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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 04:53 PM Oct 2017

Montana GOPer Says She Would Have Shot Journalist Gianforte Assaulted

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published OCTOBER 21, 2017 3:10 PM

A Montana Republican official on Thursday said she “would have shot” the reporter Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT) body-slammed a day before he was elected to office.

“If that kid had done to me what he did to Greg, I would have shot him,” Karen Marshall, the vice president of programs for Gallatin County Republican Women, said on the “Voices of Montana” radio program.

Jon Arneson, the show’s host, confirmed Marshall’s identity on Friday to the Helena Independent Record.

“I was there. I’m a friend of Greg’s,” Marshall said. “It wasn’t a body-slam.”

She claimed that Ben Jacobs, the reporter Gianforte attacked, “came on private property, came into a private building and went into a very private room that I would not even have gone into.”

“It was a setup,” Marshall claimed. “He just pushed a little too hard.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/montana-gop-official-says-she-would-have-shot-journalist-gianforte-assaulted



Hey Marshall, why and how do you have a "gun", your dangerous to society.
You in fact are just as dangerous as the MORON in the white house that said this:





The reporter was protected under the 1st Amendment Marshall, and he is also protected under the rules of law from assault with intent, and your republican "guy' assaulted a reporter and he plead guilty to the assault



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Montana GOPer Says She Would Have Shot Journalist Gianforte Assaulted (Original Post) turbinetree Oct 2017 OP
Of course. It's fucking Montana. Gotta talk tough, or no one will respect you. Aristus Oct 2017 #1
And You Would Go To Prison For The Rest Of Your Life SeattlePop Oct 2017 #22
WTF is wrong with these people? They are sick!!!! Initech Oct 2017 #2
What's wrong are the people who vote for these scumbags n2doc Oct 2017 #4
They really seem to have a knack for finding the worst people possible right? Initech Oct 2017 #9
She is probably planning to tomg Oct 2017 #11
She'll be primaried by someone who would threaten to murder his entire family... Salviati Oct 2017 #13
The Nazis are getting bolder n2doc Oct 2017 #3
They want to murder all Liberals / Progressive, LGBTQ peoples. They are nothing less than Nazis. YOHABLO Oct 2017 #5
Yup, and we need to start calling them out for that. Initech Oct 2017 #10
Merry christmas JI7 Oct 2017 #6
Happy Birthday.............. Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #21
Hiding Racism thbobby Oct 2017 #7
That is at least one good thing about the Trump administration. Initech Oct 2017 #14
HOws about we bring back ,,,,, Cryptoad Oct 2017 #8
Threatening violence against the press.. mountain grammy Oct 2017 #12
A semi-popular ska band in LA..might have gone to see them until some lyrics set me off..sure enough Tikki Oct 2017 #15
Sounds like something any good, anti-American, Fascist would say. nt procon Oct 2017 #16
GOP is addicted to violence and hate bronxiteforever Oct 2017 #17
one of us mentioned anything like this and we bluestarone Oct 2017 #18
Truth! 🔺 Duppers Oct 2017 #19
mfg! Duppers Oct 2017 #20
She seems to think there are far more like her than there are. Judi Lynn Oct 2017 #23
Went to high school with Jon Arneson's ex wife. This is the neverforget Oct 2017 #24

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
4. What's wrong are the people who vote for these scumbags
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 04:59 PM
Oct 2017

If decent folk voted for decent people, this sort of crap would end.

tomg

(2,574 posts)
11. She is probably planning to
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 05:18 PM
Oct 2017

primary Gianforte running on the slogan "He only body slammed him. I would have shot him."

Salviati

(6,008 posts)
13. She'll be primaried by someone who would threaten to murder his entire family...
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 05:23 PM
Oct 2017

Seriously, as asked by many others in this thread, what the fuck is wrong with these people?

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
3. The Nazis are getting bolder
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 04:57 PM
Oct 2017

Next up "I would have ties them to my truck and ripped them apart" or "I would have pulled out my trusty bump-stock and pumped them full o lead"

Fuck these fascists.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
10. Yup, and we need to start calling them out for that.
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 05:15 PM
Oct 2017

The last election really showed who they really are.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
7. Hiding Racism
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 05:05 PM
Oct 2017

The GOP has managed to keep racism out of plain view (to other racists and enablers at least) for decades.

Enter Trump. Racism exposed so blatantly that feigning ignorance of it is delusional or a blatant lie (the blatant lie is what I believe).

This may be cathartic for America in the long term. Will the racist evil being exposed motivate more to vote? Or more to open their minds and hearts?

The future of democracy depends on how this motivates people who have not participated in democracy or have kept their head buried in the sand.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
14. That is at least one good thing about the Trump administration.
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 05:36 PM
Oct 2017

He pulled back the curtain on just how racist, sexist, and homophobic the republican party really is. We, the informed, knew it already, but Trump showed it to the entire world the magnitude of their insanity.

Tikki

(14,556 posts)
15. A semi-popular ska band in LA..might have gone to see them until some lyrics set me off..sure enough
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 05:41 PM
Oct 2017

Last edited Sat Oct 21, 2017, 09:53 PM - Edit history (1)

the lyricist, lead singer, originally from Montana, is a Rand Paul devotee.
This composer, singer's rights and all but my right to go cold on that.

Seems odd a two-tone band and support of a racist..maybe their gig is all just for show.

Tikki

Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
23. She seems to think there are far more like her than there are.
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 11:29 PM
Oct 2017


ChuckleSnort Marshall, who claims the right to murder you, Gianforte, Jacobs.

It's going to be such a surprise for her if she ever steps outside her nest of lunatics.
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