Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Ex-Governor Palin assaulted

[Ed: Thanks to Jeff Clinton for pointing out this story.]


Tell us what your inner Geiger counter says about this deranged wack-job

by Mona Goldwater,
President Sarah Palin editor

Jeremy Paul Olson, 33, hucked two tomatoes at Ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin earlier this week, at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., reports Politico. (That's Olson in the photo above, taken by Mark Stehlik of the Bloomington Police Department.) Not only did he assault our next President, but he committed the assault at one of our most sacred sites--a monument to American

Ex-Governor Palin was signing copies of her [excellent] book, Going Rogue, on a stage in the mall when Olson threw tomatoes from a second-floor balcony. She, unfortunately, no longer has Secret Service protection. A year ago, he would not have walked into custody on his own two feet.

Luckily for Palin, Olson missed her by 10 feet, but two nearby police officers were splattered with tomato juice. For that, however, they did not gun down the twisted miscreant, although they probably should have...

According to the Associated Press, Olson was immediately arrested on a gross misdemeanor count of fourth-degree assault on a police officer and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.

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