Make My Day: David William Hedrick

From a town hall meeting (HT Hot Air and Glenn Beck on the air) with Congressman Brian Baird (D-WA):

Transcript:

David William Hedrick: My name is David, and I’m from Camas, Washington.

Congressman Baird: Hi David.

David: First of all, I wanted to let everyone know since this is a thing tonight that I’m a Marine Corps vet.

Baird: Thank you, David.

David: And like you, I did swear an oath to defend my Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Now I heard you say tonight about educating our children, indoctrinating our children, whatever you want to call it.

Baird: I didn’t say “indoctrinating.” I never said that.

David: Stay away from my kids!

I also heard you say that you’re going to let us keep our health insurance. Well thank you! It’s not your right to decide whether or not I keep my current plan or not. That’s my decision.

Now I’ve heard recently in the media you and some other people on the national political stage call us “brownshirts” because we oppose you.

Baird: No I did not. No I did not. What I said was …. and I’ve apologized for it.

David: Thanks for apologizing. I won’t speak to you then. I will speak to others.

I’ll remind you, a little history lesson — the Nazis were the National Socialist Party, they were leftists. They took over the finance. They took over the car industry. They took over health care in that country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve on her own arm.

Now what I want to know is, you’ve done a lot of things to violate your constitutional oath. As a Marine, as a disabled veteran who has served this country, I have kept my oath. Do you ever intend to keep yours?

Mr. Hedrick’s YouTube narrative:

I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.

Thank you, David. Well done, sir.

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UPDATE: This is how Brian Baird justifies claiming he didn’t call town hall attendees opposing statist health care “brownshirts” –

Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) apologized yesterday for accusing town hall protesters of “brown shirt tactics” and comparing them to a “lynch mob.”

Baird, who originally decided against holding town hall meetings because of expected protests, now says he’ll schedule some forums during the August recess.

…. Baird made headlines last week by comparing town hall protesters to Nazi guards.

“What we’re seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,” Baird told the Columbian. “I mean that very seriously.”

Oh, so he “only” accused Americans who want to be heard of “brownshirt tactics” while “comparing them to a lynch mob.” I’m soooooo relieved. (/sarc) Geez, even The Hill blogger Eric Zimmerman gets the comparison Baird was making.

A class act would have said, at worst, “I didn’t exactly say that, but I’m very sorry for what I did say, because it was wrong,” instead of brusquely saying “I’ve apologized for that” and pretending that everything is now hunky-dory. But Brian Baird is clearly not a class act.