Visiting my parents who as usual have FOX News blaring, and Megyn Kelly has her usual snottiness turned off and is making her big concern eyes and voice. She’s talking to a mother whose daughter Allee Bautsch, who is chief fundraiser for Republican LA Governor Bobby Jindal, has evidently just been assaulted and had her leg “broken in five places” while leaving a Republican event. The mother keeps insisting to Megyn that we don’t know if the assault was politically motivated or not, but Megyn just keeps going there. Megyn is on the verge of tears, in her worry and empathy for the injured girl. And I have to admit – not my first thought but one of my first thoughts – is write about this before Crowley comes along and makes it a big “Look At The Violent Leftists” story.
I join with all of America in wishing Ms. Bautsch a full and speedy recovery, and hoping the bastards who did it are caught and punished whether their motivations were political or not.
Of course, researching the story, first thing I learn is it happened a week ago – last Friday night, during that big Palinpalooza in NOLA. 
What happened today is that Yahoo! News printed an already-backtracked-on story that a NOLA public information officer said the attacks “may have been politically motivated.” Evidently rightwing blogs spent a few days claiming that Allee and her boyfriend were targeted because they were wearing Palin pins; then Jindal’s office blew that story out of the water – they weren’t wearing pins at all.
Isn’t that SO FOX News – it’s only a big story now, and exceedingly heartwrenching, now that we think the assault MAY have been the work of leftwing (or anarchist) protesters. Certain people are trying hard to make this political. All I’m saying is I hope she recovers quickly and they catch the dipshits.
Sure Vern, a couple of Republicans are assaulted outside of a Republican event, where there just happen to be lefty protestors hanging out. She’s assaulted by a “Caucasian male who appeared to be dirty, in his 20s, 6’1″ tall, thin build with a thin face. He had a beard and auburn color hair in a pony tail.” Couldn’t be politically motivated or a liberal, right? Now, unlike the MSM and your lefty co-horts, I’m not ascribing the activities of these punks (yes, I’m assuming they were assaulted because of their political leanings) to the entire left. But I hope it’s a lesson to those liberals out there who are so quick to point to any alleged (show me a story where violence has actually happened) acts of a very few members of the Tea Party movement. But don’t worry, I won’t hold my breath.
Maybe, maybe. I’m glad you’re 100% sure of what happened. It was probably their Palin pins.
I found this on TPM;
….The plot thickened a bit after conservative blogger Pat Dollard quoted New Orleans Police Department spokesman Bob Young saying that the insults of Bautsch’s assailants were “of a political nature.” The comments were picked up by Yahoo News.
Now, Young says he was misquoted. In an email to TPM he says:
“My comments were that I did not know the motive of the attack, that the incident was still under investigation and that information was not given to me in the initial report. Mr. Dollard misquoted me and inserted his own statement to me.”
To get your leg broken in five places you need to get hit by a truck.
And no, I’m not a doctor.
Well, it’s a good thing we have Obamacare now to take care of that broken leg.
Yeah it is, considering the average cost to X-ray, set, and cast a broken leg is over $10,000.
I’m sure the chief fundraiser for a Republican governor had good coverage. Your sarcasm is starting to fall flat, my friend…
“Yeah it is, considering the average cost to X-ray, set, and cast a broken leg is over $10,000.”
MQ says:
More like 25,000..
I am not surprised by this – the left are looking at losing all their entitlements – they are none too happy right now…
Only a left – wing waco would assault a woman for her political beliefs..
They are full of hate and malice!
Was she beaten with a pipe? How do you break a leg in 5 places. I hope she has a full recovery. Mrs. Bax and I just returned from a week in NOLA at the end of March. I’m happy we missed this GOP nightmare, it would have been a total buzzkill in an otherwise perfect and fun week.
Here’s the latest update from TPM;
The popular narrative of an assault against a GOP operative in New Orleans, which was quickly becoming a cause célèbre in the conservative blogosphere, sustained another blow today as the police released a report suggesting the incident was not politically motivated.
The police report on the April 9 incident in which Allee Bautsch, the chief campaign fundraiser for Gov. Bobby Jindal, was attacked by a small group of men says that the group hurled insults at Bautsch and her boyfriend, calling them “b*tch” and “f*ggot,” but did not make political insults.
“It should be noted that other than making reference to the victims being nicely dressed, along with other observations about their physical appearance, Mr. Brown did not hear them make any other comments,” the report says.
The initial claim — since definitively shot down by Jindal’s office — was that Bautsch, whose leg was broken in the attack, and boyfriend Joe Brown were wearing Palin pins, thus becoming targets of the angry leftists.
Then, a conservative blogger’s assertion that the police had described the assailants’ insults as “of a political nature” — a claim picked up by Fox and Yahoo News — was flatly denied by a police spokesman.
According to the police report, which you can read in full below, the incident occurred when Brown and Bautsch were departing a Louisiana GOP fundraiser at the well-known Brennan’s Restaurant at 10:30 p.m. Friday. At the time, many GOP leaders were in the city for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
The report notes that there had been protesters outside the restaurant, but most had left at 9:30 after being told that the dignitaries had departed. Here, the report continues:
Mr. Brown noted there were several protesters loitering in the area, but not nearly the number which had been present earlier. Soon after leaving the restaurant he heard “cat calls.” At an unknown point within the 400 block of Royal Street, both Mr. Brown and Ms. Bautsch then crossed from the Brennan’s side of the street to the Supreme Court side of the street.
They continued to walk towards St. Louis when Mr. Brown began to hear people behind him scream obscenities. Initially he was not sure if they were being directed at him and his girlfriend, of if they were simply the outbursts of drunken revelers.
As they neared the intersection, Mr. Brown state he heard subjects state things such as “Little blonde b*tch,” “You’re a f**king f*ggot,,” and “You think you’re f**king special.”
At this point, Mr. Brown realized these derogatory terms were being directed at Ms. Bautsch and him. …
It was at this time that one of the subjects pushed him into the iron gate that surround the State Supreme Court (building). He then fell to the ground, and one of the attackers got on top of him and began to attack him. Mr. Brown stated as he was pushed to the ground, Ms. Bautsch was also either pushed down or fell down near where he was. As he fought to get his attacker off of him, he heard his girlfriend cry out in pain. She then repeatedly stated, “Oh my god, my leg is broken.”
Jindal’s office has not said much about the case other than noting to the Daily Caller that Bautsch’s leg was “badly broken” and that she was not wearing a Palin pin.
Anonster is too cool and should be a blogger on this site!