{"id":186403,"date":"2014-01-30T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/30\/you-sure-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-go-all-roid-rage-on-representative-grimm\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T01:40:00","slug":"you-sure-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-go-all-roid-rage-on-representative-grimm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/30\/you-sure-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-go-all-roid-rage-on-representative-grimm\/","title":{"rendered":"You Sure Picked the Wrong Guy to go All &#8216;Roid Rage On, Representative Grimm\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 2px; text-align: center; width: 355px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MeJhXaC5WPg\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p>After the State of the Union Address, a NY1reporter Michael Scotto asked Congressman Michael Grimm about his fundraising scandal. <\/p>\n<p>Grimm, expecting questions about the SOTU address, was upset and walked off.<\/p>\n<p>Then he walked back, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/01\/29\/5-things-michael-grimm-did-wrong-on-tuesday-night\/\">threatened to break reporter Scotto in half and throw him off of the Congressional Balcony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This does make the <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/muckraker\/murphy-grimm-steroids\">persisistent rumors of anabolic steroid abuse<\/a> more credible.<\/p>\n<p>But he picked the wrong reporter to threaten.<\/p>\n<p>You see Michael Scotto is the nephew of Anthony Scotto, a <a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2014\/01\/29\/rep-grimm-couldnt-intimidate-scotto\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 105%; font-variant: small-caps;\">former head of the Brooklyn longshoremen\u2019s union and a former boss in the Gambino crime family<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grim went postal, and, to my non-lawyer eyes, it was technically assault, on the nephew of a Gambino crime bus.<\/p>\n<p>Sucks to be you.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, before he was a Congressman, he was an FBI agent, and I have to agree with Alex Pareene when he says, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/01\/30\/michael_grimm_bad_cop\/\">We shouldn&#8217;t let people like him have badges and guns<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only thing worse than a goon is a goon with a gun and a badge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the State of the Union Address, a NY1reporter Michael Scotto asked Congressman Michael Grimm about his fundraising scandal. Grimm, expecting questions about the SOTU address, was upset and walked off. Then he walked back, and threatened to break reporter Scotto in half and throw him off of the Congressional Balcony. This does make the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,978,1027,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-politics","category-video","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}