Barbara Boxer BLOWING KISSES To Bernie Sanders Supporters As She Walks Off Stage in NV

[Segami]

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Barbara said she "feared for her safety" on television. Does this look like she was scared to you??

[Segami]

1. Boy, does Barbara Boxer look really scared!!!

Full of sh*t

[Alex4Martinez]

56. Are we sure that's her? This close up video was posted in another thread yesterday:

It's closer-up, looks like she's kind of pissed and then she points at someone or the crowd and says something that I can't make out.

[tonyt53]

2. A polite way of telling them they can kiss her ass

[NWCorona]

3. But was she scared tho?

[Segami]

5. So she felt safe enough to mock and antagonize Bernie's supporters?

[AgerolanAmerican]

15. Yup.

I would be grossly offended if a Senator from another state came into my state to do that, no matter who they were.

[cherokeeprogressive]

24. Perfect way for a Public Servant to act, don't you think?

[Waiting For Everyman]

4. She looks like a big, skeezy liar.

After taking a dump on democracy and a roomful of DELEGATES.

[yourpaljoey]

10. skeezy is the perfect word for her

[Dawgs]

6. Her actions look like most of the Hillary supporter posts on DU.

And did anyone ever find out if that's a middle finger she's sticking out at the end of the video?

[senz]

36. Exactly. Same rude imperious taunting, designed to provoke outrage

which she would use when she ran to the media the next day.

We sure have put some remarkably ugly, unworthy people in office. We really should be more careful.

But, as others have noted, she'll probably "retire" to a nice high-paying lobbyist gig like Barney Frank and Howard Dean.

I am reminded of a line from a G.B. Shaw play, "What price salvation now?"

[passiveporcupine]

41. She was pointing at the crowd, wagging her finger

While repeatedly saying "shame on you" in between sarcastic thrown kisses. In other words, she was being a dick. And she was not afraid. She had a whole posse of Sheriff's surrounding her.

[bvar22]

47. I was about to ask the same question.

The video is dark, but it sure looks like Boxer gave-the-finger to the crowd on the way out.

[apnu]

7. Well they were dicks to her.

She probably was shocked, then scared, then fight-or-flight kicked in and she choose "fight" and that resulted in a sarcastic display of "kiss my ass"

Its all very human thing to do because Boxer is, big shocker, a fucking human being.

[Segami]

9. lol....is that the best hairball you can cough up?

[Lizzie Poppet]

14. After she provoked and taunted them. So fucking what?

That doesn't give her license to lie about what happened.

[apnu]

18. Provoked and taunted?

Who started that spat? Were Bernie supporters being roudy assholes to her and calling her a bitch from the start or did she come out telling them to to fuck themselves?

And what lie are we talking about? That she felt scared and threatened. You have proof she didn't feel fear on that podium? You were in her head? Really, tell me all about your mind meld powers.

[Lizzie Poppet]

20. It just doesn't wash.

Surrounded by multiple armed security team members and she was afraid of people yelling things at her? Yeah, I think she's lying. No, I can't read her mind...just drawing the utterly obvious conclusion. Tough shit.

[apnu]

26. That's not reality

Security was at the side and by the door. They had to be called in later. Barbara Boxer was not surrounded by security when she stood at that podium.

If I'm wrong, show me a full video of her entire speech. Not the parts where she's reacting negatively to the crowd and throwing gasoline on a fire and not when she's walking away. The whole video of her time on that stage.

Assumptions are bad, I choose to work with the facts as I know them and keep open to the possibility that new information might come in and change the facts. You have no data that she's lying about her emotional feelings while up on that podium. But you want to draw conclusions based on no real data and assume things, be my guest.

[Lizzie Poppet]

29. Oooh...two or three steps away!

Golly, she was all on her own up there...probably had to dodge sniper fire to get there, too!

You're assuming, too: that she's telling the truth about her feelings. I don't choose to trust her to that degree. YMMV...

[gopiscrap]

42. For God's sake

these are socialists, they're not going to hurt anyone!!

[arcane1]

30. For a "Barrier Breaker" you're doing a shitty job n/t

[kaleckim]

31. "Who started that spat?"

The damn state party, obviously. What exactly were the Sanders supporters pissed at? How do you miss that? She then went on stage and antagonized them.

I don't remember any of you people showing this type of concern at Trump protests. I was at the one in Chicago, it was a wee bit more confrontational, and I seem to remember all of you cheering that.

[apnu]

38. You missed my point

The "spat" I'm talking about is the floor vs Barbra Boxer. You're expanding the scope of the conversation to the whole shit-show of a day. Tensions were hot when it was Boxer's time to speak, she is not a Nevada State Democrat, she was there to give a speech supporting Hillary, she didn't have anything to do with what the Nevada State Dems did or the rules of the party in that state. She was there to give a speech about Hillary Clinton and nothing more.

You are staying Barbra Boxer got up on the stage and told the Sanders people to STFU. That should be easy to verify, do you have the video of her whole time at the podium? Maybe a transcript of her remarks? That's a pretty big accusation you have there, what convinced you that Barbra Boxer got up on the podium to take a piss on Sanders delegates?

So I'll ask again, who started the spat between Sanders floor delegates and Barbra Boxer? Was it Sanders people or Boxer?

Also are you talking to me specifically or railing at DU in general? Its hard to tell.

[kaleckim]

45. What are you talking about?

How do you isolate what happened on stage to the days and hours leading into her going onstage? That is kind of the damn point. She went on after a bunch of undemocratic things happened that were indefensible (and caught on tape), then antagonized the crowd, then acted like a fool exiting the stage. She certainly didn't handle herself well, and her timing was freaking horrible. You wanted to know who started the spat, that isn't an open and shut case and depends on how you look at it.

It's absurd to claim she truly felt in danger. Look at the damn video as she was exiting the stage. If you were close to a crowd you were "scared" of, would you blow kisses and flick people off? Give me a break, just digging the hole deeper, as if you all lying on this site and in the national media about what happened wasn't bad enough.

[senz]

39. She was enjoying their pain.

And how dare you call the protesters "dicks" as if they were all men?

We women also condemn and protest the hideous, unAmerican actions of the DNC/Hill camp.

[frylock]

54. Her body language belies any claims of fear for her safety.

As does the phalanx of armed Deputies.

[arcane1]

8. I always blow kisses when I'm drunk and terrified. Doesn't everyone?

[snort]

11. I blow kisses when I'm in fear for my life.

They come out of my ass.

[QC]

12. I think she's also mouthing "Fuck you" at the crowd.

I know I always do that when I think I'm about to be ripped to pieces by an angry mob.

[HumanityExperiment]

13. #crazy indeed...

there's reality and then there's her political expediency when on MSM...

And HRC supporters even question why Bernie supporters would hesitate to vote for HRC in GE... it's due to this craptastic reality and facts when caught on camera being an ass and when she's on MSM spotlight stating she 'feared for her life'...

[PeaceNikki]

16. Explain what scared "looks like", Kreskin.

Fear is not something everyone 'wears' the same.

Your premise is ridiculous.

[frylock]

55. Anybody who has actually feared for their safety can watch that and draw their own conclusions.

[anotherproletariat]

17. Heehee...it's so easy to make those Sanderoids mad! nt

[Autumn]

19. That's a Hillary supporter. Nuff said

[madamesilverspurs]

21. She was blowing kisses

instead of responding in kind.

[Surya Gayatri]

37. Exactly, instead of sinking into the mud-slinging pit they'd just created.

[Tarc]

22. Hah, that is awesome. Se. Boxer told the MRAs to kiss off

[nc4bo]

23. #SheSoScared should be a "thing". Another big effing liar. Entire HRC campaign

Built on liars and lies.

Despicable and disgusting.

[dana_b]

25. phoney baloney!

Don't we all blow kisses when we are terrified for our lives?

[vintx]

27. Is EVERYONE involved with the Clinton campaign COMPLETELY full of shit?

[arcane1]

33. Yes n/t

[AtomicKitten]

50. Apparently, yes.

[Bobbie Jo]

28. Oh she totally asked for it.

[tabasco]

32. Very undignified. She revealed herself as a petty little tyrant.

Typical entitled beltway insider who hates to wander out of her "safe zone."

[arcane1]

34. The word "spoiled" belongs in there somewhere.

[Progressive dog]

35. actually, that's not what she said

“I feared for my safety and I had a lot of security around me,” she told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on “At This Hour.” “I’ve never had anything like this happen.”“It was a scary situation,” said Boxer, a Clinton supporter. “It was frightening. I was on the stage. People were six feet away from me. If I didn’t have a lot of security, I don’t know what would have happened.”

Headlines don't always agree with what is in the story.

[vintx]

40. A distinction without a difference

She is full of shit. Lying to demonize Sanders supporters.

[Progressive dog]

46. She told the truth about those Sander's supporters

she didn't need to lie to demonize them.

[bvar22]

48. Is that why she kept taunting and escalating Sanders supporters?

..because she was frightened?
Does not compute.

Watch the video, and then come to a rational conclusion...if you are capable of that.

[Progressive dog]

51. She wasn't as frightened as you wanted

You blame the victim for not being as afraid as you'd like. Even Bernie might say that behavior was unacceptable.

[Rex]

43. She looks pissed off, not scared.

I think she was being sarcastic and is so close to retiring that she doesn't give two shits anymore.

[Blue_In_AK]

44. That was fairly childish,

but I guess Barbara is human, after all, and susceptible to the temptation to mock. It wasn't very nice, though, given the apparent shenanigans that were going on there.

[Purveyor]

52. She appeared drunk to me... eom

[Nye Bevan]

58. OK, so she's already been downgraded here from progressive Democratic senator

to despicable Hillarian corporatist Third-Wayer.

And now she's a drunkard, too?

[Purveyor]

59. She might have 'issues' that are just now coming to the surface.

How are we to know other than observation and speculation?

[AzDar]

53. Lie, Cheat And Steal...

[Nye Bevan]

57. Who would think that a Democratic senator, at a Democratic convention,

would need to have all of those security guards around her to ensure her physical safety?

Chilling stuff.