File this one in your Chutzpah file — but, honestly, with the kind of suspension of values (and basic humanity) that we now seeing play out in the name of ideological and partisan rage/fever is this a surprise at all? That brave Rand Paul supporter who stomped on a 23-year-old woman’s head (he later explained that he stomped on her head because he had back problems) now wants HER to apologize to him.
Why do I suspect a court won’t agree with him? And, no, this is not an Andy Borowitz or The Onion satire. Talking Points Memo reports:
Tim Profitt — the former Rand Paul volunteer who stomped on the head of a MoveOn activist — told told local CBS station WKYT that he wants an apology from the woman he stomped and that she started the whole thing.
“I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Profitt said. “I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you.”
“She’s a professional at what she does,” Profitt added, “and I think when all the facts come out, I think people will see that she was the one that initiated the whole thing.”
Profitt also blamed the incident on his back pain.
Well, it makes sense.
Will he win a court judgement because the back of her head brutally attacked his foot and perhaps further aggravated the back problem that made his foot connect with her head?
Will he want her charged with parking her head in a no toe zone?
Here’s the video with his comments:
So she’s at fault…the police are at fault..and back pain excuses it.
(Oh..)
FOOTNOTE: I’m sure some on the Internet are still backing their “home team” by defending Proffit or writing posts about MoveOn.org or digging up her bio, etc. (magicians call this “misdirection”) but as THIS ROUNDUP shows there are many thoughtful conservatives who do not defend him at all.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.