We Are Change Slandered By Neocon Media
Below is Messing’s NY Post article in its entirety.
A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents had told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.
They had been in the audience to hear the Bushes talk about their children's book, "Read All About It."
"He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, 'What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,' " said John Lovetro. "He was unperturbed. I said, 'Get out of here! You're being a moron!' "
The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen - a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004.
"I heard my daughter hysterical yelling, 'He's hitting me!' " said Wendy Lovetro.
"He punched her on the shoulder blades, but that wasn't enough," she said.
"My husband pushed the wheelchair away from him and he reached beyond my husband and began pounding my daughter in the thigh."
The two men fought as the president's family drove off. Cops broke them up and busted Talis on charges of assault and resisting arrest.
Maureen was not seriously injured.
Not once in the article does Messing provide the other side of the story which is entirely at odds with what John and Wendy Lovetro said happened. Eyewitness Dianne Lipson recounted the entire incident in an e-mail that was sent and re-published in an InfoWars article by Kurt Nimmo that analyzes the horrific media coverage on this incident. In her eyewitness account, Lipson refutes every aspect of the incident as told in the NY Post report. Lipson actually states that the opposite happened and that John Lovetro went out of his way to assault Talis. If this is true, it makes it all the more insane that Talis not Lovetro is in jail being charged with 3rd degree assault.
The event was over but the Bush ladies were still in the venue, the 92nd Street Y. I was with Gary and another member of WAC. People were being told to wait behind a secret service agent or to cross the street. A small group of people were gathered behind the agent to catch a glimpse of the Bush ladies when they would be going from the building into a waiting black van.
Gary was exercising his free speech rights, talking to the crowd. The mood of the crowd was hostile toward Gary. Among the waiting crowd was a man in a blue jacket and a woman, obviously his wife, and their teenage daughters, one of whom was in a wheelchair. The man in the blue jacket was taking particular offense at what Gary was saying. He even made threatening gestures at Gary. At one point he cocked his fist at Gary, with an odd little half smile on his face, like he wanted trouble. Gary and the man had words. I was very surprised to see this man make threatening gestures at Gary while his family, including his daughter in the wheelchair, were right there.
The Bush ladies came out. Gary asked them how they felt knowing that people thought that Bush was responsible for 9/11. He had to shout, as the Bush ladies were some yards away.
Then it was all over, the van pulled out and people were walking away. The man in the blue jacket was pushing his daughter’s wheelchair.
Instead of going straight up the street, he veered over to the side of the building to where Gary was. Next thing I know, he caught Gary in a corner of the building and was whaling on him, saying that Gary had touched his daughter. I know Gary, and he would never do something like that. Gary’s instinct is to protect women and children.
He had Gary in the corner, and was punching him and punching him. If Gary managed to defend himself I did not see it. The man’s wife was pleading with him to stop. The daughter in the wheelchair was in tears.
Then the police came and put Gary, not the man who assaulted him, but Gary, in handcuffs.
I went to the 19th precinct to make a statement. They told me to wait. The man who assaulted Gary was in the lobby area where I was, not back where Gary was in custody.
A policeman photographed Gary’s assailant several times, then let him go.
I did not see a mark on this man. Later I heard he had a split lip, but I did not see a mark on him. Gary, I heard, was bruised up. I am not surprised. The man punched Gary over and over again.
So I waited over 2 hours, only to be told that I could not make a statement. I still don’t quite fully understand why.
From what I observed, the man who assaulted Gary was looking for a fight, and he actually exploited his physically challenged daughter, steering her wheelchair toward Gary, in order to fabricate an excuse to physically vent his anger.
Considering this information, the reporting by Messing is a clear cut case of yellow journalism. Journalists are supposed to seek out truth, not be cogs in a wheel that create news based off of one-sided information. There is no question that there are two very different versions of what happened and to highlight one side of the story as being fact shows that Messing's report is entirely biased. We Are Change is a peaceful organization that does not condone violence and considering this particular eyewitness account, the NY Post article simply cannot be taken seriously as credible journalism.
It is also interesting to note that the NY Post article only talks about how Talis was speaking out against the war and not making statements about 9/11 being an inside job. By conveniently omitting this information, the NY Post article keeps people trapped in the phony left-right political paradigm making the readers believe that Talis is some sort of insane anti-war activist. With this in mind, it seems pretty clear that Messing doesn’t care about reporting what actually happened.
Below is the contact information for Phillip Messing. Let him know that you do not appreciate his one-sided and biased journalism.
phillip.messing@nypost.com










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