FOX Employee Busted!

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LAPD IDs Suspect in May Day Snare Drum Attack on Officer

Los Angeles police said Thursday that they had arrested a 23-year-old transient in the “blindside” snare drum attack that injured a female officer during May Day protests.

Brian Mendoza, 23, was booked Wednesday by Los Angeles Police Department robbery-homicide detectives on suspicion of felony assault on a peace officer after an unidentified protester contacted investigators, according to police sources familiar with the arrest. He is known to frequent the downtown skid row area

Mendoza is nearly 6 feet tall and weighs 280 pounds, according to the sources. The female officer, who suffered a partial concussion, is about 5’1″ and weighs 115 pounds, police officials said. The impact of the blow jerked her head forward and dented her helmet, officials said.

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Authorities said Mendoza is on probation for a previous attack on a peace officer in El Monte.

The incident was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube under the title “Cheap Shot on Cop.” In it, a man dressed in a black T-shirt and black hoodie is seen approaching the helmeted female officer, circling around behind her and striking her on the back of the head with the item before running off.

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You know he was a FOX News employee because shut up is why. If you disagree I’ll ban your ass.

This is an open thread.

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Glenn Beck fans in Seattle

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Did you really expect her to shop at Walmart?

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This is the #1 story at Memeorandum right now:

Designer of Ann Romney’s $1K Shirt Says It’s Off The Rack

The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they’d prefer to stay out of politics.

“We had nothing to do with it,” a rep for designer Reed Krakoff said. “She must have bought it from Saks or Bergdorf’s, we definitely didn’t send it to her.”

“It’s 100 percent a Reed Krakoff shirt, but we 100 percent didn’t send it to her,” the rep added. ”We don’t get involved politically.”

The shirt, an item in the label’s 2012 Spring/Summer collection, retails for $990, and for those shopping, is called the “The Reed Audubon Silk Shirt.”

The price of the shirt was first reported by the style blog Stylite.com.

Mrs. Romney does not have a stylist, according to an aide with the Romney campaign, and is likely to have purchased the shirt on her own.

A spokeswoman for the Romney campaign declined to comment on Mrs. Romney’s fashion choices.

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Breaking news: The Romneys are rich! Filthy, stinking rich! Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless rich! Jed Clampett rich!

These types of attacks don’t ever work on Republicans because Republicans are the party of the rich. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE MONEY AND BUY EXPENSIVE STUFF!

OTOH, Democrats are supposed to be the party of Joe Bagodonuts. So when the wife of a Democratic POTUS drops by a soup kitchen to feed cake to the homeless while wearing $549 Lanvin sneakers, it tends to resonate more with the hoi polloi.

BTW – Obama ate a dog.

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