"Frank Dulcich, president and CEO of Pacific Seafood Group, had a cup of liquid thrown into his face, and then was surrounded by a group of menacing protesters, including several who wore masks. Donald Tykeson, 75, who had multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair, was blocked by a thug who threatened him.

Protesters slashed the tires of several state patrol cruisers and leapt onto an occupied police car, slamming the hood and blocking the windshield with placards. A female police officer was knocked to the street by advancing protesters, badly injuring her wrist.

The angry protest grew so violent that the Secret Service was forced to take the highly unusual step of using a backup route for the President's motorcade because the primary route had been compromised by protesters, one of whom pounded his fist on the president's moving limousine."

    This actually occurred, not this year, but when President Bush was speaking in Oregon, last year.  The event was unreported in both the New York Time or Washington Post (who both witnessed the chaos).  You can read the full article here.

    Obviously the papers feel badly about their shoddy coverage of the past protests, as they are now reporting in excruciating detail about the Town Hall Protests.  They even wrote about a man who brought a gun to a recent town hall meeting. (SHOCK!  HORROR!)  Oh, by the way, he was licensed to actually carry the gun.

    The papers are writing about people that are carrying signs, and looking angry (as if that's now a crime). 

    But, no matter, as long as these "legitimate" news organizations can discredit today's protest efforts.  That's all that really matters. 

   It's getting ugly out there........specifically in America's news rooms.