{"id":3220,"date":"2010-10-28T01:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2010-10-28T01:27:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:27:46","slug":"ashamed-to-show-his-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/ashamed-to-show-his-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashamed to Show His Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tim Profitt is afraid.&#160; He does not want anyone to see his face. Tough!&#160; I\u2019ll show it along with another face that\u2019s equally vile.&#160; If having his face plastered all over the Internet causes him to fear, that\u2019s fine with me.&#160; Like most Republican bullies, he\u2019s just a coward.&#160; Please do NOT respond against him with violence.&#160; Why?&#160; That\u2019s not our way.&#160; It\u2019s what makes us better that he is and the Republican hate mongering he represents.&#160; Would you believe that this bastard actually wants an apology from Lauren Valle?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"28proffit\" border=\"0\" alt=\"28proffit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/28proffit.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"356\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tim Profitt, the former Bourbon County campaign coordinator for Kentucky GOP Senate nominee Rand Paul\u2019s campaign, gave the AP a non-apology apology yesterday for stomping on the head of a MoveOn.org activist outside a Senate debate Monday night, saying, \u201cI apologize if it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39844442\/ns\/us_news\/\" target=\"_blank\">appeared overly forceful<\/a>.\u201d But apparently his pseudo-remorse was short-lived, as Profitt told local CBS affiliat [sic] WKYT today, \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s that big of a deal.\u201d (The Lexington Police think otherwise, issuing Profitt with a <a href=\"http:\/\/barefootandprogressive.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/lexington-police-issue-statement-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">criminal summons<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>And astonishingly, asked if he planned to apologize directly the activist Lauren Valle whose head he stomped on, Profitt said, \u201cI would like for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/home\/headlines\/Paul_supporters_who_clashed_with_liberal_activist_speak_out_105833648.html\" target=\"_blank\">her to apologize to me<\/a> to be honest with you.\u201d Watch it:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rIv9kN7Ze7Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" type=\"text\/html\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Profitt has remarkably attempted to blame Valle for the incident in which he and another large man wrestled the 23-year-old woman to the ground, telling WKYT, \u201cshe was a professional at what she does and I think when all the facts come out, people will see that she was the one who initiated the whole thing.\u201d Profitt has said he restrained Valle because he feared the petite woman represented \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/mobi?storyid=105818718\" target=\"_blank\">a danger<\/a>\u201d to Paul, and said he stepped on her because \u201cI couldn\u2019t bend over because I have issues with my back.\u201d Meanwhile, Profitt now says he \u201cfears for his safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a conference call organized by the campaign for Demoratic nominee Jack Conway today, a 60-year-old Conway supporter named Michael Grossman said he was also assaulted by a Paul supporter at the same event. Grossman \u2014 who attended the event \u201csimply as a supporter\u201d of Conway \u2014 was carrying a sign with Conway\u2019s name on it. Shortly after Valle was attacked, Grossman said he \u201cfelt a heavy hand on my shoulder\u201d and turned around to see a \u201cthug\u201d who \u201chappened to be massive.\u201d Grossman said the man tried to \u201cthrust me to the ground\u201d in order to get to Valle and take part in that melee. When Grossman turned around, he said the man \u201cverbally berated\u201d him, called him a \u201ccommunist\u201d and a \u201csocialist,\u201d and said \u201cyou ought to be back in California or New York with all the rest of the scum.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/27\/head-stomper-demands-aplog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The second incident makes it more than clear that the assault on Valle was not an accidental incident.&#160; The Paul campaign must have planned to deal brutally with dissent.&#160; That should not surprise us.&#160; It\u2019s the Republican way.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Profitt is afraid.&#160; He does not want anyone to see his face. Tough!&#160; I\u2019ll show it along with another face that\u2019s equally vile.&#160; If having his face plastered all over the Internet causes him to fear, that\u2019s fine with me.&#160; Like most Republican bullies, he\u2019s just a coward.&#160; Please do NOT respond against him <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/ashamed-to-show-his-face\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}