Very sorry to hear.

All you can do is humble yourself, and present your case.

And from the information eric has provided, eric wasn’t attending or attempting to attend a Republican event, but a Waxman/Democratic one, and attempting to attend peacefully at that.

Also, you do all have to understand something here - there’s been a lot of over-the-top, hyperbolic, almost violent and racist rhetoric spewing around out there these days. Any politician, especially a famous one like Waxman, HAS to check up on people who show up at their events. It’s just good sense.

The problem I have here with what happened to Eric is that Eric happens to be a well-known blogger and his reputation is of a person who prides himself in civility and civil discourse (though I really wish he hadn’t written that diatribe about Teddy Kennedy - that was most definitely NOT civil). His whole blogger idium centers around what he calls “ideological bigotry,” that is, the irrational, automatic bias against people of different political philsophies. Granted he seems to think the left is somehow more guilty of this than the Right, and with that I disagree, but the point here is that if Waxman’s people, or the Luxe’s people, did check up on Eric, they would discover that a troublemaker he most certainly is NOT. And that’s what makes this whole episode more than a little disappointing and troubling.

JMJ

Like all Republicans (any of us who blogs, especially, and otherwise maintains any media profile to any degree), you’ve been “listed” — these Leftwing Congresspersons (Waxman is undoubtedly among those most Leftwing, and most untrustworthy accordingly as to recognizing rights for those he politically targets, which means, Republicans) — and thus, whenever you show up at any media event in which Waxman (and others like him) appear, the “list” is targeted for severe harassment if not banning altogether (prevented from even attending).

I use the term, “list,” here as short-hand to represent all of us not among the current Democrats, mostly all Republicans who maintain any media presence. Waxman’s a bad man. And this thug from the Luxe Hotel is bad, too.

Micky, I’m with you. If Eric was abused, he should fight back, whether I agree with his position or not.

JMJ

Enjoy the fruits of your political labor.”

Oh puleeeeeeese stop with the drama. This kind of behavior has always been a part of the liberal doctrine with or without conservatives.

I have a rash in my butt from my radiation so please dont make me laugh anymore

Not really Jersey.
You guys are the party of art, expression, exuberance and emotion.
You guys play the emotion card 1 to 10 against us. You wail on things from an emotional point of view and with that comes expressions that are not based on logic but rather extreme behavior sometimes.
Outside of politics its you guys who are always doing the radical things so why would that change once you enter a political arena ?
You’re the guys who are making spectacles and always talking things just a notch higher so as to break normal expectations thereby guaranteeing shock.
You’re the ones that protest more often, make the most noise in more different ways. That same level of creativity is applied to your conduct in whats supposed to be professional forums also. Chasing people off stage, holding the most conspiracy theories.
Did you know that most alien abducties are liberals ? Liberals see a shrink twice as much as a conservative ?

Dan Lev.
People have to stop taking crap.
This world has just gotten to centered on letting things blow over, or hoping they will. Something like this needs to be confronted, especially if its found to be political.
MOST DEFINATELY IF ITS FOUND TO BE POLITICAL !!!
I let things go when the person is obviously stupid or menatally short changed. But if they’re of clear mind and they consciously do something like this to me the sh*t hits the fan.
Once we start letting our rights be infringed upon in what seems like itty bitty ways and those doing the infringing think they can get away with it, well, we all know what happens then.