A corrupt, violent, psychopath?
Which political party was that again?
oh NY1⌠i love that you guys have to report the news with potatoes for cameras and homeless for interviewersâŚ
seriously though, NY1 really is awesome.
I love his statement . . . like it was the reporterâs fault he threatened to âbreak him in halfâ
That man has no business being in a role where he influences other lives until he can demonstrate that his first reaction is to behave like a civilized adult rather than being an asshat to people.
He is not only a Republithug but, according to the article, a âTea-Party darlingâ. Sweet.
I couldnât hear anything he said from that video.
The reporter looks like he needs to lay off the hookers and blow.
âIâll break you in half. Like a boy.â
It is not entirely reassuring to know that the Congressman uses âboysâ in his simile for âthings I can break in halfâ.
See, now youâre just piling on 
All the threats and PX90 in the world wonât stop you from looking like James Spader had a love-child with Lenny Bruceâs corpse.
Hey, if he managed to call a white reporter âboyâ rather than a black one, during his death-threat tirade, I think that puts him ahead of the curveâŚ
Yeah, OK. OK. But apart from that, heâs a decent, stand-up kinda guy. His mother loves him.
Maybe.
In Grimmâs view, heâs the aggrieved party here:
In a statement, Grimm said, âI was extremely annoyed because I was doing NY1 a favor by rushing to do their interview first in lieu of several other requests. The reporter knew that I was in a hurry and was only there to comment on the State of the Union, but insisted on taking a disrespectful and cheap shot at the end of the interview, because I did not have time to speak off-topic. I verbally took the reporter to task and told him off, because I expect a certain level of professionalism and respect, especially when I go out of my way to do that reporter a favor. I doubt that I am the first Member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I wonât be the last.â
Iâm mystified why the GOP continues to tolerate (and sometimes even encourage) assholes like this.
wow, he is really a tough guy. Much Fear
I canât tell what heâs saying either. Where does this transcript come from?
And I donât know why the hell the camera operator couldnât zoom out, or move, or anything, to make the confrontation more visible. What is this, amateur hour?
In a statement, Grimm said, â[âŚ] I verbally took the reporter to task and told him off, because I expect a certain level of professionalism and respect,â
Apparently âprofessionalismâ is death threats, and ârespectâ equates to comments of âyouâre not man enoughâ and referring to others as âboyâ.
Newspeak at its finest.
That motherfucker needs to go to jail, NOW. Itâs treasonous to threaten the fourth estate like that in our country. If Michael Grimm (I will not honor him by calling him a Congressman) isnât jailed and removed from office then New Yorkers need to hang their heads low in pathetic shame. Actually, all Americans will be shamed. This isnât just unacceptable, itâs unconstitutional, criminal and truly anti-American thuggery.
We canât let this piece of shit set a horrible precedent where this clear attack in public on a journalist is allowed or we WILL spiral into a banana republic faster than you can say âdeath of the adversarial fourth estateâ.
I will do everything in my power to help remove this fucker from office until the day I die. He needs to go, now.
Doesnât that whining about ârespectâ sound eerily like the mixure of vaguely official langauge and status-conscious gang membership that cops are notorious for cultivating? The right wing adores thatâŚ
although I can understand that congressmen are still people and have feelings, it is this type of assttitude that has brought us in the shit we are currently in. BOY!
Itâs bad enough when the right wing equates disagreement with their policies with âtreasonâ. You donât need to further compound the error by equating it with assault on a reporter.
Threatening to throw someone over a balcony is not a comment on policy; itâs just a threat of physical violence.
