RW Alert!: McCain campaign bus under gun attack!

[brooklynite]

EXCLUSIVE: .22 Gunshot, paint balls fired at McCain / Palin Straight Talk Express

(Sunday, October 19 - Filed by Mark Williams in Raton, New Mexico with the Stop Obama Tour) We learned at this morning’s Stop Obama Rally here that the McCain/Palin Straight Talk Express came through town yesterday. It arrived with a window shattered by a .22 caliber weapon. It had also been hit by an unknown number of paint balls from a paint ball gun or guns. There were reportedly no injuries and neither candidate was on board.

One local man who saw the damage and spoke with the McCain/Palin staffers said the attack(s) had occured in southern New Mexico that same day. The Express is traveling the country independent of the candidates, handing out campaign materials.

http://www.sacunion.com/mark/?p=67

Good thing the Supreme Court upheld the unfettered right to bear arms...

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Oh my goodness! That is terrible!

Seriously. There is no excuse for that.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Any rotten eggs or tomatoes?

Just curies.

[liberalmuse]

3. I'm sorry.

I don't believe this. Bullshit meter is leaning towards, 'Didn't Happen'. I wonder if Schmidt owns a .22?

[SoonerPride]

4. WAS IT FIRED FROM INSIDE THE BUS?

I'M NOT KIDDING

[crossroads]

41. LOL... good one!

[WA98070]

5. Sounds like BS. if it did happen the MSM and SS would be all over it.

[KayLaw]

13. Yep.

I did a Google search and found no reliable sources.

[Essene]

29. very possible

the "muslim mccain supports fight back" video was bogus and it could be a disinformation campaign

[iamthebandfanman]

6. ummm and the secret service did nothing.... riiiiight

right wingers will do anything to try and play the victim now that they see how horrid their supporters are acting towards anyone who has a differing view..

i wont believe this until theres a better source

[Terran]

31. A bullet hitting thier bus would have been the top story

for a week. This never happened. Now paint balls I can see...

[City of Mills]

7. Another reason to build a bigger border fence

Gotta keep those violent New Mexicans on their side of the country!

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Was Cheney hunting in New Mexico this weekend?

[janx]

9. Um... Did anyone bother to talk to the BUS DRIVER?

:rofl:

You know--someone who might have been there when it happened? :rofl:

This rumor is making the rounds in Freeperville as we speak.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

10. I smell Parlockery. nt

[Ganja Ninja]

19. Nobody important on the bus and only hauling campaign pamphlets.

Probably no secret service around and most likely it was attacked in a hotel parking lot at night. Parlockery? I wouldn't put it past them. But as fucked up as McCain and McCain supporters are, it wouldn't surprise me if it was right wingers that attacked it.

[City Lights]

20. Yup. He hasn't reared his ugly mug yet this election (at least to my knowledge.)

Where is Phil...

[frylock]

32. !!

:rofl:

[ITsec]

11. Staged. False flag...

Anything to be able to say... "meeee tooooo..."

Friggen republiCON dolts.

[Beetwasher]

12. Where Was Karl Rove?

:shrug:

[spinbaby]

14. 22s and paint balls?

A 22 isn't going to shatter a windshield. Pockmarks is more like it.

I'm guessing teens.

[janx]

15. The Stop Obama Tour is in Raton?

:rofl: This just gets funnier and funnier!

And look at the way this guy writes:

"Sarah Palin is stumping in of all places Roswell, New Mexico today and then roughly back the way we came with an event at the Henderson, Nevada Pavilion tomorrow and a stop in Elko, Nevada."

My head is spinning.

[monmouth]

18. Like in Boca????

[janx]

23. No, no, definitely not!

It's Raton, New Mexico! :rofl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raton,_New_Mexico

Population: 7,282 as of the 2000 census.



HEY...

I wonder if they stayed at the Maverick Motel!!

[1corona4u]

39. Left you a message here...hope you see it...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7533581

[SoxFan]

16. Not a single legit news source is reporting this

Only the "Sacramento Union", which seems to be a right wing nutter site.

Nothing in the ABQ or Santa Fe press.

[janx]

26. The little green men are trying to cover it up!

(Palin was recently in Roswell!)

[FVZA_Colonel]

51. They can't have ignored the allegations.

One wonders why they wouldn't be running with it, if it happened.

[yurbud]

17. something like this was staged in South Korea to make the candidate look more heroic

[bushmeister0]

27. Are thinking of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian in 2004?

[yurbud]

60. maybe that was it

[SuperTrouper]

21. LOL!! WHERE WAS CARLY FIORINA???

[texastoast]

22. Republican plant

Like Joe the Plumber.

[Arkansas Granny]

24. I need more than this report before I believe this. Were either McCain or Palin on

the bus at the time? If so, Secret Service would have dealt with this and reporters traveling with them would have had it all over the media by now.

Edit to add: I reread the article and it states that the bus was traveling independently passing out campaign material.

[melody]

25. I blame Fat Obama

Better known as Karl Rove with crepe hair

[Cha]

43. Totally,

melody.

[Essene]

28. that's not cool...

[truthisfreedom]

30. If there's no other news, it probably happened at night when the bus was parked and they don't have

any other information.

[XOKCowboy]

33. The comment section is out of control!

The first bullet has flown in the LEFTS war on the CONSTITUTION. I guess I’m gonna stock up on ammo to protect myself and my family.

So much for the Compassion and Diversity of the Democrats. Now they sound like the Islamic TERRORISTS… BELIEVE OR DIE!

Comment by fedupLibBS — October 20, 2008 @ 11:32 am

I need a shower after going to the site.

[KayLaw]

36. Has anyone asked for proof?

My Google search turned up only nutcase sites, while the Google search I did on the cut tires showed actual news sources. I call pure BS.

[Lex]

34. OH NOEZ! Paint balls!

Think of the children.

[-..__...]

35. I only wish they had done just that...

Good thing the Supreme Court upheld the unfettered right to bear arms..."

Unfortunately, they didn't.

[Blue_Tires]

37. ....back and to the left....

all this allegedly happened in broad daylight and no one saw anything?

[TragedyandHope]

38. Here's the REAL STORY:

John McCain Accidentally Left On Campaign Bus Overnight

[symbolman]

40. That sounds like a real environmentally friendly thing to do, A big empty bus

blowing exhaust and wasting money all over the country..

I suppose the Empty Reporter Bus that's Following the Empty McCain Bus Reported this story?

Idiots.. Probably kids..

Looks like the old FBI and SS are really laying down on the job this year..

They should ALL be fucking Fired.

[rucky]

42. Are the really called "Stop Obama Rallies"?

I guess they're not really hiding the campaign objectives. Nice to see what McCain/Palin really stand for.

[janx]

44. YES.

And here is the budding journalist who is relaying the information. Not all of his sentences are complete, but we still get the idea.

[KayLaw]

47. Too bad he didn't have a camera.

Too bad he couldn't call the local news station.

A presidential candidate's bus is attacked by someone holding a deadly weapon and no one seems to notice! Not even Fox cares. How stupid and gullible can people be? I mean, come on!

[janx]

48. ...

:rofl:

[janx]

45. kick

[gabby garcia]

46. I'm sure it was..

Terrorists!!!

[DainBramaged]

49. Hatred makes stupid people do stupid things, from either viewpoint

[FVZA_Colonel]

50. If this actually happened, it was probably just some guy who shot at it during the night.

Why they think it's some big conspiracy I have no idea.


I don't mean to minimize this, if it actually happened, but I'm just saying that to blame Obama for this (as this guy seems to want to do) is rediculous.

[BlueIdaho]

52. Horse. Shit. I smell a rat...

[d00mzday]

55. *** Yup! can see what direction they would try to take this story.

[FVZA_Colonel]

53. Hey, even the Weekly Standard seems to think it's bullshit:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/10/shots_fired_at_mccainpalin_bus_1.asp

[Jamastiene]

54. My Bullshit Meter went haywire all the way over in the Lounge

when you posted this story. I just had to do some stuff before I responded.

[Kajsa]

56. Consider the source!

The Sacramento Union ( sacunion.com where this came from)

http://www.sacunion.com/pages/education/articles/10718/

endorses McCain for President

Opposes Prop. 2- Humane treatment of farm animals,

SUPPORTS Prop. 8- Bans same sex marriages in CA.

just to name a few.

Need I say more?

[vaberella]

58. Nope...they just want to lay blame on O. When it's the McCain camp stirring shite. n/t

[vaberella]

57. No matter how entertaining...paintball thingies hurt! This is totally false...

just on the fact that it's the candidates bus and this would be all over the news.

[Bucky]

59. Kinda funny, but really it's bad news. The secret service should worry this can happen.

The idea that someone could get close enough to a campaign bus and shoot it without being detected is at least a little sobering.

[Fleshdancer]

61. UPDATE: No Reports to Police or Campaign

Yep, it was all bullsh*t.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/10/shots_fired_at_mccainpalin_bus_1.asp

Update: The McCain campaign hasn't heard anything about the report of a bus being attacked. This makes the following report seem highly unlikely. Neither Raton police nor state police have received reports about such an incident.

The blog item below was posted by Mark Williams, former talk-radio host turned spokesman for Our Country Deserves Better PAC, a group committed to working against an Obama quest for the presidency. He has been on the group's Stop Obama tour, which arrived in Raton about a day after a McCain/Palin bus came through, he said. Williams said he heard the story from several residents of Raton, who said the bus had a shattered window when it arrived in town, and that it had been shattered by some kind of shot during its trip up from southern New Mexico, but he never saw the bus.

A Raton Police spokesperson, who said he's been on his phone all day long with reporters, said if the incident happened, it happened far south of Raton. Several calls to offices south, such as Chavez County Sheriff's Department and the Roswell Police, however, turned up nothing. Looks like this one is firmly in the debunked rumor pile for now, and not likely to move anytime soon.

:eyes:

[ForTheTruth]

62. Confirmed - this story is a LIE

Responsible people learn the facts before posting this type of information. Its very easy to do - call the authorities. You don’t have to rely on MSM, you don’t have to believe my word:

Raton city police [phone]
Colfax County sheriff dept [phone]
NM State police in Raton [phone]

IT NEVER HAPPENED.

Continue to believe it did, because that’s what Mark Williams wants you to do. He removed every post made with these telephone numbers on his website, specifically to hide the truth from you and exacerbate his lie.

Hatred is not the answer. People like Williams who promote hatred, division, name calling and stovepiping 50% of the country are serving the very terrorists they accuse liberals of being by causing division. Does this make him better than any of them - or for that matter, better than a terrorist himself? That is exactly what he has done - incite terror.

We are one country, one America, and we all want what is best for ourselves and our families. Mark Williams is not one of those people. He has deliberately lied, and has done everything so far to hide the truth.

This is just a disgrace, and Mark Williams is about as disgraceful as it gets for perpetrating his self-serving lie.