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That’s the headline screaming from the home page of Spain’s second-largest and supposedly center-right newspaper El Mundo (read it here). Accompanied by the best photo of the incident for the job at hand, the piece is disgracefully unbalanced, and dripping with evidence that the reporter and his editors share what I understand to be not only the common misunderstanding of the Tea Party in Europe, but contempt for that which they do not understand (yet feel wildly threatened by nonetheless).

The two assaults last night are unaceptable. Even if it just appears in quarters such as El Mundo that there was one, which was emblematic. Choice quotes include:

“Democrat candidate Jack Conway, who has cut in recent weeks the initial lead of Rand Paul” — really? — “condemned the attitude of the ‘matones’ [approximately translated as ‘thugs’]”.

If you read Spanish or want to run the story, and the swamp of comments, through a translation program, feel free. And read the article’s equally hysterical sub-heads. And the companion pieces “Who is who in the Tea Party”, by another notoriously unsympathetic writer, and “What is the Tea Party?” which debates whether the Tea Party is “extreme right” (Euro-code for Nazi) or merely “ultra-conservative”.

Remember the Euro-press (and, come to think of it, much of our own) during the George W. Bush administration? An awful lot more of the same reversion to form is what you should expect to deal with beginning right…about…now. I suppose in memory of Peter Jennings we might call this a collective tantrum.

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DRed| 10.26.10 @ 7:30PM

If you don't want people to think you're a thug, don't throw a woman to the ground and step on her head. Even if she is being a jackass.

HJR| 10.26.10 @ 7:36PM

How come the media is almost all pretending the assault by a Conway supporter didn't exist? How come only National Review is reporting the extreme behavior of Conway supporters circling Paul's car?

Gee whiz, you might almost think they are biased or something. http://www.nationalreview.com/.....ina-trinko

DRed| 10.26.10 @ 7:43PM

Let's see-there's a report that someone had their foot stepped on, and there are several videos showing a woman getting thrown to the ground and having her head stepped on. Without knowing anything about the political affiliations of the parties involved, which incident do you think the media would focus on?

Angel| 11.1.10 @ 5:53PM

Hi, I am from Spain and I have to say Chris Horner is right. Spanish mass media are always saying "Tea Party is the extreme right, they are racist, there's no black people in the Tea Party, they don't like homosexuals, Glenn Beck is a nazi ..." bla bla bla.
The american people are very lucky, they have a Tea Party. Spain needs a Tea Party, but ... still waiting ...

dicybug | 10.31.10 @ 7:11PM

elmundo.es is not a center-right web. It has always been clearly lefty. They manipulate everything, from local news to international ones. The "ABC" and libertaddigital.com are more serious. El País is just unreadable.

El Mundo has the reputation of being center-right just because the left politicians hate them as long as this newspaper has published a lot of news about left crimes and corruption. But I don't trust them.

vtwin| 10.27.10 @ 12:22PM

victor,sorry to contradict you but as incredible as it looks,I was there with my MoveOn.org buddies and the valle slut who claimed to be with us was making us look bad,so we had to restrain her before we got arrested.shit, man, newsjerks and teabaggers were everywhere.we had to do something. however I don't side with moveOn.org's use of the incident. the teabaggers are a lying bunch and we shouldn't try to use their dirty tactics

Yosemeti Sam| 10.27.10 @ 4:00AM

Um, per broadcast video - the prone womans' head and shoulders were SHROUDED.

So-called 'stomping' - a joke description - nonetheless thereby had a cushioning interface to contend with.

Um, BTW, what's up with that time-coinciding Conway brother legal predicament?

Tim the Enchanter| 10.27.10 @ 11:23AM

Her head could not have been stomped on. She's a long-term leftist tool, right? If someone actually stomped on her head it would have popped like a balloon.

Yosemeti Sam| 10.27.10 @ 3:25AM

Ah, Spain - where it rains mainly in dee plain.

Um, BTW, how's your seminal seed sown in Central and South America coming along.

Shall we perambulate your HISTORY?

Any galleons still hauling robbed gold from them Inquisition-rated 'New World' peons?

Them self-preening perspicacious moralistic folks really know how to size up enemies and deal with them - courageously.

Um, they experienced a frontal attack from
Islamofascists BIG TIME - and they folded like a cardboard box.

Now they wax 'valiant' indignation at a - IMO - choreographed stunt to cast allusions of a variant form of fascistic behavior among Rand Paul supporters.

Personally, I do not like the Caesarean-like haircut Rand Paul sports.

But one likes even less out-of-country out-of-staters to inch their pusillanimous noses into OUR affairs.

siege of pensacola| 10.27.10 @ 6:14AM

I agree with you in one thing: I feel ashamed about the islamofascist attack reaction in Spain. People started to argue and we were divided, instead of being united like the USA did when they were attacked.
But I disagree with you in the core of the issue: that woman was stomped and it is not correct, it's a little that's all. (excuse my basic written english, I don't want to be rude to you).
It's funny how you talk about out-of-country inch their noses into YOUR affairs. Aren't you doing that with many other countries??
And let me remember a little thing, too. You write about spanish seed in central-south america... why don't you speak about north america? Perhaps you should study some history. May you start with wikipedia? Do you recognise some parts of the map of "spanish empire"? What about florida? california...? and so on.
Perhaps there is a little part of that seed closer to you than you think...

Yosemeti Sam| 10.28.10 @ 4:33AM

Perhaps the video of a putative 'stomping' should be shown in - slow motion.

We do not see eye to eye in what we 'saw' respectively.

BTW - who 'defined' this event as a 'stomping' incident?

I give you PEN1 - the Leftoid back-steam media!

Party to the Democrat Party.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 3:19AM

Margie's a MOBY!

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 3:16AM

Margie's a Moby. That's why she hides behind the Bible and attacks Conservatives constantly.
She hates Catholics, too--all leftist atheists do.

Clever, Axelrod--very clever. We're still going to beat you godless, unAmerican bastards. Just watch.

Lesser Weevil| 10.27.10 @ 1:14AM

Question for any native Spanish speakers: wouldn't "pisoteada" be better translated as "trampled" or "stepped on", rather than "stomped"?

dicybug | 10.31.10 @ 7:03PM

I am spanish. I understand "pisoteada" only says they used their feet's soles. From "pisoteada" alone you can not say how intense the action was. It is more powerful than "pisada" but we don't use "pisada" for a repetitive aggression.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 12:16AM

Tim* and his despicable comment:

"In my defense, I was just showing my new best friend Lauren my brand new pair of Reeboks.
She's nearsighted.
That's my story & I'm stickin' to it. ( Editor's Note: author has made use of artistic license. Thank Yewwwww .)"

-showing the type of person he truly is with regards to this type of behavior is what my posts were dealing with. Right from wrong. Something that this man, whoever he is seems to have no concept of.

As to Sean and the other nasty anti-semites who back Tim*~ you are who you are and prove it by defending the indefensible.
God will be your Judge.

( Editor's Note: author has made use of artistic license. Thank Yewwwww .)"

Tim*| 10.27.10 @ 5:37AM

Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Victor-Margie.

Warrior | 10.26.10 @ 8:23PM

Certainly not the Kenneth Gladney incident. The media in effect made that a non-story.

DRed| 10.26.10 @ 8:42PM

That was the 'SEIU Thug' incident, right? So the guys who tossed this woman around and stepped on her-you'd call them Tea Party thugs?

victor| 10.26.10 @ 9:00PM

The violent Neo-Nazi Skinhead types who are Paul followers and claim to be Tea Party members are nothing but wolves in sheep's clothing (READ: Tim*s posts) as an example.

I would prefer to call them Brown Shirts, myself as they differ not at all from the Leftist Nazis of old.

Mark James| 10.26.10 @ 9:18PM

Look closely at the video. He pushed on her shoulder not her head! Not that it is any less foul, I just hate inaccuracy.

victor| 10.26.10 @ 9:33PM

Mark James:
"He pushed on her shoulder not her head"

I think what you meant to say was that he pushed on her shoulder and then her head, with his foot.
And it is just as foul, no matter how inaccurate you are.
http://video.theweek.com/video.....amp;t=Rand Paul supporters stomp woman's head

Jeremiah| 10.26.10 @ 11:24PM

The MoveOn stooge tripped and fell--she's already admitted it, troll. She was smiling after the incident, she wasn't even hurt.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 1:33AM

In your sick mind since it's a Moveon.org useful idiot it makes it alright? Kinda like how the Germans felt about the Jews, eh?

The issue is right from wrong and you know it.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 1:53AM

TROLL! No Conservative would defend a Soros' funded agitator. Where are her bruises from the "stomping?" You are a liar.

Go back to HuffPo where you belong, dirtbag.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 1:57AM

Wrong. No conservative would defend violence committed toward another human being. Spare me the drama, queen.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:11AM

HuffPo dirtbag troll. Typical liberal; lie and then ignore the fact you've been caught lying.

Go back to the HuffPo garbage where you belong, fascist slimeball.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:31AM

There was a man standing on a woman's head and shoulders stomping her, how's that a lie?

You're nothing but a broken and sputtering record. I hear there's some good shrinks out there. I hope you get some help for your Paul-bot addiction because it's skewing your ability to reason and logic.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:40AM

It's obvious you have an agenda, troll. The girl wasn't hurt, she didn't even seek medical treatment. HuffPo loser.

greghawk| 10.27.10 @ 4:27AM

figuratively speaking - it was the 'head of government' and 'the boot was on the neck'

Love it -- 'Victor' is a girly-man!!!

PhilTheCapitalistPig| 10.27.10 @ 9:43AM

Did you mean The National Socialist German Workers' Party?

Funny how all these socialists have so much in common. They think they're way of life is the right way and you WILL either conform to their standards or pay the price. Whether its a penalty for not purchasing insurance or dying in a concentration camp. NAZIS WERE NOT RIGHT WING. GET OVER IT. THEY ARE YOUR PEOPLE, SO START TREATING THEM LIKE THE FAMILY THEY ARE TO YOU, NAZI.

T H Huxley| 10.28.10 @ 3:25AM

If you believe that the Nazis were socialists, then you really don't understand what socialism is. The Nazis and Mussolini were corporatists, which is also called fascism. If Obama was a socialist, he would have ended the bank bailouts. Many Democrats and Republicans are corporatists, which just means they do the bidding of the corporations. And I know that you feel like you're a part of a great political movement, but once your Tea bagger candidates get into office, they won't give a damn about what a peon like you thinks

Nobama| 10.29.10 @ 10:31PM

Corporatist or Statist--what's the difference? Obama's just another big government whore.
You big government freaks are the problem--that's why you're going to get your fascist asses beat on Nov 2!!

Sounds like you know how it feels to be a peon--you are!

T H Huxley| 11.3.10 @ 7:59PM

I'm not delusional. I know I'm a peon. I don't pretend that anyone in Washington DC gives a damn about anything I think. And it's fine with me if the Republicans take over everything in two years, as long as they pass a law to make us all write a check to the investment banks. That would be simpler and more transparent.

Tim*| 10.26.10 @ 8:00PM

Surprise !
Euro-Trash Leftist Media Agendists are tryin' to implicate The Tea Party .

"Lauren Valle, the 23-year-old activist with the group MoveOn.org, was roughed up as she tried to give Paul a fake "employee of the month" award. She told police she was assaulted while trying to take a picture with Paul.
Tim Profitt said the fight never would have occurred if police officers had intervened earlier.

"A friend of mine went up to three policeman before Rand got there, and told them about the girl who was standing there with that wig on and that she was getting ready to do something," Profitt said. "The policemen looked at him and said that's not our job."

In my defense, I was just showing my new best friend Lauren my brand new pair of Reeboks.
She's nearsighted.
That's my story & I'm stickin' to it.
( Editor's Note: author has made use of artistic license. Thank Yewwwww .)

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Rise Up In Rebellion!

victor| 10.26.10 @ 8:23PM

Interesting, or is it, who sticks up for these cretins who assault a woman for what, presenting a fake award to a candidate.
These tactics are the province of thugs and skinheads of whatever party that objects to any opposition.
What they should have done was take the "award" from the moveon.org agitator and in front of the camera accept on behalf of Rand Paul and then quickly hustle it away and diffuse the situation.
That is what an adult would have done instead of hormonal adolescents who cannot interact with anyone in a rational manner.
There are many other clips of Paul supporters harassing and hectoring the opposition. Even other Republicans.
And why has not the Candidate himself denounced this and offered a reward for these two Brown Shirt's heads on a platter?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Why is this man running?
What is he running for?
And why does he attract these weirdos?

Could it have something to do with his friendship with Adam, Code Pinko, Anti-War, Kokesh?

Stay tuned.
Film at Eleven.

T H Huxley| 10.28.10 @ 1:15AM

When I looked at the video, I saw three relatively large guys subdue one relatively small woman. OK, in your most perverse imaginations, she could have been an assassin. I think you overestimate the importance of Rand Paul, but that's a different matter. If she was an assassin, she had already been subdued! Why stomp on her head? And today I hear that the guy who stomped on her head wanted and apology because he threw his back out. He threw his back Out? Does Kentucky breed pussies like this guy. You Tea Baggers sound like a bunch of wife beaters. Is stomping on a woman's head a manly thing to do? You seem to think so, which just makes the whole bunch of you cowards and pussies.

T H Huxley| 10.27.10 @ 2:02PM

I agree. If you don't want bad press, then don't have three goons assault a woman, or anyone for that matter. What ever happened to free speech? If there was a problem, just alert the police,. They were already there. And if my memory serves me right, you right wingers don't give a damn about anything the European press writes, so I don't why you're upset by that story.

drudge ette obama| 10.27.10 @ 7:24AM

I guess that you would not have slammed Squeaky Fromme to the ground, either. Or that you are against women in the military. Head-stomping is not o.k., but what if she had a bomb in her purse or baby carriage?

This woman is playing in a big boys' game and she better not expect that she be given a handicap.

victor| 10.26.10 @ 8:55PM

The Black Panthers were and are THUGS!
And the Rand Paulthers are THUGS too!
Black, white, who cares, they are all thugs and need to be dealt with and dealt with swiftness and severity.
Some prison time is warranted in both these cases.
Wonder what would have happened if the Jugend were armed with batons or billy clubs, eh?
This fascist behavior has no place in American politics.
Figures that you would be sticking up for these barbarians.

If ever there was a human being that fits the definition of RINO-CINO, it is YOU!
The reason is that you won't even vote for the Republican Candidate, preferring to write-in your shoe salesmen's name or even worse, staying home and letting the incompetents stay in office.
And Conservative in Name Only? Conservatives do not defend the indefensible.

PS, you still must have a problem with your eyesight if you keep mistaking me for my wife, unless there is another problem you'd like us to know about?

victor| 10.26.10 @ 9:24PM

They didn't just stop her, they stomped on her head.
They are thugs and you are either defending them or excusing them.

Liberals? You are the Liberal, as you accuse others of the same thing you are doing.
Minimizing Thuggery is despicable no matter who is doing it.

What's conservative about that behavior or backing it?

CalMark| 10.26.10 @ 9:43PM

They didn't stomp on her head. They briefly stood on her shoulders to restrain her. If you come to this site, you should know better than to take media reports, especially about conservatives, at face value.

Let's try this again. On the one hand, a bunch of people who got fed up and frightened by a possibly dangerous nut-job at a rally. On the other hand, violent career criminals threatening innocent people at a polling station. You grant the former moral equivalence with the latter.

And THAT is just plain immoral.

victor| 10.26.10 @ 10:01PM

CalMark:
" a bunch of people who got fed up and frightened by a possibly dangerous nut-job at a rally."

Who was holding a sign. Same thing the Bloody Liberals say about us tea Party members at our rallies?
Thousands upon thousands of us holding up signs and nary a hint of violence.
Typical Paul-Bot defending the indefensible.
Standing on a woman's shoulder or head isn't VIOLENT?

They both should be in prison.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 12:57AM

Where was your outrage when SEIU thugs beat the snot out of an innocent conservative black man in a wheel chair last year?

Or is your phony huffing anf puffing reserved for conservatives only? Troll.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 1:53AM

Phony punk.
I am a conservative and we stand up to thuggery no matter which side does it, unlike the violent Paul followers.
You and your ilk Tim* don't seem to mind using violent behavior, both in words and in actions, and that's the issue.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 1:10AM

The Soros' agitator admitted that she tripped, troll. Stop lying.

If she was really "stomped" where are the blood bruises? BS ginned up story by liberals because you're getting your sorry Fascist butts kicked next week. Losers.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 1:42AM

My fascist butt? LOL! Very funny. Actually you anti-semitic Libertarians couldn't get enough votes to get elected dog catcher. That's why you have to hide as Republicans in order to get elected. You actually hate real conservatives.

True conservatives aren't anti-semitic misogynists. They seem to flock to the Pauls, don't they?

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 1:57AM

Margie's/victor's troll mask has been torn off.

Look at them defend the Soros' funded agitator and lie about the Tea Party people.

Axelrod troll.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:01AM

Paul-bot Troll.
So as long as they're untermensch, they're undesirable and therefore disposable, eh?
Who else do you consider undesirable?
YOUR hateful soul has been revealed.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:06AM

Evil Axelrod troll. Go back to the HuffPo garbage where you belong. Commie.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:10AM

From your comments it'd seem that you would be more at home there.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:14AM

Where are the blood and bruises from the 'stomping', DRAMA QUEEN?
Where are they? Point them out, we want to see them!

You're the one squealing like a stuck pig, troll.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:17AM

And when did you stop beating your wife?

So... you're saying as long as she has no bruises it's alright to beat her.
Pig, indeed!

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:24AM

You're the one snorting and squealing about a stomping and a beatdown. There should be some physical proof or it's obvious NO stomping ever happened. Eh, Einstein Margie?

What a hoot! The ever nauseatingly sanctimonious "Margie" is a George Soros' Axelrod/HuffPo whore. Troll.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:39AM

Ah, the super Catholic Jeremiah just can't quit with the insults toward my wife? On what basis do you charge her of being a whore and a slut? Just who do you think you are, punk?

And again, as long as there are no bruises there is no crime, eh?

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:44AM

Gee, victor, you and your "wife" write in identical fashion. Imagine that! Same grammar, syntax and even cadence. Where is the old cow anyway?

I think Tim* is right--you are the multi-personality Sybil. Freak.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:56AM

You are living proof that hatred is a mental disorder.
Is that what your Religion teaches you?
It's never too late to turn away from your life of sin.
After all, look what happened to Chuck Colson and David Berkowitz.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 3:06AM

Yes, hatred is your constant companion, troll.
Anyone who defends the tactics of the evil George Soros is sick with rage and hate.

Tim*| 10.27.10 @ 6:02AM

Anti-Catholic Apocalyptic Crank Lady Victor-Margie exposes herself for the Umpteenth Time.

Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Victor-Margie.

Sean| 10.26.10 @ 11:59PM

CalMark you are arguing with a Socialist. Victor and his wife are always on here trying to demonize conservatives. Victor doesn't even know that the guy that had his foot on her has been fired and has been brought to a judge already.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 12:31AM

Depends on one's definition of conservative.

This from Sean~ who says that by backing Israel we are spitting on American soldiers.

Try and claim along with your ilk that you are conservative and we are Socialist and we will let God be the Judge.

Sean| 10.27.10 @ 12:48AM

So you also imply with your wife that the sailors on the USS Liberty were sinners?

victor| 10.27.10 @ 1:29AM

So you're saying that you are without Sin?
Tell it to the Judge.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 12:51AM

Only a Fascist Liberal Axelrod troll would defend a Soros' funded MoveOn agitator.

TROLL. How much does Axelrod pay you, slut?

victor| 10.27.10 @ 1:28AM

Slut? Troll? Sounds like you're the Leftist here. How much do you get paid to defend a man stomping on a woman?

You're a sick bunch.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:04AM

You are a slut, Margie/victor. A sick slut who pretends to be a Conservative, hides behind the Bible to attack and lie about true Conservatives and then defends an evil, anti-American Soros' funded agitator.

You are evil pond scum. Go back to the HuffPo garbage where you belong

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:08AM

Whew. I bet you give yourself a headache having to twist yourself into such a pretzel like that?

What a pity that you insist on defending the indefensible because the only evil here is someone who defends a man who beats up a woman. Is that what you mean by a true conservative?

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:17AM

Where are the bruises and the blood from the beatdown, idiot? You're a stupid fool; stop embarrassing yourself.

Give it up, evil troll.

victor| 10.27.10 @ 2:19AM

Again: as long as you leave no marks, it's alright.
Evil, indeed!

Beth| 10.27.10 @ 2:23AM

Victor, don't even bother with Jeremiah. Paulbots are immune to logic, reason, and intellectual honesty. It's a waste of time, and trolls like him aren't worth it.
Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if he were exactly that which he accuses you of being - an "Axelrod troll," pulling a Moby to make conservatives look bad. LOL

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:57AM

Nice try, troll. I'm not a big Rand Paul fan, he's just a lot better than that lying pig, Conway.

It's your ranting attacks against the tea party folks and your defense of the Soros' agitator that made me mad. Moron.

Sean| 10.27.10 @ 11:11AM

You have something against Catholics, Victor?

Beth| 10.27.10 @ 2:20AM

Why are you such a nasty troll, Jeremiah?
I'm a conservative too; I sure as hell don't condone violence against the opposition, not "even" Moveon.org agitators. That you do, nevermind your hostile comments, says more about you than anything. Try not to tarnish the rest of us conservatives with your Moby-like ranting, would ya?
And btw, Victor is right - the Paul family DOES attract its fair share of loons. Ron Paul is worse, but Rand gets plenty of his own. It is only because we MUST win Kentucky that I support him winning; I'd support a ham sandwich this year, as long as it is a Republican ham sandwich. He is the proverbial ham sandwich.

Jeremiah| 10.27.10 @ 2:53AM

Where did I condone violence, "Beth?" C'mon, troll--point out my support for the stomping and beating that nearly killed that poor little innocent Soros' funded agitator. OMG!! She was bloodied and bruised beyond belief! Just ask victor/Margie.
Seems like you're a supporter of the Soros' funded agitator, too.

The Pauls aren't the only ones who attract their share of loons--looks like victor/Margie do too.
Or is that victor/Margie/Beth? Pondscum.

Tim*| 10.27.10 @ 5:45AM

Troll Alert !

Wanna bet that Beth is either one more Troll Plant or one more of The Sybil-Victor-Margie Psychotic Personalities which haunt American Spectator.

Get Bent Victor-Margie.

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