# Congressman attacks student for daring to ask him a question **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227 "2010-06-15T00:25:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/261 "2010-06-16T02:36:39Z")
> [@Plan\_B](#): > > **@Czarcasm** > Why do you think the students are ashamed? Might I suggest that there is another reason the student wanted his identity disguised. Perhaps he’s afraid of reprisals. Just look at the vitriolic minority above. 1. You have no idea if they were students. 2. Notice I said 'they". Unlike you, I can count to 2. There were _2_ “students”-one to provoke the congressman, the other to film the reaction. 3. What reprisals? As far as I can see, These “innocent” “students” are heroes to people like you. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/262 "2010-06-16T02:39:11Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > So let’s see it, tough guy. I admit, that last part is…daunting. Did you take it by degrees or accomplish it in one bold thrust? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/263 "2010-06-16T02:44:08Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Please demonstrate how I am a partisan hack. You can’t do it. Well let’s see. Here’s this idiocy from upthread: > [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Welcome to Obama’s America. You’re a partisan hack. And a fucking moron. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/264 "2010-06-16T02:47:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hell, I could do it in mime! It would be “Man Walking Against The Wind in a Glass Box With His Head Up His Ass”. I don’t usually watch mimes, but I’ll pay to see THAT miming. Particularly his walking against wind while in a box. Damn good miming if you asked me. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/265 "2010-06-16T02:50:30Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Well let’s see. Here’s this idiocy from upthread: > You’re a partisan hack. > > And a fucking moron. Everything bad that happened in the world for 8 years was Bush’s fault here on the fair and balanced SDMB. It’s Obama’s turn. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/266 "2010-06-16T02:53:03Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Everything bad that happened in the world for 8 years was Bush’s fault here on the fair and balanced SDMB. It’s Obama’s turn. The fact you even mention Obama being responsible for anything in a thread that has jackshit to do with him beyond his name being used by students baiting a really creepy old Congressmen\* is partisan hackery. \*Etheridge would be a great caretaker in a Southern Gothic version of _Dark Shadows_. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/267 "2010-06-16T02:57:46Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > The fact you even mention Obama being responsible for anything in a thread that has jackshit to do with him beyond his name being used by students baiting a really creepy old Congressmen\* is partisan hackery. > \*Etheridge would be a great caretaker in a Southern Gothic version of _Dark Shadows_. Nope. It’s rubbing the typical SDMB member’s face in their own idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/268 "2010-06-16T02:57:56Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Everything bad that happened in the world for 8 years was Bush’s fault here on the fair and balanced SDMB. It’s Obama’s turn. Sounds fair to me. All you have to do is sincerely admit that everything that Bush was accused of was true, and that you were wrong in supporting him at all, and then you can start blaming Obama. O.K.? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/269 "2010-06-16T02:58:03Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Welcome to Obama’s America. What the fuck does Obama have to do with fucking ANYTHING in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/270 "2010-06-16T03:00:30Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Nope. It’s rubbing the typical SDMB member’s face in their own idiocy. So you were jealous because you wanted to be an idiot, too? That _would_ explain a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/271 "2010-06-16T03:06:07Z")
Czarcasm–you aren’t very smart, are you? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/272 "2010-06-16T03:11:58Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Czarcasm–you aren’t very smart, are you? He’s substantially smarter than you are. You’re a partisan hack, one of the worst on this board. And you’re an ignoramus. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/273 "2010-06-16T03:15:48Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Czarcasm–you aren’t very smart, are you? I’ll get back to you when I can stop laughing. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/274 "2010-06-16T03:50:45Z")
“With every chuckle, you age, vital forces deplete, your life is but a spark in a dark and uncaring void. Nobody loves you but your Mother, and she could be jiving, too…Is it working?” “Don’t think so, still rolling around on the floor.” “Laughing his ass off?” “Yeah, pretty much.” “Damn…Palin/Bush, 2012…ebola spread by bacon…” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/275 "2010-06-16T03:51:51Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What the fuck does Obama have to do with fucking ANYTHING in this thread? I think he be sending his spirit out at night to torment Rand Rover. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/276 "2010-06-16T06:48:15Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What the fuck does Obama have to do with fucking ANYTHING in this thread? Well, obviously, the entire incident is Obama’s fault. Just like GWB could cause hurricanes and earthquakes, BHO can cause congressclowns to lose their marbles. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/277 "2010-06-16T13:08:08Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I think he be sending his spirit out at night to torment Rand Rover. Admit it:: if you could do astral projection, you would do it too! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/278 "2010-06-16T13:13:15Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It wasn’t an “assault,”… Wrong. > [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > The actions depicted in the video absolutely were assault in both the tort and criminal senses and both under the common law and under any statute I’ve ever seen. Right. > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Plus we still don’t know what they really said or did to provoke him. Right. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/279 "2010-06-16T13:19:21Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > He held the kid’s wrist for a good thirty seconds and ignored at least three requests to let go. [Cite (at :21, :41 and :46)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZKie0Z4kaw) False. Etheridge ignores (or doesn’t hear) only the first request. He immediately responds to the second one (“Please let go of my arm, sir”) by letting go of the _arm_, only to grab the “student” and spin him around, prompting the third request (“Please let go of me”) at which point the kid is instantly released. Amazing that even in the face of clear video documentation of the event, people like you and **mhendo** persist in lying about what actually happened. The way the congressman behaved was crazy enough, you don’t need to embellish it. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227/280 "2010-06-16T13:26:38Z")
Dio is a partisan hack because he comes waltzing into threads in which a democrat person or polkicy is under attack and makes extremely stupid and facially baseless arguments to support such person or policy. His posts in this thread are my cite. If anyone thinks I do the same thing, then prove it. I don’t rush to defend all republican people or policies. When I do end up doing that, I’m poking holes in other people"s arguments and otherwise making valid points. I’m not insisting that the sky is not blue like friend Dio. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-attacks-student-for-daring-to-ask-him-a-question/543227.md?page=15)