Coakley Staffer Who Attacked Reporter Is an Obama Appointee
by Mike FlynnBig Government contributor Dana Loesch has reported on the Coakley staffer who attacked a Weekly Standard reporter outside a Martha Coakley fundraiser on Capitol Hill. A number of outlets have identified the culprit as Michael Meehan, a long-time Democrat political operative. Mr. Meehan was dispatched to the struggling campaign by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committe (DSCC).
Mr. Meehan, however, also happens to be a recent Obama appointee. On November 19, President Obama nominated Mr. Meehan to serve on the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
From the White House press release:
Michael P. Meehan, Member, Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Michael P. Meehan currently serves as President of Blue Line Strategic Communications, Inc. and as Senior Vice President at Virilion, a digital media company. For over two decades, Meehan served in senior roles for U.S. Senators John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, two presidential campaigns, two U.S. House offices and congressional campaigns in 25 states. Mr. Meehan earned a B.A. in political science from Bates College.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors oversees federal news operations like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
I’m not certain attacking reporters who ask politicians challenging questions is the best qualification to provide an objective news voice to oppressed parts of the world. I would hope that our Broadcasting Board of Governors could at least agree that reporters should be free from political assaults.
Our Mr. Meehan has some explaining to do. His Senate confirmation hearing should be a hoot.
Update: A top GOP Senate Aide had this to say in response to this article: “The President should pull his nomination unless he thinks the BBG should be led by a guy now best known for suppressing the freedom of the press.”
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Hey, I look at this as the cup being half full. Evidently the One is running out of thugs for placement in his administration and needs to recycle them.
Frankly if this is him there shouldn't be any Senate hearing…just can the guy now and be done with it….we certainly have enough thugs in this administration to go around….
Figures, he looks like another left wing PUNK just like the rest of them. When will they attack someone who is ready for it ? NEVER they are chicken $hits one and all.
I wonder if he's wearing puple in support of SEIU? He would certainly fit in over there with the rest of the thugs lampooning as educated business folk…
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2...
Oh wait, now she's a victim.
Blames Scott Brown for these "Stalkers". If this is true, she is the Attorney General they would have been arrested. How stupid does she think we are? Martha is done!
When will the people of Mass. smell the coffee? Politics in Chicago and other enclaves of democratic machine politics have never been know for being polite. To advance in the democratic world you are required to have a rap sheet rather than a resume'.
how many times must Mr Obama send out thugs to physicaly assaut any americans who disagree before people stop making jokes and start taking actions. LOL indeed.
the august 28th Tea party in washington cant come fast enough.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) "works to serve as an example of a free and professional press."
The Coward-and-Snivelin’ Strategy of a Thug:
http://joekiddone.blogspot.com/2010/01/coward-and...
Surprise, surprise the so charitable (with our money) bleeding heart democrats ( only sympathetic to those they have power over) are pushing people around. This is Chicago style politics 101. The real untouchables.
[...] BigGovernment.com is saying yes, Michael Meehan is the perp. And surprise, surprise, he’s an Obama appointee – for [...]
Just a sign of things to come! Oh and pay close attention folks, IMO every single act of violence at any level has always come from those on the left, from knocking someone down(this article), to Mr. Gladney being beaten by SEIU, to a few mos ago when a guy had his finger bitten off by who else a liberal at a rally, to the very extreme the hardcore riots and protests we have seen through history. Those people were not conservatives, common sense thinkers they were the hardcore leftist radical who want their way or else.
I do not know what it will take to get people to wake up. I am trying to give many new "out of the box" options but can't seem to get a base going for support.
If anyone knows of how I can get in touch directly with Breitbart (Andrew himself, or his editors etc) Glenn Beck and those that are heads at other common sense conservative web sites drop me a line. My site is real not a joke……
Meanwhile America continuing playing their game doing the same things over and over again. You look insane and are being laughed at by the leftist radicals and progressives. Or come out of your shell, cross the line within yourself and TAKE BACK AMERICA through Saving the Republic
He's an Obama appointee, and he's a thug?
You know, for some reason I'm just not shocked.
Sense Mr. Meeham hit first does that mean the reporter must hit back twice as hard?
I'd pay money to see one of the thugs try that down here in Texas.
Ah someone a Democrat deems worthy of violence!
A conservative reporter asking pesky questions.
God Bless the Democratic Party, man have they lost their way.
Pray for AMerica as we are not far behind.
Preview of how the American public will be treated no matter what side of the fence you are on if these fleabags get elected.
This incidence shows that the Obama administration's "transparency" is starting to exhibit itself, but in entirely unintended ways. As the spotlight turns inward, I think Democrats will rue the day they championed themselves as the party of transparency.
For the American public, this is all good.
Please note the purple vest under the coat. I'm sure he said, "Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo," when he was deciding on which color vest to wear to the event. Right?
Obama has always been for the freedom of choice… choose to agree with him or someone will beat the crap out of you
Coakeys staffer should be arrested and procecuted by the Mass attorney generals office, wait, there might be a conflict there somehow…
OT: Can somebody tell me how to get in contact with Mike Flynn? I'd like to write for BigGovernment.com, but I can't find an e-Mail addy for the guy.
[...] THUG WHO SHOVED REPORTER IS OBAMA APPOINTEE [...]
In addition to fake numbers for employment, Obama is taking steps to reduce your ability to vote in the next election.
They filled Sec. of State positions in key states with unethical people (e.g. Jennifer Brunner in Ohio). They eliminated your ability to avoid union and Black Panther intimidation by removing Christopher Coates from enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Obama wants angry mobs to show up (even if he supplies them) to pit citizen against citizen so he can manufacture another crisis to control your life.
America must wake up before it is too late.
I, too, would like to see this PUNK try to throw someone of his own size down like he did this reporter trying to do his job. I would take great pleasure in showing this piece of human excrement the meaning of "curb sandwich". When are we going to stop taking this "Chicago-Style" Thuggery?
I am sure they will say that the reporter was harrassing Coakley and simply fell as he was circling her. They will say this guy was offering him a hand-up.
Can the press harrass? You bet. Did this guy? Don't know the answer to that one.
What I DO know, and what is vitally important here is:
Lots of lobbyists were at the event in support of Coakley.
The guy the Dems sent to help her was wearing SEIU purple.
Those 2 things alone are enough to make this situation IMPORTANT.
No longer surprised…… still disgusted!
Looks like the 'bamster is in for a fall of his own.
violation of his 1st Amendment rights,,,this guy needs to be charged with several crimes…AG witnessed an assault and did nothing…. photo clearly proves that
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THIS IS THE TYPE OF OBAMA/ EMANUEL POLITICS MARTHA COAKLEY WILL BRING TO MASSACHUSETTS ??
SHE HAS ALREADY SOLD HER SOUL !!
Just another Irish Demo thug from MA.
Didn't anyone have a shoe?
Is this the best the Dem's could do to keep the press quiet? Seems like Ms. Coakley needs to tell the truth and drop out of the race for the senate seat in Mass. Also, Ms. Coakley needs to leave the office of the state's Attorney General. Ms. Coakley saw a crime committed and did nothing. So fine law enforcement officer. If Ms. Coakley didn't see that crime committed what would she see if something really big committed? What a jerk she is.
Here is the clown who attached Weekly Standard Reporter John McCormack
http://www.linkedin.com/in/meehan
Te: 202-280-6770 (I called his office; was was "away travelling")
Michael Meehan at mm@bluelinesc.com
Michael Meehan serves as President of Blue Line Strategic Communications
He worked for John Kerry and Tom Daschle
I just heard the reporter on the Radio (2:43 P.M. CST) say that the thug had called and apologized for the incident. I would take that as an admission of guilt.
Here's a timely little column …
Democrats Show Contempt for the Governed.
Democratic Party officials are openly declaring that they will refuse to seat the duly elected senator from Massachusetts, for no other reason than because they don't like how he will vote on a specific piece of legislation–even though the people elected him to vote that way. The pledge not to certify Scott Brown is an assault on representative government itself.
Your cracking me up with this gibberish. Do you believe in your own lulzy BS or are you just trolling for recreation?
Oh an apology from a democrat, that will be enough for the MSM and the BO admin.
Heh, how shocking, he's an O man. <eyeroll>
Thugs are an important part of any good "democratic" organization.
This reporter just doesn't get it. "Elite minded" reporters, as every reporte should be,
do not ask important questions – if any, you report only the important lies that they want you to hear.
Coakley NEEDS TO BE SUBPEONED as a WITNESS to (at minimum) misdemeanor ASSAULT and BATTERY in a civil or CRIMINAL trial. She LIED about knowing of the ASSAULT!! Coakley is seen ON VIDEO and in PHOTOS WATCHING HER AIDE !!! What's worse than a LYING Attorney General??? NOTHING!!!
Actually if you look at the picture she is looking forward and may have been looking in a shop window at a sale going on… she may not have noticed the guy on the ground…
Sorry.. had my ACLU hat on for a minute !!!
They are so predictable, aren't they?
The people of Mass. don't want to smell the coffee. They want their world view enforced.
Attacked? Really?
That was an attack?
Apparently the Old Media doesn't have a monopoly in employing the use of overwhelming hyperbolic terms to try to sway public perception.
That was an attack? Wow.
Assaulting a reporter just trying to do their job is outrageous. There is going to be fighting in the streets soon if this continues to go on. Answer the fricken question beyatch!!!
Clearly, you won't be doing investigative pieces.
Coakley NEEDS TO BE SUBPEONED as a WITNESS to (at minimum) misdemeanor ASSAULT and BATTERY in a civil or CRIMINAL trial. She LIED about knowing of the ASSAULT!! Coakley is seen ON VIDEO and in PHOTOS WATCHING HER AIDE !!! What's worse than a LYING Attorney General??? NOTHING!!!
Barack Obama (and lap dogs like Martha Coakley) IS the "SYSTEMIC FAILURE" in the United States. Wake up, America! Throw out the LIBERTY-ROBBING, HIGH-TAXING,MORALLY BANKRUPT Democrats in 2010 and 2012!!……
Michael P. Meehan is one of Tom Dashel's thugs, the health industry lobbyist who got Obama elected. If Coakley doesn't win, Dashel doesn't get his Obamacare kickback from the health lobby. With that much money on the table, it's going to get a whole lot rougher.
Just like Minnesota… Dems don't let anything stand in their way!
Could this guy be a relative of the famou….er, infamous Marty Meehan?
Just love those MA dems…….Lived with these ba$tards for years 'till I was able to leave.
I'd pay money to see one of the thugs try that down here in Texas.
What he did gives a person here in Florida the legal right to shoot him.
With the stand your ground law that fool would be pushing up daisies
here.
Why can't we all get along? Let's not jump to conclusions here, (actually I think that that reporter acted stupidly trying to leap that barricade), and I think that Martha, Mauling Mikey Meehan, and Mr. McCormack should immediately sit down for a Boston Lager summit.
I suggest all conservative reporters ( or those who truly SEEK to report the truth) have a taser, or pepper spray on their body. It would be self defense. I personally would have a license to carry and go ahead and start pushing me to the ground idiot Obama minion (if this was elsewhere besides DC).
Of course sooner or later with the SEIU thugs knocking people around, we will all have to carry something when the elections in NOV come into focus.
He's an Obama appointee? "Democrat Operative"? Broadcasting Board of Governors? WTF!!?
Is this BBG board a paid government position? Why is he working on the Coakley campaign? Is this "governor" thug paid by Coakley? Doesn't seem right.
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When you go around demoncrats take some back up and when they try to get though its time to bring the hammer down.
oops make that *tough" not "though" lol
I'm afraid if this fellow had pushed me, he would be taking his meals through a straw for the next six weeks. Nice bunch of gutless thugs the president has surroubde himself with.
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Are we sure he's not from SEIU? He is wearing a purple sweater. Get these guys out of office!! KEEP Coakley out!!
Send Meehan a nice cozy message about his thuggish bravery. He can be emailed at: mm@bluelinesc.com I just invited his cowardly ass to Florida for a little "discussion"… And yes…under Florida law we cant shoot if one is perceived in danger.
I find it interesting that Martha said the reporter was a Republican operative stalking her. She must be so used to the Pravda sock-puppets from the Globe that anyone who doesn't ask pre-approved questions is a hostile stalker.
The only info I could find on "Blue Line Strategic Communications, Inc." (of which Mr. Michael P. Meehan currently serves as President) is that they have a total of FIVE employess. Sort of tones down the import of his nomination blurb from that of leader of a corporation, to one that portrays the leader of a small gang of "info-thugs".
I like that this story got legs for no other reason than to bring to light that Coakley was at a Pharma/Ins. Co./lobbyist affair in DC, no less. She is doing exactly what she has accused Brown of doing.
to bad you werent the reporter
Let him run Voice of America in Venezuela with Mark Lloyd.
where is the evidence that he "attacked" him? Printing that this man "attacked" another is potentially libelous.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/meehan Here is his resume. He was also the Vice President of NARAL and a Senior Advisor to John Kerry. Can you imagine if the VP of Right to LIfe attacked a Reporter. This should be a hoot! How can this guy be in charge of Voice of America…the voice of Freedom to eastern Europe. Think again!
Government and goons both start with the letter G. So does Gone.
Thank God for affordable VIDEO CAMERAS. The ASSOCIATED PRESS can no longer get away with covering for the Democratic Party THUGS.
Ya think?
So, in DC, assault is acceptable if it's a Democrat beating up on someone else! Thankfully, the rules are now clear regarding DC's version of law and order! Also, never, never, ever, ask a Democrat a hardball question; softballs only allowed under the Thugocracy!
If this is who Coakley surrounds herself with…She deserves to LOSE!!!! Come on Massachusetts, do you really support this kind of thuggery?
LMAO…
Not in Massachusetts. I believe they have a "hit first" law whereby Democrats are invited to hit Republicans they perceive to be … Republicans. Should a Republican fight back then they will be jailed. Any Republican who protests this treatment is, of course, a racist and a child molester and Coakley herself will see to their punishment through the fine Massachusetts justice system. It's all the manifesto … er … state constitution.
quote from
Ads skirt campaign finance laws
August 24, 2004
BY LYNN SWEET WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
If you seem to be hearing a lot about 527s in the past week, it is because Kerry roared back at Bush and the Swift Boat offensive during a speech last Thursday, calling the Swift Boat Veterans' ads a "smear campaign.''
"It hopped from a cable phenomenon to the network last week, when Kerry took it on in his speech,'' Kerry campaign senior adviser Michael Meehan told me.
Among the issues to consider in this unfolding story:
I thought the purple outfit was interesting, also.
[...] the whole story here: Mike Flynn aggregated by [...]
Actually the AP did report that Meehan only helped him up after a fall. But the real message here is that Chicago rules apply. Folks we have a gangster in the WH and he is surrounding himself with more gangsters. He learned the political ropes there and that's how he gets things done. The sooner the MSM understands this and realizes that he will turn of any of them at a moments notice ie, Maureen Dowd, they will have to expose him for what he is.
Hey Holder, were the fuck are you now?
You DO NOT get it. That is just how we roll in this state. Just don't get in OUR WAY – http://www.FATBOY.cc
Lying thugs. Send them all back to Kenya before we are Ethiopia. Weasels.
Good catch!
Any other administration would pull his nomination . . but this one? Nah. Obama elevates thugs and tax cheats to position of great power over the masses.
[...] McCormack accepts the Obama apointee’s apology: A remorseful Michael P. Meehan called today to apologize (see here for [...]
I'm pretty sure that Michael Meehan is a member of the Black Panthers. He gets a thug pass from Holder.
Can you imagine the mayhem that will be prevalent come Election Day this November? What with all the thugs from ACORN, SEIU, DNC, voting might be very hazardous to one's health. It can't happen here, huh?
[...] McCormack’s brief account of their chat. Good enough to save Meehan’s job with the Obama administration, presumably. If you’re starved for an exit question, Time’s got you covered. I’ll [...]
That puny little punk Meehan would be having his testicles reattached today and his glasses removed from his rectum if I'd been that reporter. Look at those girly hands and that girlish physique. Typical Liberal Obama Storm Trooper. Living in a foggy, pot hazed world and violating people's rights like a Nazi.
Bill (Obama is my Coffee Boy) Clinton and John (I SERVED I VIETNAM) Kerry stumping Martha this Friday – http://www.LIVESHOT.cc
VOTE FOR SCOT BROWN!!! More important now than ever. Stop Chicago political thugs from getting a firm hold on Mass.
Vote for Martha!
If you don't, The One Who Is The One will send his SEIU nazis to break your leg.
[...] ‘Photos and video show Coakely aide Michael Meehan trying to help McCormack up’…Staffer an Obama Appointee…VIDEO: ‘IT’S NOT KENNEDY’S SEAT, IT’S THE PEOPLE’S [...]
To bad this guy didn't just get up and kick the crap out of Obama's thug. Where is the Police, oh thats right they work for the Socialist mob. A real district attorney would charge the thug and Coakley but I guess the communist rule in Washington reins supreme.
What a puke , if he had shoved me to the floor he would the the second thing to hit the floor, why don't these people ever pick one someone who hits back. And whats up with the so called District Attorney that witnessed the assult doesen't she have a duty to do her job, if the reporter smacked the thug first he would proabibly been arested and audited. Wnat these Chicago thugs need is a good old fashioned ass beating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw&fe...
I recommend talking directly to him, or the other officers at his companies:
http://www.bluelinesc.com/contact
http://www.virilion.com/contact_us
Maybe you can ask for his services as a bouncer for your next get-together.
http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?vmi=&i...
Then contact every client on his contacts page, and send them the video.
It’s actually quite fun, and costs nothing!
I see some liberal turd is running amok through all the posts thumbing everyone down (again). The most cowardly aspect of it is that they don't even comment. I will be going through and undoing all the thumb damage I am able to. I ask that all you conservatives here do the same. It's time to show some solidarity in the face of these cowardly thumbing drive by's.
Free speech at its best. Any charges been brought up on this thug? Or does someone have to rough him up? Any volunteers? I would love to have that thug push me over. And no doubt charges will come up and if they do, Obama will pardon him.
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