A top adviser for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg appeared to celebrate former Democratic Maryland Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley harassing Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli at a bar on Thanksgiving eve to the point where Cuccinelli was forced to be the bigger person and leave.
Siobhan Arnold, who claims to work in media relations at Villanova University, <a href="https://web.archive.org/save/https://twitter.com/siobhanphilly/status/1199838534573658113">wrote</a> on Twitter, “Martin O’Malley just drove Ken Cuccinelli out of the Dubliner in DC w/ a passion-laced and shame-invoking tirade on behalf of immigrant refugee children!!!”
Senior Buttigieg Communications Advisor Lis Smith responded to the news by writing on Twitter: &#8220;Thanks giving came early this year &#8212;&gt;&#8221;
Radio Host Jason Rantz noticed Smith&#8217;s comments on Twitter, writing: &#8220;This doesn’t sound like she’s living up to the standards that [Pete Buttigieg] claims to hold. But: he’s a phony. He’s no moderate. If either were to be bullied and run out of a campaign event in a red state, they’d condemn it. But Republicans? Harass away.&#8221;
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This doesn’t sound like she’s living up to the standards that <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> claims to hold. But: he’s a phony. He’s no moderate. 
If either were to be bullied and run out of a campaign event in a red state, they’d condemn it. But Republicans? Harass away. <a href="https://t.co/vnBukAxooO">https://t.co/vnBukAxooO</a> <a href="https://t.co/mdOv4lS0e5">pic.twitter.com/mdOv4lS0e5</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1200316302566526976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The alleged incident took place at the Dubliner, an Irish pub on Capitol Hill where the two men were attending an event with graduates of Gonzaga College High School, where they both graduated from in the 1980s,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-omalley-forces-trump-official-cuccinelli-out-of-bar-cuccinelli-delivers-blistering-response">reported</a>.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Arnold <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ken-cuccinelli-walked-into-a-bar-and-martin-omalley-lit-into-him/2019/11/28/8277421c-1191-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html">said</a> that “O’Malley was shouting,” adding, “I don’t think Cuccinelli was responding. I think he’s like, ‘Time to go. Just got here and I’m leaving.’”
In a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuccinelli-fires-back-at-omalley-calls-behavior-sad-and-shocking">statement</a> to Fox News, Cuccinelli said that O’Malley was cursing loudly “to the point of veins bulging on his neck,” a claim that O&#8217;Malley did not exactly dispute in his interview with The Washington Post.
Cuccinelli told Fox News: “As I walked up to one of the bars among several in The Dubliner to order my Guinness, I heard screaming and cussing behind me to my left, which I did not immediately take notice of other than the fact that it was louder than everything else in the pub. When I turned to look I saw O’Malley and he was obviously screaming at me. For a moment I thought he was trying to be funny, as we’ve met before, which I thought was strange. It was immediately clear that he was cursing and screaming for real, to the point of veins bulging on his neck.”
“O’Malley pushed his way through the small group to confront me face to face, still cursing me, the President, and my Italian ancestry and he got right up in my face, bumped up against me and invited me to take a swing at him,” Cuccinelli continued, adding that after he realized how out of control O&#8217;Malley appeared to be, he told him, “Martin, one of us has to rise above this, and it’s obviously not going to be you.”
Cuccinelli noted that O’Malley’s comments about the Trump administration’s immigration policies were “odd” because his comments “applied to President Obama’s policies, a fact he clearly did not appreciate me pointing out (without screaming it, [by the way]).”
“Martin’s behavior was as sad as it was shocking,” Cuccinelli said. “I learned on the other side of the pub that Martin’s screaming was so loud that people on the other side of the pub heard him. I also learned from others who have known Martin for years that while his behavior was shocking, it was not new to them.”

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NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch humiliated former Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley on Tuesday after O&#8217;Malley attacked the NRA in response to the shooting in Jacksonville on Sunday.
&#8220;Another tragic mass shooting in Florida. Republican Governor Rick Scott proudly boasted that he passed more Pro-gun, NRA legislation than any other governor,&#8221; O&#8217;Malley tweeted. &#8220;Time to close the chapter on deadly pandering. #WinBackYourState, Florida.&#8221;
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Another tragic mass shooting in Florida. Republican Governor Rick Scott proudly boasted that he passed more Pro-gun, NRA legislation than any other governor. Time to close the chapter on deadly pandering. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WinBackYourState?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WinBackYourState</a>, Florida.
&#8212; Martin O&#8217;Malley (@MartinOMalley) <a href="https://twitter.com/MartinOMalley/status/1034470190464020483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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O&#8217;Malley was either intentionally deceptive with his tweet or completely oblivious to the fact that the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office revealed on Monday that the shooter purchased his two firearms in Maryland &#8212; not Florida.
&#8220;The handgun was legally purchased in your state, Governor, which has a 30 day waiting period, registration, permit to purchase, may-issue LTC, and in 2013 you signed a law prohibiting involuntary institutionalized persons from possessing firearms,&#8221; Loesch fired back. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t Gov. Scott&#8217;s fault.&#8221;
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The handgun was legally purchased in your state, Governor, which has a 30 day waiting period, registration, permit to purchase, may-issue LTC, and in 2013 you signed a law prohibiting involuntary institutionalized persons from possessing firearms. This isn&#8217;t Gov. Scott&#8217;s fault. <a href="https://t.co/UDqZeUVxzH">https://t.co/UDqZeUVxzH</a>
&#8212; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1034552919469830149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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O&#8217;Malley was not the only person to respond to the shooting with misleading and deceptive rhetoric, as multiple Democratic politicians, left-wing activists, and anti-gun propagandists did the same thing.
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Judging from his response, the most painful accusation Hillary Clinton leveled against Bernie Sanders in Sunday&#8217;s Democratic primary debate in South Carolina was that he had been <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/266221-clinton-accuses-sanders-of-disloyalty-to-obama">disloyal to President Obama</a>.
In a night filled with pandering to the African American vote (which included <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/2670/hillary-goes-all-black-lives-matter-sundays-debate-james-barrett">throwing police under the bus</a>), Clinton attempted to deflect Sanders&#8217; accurate description of <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/13/investing/hillary-clinton-wall-street/">her crony ties to Wall Street</a>&#8212;a damning accusation these days to the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/2669/top-googled-questions-dem-candidates-debate-tell-james-barrett">increasingly socialist</a> Democratic party&#8212;by playing the Obama card. 
Sanders, said Clinton, not only dared to criticize Obama for accepting donations from Wall Street, he &#8220;called [Obama] weak, disappointing; he even in 2011 publicly sought someone to run in a primary against President Obama.&#8221;
Sanders&#8217; reaction to that most grievous of accusations among the left has already been immortalized in this Vine: 

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Sanders responded to the malevolent charge by noting that he and his &#8220;friend&#8221; Obama had &#8220;worked together on many issues.&#8221; 
The Hill <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/266221-clinton-accuses-sanders-of-disloyalty-to-obama">notes</a> that Martin O&#8217;Malley had actually tried that dig on Sanders before in an earlier debate and PolitiFact judged it to only be <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/10/martin-omalley/fact-checking-martin-omalleys-claim-bernie-sanders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">half-true</a>; Sanders did call for someone to challenge Obama in 2012, but only because he wanted to pressure Obama to move even further left. The reality is Sanders worked hard to get Obama elected in both 2008 and 2012&#8212;and Clinton knows it. But things like honesty, transparency, and facts don&#8217;t matter to the Clinton camp, particularly when her <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/2645/hillarys-poll-numbers-slipping-faster-2008-aaron-bandler">poll numbers</a> are starting to get worrisome.

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Martin O&#8217;Malley now knows the sound of one hand clapping.
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Unfortunately for O&#8217;Malley, the bearded attendee, apparently named &#8220;Kenneth,&#8221; told him he appreciated O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s persistence, but still wouldn&#8217;t commit to supporting him. O&#8217;Malley sheepishly told MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; &#8220;The very last event of the night, we actually had a whopping total of one person show up, but by God, he was glad to see me. So we spent the time with him.&#8221;
&#8220;Kenneth,&#8221; speaking to MSNBC, said of O&#8217;Malley that he was &#8220;working on him&#8221; but argued that Iowans &#8220;want to see the whole campaign play out&#8221; before they commit to supporting any candidate.
O&#8217;Malley stated, &#8220;So I wasn&#8217;t surprised that he was uncommitted. But I was glad he took the time to come out in the snow to see me. We almost canceled that last event but we were out there anyway, so we plowed through.&#8221;
Sarah Beckman, a reporter at the event, <a href="http://sarahbeckman.tumblr.com/post/136187052552/braving-a-snow-storm-in-the-name-of-the-iowa">quoted</a> &#8220;Kenneth&#8221; saying to O&#8217;Malley:
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I think you have a great platform to be running, and I think you have a great future here in Iowa. I wish you well. On paper, if I were to look at just the resumes, you would have the strongest resume in my mind. But then all this other stuff&#8230;I think those two other candidates, there are problems with both of them. I don&#8217;t think Sanders would be easily electable. So don&#8217;t underestimate the fact that Iowa will turn out differently. I think it will turn out differently than what the polls are showing. Jimmy Carter would not have been president if it weren&#8217;t for Iowa.
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O&#8217;Malley is<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-3195.html"> trailing</a> Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in Iowa by triple digits; his poll numbers remain in single digits.

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