Hinchey Tells Reporter to “Shut Up!,” Puts His Hands “Near His Throat Before Backing Off”

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) ripped into a reporter outside a debate late Thursday, telling the scribe to “shut up!” as cameras rolled in the second taped confrontation between a New York candidate and a journalist in three weeks.

According to the reporter, Kingston Daily Freeman’s Bill Kemble, the long-serving congressman came at him after the cameras were off, resuming the argument, poking his finger in his chest and putting his hands near his throat before backing off.

Read more: (Maggie Haberman, “Hinchey to Reporter: ‘Shut up!’,” Politico, 10/15/2010)