Bush Blogger Gets Beat

A brawl erupted between opponents and supporters of President Bush last night behind police barricades a block from his fund-raiser at the Park Plaza Hotel.

Two Bush supporters, twin brothers Matt and Aaron Margolis, traded blows at the corner of Arlington and Boylston streets with several men who they said were union members.

The fight started after a man wearing an Ironworkers Local 7 sweatshirt, perched atop a subway entrance, repeatedly taunted the brothers.

"They told us to get out of here or we'd get beaten up," said Matt Margolis, 24, of Beverly.

"I said, 'I support your freedom of speech - please support mine. Come on down and we can have a conversation.'

"He jumped down and swung on my brother. Then they all jumped in and tore our signs apart."

I'm not buying it. Would a real person say "I support your freedom of speech - please support mine. Come on down and we can have a conversation"?

After reading a little of Matt Margolis' blog, I'm not at all surprised him and his brother got themselves beat up. Matt seems like the kind of guy people just have to hit. The first strike against him comes in the form of a large 'Boycott France' banner on the sidebar. Those buttons are a more effective marker of idiocy than one of those helicopter cap things.

It seems to me that these two guys walked into a group of left-wing union members decked out in Bush buttons and caps, waving banners. They went looking for trouble, and they found it.

Part of the Beltway Traffic Jam.