New Orleans beating follow-up: Attackers yelled “Little blonde b*tch,” “f**king faggot,” nothing political
The other day I noted the frenzy of commentary over the assault in New Orleans involving a campaign fund-raising staffer for Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal and her boyfriend. Folks were claiming the pair were wearing Palin pins. They were not.
Now, I’m getting a flurry of new e-mails claiming the attack was politically motivated based on more unsourced rumors and this thin, recycled piece on Yahoo! News.
(See here for the Human Events report on a new photo of the victims after the assault that was posted on Facebook.)
Well, here is the police report and here is the latest from victim Joseph Brown:
The boyfriend of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s chief fundraiser says he’s unsure whether protesters were responsible for attacking them April 9 outside a Republican event in the French Quarter. Joseph Brown, 29, told police protesters were outside Brennan’s restaurant during the Louisiana Republican Party event. But most had left about an hour before Brown and Allee Bautsch, 25, left the restaurant. According to a police report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, Brown said a group of men yelled obscenities and taunted them, but he heard nothing suggesting the attack was politically motivated. Bautsch suffered a broken leg in the attack.
I’m transcribing part of the police report for you:
“Shortly before 10:30pm, Mr. Brown and Ms. Bautsch left the restaurant and began walking towards St. Louis. Street. Mr. Brown noted there were still several protestors loitering in the area, but not nearly the number which had been present earlier. Soon after leaving the restaurant, he heard what he described as ‘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 thoese were being directed at him and his girlfriend, or if they were simply the outbursts of drunken revelers. As they neared the intersection, Mr. Brown stated he heard subjects state thing such as, ‘Little blonde bitch,’ ‘You’re a fu**king faggot,’ and ‘You think you’re fu**king special.’ At this point Mr. Brown realized these derogatory terms were being directed at Ms. Bautsch and him. He then requested she begin to walk faster toward the Omni-Royal hotel located at the intersection of St. Louis and Royal. Mr. Brown also recalled the farther they got from the restaurant, the closer these subjects got to them. When they reached the corner of St. Louis and Royal, Mr. Brown and his date turned south on St. Louis. It was at this time that one of the subjects pushed him into the iron gate which surrounds the State Supreme Court. 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 being 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.”
All of the attackers then ra away in an unknown direction. Mr. Brown then saw two uniformed Police Officers respond to their location. He requested they notify an ambulance as Ms. Bautsch was in obvious physical pain. The officers then did so. In response to Sergeant Gernon’s questions, Mr. Brown stated the majority of the protestors had left the area outside of Brennan’s about an hour prior to their leaving the restaurant. Additionally he was unsure if the attackers were the protestors. 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.
This was a terrible crime in the crime-infested French Quarter. Your heart cannot help but go out to the victims after reading this description. They deserve non-partisan compassion and prayers for healing.
It doesn’t help to insist on making this a partisan cause celebre and reducing the victims to political pawns when the evidence remains murky — and especially when one of the victims himself heard no politically-motivated taunts.
Save the ideological outrage for bona fide cases of politically motivated violence.
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Via Human Events, Bautsch’s mother responds on Fox News:
BURNING: Honestly this is not a Republican or Democrat problem, this is a problem that a young girl and her boyfriend were attacked and the story hasn’t really come out. And I just want to make sure that these guys are found. That’s the important part of this. There is accuracy in the story. I just think that yes when you do the investigation you do look at the people who were in the area at the time, to be able to bring the right people in for questioning. That’s the really important part.
If the police are doing the ground work and they’re doing the investigation correctly then certain people are definitely going to be brought in.
KELLY: I know that they’re looking at all of the people who were outside of the event at the time. Do you know, did your daughter get a good description of the people who attacked her?
BURNING: They were very average looking kids — not necessarily kids that you think would harm you. That’s their description of them, but I’m not going to say that they looked like Republicans or Democrats. I’m tired of everybody doing th[a]t.
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You’re quite right, Michelle, that this kind of crime doesn’t have to be political in order to be news. Similarly, the discussion of unpleasant, R-rated violence in movies, for example, may not be political per se but it’s still a problem, and no matter our standings, that doesn’t mean it’s not worth of discussion. Because some of these thugs could very likely have been influenced by too much violent television, and that’s one of the reasons why it’s best to keep our kids away from the TV and video players.
I hope those criminals who attacked the two at the French Quarter get isolated cells for their crimes and hard labor.
The Hayride suggests some folks, including Michelle, aren’t quite getting that distinction:
“The attack was political. But, and I think I’ve been clear on this and hopefully in this post I’ll be even clearer, while it was political it doesn’t appear that it was partisan. A distinction like that used to be fairly easily understood.
For those who don’t grasp the difference between political and partisan, it’s pretty simple. In our modern parlance, partisan means Republicans vs. Democrats. Political can include everything else. Like, for example, anarchist revolutionaries.”
“But for those, including some on the Right, who insist upon distilling all matters political into the neat little buckets of elephants and donkeys this distinction is perhaps impossible to perceive.”
I think these are good points to apply to both those who insist the cuprits had to be a Democrat mob sent out by Obama and to those who believe that since the victims weren’t beaten with Obama/Biden lawn signs the incident “wasn’t political”.
I wonder what is the possibility that this is the way political attacks by the left will now unfold, so that enablers like Obama, Hillary, Bill Clinton etc. can claim ‘plausible deniability’ for assaults made by ‘Obamasizers‘ ( i.e. people who may not be directly connected to the Obama/Dem structure but who will certainly perform mayhem on their behalf, an Obama/Dem sympathizer)?
After all, ‘Obamasizers’ would be more difficult for victims and police to connect the dots with respect to a crime than some fool wearing an SEIU Purple Shirt.
I agree that there is a difference between partisan and political. At least at this point, the assault is political in nature. Now the next step is finding out who was behind it – the communists or a Democrat using them as a screen so that a partisan charge cannot be leveled.
We know that obama and his administration have a collection of communists, radical socialists, and others from the way left. At the very least, this administration encourages and emboldens these rats – and makes no apology for doing so.
Perhaps the word ‘Obamathizer‘ is better than ‘Obamasizers’ as a term. RE: post 114
Related to that – I mentioned this in today’s open thread, but it probably should be noted here, too:
Attack on Jindal aide initially dismissed by police as medical call
Bottom line: the NOPD didn’t even bother to look into the Friday night assault until late Monday. Due to their “downgrading” of the severity of the beating they gave the criminals a 4 day head start to run and hide. I can only shake my head at the incompetence.
What’s the difference?
So now “f-ing b*tch” and “f-ing fagg*t” are merely comments about one’s attire?
Here’s what I don’t like about this MM post: It seeks to distinguish this heinous crime with a politically motivated attack. What is the use of doing that? Aren’t we the ones who cry out against the “hate crimes” bill which attaches greater penalty for a crime if the attack is motivated by animus toward a protected class? I personally find that law itself to be offensive. So now we say, “Don’t get all lathered up about this attack because it wasn’t politically motivated”?
Well I’m lathered, dammit. Real lathered.
Well, vickisoup, I believe that bit of cherry-picking from an old, incomplete and hastily created police report was to try to bolster a non sequitur assumption.
Michelle didn’t post this information from the very same police report, re: the victim Joseph Brown:
“he was unable to recall certain portions of the event and believed he may have lost consciousness during the attack”.
Yes, nothing to see here – this is quite obviously just another case where some well meaning fashion writers politely critiqued the couple’s choice in fashion and the couple were so distressed about having chosen the wrong attire that they beat each other up. Happens all the time.
Compare and contrast this story to the Jena 6.
Case file: Distinctions Born of Desperate Search for Nuances
Steven Dunham aka Barack Obama is an anarcho-commuinist. Born of the same radical intellectual line as Rosa Luxemburg, the black-cat saboteurs of the 1910′s Wobblies, and directly through Frank Marshal Davis of CPUSA, and his pals, mentors and close friends — the mad anarcho-communist bombers Ayers and Dohrn, now esteemed professors and teachers of teachers — BUT STILL teaching anarchy.
Stanley Anne Dunham, the only parent of Steve’s we are absolutely certain of, described herself as a “anarchist” in her High School yearbook, only two years before Steve was born.
It is impossible in the year 2010 of the Gregorian calendar in the United States of America to make any valid distinction between “Democrats” and “Anarcho-Communists”.
Why? … Because the Democratic Party is lead by one, and it is full of them.
bvw, I don’t intend this as being mean or a put-down, but your comment is a little bit “out there”.
On that – you may be correct speaking for yourself, but not everyone has such a difficulty. I’d say the same to the leftists who claim it’s impossible to ascertain the difference between Republicans and Nazis.
purplepeep,
Reality can be like that. “Out There”.
Men and crowds are prey to fads in preference to facts, History shows that. One masterwork transcribes that stern voice of History observing the fools that men are: that of Charles MacKay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, 1841.
Obama is the great con-man version of a pure anarcho-communist.
Too X-File-ish for me, bvw. Though Gillian Anderson was a babe.
But, you see, on this for example:
I don’t think it the best idea to base an entire theory on a one liner joke from the 2008 Obama Roasts McCain @ Alfred E. Smith Dinner.
Just because someone didn’t get the jokes, that doesn’t mean the jokes are really some kind of a secret message. It just means a joke went ZOOM!!! over someone’s head. When that happens it’s better for a person to admit they didn’t get the joke and ask someone to explain it to them instead of building an alternate reality based not getting a punchline.
I’m not referring to you there, but to some unknown dolt – whoever it was – who obviously needs to work on his sense of humor much more than he does on inventing conspiracies.
His other *known* aliases are Barry Soetoro, Barry Dunham, Barack Obama, at least. He himself added the ‘Steve’ — in a joke at the tuxedo’ed Smith Hobnob.
What is the name on his legendary birth certificate — the one mentioned in his own biography? We do not know. So, ‘Steve’ joins the list.
Hey, purplepeep, just out of curiosity — what’s your takes on global warming and Earth Day?
I think that’s why most folks on both the left and right don’t take the birth issue very seriously, bvw. Too many of those pushing the question don’t take it seriously enough themselves to stop and think “isn’t claim X, Y or Z pretty silly?”. Grasping at straws doesn’t inspire much respect for any argument.
Again, I’m not picking at you – but rather at the sheer awfulness of the argument and the lack of self-policing for intellectual integrity that’s all too abundant in those pursuing the birth (and related) question.
Global warming could be happening – if so, it has for 10s of thousand years since much of the N. Hemisphere was under ice.
But what the “Climate Change” pushers are talking about is a fraud and hoax. I lived through the Global Cooling Panic of the 70s – been there, done that.
I don’t think of “Earth Day” at all. But if I did, it would be the day I crank up everything electrical and mechanical. I miss the days when we could burn our garbage in the garbage cans out back.
Well, your take on the Global Warming and Earth Day is reasoned enough.
The man you know as Obama HAS indeed gone by multiple names in his life, that’s the public record. It’s Barry Soetoro in the Indonesian school ledger, and Barry Dunham was reportedly used when when he was in Hawaii, at least for a while. What IS his history?
Where are his school records? Given that he was Editor of the law review at Harvard — where’s the review articles he wrote? Why did he not practice much of law at all? Why has it come out that the ‘professorship” at U of Chicago was just a politically granted favor of a screwball lightweight lecture series to build up his resume?
For the ten or so dollars US it would cost to release his birth certificate to a legit, REAL document examiner why hasn’t he?
Where the heck is your honest sense of inquiry into this man’s background? What the heck has short-circuited it?
I agree, bvw, he should cough it up to the media, courts, the general public (facsimiles of it), historians and document examiners of every stripe.
The answer also touches on your other quoted question above – I just don’t believe calling him or anyone else “Steve” will be of any help with any of the questions you’ve raised. It’s patently goofy and delusional to believe otherwise.
Now, instead of wasting time on silly things like that, folks should be doing something real world & tangible – i.e. something effective. Convincing a state to require all Presidential candidates who file to cough up their original BCs would be effective. Wild goose chases based on absurdities is nothing more than mental “self-pleasuring”. It feels good, but that’s all.
Hey…isn’t that a duck?
Sure looks like a duck.
Hear that? “QUAAAACK QUACK QUACK!!!”
Bautsch and Brown believe they were followed and attacked by political protesters
(Yahoo News)
Complete comment, more info and news story link in the “Saturday Open Thread”.
a communist anarchist who makes disparaging remarks based on socioeconomic circumstances about someone he suspects to be a conservative Republican before descending upon said Republican and beating him or her savagely is doing so from a political motive. Economics + communism = politics. It’s not brain surgery. Particularly given that the anarchists’ propaganda both before and after the event was shot through with hateful references to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s “rich friends” and so on.
Michelle, you cant argue with that.
Police Report/New Orleans.
That just may mean something different than in a more functional police department. The pay for police in that city is dismal and so they get what they pay for.
But they are clever souls-off book income helps with the bills. We call it the Wal-Mart Affect.
Yes, AZN, I do remember the video of the New Orleans cops looting Wall-Mart, while calmly strolling through the store lookin’ oh so pretty…
Oh – thanks for clearing that up – I had always thought they were one and the same. My bad?
Many years ago, PJ O’Rourke wrote about a Republican convention in New Orleans, “a visit to which is like taking a sauna in a high-crime drainage ditch.”
It’s becoming more and more obvious that Republican’s can’t handle PJ’s wisdom.
Anarchists and communists are Democrats who are too socially incompetent to understand they are supposed to lie about being anarchists and communists.
Progressives are people who think progress is any movement toward communism. Modern liberals are people who think it is compassionate and good to be liberal with other people’s property.
Conservatives are people who think anarchists and communists and Democrats and progressives and liberals are all ignorant or nuts or, in some cases, just plain rotten examples of humanity.
That is because conservatives are ‘dividers.’
It appears that people who were supposedly quoted as claiming the attack wasn’t politically motivated,are now clearly claiming that the attack was politically motivated accrding to several articles on Breitbart right now.
I don’t think this incident and the investigation thereof is over with yet, Michelle.
Roland’s got it. The beat down thugs are Core Democrats with a truly distinctive persona — they have a type of honest integrity.
[snip]…..In her latest interview with Yahoo News (via The Hayride, h/t Pat Dollard) Berning went a bit further, saying her daughter Bautsch and her daughter’s boyfriend, Brown, believe the attackers were a group of political protesters who followed them after they left the GOP event.
OK, now can we call it a political attack.
We need to stand up and scream from the rooftops about this. Where are you MM? Why were you so quick to call this out and say it was not a political attack? If we as conservatives do not call out the left on their BS and allow them to dominate the conversation with their FALSE accounts of hatred, when we have actual events on our side we are doomed to life as second class citizens.
Might as well wear our yellow elephants on our sleeves so the brownshirts can more readily identify us.
I am hoping that Michelle continues to follow this. The left has spent a considerable amount of time attacking tea party folks with the tacit approval of the likes of obama, pelosi, reid, clinton et all. They feel that they can ambush and attack with impunity because the news media refuses to make incidents like this into a pattern. If we do not point out the pattern, then more will happen.
From Yahoo yesterday:
Allee Bautsch’s mother, Della Berning, has now joined a friend of Bautsch’s in telling Yahoo! News that, contrary to what Brown initially told police, Bautsch and Brown do believe that the attackers were a group of political protesters who followed them after they left the event. Their recollection is not conclusive, of course, and they admit to having no knowledge of the attackers’ underlying motivations.
According to Berning, Bautsch and Brown are recovering from their injuries and the trauma of the attack, and so are not speaking directly to the media. However, the couple authorized her to come forward with their account of the attack. Berning told Yahoo! News that she reconfirmed with her daughter each detail of the account she offered via email and phone.
I am not convinced one way or the other yet. But I can say one thing for sure. Something is rotten in Denmark. The “facts” in this case are incomplete, murkey, and just don’t add up.
If there were a group of people that sit around the downtown area and accost people on the street based on the way they look, then those people are probably locals that the police know.
If they were out of towners, why would they do something like this? I didn’t see where the victims talked back or otherwise aggravated the situation. Unprovoked attacks are just not that common unless they are by people protecting their turf. That would mean those people are in that area still. The police should be able to find them.
Conflicting stories, political intrigue, some political correctness, brutal violence, no robbery. This just does not add up. Thats why there is such interest. It is illogical. The logic in the chaos points to a political attack because of where they were prior to the attack, but yet MM is saying no.
Thus, its hard to believe it is just people hanging out violently beating people on the streets close to restaraunts and hotels just because of the way they look.
Too many holes in this story to really believe that either.
If you really want to keep track of this story you have to go to the Hayride website. There is a late update with some significant additional information. For some goofy reason, Jindal hasn’t brought in the State Police. More to follow over the next few days.
Man, turn this around with a young democrat couple as victims, and Eric Holder would be there himself.
It seems unlikely that the NOPD is capable (for whatever reason) of conducting an adequate investigation of this
“medical call”assault, and I wonder if the state AG, a democrat, is up to the task? Maybe Jindal wonders about that too?What does it take to get the FBI involved in a criminal case?
Hey, come to think of it, they allegedly called Brown ‘a fu*king faggot’, right?
There you go. It’s a hate crime. Doesn’t that get the federales involved?
[Alinsky 101 - make them live up to their own rules]
I read that police report. Interesting that there are pictures of the two at the scene but they didn’t do a police report until a couple of days later. It seemed incomplete and sparse.
It looked like a police report that is done when the police have no intention of doing any followup. Just a perfunctory report and then they go back to the donut shop before their coffee gets cold. After all, its just “rich people”.