In Capitalist America, victim apologizes to you!

The man who stomped on Lauren Valle's head wants Lauren Valle to apologize to him.

"I don't think it's that big of a deal. I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you. She's a professional at what she does, and I think when all the facts come out, I think people will see that she was the one that initiated the whole thing."

Baby, why do you make me hit you?

The reactions from conservatives have been very mixed, but all of it has one thing in common: it was her fault. As one redditer put it, "Tea Partiers were up in arms yesterday when it was suggested the stomper was a Rand Paul supporter. They demanded proof that he supported Paul and wasn't a liberal trying to make the Tea Partiers look bad. Turns out he was not only a Paul supporter, but an employee of the campaign. Oops."

Another responded: Then, once that was proven, they moved on to "Well how do we know she doesnt have a knife in her hand? You cant see it" then once it was proven she didnt have a knife they moved on to "Oh yeah? Well she's been arrested before" and when it was shown that it was because of a non-violent PR stunt with Greenpeace they moved on to "WHY ARE YOU HARASSING A POOR OLD MAN WITH A BAD BACK? APOLOGIZE TO HIM"

Rush Limbaugh called her a "professional agitator," seemingly unaware that this country was founded by professional agitators. He also said "her head was not stomped on, her shoulders were." See? That makes it okay now!

The most sympathy I've seen from the right came from Red State, which is weird, because Red State is psychotic. It starts off sane enough:

Let us begin with what should be obvious and unnecessary to discuss: don’t stomp on anyone’s head. There are no mitigating circumstances to be presented in this article or video. You don’t stomp on a person’s head. Tim Profitt was wrong and should not have resorted to violence. If a police officer subduing a suspect were caught on video doing exactly what Profitt did, that officer would be in hot water. Because you don’t stomp on a person’s head. Head-stomping is not what this article is about.

However, someone sent Red State a video of what happened immediately before Valle's assault. It shows that she actually did make it to Paul's vehicle, and put her sign in his window. That's when she was pulled away. That's all the meat Red State needs.

Again, as the video clearly demonstrates, Valle was there to do more than simply 'hold a sign'..."

Actually no, the video clearly demonstrates that she held a sign.

"As we noted at the beginning of the article, none of that is any excuse, nor even mitigating circumstances, when it comes to Profitt stomping on Valle’s head.

However, what it does demonstrate is that the idea that Valle was the victim of an angry mob who simply “didn’t like her message” is demonstrably false. The idea that Rand Paul’s supporters are a rabid single-minded, conspiratorial crew is also demonstrably false.

So please, condemn head-stomping. Condemn violence. But don’t let the media and the left create a fiction of violent mobs of right-wingers. They’ve been pitching that line since the health care town hall meetings last summer. It has yet to be true.

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Nobody's arguing that she's not a silly hippie who came to see Paul for an attention-seeking PR stunt. But to focus on that rather than the fact that her fucking head was stomped on is just plain evil. It's so interesting to me watching all these mental gymnastics conservatives have to go through to convince themselves that they're not bad people. They always have to turn it around and make themselves the victims. You know, a lot like an adult who never grew out of the mind of a child.