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Just 24 hours after being charged with assault for allegedly body-slamming a reporter in his Bozeman campaign office, Republican Greg Gianforte on Thursday won a special election for the U.S. House seat in Montana. What do you think? Is the incident being overblown or do you think it’s a big deal? How stiff of a sentence should he get if he’s convicted of the charge?
“He was uninvited and acted rude. He should have expected the consequences.”
“Have you heard the audio of the incident? The reporter was far from rude. And even if he was, physical contact isn’t a reasonable solution.”
“He was not invited to a affair, and he shoved a microphone into the man’s face. I call that rude.”
“The reporter should be arrested for trespassing.”
“This reporter is acting just like a typical liberal. You push a man to his breaking point and when he snaps you act all indignant and pretend that you are the victim and not the antagonist. Maybe this reporter will think twice doing this to someone else.”
“If raising a celphone as a recorder and asking if a politician will clarify something pushes them to their breaking point, well that’s pretty sad. We don’t know if the reporter was ‘liberal’ or not. A simple ‘no comment’ would have been the right thing to do if he didn’t want to answer the question.”
“The reporter trespassed. He snuck in and was very rude. He got what he deserved.”
“From what I’ve seen on TV, reporters can be obnoxious.”
“He was charged with assault for body-slamming a person. He was arrested for a reason.”
“This behavior seems to be acceptable today. That’s very sad.”
“It’s unacceptable. He should be disqualified for committing an assault. A dude can lose his job for eating too many poppy seeds, but this thug gets to live it up in Congress. It’s sad as heck.”
“If you listened to the audio and read the first-person accounts from the Fox News and Buzzfeed reporters and still think Gianforte’s attack was justified, you should be ashamed of yourself.”
“The reporter was asked to leave and he should have left.”
“Go Republicans.”
“Is this what being a Republican is all about? I can’t imagine Ronald Reagan doing something like this.”
“How would these responses differ if the story was this: Just 24 hours after being charged with assault for allegedly body-slamming a Breitbart reporter asking about his birth certificate in his Chicago campaign office, Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday won a special election for the U.S. House seat in Illinois. Obama later apologized for the incident. What do you think?”
“I think reporters will think twice about doing this kind of stuff again.”