You couldn’t tell it by looking at her, but Annie Grossmann is a tough kid. She’s only 5′2 and weighs 120 pounds, but that never stopped her from playing on the boys hockey team in high school back in Alaska. Annie is now in Minnesota, where she plays hockey at Augsberg College in Minneapolis. She’s also a Republican which apparently doesn’t sit well with a lot of her fellow students at the school.
Last Tuesday night Annie joined a group of her friends to watch the election results and cheer on John McCain and her fellow Alaskan Sarah Palin. After it became obvious that Barack Obama was going to win the election, and after dealing with the taunts of Obama supporters around her, she decided to head back to her dorm room. Unfortunately for Annie, she still had her McCain/Palin pin on her shirt.
From the MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE:
An Augsburg College student and Sarah Palin supporter from Alaska was beaten on election night while walking to her dorm and was called a racist by a group of four young women because she had on a McCain/Palin presidential campaign button, authorities and the victim said.
Annie Grossmann, a freshman on the Minneapolis college’s hockey team, suffered blurred vision and is thought to have had a concussion from a punch in the eye, but declined medical attention, she said.
“One approached me and got in my face and called me racist because I had the pin on. That really ticked me off, but I kind of left it alone because she was so much bigger than I am,” said Grossmann. She is 5 feet 2 and weighs 120 pounds, and played boys high school hockey in Alaska. “The girls in the background were just a little bigger than me. They were mocking me from the sidelines.
“I didn’t say anything. … This one [bigger] girl grabbed me by the shoulders and was holding me. After about five minutes, I just wanted to get out of there.”
It was at that point that Grossmann told the girls that they “don’t even know me. There’s no reason to think I’m racist.” She then pushed the girl off of her, and was punched in the face for her trouble, and as an added bonus, had her head slam off of a brick wall.
Whether or not the attackers yelled “Yes we can!” while attacking Annie, nobody knows. There is word that Sarah Palin may take Annie — an avid hunter — on one of her helicopter moose hunting trips as a way of thanking her for her support. Of course, instead of hunting moose they’ll be hunting the girls that attacked her. It’s for a new show called “Hunting Humans from Helicopters” and it’ll debut on FOX this January.
3:59 pm on November 12th, 2008
Gee, where have I heard this story before?
Oh, yeah: http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html
4:01 pm on November 12th, 2008
Maybe Dick Cheney can arrange some sort of "hunting accident" to befall these girls.
4:06 pm on November 12th, 2008
If she really was attacked by "black Obama supporters", where's the backwards B scratched into her face?
4:11 pm on November 12th, 2008
From the original article:
Bruce Grossmann said a "PETA person" had to be removed from her dorm room because he was upset by a photo of her with a black bear she had shot. Also, he said, she attended an icebreaker on campus and was booed when she identified herself as a Republican. "I don't think she was prepared for the close-mindedness," he said. "I told her she needs to take a lower profile [for the sake of] her academic and her sports careers."Republicans complaining of close-mindedness? Pot. Kettle. Black.
4:14 pm on November 12th, 2008
This is terrible. No one should be physically or emotionally assaulted for their political beliefs. I hope she sues the school over this attack.
4:16 pm on November 12th, 2008
What, she didn't Twitter the whole thing?
Bo-gus.
4:18 pm on November 12th, 2008
What did she expect from attending a liberal arts college? She should have gone to a conservative arts college instead.
4:21 pm on November 12th, 2008
Interesting that just like the Pittsburgh faker, this girl also refused medical attention. Hmmm.
4:34 pm on November 12th, 2008
Sounds like another lying, race-baiting, right-wing sore loser to me.
4:38 pm on November 12th, 2008
Hey assholes, maybe this girl is actually an innocent victim and shouldn't be lumped in with the other girl that made it up.
4:44 pm on November 12th, 2008
A real hockey player would have checked those girls into the boards.
4:45 pm on November 12th, 2008
Damn, Shes hot.
5:04 pm on November 12th, 2008
I wouldn't mind spending two minutes in the box with her.
5:29 pm on November 12th, 2008
Ahh…sounds like "progressive tolerance" to me. No big surprise.
Also J-Shortbuss…how 'bout 2 minutes in her box?!
5:34 pm on November 12th, 2008
If you didn't read clearly…Surveilance camera were viewed, and proved that her story wasn't a false claim.
By the way, I'm a student at Augsburg and if you're a conservative hot-head stay the hell away from this college. There's a lot of republicans here who are afraid to show that their republicans. It's pretty ridiculous to say the very least. Professors teaching liberal views, a religion professor with a sticker on her door saying "God is a Liberal," the Asst. Dean gave a republican student a lecture on how socialism isn't so bad. So many bias account at the college.
6:05 pm on November 12th, 2008
Thou shall not resist the Obamafuhrer!
6:08 pm on November 12th, 2008
Now what if they voted for Obama just because he was black/african-american.
Does that not make them racist.
I guess youre only racist if your white/caucasian.
I don't know. Maybe I'm way off base.
I didn't vote for him because of his once extreme liberal and now in recent months centrist political views.
A zebra doesn't change it's stripes, especially overnight.
And not to mention his patterns of association and denials disturb me a little.
That's all I guess.
6:11 pm on November 12th, 2008
Her's somethin scary for you Ricardo:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/10/republican-congressman-warns-obama-dictatorship/
6:26 pm on November 12th, 2008
Sadly, if it wasn't for that girl in Pittsburgh faking her politically-motivated attack, more people wouldn't be so cynical about Annie Grossman's claims.
6:37 pm on November 12th, 2008
And I thought all Minnesotans were nice & polite. Just like those fellas in "Fargo".
7:57 pm on November 12th, 2008
I want to ride shotgun on that helicopter trip.
9:25 pm on November 12th, 2008
Sadly, it shows the mentality of most idiotic Obama supporters. Sorry keep forgetting that the rules dont apply if you are a dem. What total hypocrites.
10:52 pm on November 12th, 2008
Obamathugs. Our next national nightmare is about to begin.
8:55 am on November 13th, 2008
Why are the people who demand tolerance the least tolerant?
10:23 am on November 13th, 2008
You hit the nail on the head RoB68… There's no possible way you could vote for McCain unless you were a racist..HAH typical hypocritical Liberals. I bet those girls can't tell you one thing about Obama beside "he wants change" Blech.. Bet they didn't even vote. Good for her that she's smart enough to be her own person and not follow the "In crowd." Republican chicks are sexy… Especially one who hunts from a chopper.
10:35 am on November 13th, 2008
@Dan AndersonWhat the hell is wrong with you? You hope she sues the school? Maybe she should sue the state of Minnesota, or perhaps the US Government while she's at it.
1:22 pm on November 13th, 2008
Liberals, I'll look more favorably upon this if Obama gives us a college football playoff. If not, screw you all.
4:32 pm on November 14th, 2008
Annie denied medical attention becuase shes a beauty and a hardcore hockey player that can stand some fat broads left hook to her dome… props to Annie for sticking in there. I bet she coulda taken them all if she had wanted to..