You’ve probably already seen the report of Weekly Standard writer John McCormack on how he was pushed to the sidewalk outside a Washington fundraiser by a Coakley aide who, it appears, was Michael Meehan, a longtime aide to and spokesman for Democratic candidates and officeholders. The Associated Press, fronting for the Coakley campaign, has a different take: McCormack stumbled and Meehan tried to help him get up. Take a look at the photo and video in McCormack’s posts and see who you believe—the reporter who was actually there or the reporter who evidently talked to his pal Meehan on the phone.

The photo makes it pretty clear that Martha Coakley, the Attorney General of Massachusetts, witnessed an assault and battery and didn’t lift a finger to stop it, as law professor William Jacobson notes. I tend to agree with Boston radio talk host Michael Graham, who sees this incident—and the photo—as a game-changer. Coakley, who took much of the month of December off and whose campaign didn’t even bother to run TV ads last week, seems to feel entitled to the Senate seat. After all, she’s the Democratic nominee, isn’t she? She’s going to vote whatever way the Democratic leadership tells her to, isn’t she? And if little people get in the way, like the mild-mannered John McCormack, well, they just have to be taken out of the picture.