{"id":55640,"date":"2023-08-15T02:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55640"},"modified":"2023-08-15T02:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T02:19:52","slug":"ronny-jackson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55640","title":{"rendered":"This is no &#8216;distinguished gentleman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now we have bodycam footage of a member of Congress, a Texas Republican, being wrestled to the ground by a sheriff&#8217;s deputy.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involved someone at a rodeo who reportedly was under distress. The congressman, Ronny Jackson of Amarillo, reportedly was &#8220;trying to help&#8221; the youngster. The cops paint a different picture, alleging that Jackson was interfering with police efforts to control the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Word to the wise: The following contains some very rough language blurted out by Jackson as the incident unfolded.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou are a fu**ing full-on dick!\u201d Jackson told the trooper after being brought off the ground, according to bodycam footage provided by the Department of Public Safety. \u201cYou better recalculate, motherfu**er!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/08\/14\/ronny-jackson-dps-bodycam-video\/\">Bodycam video shows confrontation between U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, officer | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know who I thought about when I read this? Mac Thornberry, the Republican whom Jackson succeeded in 2021 as the 13th Congressional District representative for the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>Try to imagine Thornberry ever getting involved in this kind of situation. Try to ponder Thornberry using that kind of language when speaking to a law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Panhandle is now represented in the halls of Congress by a maniacal hothead. Makes you proud &#8230; right?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we have bodycam footage of a member of Congress, a Texas Republican, being wrestled to the ground by a sheriff&#8217;s deputy. The incident involved someone at a rodeo who reportedly was under distress. The congressman, Ronny Jackson of Amarillo, reportedly was &#8220;trying to help&#8221; the youngster. The cops paint a different picture, alleging that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is no &#8216;distinguished gentleman&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2849,7419,7719,5045],"class_list":["post-55640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mac-thornberry","tag-maga","tag-ronny-jackson","tag-us-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55641,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55640\/revisions\/55641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}