so, its one thing for Fox not to cover stories like this...their thing is to whip up Repub outrage, but really, why not CNN, why not MSNBC...its good story, visuals, good controversy, they can cover it without even taking sides like Fox does, but still get eyeballs.

I wonder how this censorship is so uniformly enforced? Like the Ron Paul thing, there are so many local and national outlets doing all sorts of news 24 /7 how do they control it all, all the time?

Far off topic: Brad, I am dismayed that the man who ushered in the original Velvet Revolution (Vaclav Havel) did not even rate a passing mention, much less the RIP the rest of the civilized world has heaped on the mounds of flowers and masses of candles. PS: Please tell your spam filter to leave me alone, so that I might not need to thus address you.

BTW, the Cognitive Dissidence blog in Milwaukee has a lovely new "Recall Walker" poster.

I am hearing from sources in Wisconsin that local right wing radio shows are spurring on this activity. Inciting violence? Maybe. I'm trying to get audio.

Two arrested for allegedly spitting on recall workers in Iowa County

Btw, I don't recall any Dems getting violent against Republicans when Cali recalled a Dem governor.

Of course this is incited by talk radio.....many conservatives were fine with Muslim community center in NYC til some one spewed hate about it being a ground zero Mosque.

The real irony here is the way that the protesters at the capital after the anti-labor laws were swept in were characterized as being violent brutes...

So, what about the incitement to violence that the talk radio hosts are engaging in? It is about time that talk radio hosts who are doing this - and it has been going on for a long time - were held responsible for helping to destroy this democracy. Right wingers talk so much about being responsible!

According to the Wikipedia article about Brandenberg v. Ohio:

government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless it is directed to inciting and likely to incite imminent lawless action.

The speech in question is not only likely to incite imminent lawless action, it HAS done so.

The incident in Arena happened in front of my business. The two "men" in question started with a stream of obscene comments for the two women holding recall signs in my parking lot. Then they decided to spit on the ladies as they left. This was only one of several incidents at our business last Saturday, but we also collected almost 20 signatures on petitions. All in all, a positive day.

Did "talk radio" not also have a hand in inciting the violence in Rwanda?

"However, since WI's governor Scott Walker is a Republican, this is likely the first time you've seen the photograph, or even heard that there has been yet another violent assault on a citizen petitioner seeking signatures for his recall."

Yep. I've all but abandoned the MSM and stick pretty closely to what passes for left wing media, and narry a word. Amazing. Thanks for the story, great work as always.

Shouldn't Scott "the Godfather" Walker and WI Conz be subject to RICO prosecution?

This is just more reason to recall Walker. Hopefully, we can follow with the recall of many other GOP governors who intend to turn this country into a fascist, racist Amerika, while voting the selfish, do-nothing participants in Congress out of office. Keep up the good work petitioners. The reasonable people in this country appreciate what you're doing and applaud you.