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Congressman Maurice Hinchey Commits Assault and Battery On Reporter
Meet Maurice Hinchey (D-NY22), subject of prior posts here, who attempted to evade questions from a local reporter about Hinchey's interest in a property for which Hinchey secured federal development money.
Hinchey repeatedly said "what are you talking about" when he knew full well what the reporter was talking about, and then told the reporter to "shut up":
When this conversation was over, Hinchey pursued the reporter and initiated a physical altercation by repeatedly pushing his finger into the reporter's chest. As reported by the Capitol Tonight website:
This video and news report should go viral. Hinchey epitomizes the arrogance of entrenched Washington, D.C., politicians, who feel that they have the right to physically assault reporters in a public place asking legitimate political questions.
Hinchey is feeling political pressure for the first time in memory, and clearly it is getting to him. Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch has endorsed Hinchey's opponent, George Phillips, and outside groups have started running ads attacking Hinchey's ultra-liberal voting record and wacky antics (such as pushing for impeachment of George Bush just a few months before the end of Bush's second term).
The reporter should file a criminal complaint against Hinchey for assault and battery, to show that Hinchey is not above the law.
You can support George Phillips here. I already have.
Update: As noted by reader uncledan, HotAir has more on the story, including that the newspaper is sticking by the reporter's account of the assault, and again raising the questions Hinchey refused to answer regarding Hinchey's possible conflict of interest.
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Hinchey repeatedly said "what are you talking about" when he knew full well what the reporter was talking about, and then told the reporter to "shut up":
When this conversation was over, Hinchey pursued the reporter and initiated a physical altercation by repeatedly pushing his finger into the reporter's chest. As reported by the Capitol Tonight website:
After the shooters turned off their cameras and started to break down, Hinchey made a beeline for [reporter] Kemble and got in his face, according to a YNN videographer who was on the scene. The congressman poked Kemble in the chest aggressively, according to the YNN staffer.This was Hinchey's Bob Etheridge moment.
I spoke with Kemble briefly this afternoon, and he told me Hinchey “put his hand on my throat” and then “realized what he had done and walked away.” The YNN shooter told me he did not witness this part of the altercation.
This video and news report should go viral. Hinchey epitomizes the arrogance of entrenched Washington, D.C., politicians, who feel that they have the right to physically assault reporters in a public place asking legitimate political questions.
Hinchey is feeling political pressure for the first time in memory, and clearly it is getting to him. Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch has endorsed Hinchey's opponent, George Phillips, and outside groups have started running ads attacking Hinchey's ultra-liberal voting record and wacky antics (such as pushing for impeachment of George Bush just a few months before the end of Bush's second term).
The reporter should file a criminal complaint against Hinchey for assault and battery, to show that Hinchey is not above the law.
You can support George Phillips here. I already have.
Update: As noted by reader uncledan, HotAir has more on the story, including that the newspaper is sticking by the reporter's account of the assault, and again raising the questions Hinchey refused to answer regarding Hinchey's possible conflict of interest.
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How Long Will MSM Ignore Assault By NY Congressman Maurice Hinchey On Reporter? / Update: Poughkeepsie Journal Scoops NY Times
If you were hoping to wake up this morning to an extensive investigative report by The New York Times, The Washington Post, or any of the major mainstream media outlets on the physical assault last Thursday by New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY22) on an upstate reporter who questioned Hinchey about conflicts of interest in sending federal earmark money to benefit a property partially owned by Hinchey, you will have to wait.
Although the assault has been reported by the YNN Capital Tonight program, Politico, The Hill, The Washington Examiner, HotAir, Instapundit, The Daily Caller, and your humble correspondent, among others in the blogosphere, and even though the upstate newspaper for which the reporter worked is standing by the report of the assault...
... as of this writing, The NY Times and the rest of the MSM are silent.
Because a senior New York Democratic Congressman getting in the face of a reporter, telling the reporter to "shut up," chasing the reporter down, pushing his finger into the reporter's chest, and grabbing the reporter's throat, is not newsworthy.
But it certainly was newsworthy when YNN's Capital Tonight program reported on Carl Paladino's confrontation with a NY Post reporter, in which Paladino threatened to "take out" the reporter after the reporter's newspaper send photographers after Paladino's young daughter, but did not engage in any physical contact.
Paladino's verbal assault arising out of a personal dispute with a reporter meant everything and served to disqualify Paladino from office, but Hinchey's physical assault arising out of a reporter's investigation into Hinchey's conflicts of interest apparently means nothing.
Update 2:10 p.m. -- Still nothing from the NY Times, but the Poughkeepsie Journal has the scoop the NY Times, Hinchey in Altercation with Reporter.
Update 5:50 p.m . -- MSM still maintaining strict radio silence.
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Although the assault has been reported by the YNN Capital Tonight program, Politico, The Hill, The Washington Examiner, HotAir, Instapundit, The Daily Caller, and your humble correspondent, among others in the blogosphere, and even though the upstate newspaper for which the reporter worked is standing by the report of the assault...
... as of this writing, The NY Times and the rest of the MSM are silent.
Because a senior New York Democratic Congressman getting in the face of a reporter, telling the reporter to "shut up," chasing the reporter down, pushing his finger into the reporter's chest, and grabbing the reporter's throat, is not newsworthy.
But it certainly was newsworthy when YNN's Capital Tonight program reported on Carl Paladino's confrontation with a NY Post reporter, in which Paladino threatened to "take out" the reporter after the reporter's newspaper send photographers after Paladino's young daughter, but did not engage in any physical contact.
Paladino's verbal assault arising out of a personal dispute with a reporter meant everything and served to disqualify Paladino from office, but Hinchey's physical assault arising out of a reporter's investigation into Hinchey's conflicts of interest apparently means nothing.
Update 2:10 p.m. -- Still nothing from the NY Times, but the Poughkeepsie Journal has the scoop the NY Times, Hinchey in Altercation with Reporter.
Update 5:50 p.m . -- MSM still maintaining strict radio silence.
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