The media can’t report enough on Montana Republican Greg Gianforte’s assault on a Guardian reporter just days before he was elected to Congress. How is it possible that such a violent person could still beat out a Democrat? The media may never solve that mystery.

But let’s flashback to 2010 when a sitting Congressman walloped a student journalist across the head. That one didn’t carry the ‘round-the-clock coverage like this one did for the GOP member. Wonder why?

It was North Carolina Democrat Rep. Bob Etheridge. He came walking down a street in Washington and was confronted by a student journalist doing a project for college.

“Do you fully support the Obama agenda?” the congressman was asked.

“Who are you?” Etheridge repeatedly asked.

When he didn’t receive a satisfactory answer, he turned physical, swatting at the young man and then grabbing his neck and holding him close. 

It was no less troubling then than it is with Gianforte, but it just proves the media's short-term memory problem.

To sum it up in the only way he could, here was Dennis Miller’s commentary on the matter at that time (back when Bill O’Reilly was on Fox News):

H/T PJ Media