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C-list Republican media twat John Ziegler, famous for accosting Nate Silver, accosting Max Blumenthal, and politely interviewing Sarah Palin in her home, went to the USC Journalism School the other night for the Walter Cronkite Awards Dinner — honoring Katie Couric, the ENEMY — and apparently wasn’t content to make his fuss in the area reserved for credentialed media on this private property. He cannot understand why campus police then arrest him.
This is a long video, but at least watch the first 2 minutes or so, when he seems to be insanely drunk, or peaking on his meth run, or even worse, being normal.
Also, at the very end there is good stuff, when he shows the camera his cuff marks and says “it hurts, they hurt me.” Aww. Maybe the wrists wouldn’t hurt so much if you hadn’t resisted the police for several minutes!
Conservative Arrested at Liberal Journalism School for Committing err… Journalism [YouTube]
Watch out John, they may threaten you with an insect next.
Maybe if we start million Couric festivals we can get all the teabaggers in handcuffs.
What is with this people? They are worse than Code Pink at this point. I THOUGHT NOBODY WAS WORSE THAN CODE PINK?
Update your Mayan calenders. The end is near.
And speaking of Los Angeles, the big annual Heritage Foundation shindig is going to be here next week so yay! Maybe I will go take some pictures, for freedom.
This is the best use of DPS (dept. of public safety, USC’s campus po-po) since one of ‘em was my dealer.
Fight on!
What, no taser? I’m not satisfied with our officer’s performance.
Get a job, hippie!
He doesn’t look sleep deprived enough.
What’s this “they hurt me bullshit”? I bet I can take ten seconds and find a half dozen examples of him downplaying every police brutality accusation made by a brown person in California.
Also, don’t forget that he was the unrepentant little shit who chose to make snide remarks about DFW upon hearing about his suicide. A real fucking winner.
The real scandal here is that Katie Couric is getting a journalism award. WTF? I thought she was one of those dweebs on the Today Show that let movie stars plug their latest.
Johnny Z
I mean, if I went around saying I was an journalist because some
moistened bint had lobbed an award at me, people would put me away!
CAMPUS COP
(Grabbing him by the collar)
Shut up, will you. Shut up!
Johnny Z
Ah! NOW … we see the violence inherent in the system.
CAMPUS COP
Shut up!
PEOPLE (i.e. other PEASANTS) are appearing and watching.
Johnny Z (calling)
Come and see the violence inherent in the
system. Help, help, I’m being repressed!
Conservative pundits acting surprised that they were arrested while breaking the law at a college campus? W.T.F. John, this ain’t the New School, and you ain’t an anarchist.
“It burnses!”
It’s hard to create snark when “What newspapers do you read” becomes a tough constitutional question for these figures…
Shucks… I was hoping for a knock him off his feet and drag him scuffing and shredding his cheesy suit and shoes.
In pursuing critically important stories like this, Ziegler is clearly out to win a Pulitzer. Somebody call Reporters Without Borders to get him bailed out, ferfreedomssake.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Neither is just plain ignorance.
What a fuckwad.
Hope he gets teabagged by the entire crew of cellblock B while in the pokey.
Give it up dude, no matter what you do Sarah Palin is NOT going to have sex with you. Want an easy lay? Try Bristol.
If he thinks this is rough, he should see how cops treat people in the ghertto.
Monsieur Grumpe: Agreed.
Tasering was SO called for.
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So glad Martin Short has a new character! Jiminy Glick was starting to get a lil stale.
“Do you guys realize you’re breaking all sorts of constitu [trails off]“
Between this and Bill O’s producers, I’m wondering if stalking is a class being taught at the Rupert Murdoch School of Fair and Balanced Journalism.
I like his cracking voice too. Either it is his bar mitzvah or his teabags are caught between someone’s teeth.
JOHN ZIGGLER IS A GRATE AMERICAN. HOW DARE YOU MOCK THIS TRUE MARTUR!!!!!1!!11!!!911!
StephanieInCA: …don’t forget the Molotov cocktails.
this is exactly why i support the death sentence
Don’t taze me bro.
What?
No twenty-minute, fifty-cop billy clubbing?
No weapons grade pepper spray to the eyes/nose/mouth?
No unleashing of massive German Shepherds?
No slamming-of-the-face-onto-the-hot-hood-of-a-patrol-car?
What kind of pansy-ass police brutality is this bullshit?
I got roughed up more for jaywalking in mi barrio, holmes!
I swear, the white man’s ice is definitely colder.
You campus cops disgust me.
One Yield Regular: Yes, the Main Stream Media is failing to cover the dark secrets, the unknown stories of journalism awards for network anchors!
Walter Cronkite Awards Dinner — honoring Katie Couric
There is something wrong here, but I’m not quite sure what.
Hooray For Anything: Don’t forget Michelle Malkin stalking a handicapped 12 year old.
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it’s funny when it happens to conservatives.
Enjoy your free speech zone asshat. & maybe next time, stand up for other people’s civil liberties, even when you don’t have to.
It’s a thought anyway douchebag.
Twatnozzle Ziegler had written an article about this on Breitbart’s blog in which he stated that he couldn’t get a ticket to the event but he was going to show up anyway and hand out copies of his documentary about how Katie Couric’s ambush interview of Sarah Palin was responsible for getting Obama elected:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/04/09/cronkite-award-for-couric-represents-journalisms-rotting-corpse/
The fucker went to USC with an agenda and campus security unfortunately handed him a victory. All the wingnuts will remember is the handcuffing, they won’t care about his whining and his running off at the mouth like a tweaker on a three-day binge.
I’m sure he’ll be on Faux News any minute bitching about it while Meghan Kelly commends him for being such a brave soul in the face of liberal tyranny. God these people are assholes.
That face just screams out for a shovel hitting it.
V572625694: If he thinks this is rough, he should see how cops treat people in the ghertto.
*falsetto voice*
♪In the ghetto♫
It’d be GREAT if his cameraman followed him to his holding cell and kept filming him feigning innocence, acting coy and incredulously saying “I’m just trying to ask questions innocently, now you’re raping and stabbing me! I’m just trying to exercise my First Amendment rights, and you’re making me lick my asshole! What am I doing wrong here?”
Let me get this straight: it hurts, but you keep resisting? You aren’t doing anything wrong, yet you keep trying to resist the handcuffs(illegal). And you keep buckling at the knees and bending at the waist as if just waiting to get penetrated/teabagged.
Also, “My crew always rolls sound…”
bricks: I know we were all hoping for a good tasin’, but cops don’t commit police brutality on white people! I once got away with screaming–SCREAMING–at the LAPD(!) and they were just like “tell the blond kid to chill out.”
Look, I enjoy a good Foster Brooks impression as much as the next guy, but this guy just seems to be wasted off his ass in the first part. Reminds me of myself in college trying to explain to some campus security officer why I should be allowed to carry a bottle of rum across the student union.
This is one of the best things I’ve seen all week…and keep in mind I just watched two polar bears fuck a giraffe.
C’mon, be fair, Couric is obviously a satanist what with all those trick reading questions she threw at the Palinator, like the woman had time to learn to read between shooting wolves and birthin’ all them babies in that igloo they all live in…on top of that it’s a college, so you know there was some high naked devil worshippin’ treason going on up in there.
‘Sides which, one of the campus cops is obviously black, so he’s actually a political prisoner of the Obama administration.
Crow T. Robot: Ah, it’s not right when it happens to *anybody*. The “Free Speech Zone” thing is such bullshit.
It’s not right; I don’t support it; but it *is* funny.
One of life’s chiefest pleasures this year is to hear Conservatives bitch and moan and whine and cry about all the shit they were *just fucking fine* with when it was Them doing it to Us.
Keep telling them they’re Unpatriotic and Unamerican and that they should Love It or Leave It. Tell them they’re the reason for everything bad that has ever happened in this country. It’s actually closer to true of them than it ever was of us. Tell them you’re glad that the DHS is watching their stupid asses, and listening carefully to all their boasting about their guns and what they intend to do with them.
I don’t like Big Brother either, but it’s *these* guys that gave him his current set of powers.
I will die of glee — while still not supporting the policy — when one of those warrantless wiretaps they so loved, back when they thought the govt would be spying on you and me instead of True Christian American Them, nabs a few thousand of *them* for boasting about all the Libruls they intend to kill.
imissopus: Well, he has a point. Couric never asked Obama what type of newspapers he read which in retrospect would have been a good question because we all know now he only reads teleprompters.
I think next he should try to rob Fort Knox. Then he’ll really be a martyr.
iolanthe: Pretty much agree–I’m out of funny today for a variety of reasons, so I’ll leave it at that.
Someone TAZE HIM BRO!
ManchuCandidate: Neep!
iolanthe: USC’s private (the “University of Spoiled Children”) and has a right to keep anybody off the property they choose to. So this guy’s got nothing, anymore than the Dixie Chicks did when they complained they were being “censored” because of their political views when they got cancelled in Vegas or whatever it was.
For me, freedom means not having to listen to country-oriented pop, or this douchebag. U!S!A! U!S!A!
Trespassing isn’t a crime. Ziegler’s cheap suit: now, that’s a crime.
What a useless dick dumpster! He acts like a four-year-old that doesn’t want to leave the toy store. And John? Buddy? There’s something called “press credentials”. You don’t get to walk around with a camera and microphone and just declare yourself The Media.
ZiPPerHEaD: Obviously his throw-down suit, I’ve got one for driving drunk.
I could only torture myself with 3 minutes of ‘America’s Most Wanted: Post-Stroke Victims Unit’, but I’m gonna have to say there is NO way this dude is not certifiably batshit crazy. Unless something dramatic happened later in the vid, this dude should have been ushered to the nearest psych ward and offered a nebutol cocktail and a new suit.
TGY: I know - it’s secretly sponsored by CBS(?) Or something.
In the movie version, which part should this whinging nancy-boy play? The cow, the Negro or the dog?
Mr. Ziegler, if this is the first time that the cuffs hurt, your mistress is doing it wrong.
But I must thank God that at least someone on the Right has the guts to stand up to the MSM and the American people and call them on their bias. How dare they expect Sara Palin to answer questions. Especially such technically challenging questions like “What newspapers do you read?” I mean, she never asked that illiterate Muslin Kenyan questions like that.
ronaldpagan: Pagan, you must post more often, I miss your cute little bear.
Ziegler makes Alex Jones look like a real jounalist for chrissake.
I’m sorry. I prayed for beastial jailhouse buttsekksing for ziegler.
iM sorry Lego Jesus.
I DO have to know - at the end of the video does he stare with anguished face into the camera and say “Sarah! I did this for you, my darling Sarah! Wait!…… Sarah……!!!”
…for somethin’ that he never done. put in a prison cell but one time he could a been that champion of the world. Fuckin’ Bob salutes JZ, a keeper o’ the flame.
Can we have our Muslin Communist Preznit abort him already?
TGY: Haw haw!
She got the award specifically for busting Sarahs chops!
http://www.reliableresources.org/winners09.html
Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign
* Katie Couric, the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, was honored for her extraordinary, persistent and detailed multi-part interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin which judges called a “defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign.”
user-of-owls: He’s the bitch on the train whining about how he’ll now be late for his afternoon tea.
Radioactive Horror Snake: “I just watched two polar bears fuck a giraffe.”
Must have been some pretty kinky bi-polar action happening there.
Don’t tase me bro!
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!
Yeah, it’s always hilarious when wingnutters get a taste of the very system they put in place.
conservative, n. A liberal who has been mugged.
liberal, n. A conservative who has been arrested.
libertarian, n. A conservative who has been arrested for possession of marijuana.
The Italians have a phrase for it “testa di cazzo,” the supreme dickhead of dickheads.
zenferret: proudgrampa: In my minds eye, I see Sarah Palin being interviewed by Walter Cronkite. And then I start to laugh.
TGY: In my mind’s eye, I see Sarah Palin being interviewed by Hunter S. Thompson, and I laugh hysterically. I think he would have hated her even more passionately than he hated Nixon.
President Beeblebrox: Too brutal! Thompson probably would’ve hate-fucked her, and burned her with his cigarette every time she said ‘also.’
Also.
Dude, ridiculous, if he checked his history, he’d know that USC is actually one of the more conservative schools in the state. He’d a done that at Berkeley they’d have barbecued him.
wickedlittledoll: Actually, with a person like Ziegler, it was probably “Taz me bro, I can take it, Taz Me!”
That way he can show Sarah Palin how much he loves her.
V572625694: And I like country music, but so what. It was radio stations refusing to play their music that they claimed was censorship, not a concert being canceled.
So this is what going galt looks like.
what is that blond stick-creature that emerges from the building at the 1:42 mark?
is that a Man Coulter sighting??
I guess the conservatards need to study up on all those 60’s videos of radicals getting busted by cops, because they could have fire hosed this dipshit and I would have been cheering on the fire hose.
All I know is that Ziegler has fucked with one of the cool things I used to do in Orange County. He got his nasty little film into the Newport Beach Film Festival. Now, being a good white person, doing stuff white people like, (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/18/3-film-festivals/) I was looking forward to attending a few films. Then, there it was.. the fucking Ziegler whinefest flick! I’m repulsed! After attending for about 10 years, I can’t support the film festival this year. thank you for letting me vent.. Cindy Loo
assistant/atlas: DPS!
What did they do? Run him over with a segueway?
Fight on, Trojans! Also.
“an interview that was not journalism but advocacy” hey fucktard, the supreme court question was a soft ball in that S.P. is on record disagreeing with exxon vs.beach less than a year ago. unless she neither read nor wrote her own opin… oh,never mind.
yeah as soon as the liberals start using the ‘he was resisting arrest’ argument i dont know if i want to be liberal anymore.
they did this stuff to ‘our side’ all through the bush years, and it sucked, and it still sucks, if they do it to the other side,,,, and i dont understand why wonkette would be dissing a ‘dont taze me bro’ guy just because he is a ‘conservative twat’.
if you called a POW a ‘twat’ you’d probably be violating the geneva convention.
1. a campus should be a public place, it is payed for by taxpayers. it should be covered by the firt amendment.
2. beyond that, a campus should be a place of free expression. the guy wasnt doing anything wrong.
3. this is fucking bullshit
4. all the years they were doing this to anti-bush people, now they are doing it to anti-obama people, well, it has to stop somewhere eventually.
ok my bad, USC is private. so he technically was trespassing.
then again, private universities get a -ton- of federal government grants.
my question…. if they have to separate church and state on any campus that gets public money…. dont they also have to protect the first amendment on any campus that gets public money??????
I watched every second of this stoned chucklehead doing a David Byrne impersonation. Now I have a contact high.
and by the way, all the wonkettes who are so frivolously jokey about violence, hoping he gets raped in jail, etc, wow…. you people obviously are on the side of the lord, what with your complete lack of self reflection and self awareness.
“This is what America has become!”
Yes, douchebag! After 90 days in office, the Obama administration’s plan is almost complete!
Next, they’re coming for your GUNS!
MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH
I keep hoping he’s gonna actually start crying, like a pissy little toddler.
Also, precisely what did this douche say about DFW? I always thought that essay was a masterpiece of irritating textually-interpolated footnotes, I mean heroic restraint.
decora: 7/10 concern trolling. Must try harder.
Seriously - this is FUCKING HILARIOUS for the same reason that Larry Craig being busted cruisin’ for dudes is hilarious, but George Michael isn’t. Hypocrites getting a taste of their own medicine is great, like it would have been great if Hitler had been gassed to death.
decora:
“1. a campus should be a public place, it is payed for by taxpayers. it should be covered by the firt amendment”
USC Is a private university. It is not publicly-funded. This guy has as much “right” to be there as he does to be in my living room.
“2. beyond that, a campus should be a place of free expression. the guy wasnt doing anything wrong.”
As soon as you own USC, you can make the rules. Deal?
“3. this is fucking bullshit”
Again, the guy is a guest on private property. When your host asks you to stop behaving like a douche, you should probably do it, unless you don’t want to be welcome any longer.
“4. all the years they were doing this to anti-bush people, now they are doing it to anti-obama people, well, it has to stop somewhere eventually.”
Cops suck. In other news, water still wet!
decora: 1) The First Amendment does not allow any bozo with a microphone to invade an event, regardless of venue.
2) I believe in the grand scheme of things, the Lord was a lot more offended by the deaths of a couple hundred thousand Iraqis than anything we say here. Perhaps you should visit with the Lord about getting your priorities straight.
decora: FUCK JESUS
decora: “you people obviously are on the side of the lord, what with your complete lack of self reflection.”
Jesus was a vampire?
Oh, here we go:
http://www.johnziegler.com/editorials_details.asp?editorial=163
This is my favourite part:
“…The NY Times also ran a news article with the headline “The Best Mind Of His Generation,” which I found particularly galling since he was not even sure O.J. Simpson was guilty!”
After that, watching this assclown squirm has been a fine evening’s entertainment.
decora:
Speaking of the ‘lord’, you seem to be casting lots of stones, are you–perchance-without sin? No? Shut up then.
Republicans aren’t human so they go no sympathy from me.
And aren’t you ’self-aware’ that liberals are godless.
Pick up your taint, a complementary pair of TruckNutz, and GTFO!
Zeigler was obviously off of his meds - which must include anti-psychotics. What an asshat - also.
jimmynail: Yikes! I clicked on the link and now I’m regretting it. There’s a whole lotta crazy just on that one page, what with the fine “John Ziegler, journalist” items for sale.
John Ziegler,poor guy refused to move to the “free speech area” a few feet away and was pushing copies of his movie.Remember when he fucked up the Zogby polls? I call fake. I want him netted and kept in a parking garage filled with toxic chemicals for three days with no sound crew.
Custerwolf: very amusing.
C-list? Someone’s feeling generous.