I’m thinking $29.95 plus tax and shipping.

‘Do you believe in curses?’ asked Smaill curiously.

‘I don’t believe in anything; I’m a journalist,’ answered the melancholy being…

G. K. Chesterton

Not one person here was there, not one person here has any idea wtf they are talking about aside from what their horrified beady little eyes viewed in that tiny little snippet of video. I

AND

held this site in much higher esteem than what I’ve seen posted by many of the “regulars” regarding this subject. I thought most of the people here were mature reasoning adults with common sense.

SilverStar830 on September 18, 2007 at 1:25 PM

Hot Air posted the original video. Are you ranting suggesting we shouldn’t have commented on it because it was a “snippet”, even though we didn’t know it was a “snippet”?

Comment dittoes^^ to serpentineshel on September 18, 2007 at 8:24 PM

As a professional musician I have quite a bit of experience with crowd dynamics/mob psychology, a well behaved civilized polite crowd can turn into a ugly violent mob so fast you cant believe until you actually see it happen.

doriangrey on September 18, 2007 at 1:41 PM

Maybe its because your music sucks and they were pissed they paid to hear you?

The number of people posting here who apparently don’t know anything about crowd dynamics/mob psychology is rather disturbing

doriangrey on September 18, 2007 at 2:10 PM

What??? Is crowd psychology 101 a prerequisite for a degree nowadays? How else to explain that you find this disturbing?

Your comments are based on ignorance and fear, mine on personal experience. Instead of looking like the last bastion of freedom you look like a moonbat.

doriangrey on September 18, 2007 at 2:40 PM

And you sound like a horses’ ass.

Grow up, you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

doriangrey on September 18, 2007 at 2:43 PM

I was in the music biz for 20 years and I went to hundreds of concerts. I find it hard to believe that you were playing to large arenas, so that leaves us with smaller venues. I never once saw a crowd get out of hand, so if it happened to you a lot, you may want to think about why that is.

Jaibones on September 18, 2007 at 1:43 PM

Well said. Oh, and I’ve made doriangrey the poster child of fascism :)

As much as conservatives and tedious libertarians are knocking Waffles for failing to come to the moonbat’s aid, if he had swooped in, we’d all be knocking him for interfering with the police in the execution of their duties, right?

I blame Kerry only for not coming to the moonbat’s rhetorical aid. He could have said something. I would have.

He also flip flopped on his boat name, recently changing it from Scaramouche to Let it Be. Why Let it Be? Yellow Submarine was already taken by Ted Kennedy.

It would be nice if the people who are adamant that this idiot did nothing to deserve being cut off from the mike and what was at first supposed to be escorted from the room before he resisted would read the eyewitness accounts of what actually happened.

serpentineshel on September 18, 2007 at 8:24 PM

Nah, actually knowing the relevant facts in the case might be strange and frightening. It could even result in having an informed opinion–wouldn’t want that to happen. Better just to stay wrapped in that warm comfy bubble of sweet sweet ignorance.

It would be nice if the people who are adamant that this idiot did nothing to deserve being cut off from the mike and what was at first supposed to be escorted from the room before he resisted would read the eyewitness accounts of what actually happened.

serpentineshel on September 18, 2007 at 8:24 PM

But dude…They might have to change some of their precious preconceived notions about the basic social fabric of America if they did that…

It would be nice if the people who are adamant that this idiot did nothing to deserve being cut off from the mike and what was at first supposed to be escorted from the room before he resisted would read the eyewitness accounts of what actually happened.

serpentineshel on September 18, 2007 at 8:24 PM

But dude…They might have to change some of their precious preconceived notions about the basic social fabric of America if they did that…

Did you even read the account at MM’s site?:

http://michellemalkin.com/
Scroll about 55% of the way down the page to UF student Tyler Antar’s email explaining exactly what happened.

And then go watch the video here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/18/video-new-footage-of-the-tasing-of-the-moonbat/

And maybe then you’ll understand that this whacko was never going to sit back down.

It would be nice if the people who are adamant that this idiot did nothing to deserve being cut off from the mike and what was at first supposed to be escorted from the room before he resisted would read the eyewitness accounts of what actually happened.

Oh yeah, that would have looked better, the cops beating him.

The tasers should have two settings. One is “this is a warning..little ouch.” Then the second setting is “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Whatever happened to nightsticks???

Claimsratt on September 18, 2007 at 6:53 PM

Think Rodney King……..

Whatever happened to nightsticks???

The Romans called them fasces.

Mussolini gave them a bad name.

Hey Reuben…I’ve been to countless public meetings and seen sh!tloads of people get up, vent, and sit down again.

Key words there: “Sit down again.” This guy wouldn’t.

But yeah, he should have been allowed to “run out of steam.” Everybody should just be able to do whatever they want, no matter how it affects anybody else.

Unbelievable how fat people can serve on a Police Force in Florida….I stand with Coulter and her dislike of fatties.

Because if pulled this in Iran, you’d be free later that day, the video would be shown everywhere, and it’d be the cops suspended while you go on talks shows …

Sure it would…yeah right, you go Blather. I can see you fuming at the mouth while writing…..Iran has talk shows?

Yeah the guy is a loon but the cops didn’t handle it correctly IMO.

But I’m certain when he gets a gig at one of the nation’s papers, he’ll be objective, right?

RightWinged on September 18, 2007 at 5:31 PM

He and STB will be the next Woodward and Bernstein. Or, more likely, the next Lenny and Squiggy.

Update: But of course — Meyer is a journalism major. Here’s the Herald’s account of the incident via a university spokesman:

But I’m certain when he gets a gig at one of the nation’s papers, he’ll be objective, right?

When the officers began escorting him from the room, there was applause that he was leaving. Had they succeeded, that would have been that – idiot ejected to the gratitude of the crowd, order restored. The officers failed to manage the situation, so it degenerated quickly, and the nutjob is getting far more sympathy than he deserves.

As to Kerry – just one more bit of confirmation that we dodged a bullet in 2004.