CBS Chicago reporter Jay Levine was attacked during a live reporter by an anti-Obama protester who screamed, “Obama is a war criminal.”
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We don’t know the ideological motives of the man who grabbed the mic, but the fact that he thinks that the president is a war criminal provides a bit of a hint. One of the favorite chants of the emo-prog left is that Obama is a war criminal. (This phrase is usually accompanied by some ranting about drones, the NSA, Julian Assange, and the former Bradley Manning.) The great irony is that this guy wouldn’t have been allowed within a mile of the president’ venue when George W. Bush was in office.
On the same day that the Supreme Court paved the way for the Koch Brothers and others to buy our government, this guy decided that he was going to assault a reporter, because he believes that President Obama is a war criminal. In my view, those are some seriously misplaced priorities.
The angry protester doesn’t seem to realize that the Supreme Court has given the same people who funded the war criminals of the previous Republican regime the green light to try to get Republicans elected who will wage more wars of choice in the future.
The incident in Chicago is a reminder that ugly radicalism isn’t limited to the white haired crowd that wears teabags on their heads and watches Fox News. Radicalism comes in all shapes and sizes from all areas of the political spectrum.
It’s a real shame that while our democracy is under grave threat, some people would rather feed their own moral superiority complex instead of confronting the real challenges facing our nation.
Edit: The Chicago reporter’s name was originally listed as Jim Levine. It is actually Jay Levine. This has been corrected.
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