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New York Post Suggests Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer Deserved It: ‘Mug Him Again’

by Jon Bershad | 3:08 pm, February 15th, 2012

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This past week, 73-year-old Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was at his vacation home in the West Indies with his wife and some guests when a man wielding a machete entered their home, threatened them with a knife, and took $1,000. Clearly that’s a horrible, traumatizing experience for anyone. But, did you know that Breyer is a liberal?! Obviously, this means that he deserved the attack and, if he doesn’t start justicin’ right soon, should get another one!

At least, that appears to be the thinking of the editorial staff of the New York Post.

Buried at the bottom of today’s editorial section in the paper is a little gem entitled “Breyer’s Growth Experience?” Reading the small piece makes it clear that they put the question mark in the headline not because they aren’t sure that being mugged at knife-point constitutes a “growth experience,” but rather because they’re not positive the ordeal was horrible enough to teach Breyer to quit his dirty leftie ways.

Here’s the piece in full:

“Back when he was first running for mayor, Ed Koch used to tell of the time he told some senior citizens about a judge he knew who’d been mugged.

The judge, said Koch, told a group that ‘this mugging will not influence any of my decisions from the bench’ — whereupon a woman yelled, ‘Mug him again!’

The story came to mind following news that US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his wife were robbed of $1,000 in cash by a masked robber wielding a machete at their West Indies vacation home.

Neither the jurist nor his wife were hurt.

But we can’t help wondering whether Breyer — a reliably liberal Bill Clinton appointee — will also refuse to let this incident figure into his judicial rulings.

Not to make light of his ordeal, but if Justice Breyer — like the judge in Mayor Koch’s story — remains unmoved, all we can say is, ‘Mug him again.’”

Wait, a second? He was appointed by Bill Clinton? The Bill Clinton?! That guy disagrees with me politically! Therefore I should totally use my power as an editor of one of the biggest newspapers in New York to incite more machete-wielding mad men to attack him, right?

Kudos to the New York Post. This is completely logical thinking. As we all know, anyone who has different opinions than we do deserves to be terrified with different sized knives. It’s how the American justice system works.

New York Post, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court

Anonymous

Welcome to the new world of extremist politics. And thanks to News Corp’s New York Post for taking it all the way to the extreme edge of civility and past by suggesting that a US Supreme Court Justice be robbed at machete edge again just to try to move his decisions their way. Nice.
Verreauxii

New York Post has always been trash. When I want to read conservative opinions I go to WaPo, WSJ editorials, Weekly Standard & NRO. Anything else is complete trash.
Anonymous

stay classy republicans.
Anonymous

if he can afford a vacation home in the west indies he can afford to pay more taxes so that the clueless, lazy scum in this country can have one, too. really…
Anonymous

Why is Mr. Justice Breyer vacationing in the West Indies when he could be supporting American resorts?

I guess he feels that America is too dangerous because of the fact that America is riddled with criminals who have been set free by liberal decisions of the United States Supreme Court and he wants to get his family as far away from them as possible!
Anonymous

Stay classy, New York Post.
Anonymous

HA!!! Your eventual nominee stashes all his cash in the Caymans and you dare quibble with where Justice Breyer decides to sun his old nipples.. the irony.. ”Liberal decisions” What planet do you live on?? You do also realize that the current supreme court is 5 conservatives appointees to 4 liberal appointees right?
Anonymous

ny post,faux news,wsj=treasonous excrement! if it were scalia they would blame it on obama’s relatives!
Anonymous

You liberals have no sense of humor! Do we have to put LOL next to everything!
Anonymous

Mr. Breyer, How does it feel to be at the absolute mercy of a thug?

I hope it was a real learning experience for you, and I agree with the gentlemen, If one wasn’t enough to show you that anti gun and self defense laws, don’t make you safer, they just make you a victim no matter where you go for vacation.

Even a your private security protected vacation compound in the West Indies.

Now how about the rest of Us poor peons who don’t have your money or ability to live with private security on call that don’t protect you, just as the Police have no responsibility to protect the individual.
Anonymous

insert random conservative talking point so I can get 50 guest likes
Anonymous

Ha ha ha ha that’s to good, The guy who voted against the 2nd amendment, in Chicago vs McDonald gets robbed at home. You cant write this stuff.
Anonymous

Wait a minute, I thought we liberals were the mean, hateful ones.
Anonymous

It’s called a wake-up call. I’ve had a few, and they may just change the way one thinks about the world. ( especially when the guy robbing you has a Machete) If his career wasn’t so deeply invested in the political left he would admit, that he is now, in-fact a conservative NRA card carrying rootin’-tootin’ red state American when it comes to gun-control.
Anonymous

Well yeah you are, but your also the clowns who vote against the 2nd amendment and then have the audacity to be mugged, by a machete wielding maniac. While simultaneously telling us that there is ” no need to have a gun at home” If that is not the definition of a lunatic, then nothing is.

?Do you honestly not see the contradiction in his rulings?
Anonymous

Stay defenseless liberals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless Clooney

Hey Jon, what leftist blog did you pilfer this from this time? The anti-Semites at ThinkProgress? The wackos at MediaMatters? The sewers of the Democrat Underground?
http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

WTF is wrong with you?
http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

So how does the 2nd amendment apply to the West Indies? You do know that he was not in this country.
http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

At his vacation home, genius. In the West Indies. No second amendment there. You guys complain when liberals use the many terrible incidents of gun violence to lobby for gun control, but you have no problem politicizing an elderly man getting robbed in a foreign country. I’m sure if he was packing he would have not got robbed. Right. And he would have probably ended up dead.
Anonymous

From your cold dead defenseless brain.
Anonymous

2 million plus people in prisons, the highest incarceration rates in the world, still not enough for the punishment pimps. Yea, real liberal decisons. like that cretin governor Haley Barber?
Anonymous

So, who are the conservatives with the “sense of humor” Brietbart, Beck, who?
Anonymous

You can always count on the 1% corporate thieves to rob you every second you breathe!
Anonymous

You can’t write that stuff either.
Anonymous

New York Pus coming soon: Murdoch/Giuliani/Kerik conspiracies waaay beyond hacking emails etc.
Anonymous

Republican/rightists prostrate before the Ruling Class, always the reflexive assumed position of the pathetic wannabe’s.
http://twitter.com/gme11 Gail Evans

I wonder what he thinks should happen to activist judges that lie during confirmation hearings, like Alito and Roberts. The judges who gave us Citizens United, that has been deemed the WORST ruling in the history of the country. Guillotine? Hanging? Burned at the stake? Isn’t that the way we get rid of justices we don’t like?
Anonymous

This now brings to two, the total number of attacks upon Justices of the Supreme Court. The first involved Justice Blackmun of Roe vs Wade fame.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-03-06/news/8501130109_1_justice-blackmun-random-shot-bullet
Anonymous

Wow…are you liberals REALLY that dumb? I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU…Spell it out with me now: “H – Y – P- E – R – B – O – L – E” —–yes thats right, that spells hyberbole. Thats a literary device used to make a point(not to be meant to be taken literally). I mean cmon seriously. It is obvious he is echoing the point of the woman in the story who yelled out “mug him again”. The woman’s point was this: “do something that will convince him to change the way he makes decisions”. It wasnt that she ACTUALLY wanted him to be mugged a second time. The editor was echoing that point. If you are an unintelligent person (or just a smart liberal who holds blind hate for anyone who doesnt think like you), then I can maybe understand how you couldn’t get the underlying point here. But really have you people ever heard of HYPERBOLE?!?!?!
Anonymous

Foster Friess! That joke about women using asprin between their knees for birth control has Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel wondering when they will be replaced by Mr. Friess.

Anybody who could make Andrea Mitchell tounge tied is a talent waiting to be discovered!
Anonymous

Surely Andrea Mitchell listening to hubby Alan Greenspan howling at the moon summoning the spirit of Ayn Rand gets her near raptureous, catching her breath, just as she processed that pre-anti deluvian Friess..Bet he gets a show on Faux News!
Anonymous

Does anyone know who publishes THE NEW YORK PEST (sic)?