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Weekly Standard Scribe And Coakley Aide In Altercation On DC Street

Zachary Roth | January 13, 2010, 6:35PM

MA AG Martha Coakley

Conservatives are up in arms over an incident last night in which a Weekly Standard reporter who was pursuing Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley ended up on the ground -- with ripped pants -- after an altercation with a Coakley aide.

Here's what seem to have happened, based on video of the incident, and several written accounts, including one by the reporter himself:

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