The Boston Globe: Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying

[kpete]

Joan Vennochi
The Boston Globe
Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying
By Joan Vennochi

At a West Springfield rally on Sunday, a Brown supporter yelled out “Shove a curling iron up her butt’’. The remark was a crude reference to Brown’s opponent, Attorney General Martha Coakley, who was criticized in a recent Boston Globe story for failing to aggressively prosecute a sexual abuse case involving a curling iron.

After that charming rallying cry, a video clip shows Brown grinning and saying, “We can do this.’’

A campaign spokesman said the Republican state senator didn’t hear what was said and was merely giving his standard stump reply. But if Brown didn’t hear it then, shouldn’t he - especially as the father of two daughters - be outraged now ?

If Brown isn’t outraged by the crudeness of the curling iron remark, you would think Massachusetts voters would be. But so far, they’re more outraged by Coakley’s misstatement on a radio show that ex-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is a "Yankee fan’’, as in the evil empire, New York ball club.


http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/18/brown_supporters_trying_to_suppress_vote_by_bullying/

[KansDem]

1. When you can sit in Congress and yell "you lie!" to the President of the United States...

...during a joint session and escape without accountability, then you can shout any crude remark you want.

Free speech doesn't require maturity, civility, or decorum.

But you'd expect so from the "Party of Moral Responsibility"™ and the "Party of Family Values."™

[DainBramaged]

2. The comments are priceless, those are the true evidence of what she writes

Brown supporters are scum, period.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R big #5 for, SURPRISE!1 n/t