIU gave a lot of money to them immediately after the incident. Not saying that would cloud their objectivity, but I’d prefer to see other sources if you don’t mind.
“To state the obvious, there was no Tea Party until the country ran a Trillion dollar deficit.”
First: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/29/barack-obama/obama-inherited-deficits-bush-administration/
Secondly, tea baggers are upset at TARP, right? Where were they when it was passed and signed in 2008?!?
Blaming Bush again? Nice try:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/03/21/GR2009032100104.html
“Where were they when [TARP] was passed and signed in 2008?!?”
Conservatives were all gung-ho about TARP? Really?!?
Your link doesn’t address your claim that “To state the obvious, there was no Tea Party until the country ran a Trillion dollar deficit.”
My link, however, does prove there was already a trillion dollar deficit before Obama took office.
AND,you didn’t answer my question, Save. Where were the tea baggers when it was passed and signed in 2008?
I don’t think ANYONE was ‘gung-ho’ about TARP, but it was necessary to save this country from crumbling to the ground.
Dude showed up in a wheelchair a couple days later. In the video he’s up and walking around all fine. From those two facts I can deduce that he was faking.
He claims injuries to the face. His face is visible in the video, I don’t see any injuries. If you seek medical attention for an injury to your face, usually it is one that is visible.
As for her understating, she started out saying they “weren’t very nice”. From that and the way she was speaking, I surmised she was understating things. She was hurt, she went to the hospital and diagnosed with a concussion and mild sprains.
Finally, no this is not fascism. What it is is fascist, that is an element of fascism. The willingness of supporters of one political party to violently suppress the opponents of the party.
AND,you didn’t answer my question, Save. Where were the tea baggers when it was passed and signed in 2008?
Why did they have to be organized and ready to go when the TARP remedy was enacted since the meltdown had only just happened, Jen7?
The movement only really started to take hold when Rich Santelli had his outburst on TV in early 2009 when he was fed up with so many people who took out stupid mortgages they couldn’t afford were getting bailed out by taxpayers who played by the rules and made the necessary sacrifices to pay their mortgages. And that timing coincided with April 15. To say the tea party movement is all about anger over a black man being president is just plain idiotic.
And if you think it’s hypocritical that the tea party wasn’t formed and ready to explode when the original TARP money was given out in Oct. of 2008, then why is it there are no longer any real anti-war protests to speak of going on right now? Where’s the consistency from the left?
Dude showed up in a wheelchair a couple days later. In the video he’s up and walking around all fine. From those two facts I can deduce that he was faking.
He claims injuries to the face. His face is visible in the video, I don’t see any injuries. If you seek medical attention for an injury to your face, usually it is one that is visible. -tim
Thank you Doctor Tim.
Hey, I had a partial tear in my rotator cuff last year and never had surgery done. How about if I send you a picture, or no, wait, how about if I send you a 5 second video clip of me walking around in my house, and let me know if you think I should have surgery or just wait to see if it gets worse. I know I don’t need to let you know if it hurts or not or how much, because of course you’d know that already, because you just know these things, right?
Why did they have to be organized and ready to go when the TARP remedy was enacted since the meltdown had only just happened, Jen7?
Because Dennis, that’s one of their main gripes. They keep saying this isn’t about Republican or Democrat, yet they didn’t complain when a REPUBLICAN signed the god damned bill!
Now two whole months after a black man (who is a democrat) was elected, they started bitchin’ and bellyachin’. But NOOOOOOO! We don’t like Bushs’ policies either. Riiiiiiiight.
And as for the left not protesting the war. Um, wow. The left has evicerated Obama on both wars. Jesus, do a simple google.
Want help? Here.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&&sa=X&ei=EmjITICRMoT0tgObzNS2DQ&ved=0CBYQBSgA&q=anti+war+protests+since+Obama+took+office&spell=1&fp=956ab502b015b9a1
Sorry, “Why did they have to be organized and ready to go when the TARP remedy was enacted since the meltdown had only just happened, Jen7?” is from Dennis.
Because Dennis, that’s one of their main gripes. They keep saying this isn’t about Republican or Democrat, yet they didn’t complain when a REPUBLICAN signed the god damned bill!
What do you mean, they didn’t complain? The tea party didn’t exist as a group then. People complained, lots of them did. Without a doubt they complained.
And I haven’t seen a war protest in a month of Sundays.
Not since at least January 2009, that is.
Jen, I appreciate the help with the link you gave me, but most of them are of the “Where did the Anti-war Left go” variety.
Making my case for me is not the help I needed, but thanks all the same.
I haven’t heard of any war protests, but there have been anti-war protests:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harmon-leon/saturdays-obamas-anti-war_b_505432.html
Up and coming in Dallas, one for Bush:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-bushprotest_14met.ART.Central.Edition1.33303fa.html
Be there.
“Jen, I appreciate the help with the link you gave me, but most of them are of the “Where did the Anti-war Left go” variety.
Making my case for me is not the help I needed, but thanks all the same.”
No, actually it wasn’t. It showed more than one link that said there were about 5 anti-war protests since Obama took office.
“What do you mean, they didn’t complain? The tea party didn’t exist as a group then. People complained, lots of them did. Without a doubt they complained.”
Right. They didn’t complain because a Republican signed the bill. Then when a Democrat was in office, they complained about TARP and formed their little club.
Quit being obtuse.
Thank you Doctor Tim.
Hey, if it was good enough for Bill Frist…
*link graciously provided for those with a memory span of that of a goldfish.
*link graciously provided for those with a memory span of that of a goldfish.
I think you forgot “and who also don’t mind too much being condescended to.”
No, actually it wasn’t. It showed more than one link that said there were about 5 anti-war protests since Obama took office.
Wow, Jen, 5 whole anti-war protests since he took office. I mean, aside from the fact you had to google it to know they even existed, isn’t that just mind-boggling the shear numbers considering the evisceration you claimed Obama received for not ending the wars? Unbelievable, really.
They didn’t complain because a Republican signed the bill. Then when a Democrat was in office, they complained about TARP and formed their little club.
I already told you and Save linked to it, but conservatives did very much complain with the original TARP. And yes, the tea parties started forming and really getting going when they were mostly upset about the massive spending bill about to be passed for which we were told was necessary to keep unemployment from going above 8% and in which Dems said they were going to start bailing out mortgage holders who couldn’t pay their mortgages.
Yeah, conservatives bitch louder and are more motivated when a Democrat is in the Oval Office and libs bitch more and protest more when a Republican is in the Oval Office. Why does that confound you? Are you trying to say that Democrats haven’t provided the impetus for Tea Party anger in any way? Or are you saying their formation is just an excuse for racism so they can have racist get-togethers?
Folks, I think it’s time that we progrssives and liberals start practicing OUR Second Amendment rights. After all, we are under a fast-growing threat from radical Teabaggers.
WE should start buying guns where it is legal to do so. WE should start joining the NRA in great numbers. WE should start advocating for concealed-carry.
And when WE start doing these things, WE can laugh as the wingnuts begin back-pedaling furiously from their pro-gun stances.
I think you forgot “and who also don’t mind too much being condescended to.”
What can I say? You seem to suffer a meltdown whenever I reference an event over 6 hours old.
“Wow, Jen, 5 whole anti-war protests since he took office. I mean, aside from the fact you had to google it to know they even existed, isn’t that just mind-boggling the shear numbers considering the evisceration you claimed Obama received for not ending the wars? Unbelievable, really.”
Oh, you’ll have to forgive me if I actually get my facts straight. Next time I’ll just pick it out of my ass….like YOU do.
Look, Dennis, YOU asked where have all the anti-war protests have gone….and I showed you they didn’t just disappear because Obama is in office…therefore obliterating your argument that it’s hypocritical.
Dennis says:And if you think it’s hypocritical that the tea party wasn’t formed and ready to explode when the original TARP money was given out in Oct. of 2008, then why is it there are no longer any real anti-war protests to speak of going on right now? Where’s the consistency from the left?
“I already told you and Save linked to it, but conservatives did very much complain with the original TARP. And yes, the tea parties started forming and really getting going when they were mostly upset about the massive spending bill about to be passed for which we were told was necessary to keep unemployment from going above 8% and in which Dems said they were going to start bailing out mortgage holders who couldn’t pay their mortgages.”
Actually, it wasn’t just that either. See, they kept changing their gripes when it suites their needs. Kind of like Bush when he went to war with Iraq. Remember Taxed Enough Already?? Well, guess what? Obama signed the biggest tax cut to the middle class. They weren’t being over taxed. Another lie. It’s a charade, Dennis, and you know it. They just can’t stand to have #1 A black man in office and #2 a Democrat and #3 he’s not really a citizen anyway.
I think most of the movement is racist, yet. Look at their cadidates. They are hateful, racist people who want to move this country BACKWARDS. And facts are on MY side.
Good God Almighty, Jen, how can you not read the link YOU provided,
Saturday’s Obama Anti-War Protest: A Critique
and argue that it didn’t support my case. It’s exactly what I was saying as regards to your claim that the tea party movement was hypocritical for not forming the days before Bush signed the original TARP bill. The author actually spells it out for you. In very simple, easy to understand terms, he says that the protest was so disjointed because they were all on the same side as the president, so it made no sense, just like the same way liberals criticize the tea party movement.
I’ve posted here for close to two years now and that is the first time someone has posted a link to an article as a counter to my argument for which the article makes the case almost as well as I did.
So, thank you. I’m going to save this one and remember you for it.
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I think most of the movement is racist, yet. Look at their cadidates. They are hateful, racist people who want to move this country BACKWARDS. And facts are on MY side.
NO, Jen, sorry. but FACTS are not on your side. There has been no polling or analysis that proves, claims, points to, indicates or even hints that most of the movement is racist. Far less than a majority, actually.
Pure and simple, what you are doing is following the thinking pattern of bigotry.
There’s Dennis, being dishonest again. Um, honey, I didn’t provide that specific link. I provived a link to a SEARCH.
Anyhoo, you asked why there weren’t anymore anti-war protests since taking office…to prove your argument and I showed you there have been.
Look at the attacks BY the left on Obama and compare them to the attacks by the tea baggers against Bush. Oh wait, there really aren’t any by the tea baggers.
Case closed.
You notice how these big tough cons only attack women? Rightwingers are the biggest pussies in the world
You notice how these big tough cons only attack women? Rightwingers are the biggest pussies in the world.
Like I said, perhaps its time for us liberals to gun up. Lock and load!
Like I said, perhaps its time for us liberals to gun up. Lock and load!–DRB
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Man Pulls Knife on Republican Candidate in Hotel Lobby
Knives, too, Downtown?
As always, the facts in Dennis’ linked article are less sensational than Dennis’ headline. The suspect was carrying a knife, but he never “pulled” it on the candidate; it was found on his person after arrest.
Pulling a knife on someone means to brandish or display the knife while stating or implying an intent to do harm. Which never happened in this instance.
It’s also not known if the suspect’s actions were directed at the Republican or at the other person(s) on stage.
Finally, there is NO mention in the article of the suspect’s political affiliation.
In other words, Dennis’ latest “look over there” ploy is yet another catastrophic failure.
Oliver, what constitutes a personal attack?