Wisconsin Dem to GOP Assemblywoman: "You are f*****g dead"
A Wisconsin Assemblyman issued an apology after shouting an obsenity-laced threat to GOP Assemblywoman Michelle Litjens.
Democratic Assemblyman Gordon Hintz screamed "You are f*****g dead" after the Wisconsin Assembly voted to pass Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill Friday.
WTMJ talk show host Charlie Sykes broke the news Monday morning, asking "would Hintz have apologized or even acknoledged the comment if I had not broken the story on my show/blog this morning?"
According to a report at postcrescent.com:
Litjens said she accepted the apology, but has asked the Assembly leadership to discipline Hintz. “Everyone was exhausted. We were on the floor 58 hours. (But) there is still no excuse for his comment,” Litjens said.
Hintz, who was cited earlier in February for violating a "city sexual misconduct ordinance" blamed the outburst on shock after spending 58 hours in debate:
“I believe my response was shock. The only way they were going to pass this bill was by ignoring and shredding rules of the Assembly,” Hintz said. “I apologized when I learned my comments may have been taken personally by someone.”
According to a report at The Blaze, Hintz was among the Democrats who screamed "Shame! Shame! Shame!" after the vote.
Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard notes the lack of reaction by the so-called mainstream media:
In this post-Gabrielle Giffords world, with calls for a new civility, a man that was just busted in the middle of a prostitution sting says "You are f--king dead" to a woman on the floor of the Wisconsin assembly, and America's media couldn't care less. Despite this being reported no later than 10:43 AM, a Google news search identified that apart from Wisconsin outlets, only Fox and conservative websites thought this was at all newsworthy.
As of 12:30 AM Tuesday, according to LexisNexis, no major news outlets reported this event. Closed-caption records for ABC's "World News," CBS's "Evening News," and NBC's "Night News" also found no coverage of this issue.
Had Hintz been a Republican shouting an obscenity-laced threat at a Democrat, the reaction would have been much different.
Sheppard observes, "Makes one think it's journalism that's bleeping dead!"
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