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‘Go F**k Yourself’: GOP Senate Candidate Says He’s Not Sorry for Telling Reporter Off

Aug. 22, 2012 3:05pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Republican Senate candidate Michael Baumgartner said he's not apologizing for telling a local reporter "go f--k yourself."

A U.S. Senate candidate in Washington state said Tuesday he’s not apologizing for telling a local reporter to “go f–k yourself” — and said the reporter “had it coming.”

Republican hopeful Michael Baumgartner acknowledged to the Associated Press he sent the emailed directive to reporter Josh Feit of the Seattle political blog PubliCola following an interview about Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin. A written statement from Baumgartner’s campaign indicated he sent it out of frustration that more media attention was being given to Akin’s controversial rape comments instead of Baumgartner’s platform of ending the war in Afghanistan.

The statement did include an apology for Baumgartner’s “strong language” — but the candidate seemed to retract it during an interview with local news station KIRO-TV.

“Let me just say, Josh had it coming in this email, and I don’t apologize,” Baumgartner, a state senator, told KIRO. “Look, it’s a naughty word. It doesn’t amount to a whole lot.”

Feit said he received the email from Baumgartner Monday night containing a photo of Baumgartner with someone who recently died in Afghanistan.

“Josh, this is Pat Feeks, a Navy SEAL killed last week in Afghanistan. Take a good look and then go (expletive) yourself,” the email stated.

Feit said he tried unsuccessfully to reach the Baumgartner campaign after receiving the email. He said during their interview about Akin’s comments — prompted because Baumgartner has similarly strict anti-abortion views — the candidate expressed frustration that more attention wasn’t being given to the war in Afghanistan. Baumgartner previously did diplomatic work in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the AP.

“The issue here is not whether a bad word was said or not,” Baumgartner told KIRO. “Maybe it angers people, maybe it doesn’t. Trust me, the guy had it coming. The issue here is the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the complete lack of leadership of bringing that war to a close.”

Baumgartner is running to unseat Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell.

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2SENSEWORTH
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:23pm
Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid. …John Wayne

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- realindependent
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:43pm
  Can’t answer a simple question without saying bad words. You turn into Sarah Palin… it’s not gotcha questions. it’s a simple question. don’t want to answer it say so don’t act like an idiot..
  
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- Servant Of YHVH
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:57pm
  I see no reason for someone to use profanity when they “talk” to someone because it usually shows someone with a lack of knowledge of words. He should not have said it but I will not hold it against him for his emotional outburst. I pray that he starts truly believing in using more appropriate wording from now on because using profanity like IS a big deal in any situation. I know that I won’t “condemn” him because I have gotten aggravated a time or two and let bad words slip out and I believe even more strongly against all this PC garbage that everyone seems to tout on so much.
  
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- jthirteen
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 5:33pm
  I have no problem with his language, he was just trying to get his point across. But I would rather not stoop to the level of many liberals who preach tolerance and acceptance and then spew hate and intolerance and profanity. Go to the blog below for more evidence.
  
  http://j13sanityexperiment.blogspot.com/
  
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Phooey. All of us are pushed too hard sometimes, not a person alive hasn’t lost their cool. We all know how the media is today with their biases and this is Washington state to boot. Give it a break–all of them want Republicans to respond to Missouri’s dilemma so they can get to rape and abortion. It was a set up and every liberal news media is on the attack. The Senator doesn’t need to respond at all simply because the Republican campaign has withdrawn funds from the Missouri candidate. We should be more worried about winning Mo. toss up state from a guy who is as arrogant and all about me (sounds like Obama) and not for the good of the country. Yes, we do want to elevate our side and we have. This ain’t nothing like the Union leadership calling all tea party–Sum—-fill in the blank. We are dealing with some of the meanest people and I am glad he stood up. And p s I am a Christian. I walk around in my mind all day every day and it is not all I want it to be, but that’s what it’s all about, Alfie. If you’re a perfect Christian then you must be Jesus and walk on water.
  
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- MastrSSG
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 5:57pm
  I have an extensive vocabulary and a great working knowledge of the English language. That said, sometimes telling someone “go F yourself” is the only way to express your sentiment. It in no way makes you an illiterate or grammatically crippled. I believe whole heartedly in being a gentleman, chivalry, manners, living by example and living to serve others. By the way sometimes violence does solve the problem. Sometimes it’s the ONLY answer!
  
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- West Coast Patriot
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:07pm
  Well it is in Websters Dictionary so it is a word. I would say he was using the 1st definition below as with anger, contempt and disgust. This man is definitely a Patriot and should remain in the Senate. He has shown that he is for liberty and freedom and less government intrusion. Let’s not allow the leftists to dishonor this man for standing up to a dishonest reporter.
  
  Definition of ****
  intransitive verb
  1
  usually obscene : copulate
  2
  usually vulgar : mess 3 —used with with
  transitive verb
  1
  usually obscene : to engage in coitus with —sometimes used interjectionally with an object (as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust
  2
  usually vulgar : to deal with unfairly or harshly : cheat, screw
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:16pm
  Feit had it coming. Why would a candidate for state senator in Washington have to answer for what a candidate in Missouri said?
  
  In all fairness Feit is just carrying out orders like a good soldier, but he could have some pride & get another job.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:22pm
  Hussein is purposefully letting our troops get slaughtered in that hellhole. He doesn’t care, and neither does his media. Every freaking day one of our very best gets killed. Our top general’s plane was hit by a rocket yesterday. It is utterly insane. This b@st@rd-in-chief is too busy campaigning, while that region is in chaos, and our troops are stuck there. Believe me, Hussein rejoices inwardly.
  
  Slime-man, you are a traitor. GFY.
  
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- West Coast Patriot
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:29pm
  The Blaze, I find your moderator program funny, In my post I wrote the bad word the same as it is in your title with the F and K with two asterisk’s in the middle, and you made it all asterisks, lol.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:50pm
  “When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.”
  
  ~~ Gen George.S. Patton~~
  
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- West Coast Patriot
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:02pm
  Time_2, You posted something that I like!!!! Good job.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:28pm
  LEFT COAST PARROT. Gimme’ a couple of topics and I’m sure I’ll post something that disagrees with your overly sensitive self… lol.
  
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- West Coast Patriot
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:35pm
  Time_2, All I would have to do is: Ron Paul 2012!
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:48pm
  LEFT. And of course my response would be….
  
  Obama/Ron Paul ’12
  “No hope except for dope with no change left over”
  
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- TheBlazeReader
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:29pm
  I see no problem either, the guy was given a hard time so lay it on them, the media is so corrupt why not he spoke the mind of millions!
  
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- Al Gator
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:50pm
  Hey Yo, J13.
  
  Refusing to STOOP TO YOUR ENEMY’S LEVEL, ONLY EVER GETS YOU CUT OFF AT YOUR KNEES!
  
  Just EFFIN DAMN, when will you “turn the other cheek” types get it through your block heads, being eaten by lions may make you a martyr, but it makes your children SLAVES.
  
  War is war, you don’t win by not STOOPING TO YOUR ENEMY’S LEVEL. EVER! And if you aren’t in it to WIN, then go home, and let the boot of your tyrant rest easy on your neck.
  
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- BluifoxEd
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:18pm
  Joke em if they cant take a ****
  
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- Al Gator
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:24pm
  @Bluifox
  
  LOL,
  
  This old salt can take a LICKIN and keep on TICKIN. With great delight.
  
  Sorry, just couldn’t help myself. I’ll stop now.
  
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- West Coast Patriot
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:28pm
  Time_2, You are so hopeless. You are definitely for The Patriot Act, NDAA with indefinite detention of American citizens, eyes in the sky to follow people around, cameras on every street corner to keep an eye out on everyone, arresting citizens for speaking out against the government, basically your all in for socialism at a federal level. We all know you and you say we are for Obama. You can’t even be truthful with yourself.
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:47pm
  Who knows what the real story is here. Perhaps the reporter was being an asshat or maybe the politician was. But hey…if it’s good enough for the VPOTUS to use then what the heck. We have way bigger problems to address in this country. A politician telling a reporter to bleep off is minor.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:42pm
  Great remark…………….need to tell that to over half of the MSM; sorry 99% of the MSM
  
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- happygranny
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:31am
  I am from Washington state and love Michael. He is incredible, a great all around conservative and a fresh air in the corrupt political machine of my state. I will be voting for him to unseat Maria Cantwell who is just as bad as Patty Murray, her cohort. I can see anyone getting royally ticked off at the reporters of today, and I probably would have used much stronger langue. Go Michael!!!!
  
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- VigilantGuardShark
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:39am
  At times only a curse word will do.
  
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- NukeHaze
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:50am
  The President set the precedent. “whose a$$ to kick” came before this. If the reporter was trying to bash me by throwing up a picture of me standing beside a soldier, a Navy SEAL in this case, only days before he was killed in the very war I was trying to help bring to a close as the main theme of my whole career in politics, I would say the reporter had it comiong, too. He could have instead looked at it like “well that is exactly why I am trying so hard to help make a path for us to get done and get out with a clear victory because the weight of every soldier and sailor’s life that is lost is as personal to me as this one is.” I would go 50/50 on this one. Why in the heck was this reporter baiting him?! Was he? It seems there were a lot more words exchanged in emails before the picture and that we are seeing something in mid conversation so it is something we may be taking out of context. Many will argue that there is never a good excuse for foul language. I tend to think back in the “Temple of Doom” moment when Indiana is on the middle of the rope bridge and being converged upon by thugees on both sides, that would have been an appropriate time to say what he said. In real world I could not rule out the possibility that there would ever NOT be an appropriate time for such language because there’s only one absolute (God) so it’s pointless to speculate or speak in absolutes. Sure can use nicer words but this shows his troop support on a very personal level.
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:43am
  Did you see the news that the libertarian party in WA. is suing to keep Romney/Ryan off of the ballet in November? Hope they win !!! Not that there is a chance that Romney could win in WA., but it would be funny if he has to run as a write-in candidate. Yet another stick in the collective tea party eye. Hahahaaha….
  
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- snufy
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:18am
  Why don’t you Puritans tell your feelings on his use of the f-word to your democrat pals? Must be because you’re one of them.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Thank God there is a politician around that says what he means and means what he says and DOES NOT FRICKING APOLOGIZE. Geez.
  
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- eagle275
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:18pm
  Hooah to Baumgartner!!! – **** the liberals and reporters.
  
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Stoic one
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:21pm
I would love to see/hear/read about more inane media heads receiving this kind of treatment.

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- socialism.rocks
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:22pm
  so do i then journalists will start to really dig- and do their jobs one thing republicans hate is when journalists actually do their job and they’ve been lazy for quite sometime
  
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- Al Gator
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:53pm
  SR:
  
  Go back to high school and learn how to construct a coherent sentence. Your English sucks to the point that you can’t make a point.
  
  But hey, you are a socialist, right? That means you have nothing to work with in the first place.
  
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- Constantine Ivanov
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:51pm
  @SOCIALISM.ROCKS:
  
  As a man who lived under Commies 50 years, I want to whisper a secret to you:
  Based on your nickname, you are an idiot, Sir.
  It’s not an insult, it’s a medical diagnosis.
  How I know? Simple.
  People who lived under Socialist system, would never choose such a moronic nick name. Out of disgust at Socialism.
  
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huey6367
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:21pm
They have to start fighting back against the media. And then the media and Dems will do everything in thier power to spin that into the biggest story of the century. GO GET ‘EM!!

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gbfreak
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:21pm
Finally….a conservative with a SPINE!

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:20pm
Filth is filth whether in speech or life.

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- Sutter Buttes
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:26pm
  You need to GET a life. Go preach in church, not on a blog.
  
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- Teufel Hunden
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:30pm
  It isn’t filth. It’s simply a word used to describe a purely natural act that the left can do with themselves.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Yea, your freedom of speech only applies in a church where it doesn’t offend the heathen…..
  
  Now, back to using the F word.
  
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:40pm
  Sutter do you want to go with me?
  
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- SREGN
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:45pm
  Here in Jersey, GFY is pretty much polite conversation.
  
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- TCATATTACK
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:49pm
  Totally agree, he needs to clean up his act.
  
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- ImASouthernPatriot
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:48pm
  Don’t judge him, just because you sin differently!
  I’m proud that he stood up for our men in uniform. Sometimes we get passionate about things we believe in and go a little overboard.
  
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- colnzgprnts
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:49pm
  Baumgartner is probably a decent individual, but the words he used in his reply to the leftist reporter demean himself and puts him on a much lower plane than if he had fired back in a forceful and firm, but more refined manner.
  
  When a person has to resort to language like this he creates first impressions by who do not know him as crude and unable to articulate his thoughts without resorting to the vernacular of an ‘occupier’! That casts him as someone a conservative would rather not send to the senate.
  
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- turbo
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 5:25pm
  Hey IMCHRISTIAN,
  I too have dedicated my life to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. However, that does not prevent me from getting fu-king pissed off about what these low life reprobate liberals are doing to my country. Also, I would sometimes like to beat the fu-king sh-t out of these people, but I can also share my faith with them. Lighten up dude.
  
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- SonOfThunder
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:03pm
  Agreed Imchristian, a potty mouth for sure and a catholic. He is not a Christian. Repent and trust in Jesus is the answer. Those bad words make me cringe. When I was a lost catholic of 46 years it did not bother me even a little bit. Being born again changes everything and I love it! I pray for this guy.
  
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- Constantine Ivanov
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:49pm
  @TEUFEL HUNDEN:
  “It isn’t filth. It’s simply a word used to describe a purely natural act that the left can do with themselves,” you said.
  Moreover, Mr. Devil, the Lefties should perceive it as a benevolent advice to them to keep satisfying themselves nonstop (maybe, using a milking apparatus?), without wasting time on telling/writing their usual idiotic things.
  
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- Al Gator
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:21pm
  I like you christians, but read my post to j13. At some point you have to raise hell to beat hell. Like setting a backfire to beat a wild fire.
  
  Letting your enemy have full run of the battlefield while you fiddle with “bad words”, isn’t a good way to win and have your ‘WILL’ prevail.
  
  The Lord helps those who help themselves.
  
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- Constantine Ivanov
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:37pm
  @AL Gator:
  Hello, Ben Ali-Gator,
  I’m happy that not only you are here, but in the same boat where I am.
  Frankly, I am a little tired (sick, probably, would be a better word) of our prudes: they are constantly whining how atheists are offending them, but instead of fighting, are turning the other cheek.
  When the enemy attacks you, you’ll never defeat the enemy with the prudish “nobleness.”
  The Good without fists is a saboteur/traitor.
  
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- TXVET48
  Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:26pm
  Curse words are perhaps the most descriptive words in the English language. Everyone with any intellect knows what they mean and the mention of them usually congers up a very nice mental image.
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:20pm
Just say, I am sorry for the bad language, and if you can’t accept that, then go **** yourself, or as Joe Pesci would put it. “You dirty ******* *** ** ****** ** ***** * ****** * ** ****** * *** ******** ** *********** **** ***** ******* ******* your mother.” So, he could have said that, or they can get onto another subject and not set him off.

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- MN NICE
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:09pm
  LOL you took the asterisks right out of my mouth!
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:46pm
  MN NICE:
  I guess as they would put it up in the Land o Lakes, “If you don’t like it then go stick it up you nose., you betcha”
  
  I lived up there when I was a kid and my Grandpa’s wife was from there, she was a hoot, and no matter how mad she would get, never ever swore.
  
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suttonea76
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:20pm
This is a non story. I don’t fault the humanity of a person pissed off and then expressing it. Why do we hold elected officials to impossible standards? Shoot, I would like a representative to get up on a platform and blurt out a few expletives so we know he is still human and no compromised. My commanding officer and sergeant major did that daily and I would go to war with them so f&*k off!

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schroeder123
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:19pm
I’ve talked to reporters before. They seem to get things all wrong, no matter how simple you try to put it.

I know there are good reporters out there….some where….

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:35pm
  Oh man, I hear you on that. Have been interviewed a number of times professionally in my early years. After reading or seeing in the news how horrible wrong I was so called ‘quoted’ I began to refer all requests to others such as public relations and so forth. The media definitely lies at any level.
  
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- Ceefour
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:38pm
  I bdon’t think so. The last of the great was Steve Wilson of the Illustrated Press with his lovely girl friend Lorelie Kilbourne. There are vsome old timers around,still, that remember these people.
  
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suz
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:19pm
i voted for baumgartner in our local elections here in seattle and i feel even more proud of that vote today.

you gotta understand, this is seattle — we need more baumgartners. bless you sir.

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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:00pm
  As well you should. I have previously commented and it hasn’t posted yet but yes it is Washington state. Hope he wins. And it sure is something how good looking these guys are. I’m old but I ain’t dead. The guys on here do the “looks” thing about every woman but don’t you think R&R are absolutely handsome?
  
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MODEL82A1
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:18pm
Can’t wait to hear all the feigned F**king outrage from the suddenly F**king sensitive, suddenly F**king polite Lefties.

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- copatriots
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:33pm
  It’s only okay if the Vice President says it. /sarc
  
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- roagie1
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:56pm
  the world is broke , ready to burst into flames an we are arguing about the f bomb an abortion,, HOW STUPID IS THAT
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:18pm
It’s much better to use that admonition face to face, it has more power and gets your point across quickly.He should have told the reporter face to face and not in an email,and what did the reporter do to deserve it anyway?

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101stIraqVet
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:17pm
Did the reporter deserve it? Ok, end of story.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:35pm
  …and the horse he road in on.
  
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- BuzzardSays
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:03pm
  If a reporter got all up in my business I would have to channel BonQwiQwi and tell that person “Unh, Unh! You step back before I have to put some attitude adjust on your person”. I always advise against the **** **** **** ********* expletives that do nothing excpet exacerbate the volume of the reporter shouting “Yahoo!!! I’ve just hit the motherload”.
  
  Losing your temper with a reporter gives them power, reporting pulp, and instant fame. Subtlety is better than rage inducing first-person expletive vernacular. And to do it in an email, “What was he thinking”?
  
  Better to ignore the reporter for the rest of his career. Or, even better call them by a name other than their own at all possible opportunities. If their name is Bob call them Bill. And ignore the actual newsrag like the Sentinal Daily they report for but state out loud during press conference that you want to answer questions to reporter Bob of “Coming Out” magazine. If they correct you state “Ok your not ready to come out of the closet, yet”. How’s you partner Joe?”
  
  Just sayin’ turn the reporter into the story by saying “I thought you were still in prison for molestation”. Or, “Aren’t you the President of NAMBLA-North American Man Boy Love Association”?
  
  The opportunities are endless. Keep your cool and impugn the heck out of these worthless reporters as if they are gum on the soles of your shoe. Which they are ;-)
  
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- nonliberal
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 5:27pm
  and his mom too.
  
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Mike Benton
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:17pm
This doesn’t happen often enough to these “journalists”!

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frust@ted
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:17pm
Don’t think he needs to apologize but he does fail to convince me the guy had it coming. One of my rules to live by .

When someone says “trust me” but won’t elobarate that is a red flag to look a little harder.

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Wildblue3
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:17pm
Heck, I applaud him for it. More people need to tell the Media to get on task instead of the power games they play.

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sawbuck
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:17pm
Hang on to your hat.. The libitards will make ‘a big fricken deal’ of this too.
That’s what hypocrites do.

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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:16pm
Amen Brother!

We need more conservatives to stand up against the liberal, biased, un-journalistic journalists.

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starman70
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:16pm
Josh Feit, is he just another member of the liberal press? It seems that the majority of reporters on the “Left Coast” belong to that category.

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Hugh Williams
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:16pm
Good for him! I wish more politicians would show a spine and not let the leftist media control the discussion. Too many politicians accept the flawed premise of the Medias questions and don’t stand up for themselves. Chris Christy love him or hate him will tell reporters they are asking stupid questions when they ask a stupid question.

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crusaderx9
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:16pm
Republicans are fighting mad and fighting back – Finally!

Baumgartner cares about putting this country back on track and about the lives of service members whose efforts are being disregarded and marginalized by the mainstream media and its liberal tabloid obsession.

Time for another donation!

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geminicontender
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:16pm
Right on!!! Never apologize to the liberal/progressive crapheads. They do this day in and day out and we are to just sit idly by. Kudos to Baumgartner. Take the gloves off and start fighting…..

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bpodlesnik
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:13pm
Wow, Republicans sure are setting good examples lately.

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- Hugh Williams
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:21pm
  The Republicans are fighting vermin that live in the sewers aka democrats. You can’t help but get a little dirty yourself. The Constitution is too close being rendered obsolete to play nice anymore.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:26pm
  @bpodlesnik
  
  Oh get off it…..in terms of “setting a good example”, Democrats are no better; in fact they are worse! How about Eric Holder and his refusal to prosecute the Black Panthers over voter intimidation, there’s a good example of the rule of law applying to everyone. How about Obama’s “transparency”, have no clue why he has a connecticut ssn, or why we can’t see his school records. How about the DNC refusing to repay the Connecticut township $14000 for the extra overtime by their police force while Obama was in town for a $35000 a plate fund raiser? There’s a good example (in other words, don’t pay your bills). How about the Harry Reid calling Romney a tax dodger based on a phone call from “some guy”? Theres a good example to set. How about Cutter implying Romney is a murderer for letting some woman die of cancer, when that woman died six years after Bain Capital closed that steel plant, and at that time, Bain was controlled by an Obama bundler?
  
  And you are concerned that a republican told a jounalist to, and I paraphrase, screw yourself?
  
  Pathetic
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:26pm
  you must be a child.
  
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- readytostand
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 5:23pm
  @Bpudlessdick- What kind of example are republicans showing ? You little sniveling liberal ! What example are you showing _? Voting for babykillers ‘ -Your divisive heroes call patriotic tea party Americans (teabaggers) so go f#### yourself and your example !!!
  
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- bpodlesnik
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 5:27pm
  @Lake, Who are you preaching to? If you have read any of my previous comments before you would know where I stand. I agree that Liberals are much worse and with everything else you said. I quickly brazed through the article and misread it, my apologies.
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:55pm
  If it’s good enough for Plugs, it’s good enough for us.
  
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woodyee
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:12pm
So?

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DimmuBorgir
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:12pm
AH, my favorite reply

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lukerw
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:10pm
‘NEVER APOLOGIZE, it’s a sign of Weakness’… John Wayne, movie!

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- schroeder123
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:17pm
  Yeah !
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:18pm
  …or a sign of ignorance. I agree that enemies of our Country should NEVER receive an apology from someone trying to stop them.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:51pm
  I thought that was Gibbs rule #1. NCIS
  
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