DNC Coakley Staffer Who Roughed-Up Reporter Was Sent to Mass to "Assist With Messaging" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 11:48 AM
Message Sent – Message Received
On Tuesday Night Martha Coakley staffer Michael Meehan shoved Weekly Standard reporter John McCormackover a railing outside of Martha Coakley’s Washington DC health care lobbyist fundraiser.
Michael Meehan, a media consultant with ties to Massachusetts, was sent by democratic officials to “assist the Coakley camp with messaging.”
His message was clear.
Here’s a photo of Meehan after reportedly shoving McCormack to the ground outside the lobbyist event.
The Boston Herald reported on the dust up outside the restaurant.
But that’s not all…Michael Meehan, Weekly Standard assaliant, is a Senior Vice President of Virilion a democratic advertising agency. The company representsthe Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). PhRMA member companies spent $44.5 billon in 2007 to discover and develop new medications. Big PhRMA also spent money on the democrat’s health care legislation.
There was a slew of lobbyists at Coakley’s fundraiser last night.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Of the 22 names on the host committee–meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley–17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there’s also the political action commitee for Boston Scientific Corporation.
All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley’s host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.
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Dell commented:
“Uhhhh….he tripped and fell. I wuz jus tryin to help him up.”
Get ready, friends and neighbors, this is only the beginning of what looks to be a tumultuous year for mid-terms and, if this is any indicator, we can look forward to serious problems next November.
auntie em commented:
HOPE AND CHANGE!!! Obama-style.
I hope some thug tries to push me down during campaigning/voting. It will be the last time he/she pushes anyone down.
mark commented:
Mission accomplished; he did deliver the message, get with the program or we will rough you up. Chicago politics.
eddiebear commented:
IIRC, didn’t the Kos Kidz send out people to try to agitate Republican politicians in the hope of provoking a response? I’m thinking of the guy who trailed George Allen around asking about his divorce
Tully commented:
Meehan also used to be chief of staff for Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and was communications adviser and spokesman for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Quik Hit commented:
Unfortunately, this is EXACTLY who these douchebags are. Notice the response by Coakley, like that’s how things are SUPPOSED to go…Douchebags.
Hey Mass. Independents, it’s up to you. Is this who you are?
PCM commented:
Couldn’t McCormack have Meehan charged with assault?
Mike W commented:
A caller on Becks show said Coakley was all about prosecuting a man who attacked a man who that was fondling his son.She allowed the illegal alien pedophile to walk and of course he disappeared.
Does anyone know if this is true?
Tully commented:
Meehan is also an Obama appointee to the Braodcasting Board of Governors, which runs Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America. He seems to have some odd views about the exercise of First Amendment rights for someone in such a position.
From the White House press release on his appoinment in November:
“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.”
A fine upstanding Democrat.
ronp123 commented:
one of these days one of these brownshirts is going get the snot beat out of them. can’t come to soon.
Joanne commented:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/01/12/dobbs-its-a-reasonable-question-to-ask-where-obama-was-born/
“(Jan. 12, 2010) — Yesterday Lou Dobbs countered the extreme criticism he has received for merely asking to see documentary evidence as to where the man who goes by the name Barack Hussein Obama II was born.
His comments appear in yesterday’s edition of Esquire Magazine, in an interview he granted that publication.
Politco.com reported the news under the infantile category title: “Birther News.”
Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is standing by his questioning of President Barack Obama’s birthplace.
Dobbs told Esquire in an interview posted on the magazine’s website Monday that questioning whether Obama was born in Hawaii — as a certificate of live birth and state officials confirm — is “common sense.”
“I ask a question, and I am attacked from the extreme left as a quote-unquote birther,” Dobbs told the magazine. “I mean, what the hell is that? When you can create a controversy by asking what seems to me still a perfectly common sense question?”
“It has been used in the extreme left to create a toxicity that is just unbelievable,” he added.
Seeing that there are numerous facts which support a reasonable basis of doubt about Obama’s place of birth, the virulence of the attack waged upon Lou Dobbs is just another nail in the coffin of Obama’s credibility. If you were born in Hawaii, then show your original vital record!
If you have been caught in a big lie, come clean and resign! For goodness sake.”
Indigo Red commented:
Meehan’s job experience, excluding democrat goon from Linedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/meehan):
President
Blue LIne Strategic Communications, Inc.
(Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)
April 2009 — Present (10 months)
Senior Vice President
Virilion
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Digital media company
President
Meehan Strategies
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Political Organization industry)
January 2007 — Present (3 years 1 month)
President
BGR Public Relations, LLC
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
March 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Chief of Staff
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
(Government Administration industry)
January 2005 — January 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Chief Strategist
Cantwell 2006
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
January 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 11 months)
Senior Advisor
John Kerry for President
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Political Organization industry)
November 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Vice President
NARAL Pro-Choice America
(Online Media industry)
2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
Director Message and Polling
Democratic National Committee
(Online Media industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
Political Director
Office of Senator Tom Daschle/Office of Democratic Leader
(Online Media industry)
1997 — 2003 (6 years )
National Political Director
US Senator Thomas Daschle
(Online Media industry)
1997 — 2001 (4 years )
Communications Director
John Kerry for US Senate
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
Communications Director
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Washington D.C.
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
1995 — 1995 (less than a year)
KY press secretary
Dukakis/Bentsen Presidential Campaign
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
1988 — 1988 (less than a year)
gus commented:
The MEDIA is searching all of the records to clear this matter up.
They will get to the bottom of the matter.
Was TRIG born in Alaska? And Who is his mother.
Important stuff.
down with dems commented:
Well done and thorough, GP!
This photo was also taken of the encounter pre-fall:
http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/20100113/517f47_incident01032010.jpg
(it is the second picture at the Boston Herald article)
down with dems commented:
Also, for those who don’t already know, the woman on the left side of the picture is Martha Coakley, present feet away from the assault and staring right at it.
Martha Coakley is running for US Senator from MA, but what is she currently? The MA Attorney General!
Will Coakley, the top law enforcement official of MA, be filing charges against her own goon for this assault? Don’t hold your breath.
jenny commented:
chicago thuggery, sanctioned by the obama administration
pm commented:
Let the fools who voted the Creep into office see the America they’ve brought us.
This Obama appointee is doing what pleases his boss.
mmm commented:
This is exactly why I read your site a couple times a day! You are the true journalists.
drjohn commented:
“assist the Coakley camp with messaging.”
I guess so! That was quite the message.
Ladue Pundit commented:
We are paying this jerk’s salary.
Thanks, Indigo Red, for posting Mr. Meehan’s impressive resume. Looks like he has worked for several major losers.
Hope to see that trend continue.
Mike commented:
Expect more of this. Behaviorists call them extinction bursts – something like a 2-year-old would display upon not getting his way. Only these guys will kill to keep their privileges.
Neo commented:
Another “dirty trick” ?
iPhone Photo of “cocaine lines” posted online has embedded GPS coordinates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
Elektra commented:
Wow. As every day goes by, we see more and more that they are rearing to go, huh? We will have to fight these people for our God given rights.
karen commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0
Curth commented:
That wouldn’t happen to be an SEIU purple sweater that he is wearing underneath his jacket, would it?
Sandy commented:
This is shocking but also funny. On the one hand you have an attractive articulate guy who — with his Band of Brothers campaigns in a pickup truck. While on the other side you have an old hag who sells her soul to the Devils in the Dem Party for a chance to inherit Teddy Kennedy’s seat. Then she runs down to Washington to attend a fundraiser with Big Pharmas Big Donors. Does it surprise anyone that this woman will not answer questions from anyone on the right or that she stands by and watches as the reporter who asks a question she doesn’t like is thrown to the ground.
The arrogance of these would be Capones is out there for all to see. So maybe just maybe this time the good guy will win the day. That is if the people of Mass. are sick of being pawns of the Democrat Machine.