While Chris Matthews is fretting about “the rise of the new right” in an upcoming June 16 MSNBC special that’s sure to be a paranoid, lunatic-fringe load of laughs, maybe he should include this footage of the scene outside Rep. Mel Watt’s office in North Carolina the other day:
Jim Hoft reports:
On Tuesday June 8, the North Carolina Tea Party Patriots held a protest against government bailouts in front of Rep. Mel Watt’s (D-N.C.) Greensboro office. During the protest a raging leftist goon, Governor Spencer, turned out, disrupted the protest, confronted the patriots, argued with them and then… He started throwing punches!
The whole thing was caught on tape.
The raging goon, Governor Spencer, slugged Nathan Tabor, a business owner and head of the Forsyth County Republican Party and a former candidate for senator.
But, that’s not all…
Governor Spencer is a union organizer, a socialist and a black liberation activist.
Spencer led the Greensboro K-Mart protests of 1995 and mobilized families, communities, and “the Pulpit Forum of Greensboro, a coalition of progressive clergy, to commit acts of civil disobedience.”
The scene was a peaceful Tea Party Protest, interrupted by a blatant case of assault. Listen to an interview with Tabor here. The video, which could be used in any possible criminal proceedings, has already been taken down at least once by You Tube for a “terms of service” violation.
Yeah, right.
Here’s the punch line: in addition to Spencer, Tabor got charged with simple assault by a magistrate.
Breathlessly awaiting Matthews’ follow special: “American Fascism: the Rise of the Violent New Left.”
