Caring Understanding Leftist of the Day

A woman had the audacity to go out on a major New York City street and promote John McCain and Sarah Palin as per her right under the First Amendment to engage in political speech. Someone was nice enough to straighten the poor woman out.

By assaulting her.

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney confirms the authenticity of a story circulating on conservative blogs: that during a (rare, and small) McCain rally on Lexington Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan last month, a hostile local grabbed a woman's sign, broke it and hit her in the face.

One blog posted a redacted version of the complaint, which the spokeswoman, Jennifer Kushner, said is authentic. She gave the defendant's name as Bernard Feuerman, said he'd been charged with second-degree assault, and that he's got a Jan. 23 court date.

The comments at that link are even more depraved, but it's symptomatic of just how unhinged the Left is these days. You can't express a contrary viewpoint or expose a central truth about Sen. Barack Obama without having your life turned upside down. You get assaulted. Your property gets attacked. It's an endless stream of caring, understanding, and warm feelings emanating from the Left. What happened to all that hope, compassion and understanding?

Just remember folks, the media keeps trying to remind you that it's supposed to be the GOPers who are the rabid and violent types. Sadly, they can't find any and have to invent them. The assault of this woman will get nowhere near as much play as the bogus claims that someone yelled Kill Him (meaning Obama) at a Palin rally, which the paper and its reporter still stands behind, despite a US Secret Service investigation that found no evidence anyone said anything of the sort. The only person claiming to hear the statement was the reporter who wrote about it. Since then, it was picked up by media outlets across the country and repeated as fact.

UPDATE 10/18/2008:
As Ace points out, the assault of the woman in Manhattan took place last month. It didn't even break into the media attention until now. Lovely.