BeAChooser: You're making too many assumptions to address them all. So lets just address the larger fallacies.
LOL! Meaning that you've given up on trying to defend your assertions that Valle just waved the sign in front of the car window, that what she did with the sign wasn't intentional, that a small person is no threat, that she was injured, and that she's not a terrorist or associated with terrorists.
Fox News is the most popular media outlet. 49% of Americans polled trust Fox. … snip … There is no leftist media takeover.
By that, I assume you mean no media bias. Well you are wrong. There is indeed a left biased mainstream media. And here are some sources to substantiate that:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-n...ubt-about-it-all-fox-news-tipping-obama-s-way
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...a/americans_see_liberal_media_bias_on_tv_news
http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics3.asp
Furthermore, you are misreading that poll. It only indicate the percent of people who "trust" Fox News, not how many trust it in comparison to other news programs or actually watch it. The poll shows that other stations also get relatively high "trust" ratings. CNN gets 39%. NBC gets 35%. CBS and ABC both get about 30%. Sure, Fox News now has the largest share, but if you look at the raw numbers, Fox still only captures a portion of the total audience. As recent as 2005, FNC was only getting 31% of the total audience between FNC, NBC, CBS and ABC. Throw the audience that watches PBS and CNN for news in and that share is even smaller. And every one of those competitors are much farther to the left than Fox or polls show the public in general to be on issue after issue. Furthermore, the Fox network itself does not carry any national, regularly scheduled nightly "news" programming other than Fox News Sunday. All those other networks do have nightly news. And morning news programs. Which is why they, not Fox News, remain the primary news source for the majority of Americans.
And when it comes to printed media there is no Fox News to even compete with. Sure there are conservative papers but every one of the major papers (NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, etc) is more than a little left leaning. And a lot of people get their understanding of the news from those sources.
Or look at the internet. All the major browsers show a distinct leftward tilt. Take a look at what Yahoo, AOL, or whatever put as their "news" headlines day to day. More often than not it's what Obama or the democrats like or don't like. Go back and look at how they reported the Presidential campaign. Compare the reporting of Obama and McCain, both in terms of amount, content and spin. I think you will see there was a pronounced bias towards Obama. And where do you think Yahoo gets many of its news stories? From CBS, as well as ABC, with which it negotiated deals. Both CBS and ABC have a pronounced leftwing bias. Or from the AP and Reuters, which also have a left bias.
Don't be silly and claim there is no media bias, bookitty.
You keep saying that people are defending Lauren Valle. They are not.
Don't be silly. Of course they are defending her when they ignore anything she did to provoke the incident.
The phrase "They said they were here to do crowd control." is hearsay. It is impossible to know if it was actually uttered
LOL! Then you are either calling Valle or her MoveOn.org accomplice a liar. That's certainly what I think but I'm surprised to hear you say it.
What you are suggesting is that the gathering of a specific political party is no place for anyone with a dissenting view.
FALSE. That's nothing but a dishonest strawman on your part. You continue to show your true colors. I haven't once suggested or implied I have a problem with legitimate dissent. In fact, if any group is against legitimate dissent, it's been the democrats, with their Godwin sound bites, name calling, and their lies and hyperbole about the Tea Party, Chamber of Commerce, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and O'Reilly.
Valle crossed the line in terms of what is legitimate dissent when she put the occupants of that car and others at risk of serious injury. Have you stopped and considered how danger her shoving that sign in a moving SUV was, bookitty? How did she know the driver would react calmly or be able to tell that the only thing being shoved through the window was a sign? Many of these drivers have some training in what to do if their car is attacked. That driver could easily have decided that a serious threat was being made against Rand Paul, in which case he might have reacted by trying to get the vehicle out of the area. And that could have easily have resulted in injuries to the crowd. Or the driver could have been distracted and simply swerved into the crowd? What would have happened had the sign brushed the driver himself? Valle clearly wasn't thinking about that. Sorry, but I think your side is viewing Valle's actions much too leniently. If you think I'm wrong, then let's see you dress up in hoodie, a wig and run at the next vehicle carrying a top political contender and shove something through the window. You might not be as lucky as Valle was.
Instead of working towards a solution that welcomes and supports people with other opinions in the grand old American tradition, you condone violence against them.
Oh stop with the silly hyperbole. In the posts above, I explained very clearly what I condone and you simply have dishonestly misrepresented what I said. In doing so, you've said more about yourself than me.
) without ever showing what she or Profitt did before that. It does not show Profitt "standing in a crowd of people with signs". Do you have video of where he was before the incident began? I bet he was standing near security because after all, as you indicated, he was "the Bourbon County coordinator" for Rand Paul's campaign. I'd be very surprised if a county coordinator wasn't involved in security for an event like this.
