It must be nice to be New York's Republican Representative, Michael Grimm. He got to threaten to kill a reporter last night, in the halls of Congress no less, with the entire incident recorded on video, and the Capital Police didn’t do a damn thing about it. Neither did the Republican House leadership. Apparently, making terroristic threats is a perk of Congressman Grimm’s position.
After the conclusion of President Obama’s state of the union message, reporter Michael Scotto of NY1 asked Congressman Grimm for a comment about an FBI investigation into the Congressman’s campaign finance funds. Grimm got mad about the reporter’s change of topics and threatened Scotto by saying, “You ever do that again, I’ll throw you off the [expletive] balcony.” When Scotto responded by stating that he thought his question was a fair question, Grimm continued to threaten the reporter.
“No, no, you’re not man enough, you’re not man enough,” Grimm said. “I’ll break you in half. Like a boy!”
I’ll admits that congressional politicians are granted a certain amount of oratorical license when they’re on the floor of their respective chambers, but that license does not extend to public areas and it certainly does not entail the right to issue threats of physical violence. For those unfamiliar with Congressional balconies, a person thrown from one would surely die!
They say that nobody is above the law, but that’s bullshit. Congressman Michael Grimm is above the law, and last night he proved it!
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