It kind of looks like the guy fell and then the Klansman fell on top of him.

Still, the Bob Jones University grads did roughed him up a little - not enough to warrant an exclusive video, though.

After all, this is the same party that makes its hand-picked audience sign "Loyalty Oaths" whenever Dubya speaks. This is the party that utterly despises free speech and almost always answers protest in violence. Can't wait for the right-wing blogosphere to start calling it an unprovoked attack by liberals, of course.

A friend of mine told me when one uses terms like "Nazi" or "Gestapo", all debate ends because that's considered too much of a knee-jerk, overboard reaction. But come on, what other appropriate words are there for the actions of these thugs and goons?

or am I crazy... Water cannons for all those outside the hotels with placards.....

Awesome. My favorite part is where the producers put "Stomping for Votes" across the screen. How appropriate.

Kind of a stretch with slammed. As soon as booth men are on the ground somebody is offering him a hand up (certainly to escort him out)....

Not much of a scoop IMHO, just standard idiots getting agitated. Mildly amusing. Errr I mean. Yes, clearly and indictment against Allen. Why I ought to……

I like this quote from Mark Stark's blog. It's "witches' brew", he's missing two hyphens and needs to relocate one, and has succumbed to using the ubiquitous "that" for "who", but still, it's sweet:

"...the greatest offense is the hubris of the journalists’ profession. These folks really do, time after time, carry about them an air of royalty… A sense of being the arbiters of truth whose words shall not be questioned. They are sucked up to by many of the powerful people they write about, and they need access to the same people in order to remain relevant. The product of this witch’s brew is a journalist class that treats its readers and the disaffected with a certain contempt… And that’s really too bad… because the whiskey swilling, cheap cigar chomping, arm-pit stained, unkempt muck-raker that is so integral to keeping a functional democracy from becoming gassy and bloated and, well, dysfunctional… well… where are they? I want them back."

"Heckler Subdued at Sen. Allen Event"

The above is the title on the AP story carried in Forbes, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post.

The media's term for a citizen other than themselves that asks questions of our representatives: Heckler.

What does a citizen who asks questions without a press pass need? To be subdued.

Another term for assault and battery: Subdue.