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MoveOn Supporter Brutally Attacked by Rand Paul Supporter

By Joshua Green

Oct 25 2010, 11:03 PM ET Comment

The Rand Paul-Jack Conway debate may have been staid, but things were not so outside the debate. A Kentucky reader sends word that according to the local Fox affiliate, a young woman affiliated with MoveOn.org was brutally attacked--stomped in the head--outside the debate by a Rand Paul supporter. The story led the local newscast. Here's the video, and it's truly awful:

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