Rand Paul "head smashing" incident is the "Macaca" moment of this election.

[McCamy Taylor]

Women already tend to distrust the GOP on grounds of reproductive freedom and gender discrimination. This incident ought to be shown far and wide to show just how much the new crop of Republicans hate women. Remember that women tend to vote for the Democrat, and if more women are mobilized to get out to vote, the Dems do better.

Come on NOW. Surely you can put together an ad and find some sponsors.

[CoffeeCat]

1. This will NOT affect the elections...

...if the MSM continue their blockout of this issue!

It's pathetic. There is video of this incident--very incendiary video.

CNN hasn't mentioned this situation AT ALL and it is horribly unfair!!!

They won't even report on it.

This is an editorial decision IN FAVOR of the tea party and the Republicans. They
are protecting them, so close to an election.

So, this is no "Macaca" moment. That moment was televised. This is being hidden in a cave!

[still_one]

4. even if it was exposed, it won't affect the election. /nt

[McCamy Taylor]

8. 60,000 plus YouTube views for just this version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhjg2W7vlMc

Anyone interested in doing an ad from this, I suggest do not show the woman after the fact, just the guys holding her down do that her head can be stomped and add some music.

[emulatorloo]

17. Media is way to busy with Juan Williams martyrdom. Will not accurately cover Republican candidates

and there extremist positions.

[ingac70]

19. On CNN....

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/26/kentucky.debate.scuffle/index.html?iref=obnetwork

[CoffeeCat]

22. Thanks for the link...but there is a problem

I appreciate the link, and to put it in context--this link is nowhere on CNN's front page.

There is no front-page story. There are at least twenty five CNN stories on the left
side of their front page. The head-stomping story is not one of them. You can't find
this story if you go to CNN, without specifically searching for it.

In fact, there is a big story on the tea party--complete with a big picture. It is one
of the main articles on CNN's front page, and it is a long article. There is no mention
of the foot-stomping in that article. CRAZY.

I haven't watched CNN since this morning--but this story is not visible. It is not a major
story and it is barely mentioned.

I'm glad they at least have a link, but it is not visible or prominent on their page.

MSNBC is covering the story. Pat Buchanan even denounced those thug actions.

CNN and other MSM are covering for the tea party. You can damn well bet that there is a
great deal of Republican pressure on the MSM, telling them to not cover that story so close
to the election, because it could taint the views of the Republicans within a week to the
election. I'm sure they're arguing that it would be unfair.

Oh please--to that nonsense!

[wtmusic]

2. If it was Rand who did the stomping, possibly so.

It'll be a non-issue by the end of the week.

[MineralMan]

3. A lot depends on how much coverage it's getting in Kentucky.

National coverage won't be as much of an influence. But, how the Kentucky media handles it could be very important. I haven't really checked, so I have no idea what's going on there on this topic.

[Cosmocat]

9. Yeah ...

It is too late in the game for it to have any real resonance nationally ... It COULD effect Kentucky, but ... I can't say because I am not there ...

I do agree with the poster that the MSM is going to do radio silence on it mostly ... They are trying to cruise the Rs to victory, and this does not serve that purpose, obviously ...

If it was the Ds who had someone in handcuffs in Alaska and now this incident, you can know for darn sure they would be on it HOT and heavy ...

[MineralMan]

11. I did a quick search of a few newspaper sites in KY.

The major papers are covering it, but the smaller papers seem to be ignoring it. I didn't look at all of them, of course, but it doesn't seem to be a story that's getting major statewide coverage, I'm afraid.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Newspaper coverage does not matter. It is the video that is important.

Trust me. Battering women is a huge "no,no." The response will be visceral.

[MineralMan]

14. Sadly, I don't have time today to go look at KY local television

news coverage. You're right, though...that'll be important, if they covered it much and showed the video.

[marmar]

5. Sadly, if 'Macaca' happened this year, I don't think it would have the same negative impact.....

..... on Allen's campaign that it did in 2006.

[emulatorloo]

18. agreed - would not have been covered. Maddow did a great piece on this recently,

the amount of overt racism in the statements of many of these Republican candidates. Media does not cover it.

[tjwash]

6. And the corporate overlords laugh...

The koch bro's are probably getting a little chuckle and solace that at least the peasants in this dying empire are attacking each other, and not them.

[madmom]

7. Oh but let a dem call some one a whore!

[myrna minx]

10. It's not being reported. Apparently the only thing that's ever news worthy is

when a handful of tea baggers congregate to wave their misspelled signs or if Sarah Palin tweets something. Conversely, a liberal woman getting her head stomped by Rand Paul fascist thugs isn't 'news' apparently.

[McCamy Taylor]

12. We are living in the days of Internet news, when anyone with a camera can become a

celebrity just for lip synching. People will search out this video once they hear about it. And heaven help any right wingers who are overheard laughing about it by women.

DU should keep it on the front page all the way until election day.

[blue sky at night]

15. so many people are already voting against their own best interests...

what's one more woman hating bunch of thugs???...there are loads of them already in office. the informed voter would never vote for these freaks or regular pukes for that matter unless they were millionaires.

any working person voting republican is voting against their own best interest; PERIOD.

[political_Dem]

16. I would certainly hope that it would be.

However, people are too concerned about how "angry voters" will change Congress to give a damn.

It's a lot easier for the press to adopt the meme that Mr. Obama has failed instead of focusing on the violence perpetrated in this election. If the MSM truly paid attention to this incident, it would be a game changer because Americans care about their freedom of speech more than anything. Citizens of this country hate to have their personal expression suppressed.

That's why the media has been "underwhelmed" in reporting this incident. They have to keep propping up the RW come rain or come shine.

[JohnnyLib2]

20. Disagree, sadly. I'm in KY and watching print and cyber comments--

The tea party element was and is strong. Probably around 50% of those who comment justify the 'stomper'. The article comments to the article in the Lexington paper are typical. Ugh, ugh, ugh.

[Skidmore]

21. If you have ever been in a relationship where abuse occurred, how

do you respond to this image. I know what it triggered for me. And I know what the verbal abuse heaped on minorities and women from that sector triggers for me. You couldn't get me to support one of these candidates in any way, shape, or form. If you have been abused why go back for more?

[Edweird]

23. I doubt it. I suspect they just captured the 'undecided misogynist' vote.