Paula Broadwell smacks photographer in forehead with car door

[anobserver2]

Last edited Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:43 PM - Edit history (3)

Associated Press photojournalist Nell Redmond was injured when Paula Broadwell swung her car door open on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012 in Charlotte, N.C.

Paula Broadwell smacks photographer in forehead with car door
Incident occurs outside feisty biographer's home as she tries to evade press horde

By Jennifer H. Cunningham AND Bill Hutchinson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, November 19, 2012, 2:58 PM


David Petraeus’ ex-mistress, Paula Broadwell, left a female news photographer with a bloodied forehead Monday in a confrontation outside the biographer’s North Carolina home.

The 40-year-old West Point grad smacked the photographer with the driver’s side door of her Nissan Pathfinder SUV.

“I had my camera and in all the chaos the door slammed and I got hit in the head with the flash,” said Nell Redmond, a freelancer for the Associated press.

Redmond suffered a small cut on her forehead in the incident, witnessed by a Daily News reporter...


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/broadwell-smacks-photog-car-door-article-1.1204627

[AngryAmish]

1. She has drawn blood

They are never the same after they get a taste of human blood.

[anobserver2]

2. Sorry, but I didn't know how to post the photos

Two photos in this article - the AP photographer's bloody forehead and Paula Broadwell in her SUV.

[Skidmore]

3. I'd say that is an occupational hazard.

Perhaps she should not have been so close to the SUV.

[Taverner]

25. Yep

I mean I am no fan of Broadwell, but this paparazzi like behavior shouldn't go unchecked

[leftynyc]

4. If the photographer

was that close that she got hit from the door being opened, she was too close. I have no sympathy for the vultures in the press (none really for Broadwell either but that's an entirely different story).

[anobserver2]

6. The camera did it

The article says the photographer actually got hit in the head with her own camera.

[slutticus]

9. Yep

Zoom lenses exist for a reason.

[closeupready]

5. Oh, well.

[jberryhill]

7. Note to photographer - don't stick head in door

[anobserver2]

8. Also: stay off of private property

including driveways to homes.

[Taverner]

26. +100

[MadrasT]

10. Too bad. If you're crowding someone that close

in breathless anticipation of getting an intrusive picture (that's none of your fucking business anyway), too bad.

[IdaBriggs]

12. ^=== This. Nt

[tallahasseedem]

16. Yep!

No sympathy for the photographer (stalker) here!

[randome]

11. Funny the use of the word 'feisty' to describe her. Literary license, I suppose.

The article describes her as grim-faced. That doesn't sound like a synonym for 'feisty' to me.

[libdem4life]

33. I think it's the female equivalent of "uppity".

[bluestate10]

13. If Broadwell could have that affair back, I am sure she would take it back in a heartbeat.

But as things are, she has ruined her life for a long time, if not forever and damaged the lives of her husband and children.

[anobserver2]

18. her husband seemed to be in such a jovial mood --

-- joking with reporters. I am wondering if "affair" to Petraeus means the one time he tried to kiss her, and she did not fight him off,
or something like that.

Otherwise one would expect a "normal" reaction from Broadwell's husband to be somewhat different than the jovial, joking mood he was in with reporters.

[randome]

19. Not necessarily. They may both be prone to affairs.

Maybe it's how their marriage works.

[Ghost in the Machine]

39. Yep, or he could have been in on it, for the money....

Or, as you say, they could have had a very open relationship...

Peace,

Ghost

[MADem]

28. I think she got a book out of that affair--if she were to take anything back, it would be those

nutty, stalkerish emails to Jill Kelley.

I know "the story" is that the affair started up AFTER Petraeus got out of the military, but I don't believe that. I think when she was running around Afghanistan behind Petraeus when he was still on active duty, dressed VERY inappropriately for the region/culture in skin-tight clothing while he interacted with local tribal leadership, she and he were having their little thang.

It wasn't an eight month affair that ran its course, it was an affair over several YEARS. IMO.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Um, Nell, this injury thing is no good with out pictures,

did you think to get the incident on film?

[anobserver2]

15. What is the code for photos?

I am using this but it doesn't work:

<a href="photo">

[Lizzie Poppet]

22. Just put the "bare" URL in.

No need for an HTML or UBL tag at all...just the "naked" URL works.

[anobserver2]

23. Does this work now?

[anobserver2]

24. Well, maybe you can post it

article-broadwell-1119.jpg

[Lizzie Poppet]

45. It needs to be the entire URL.

Right click over the pic in your browser, select "Copy Image URL," then paste it into the body of a post here.

Er, that's in Windows...if you have a Mac, I don't know how to grab the URL. No habla Mac.

[snooper2]

17. I guess she has all the attention she wanted, next stop

Housewives of DC

[Lizzie Poppet]

20. This just in:

This just in: if you intrude yourself, unasked-for and unwelcome, deep into someone's personal space, bad things happen.

[HappyMe]

21. I guess Broadwell should get used

to having photographers everywhere.

[AlinPA]

27. No sympathy. Filthy slime paparazzi should stay away.

[chowder66]

29. Should be..Photographer gets in her own way, dings forehead while Broadwell attempts to close her

car door.

But nooooo they have to make it seem like Broadwell is out to harm all things everywhere. Media sucks.

[elfin]

30. No Paula fan here, but good for her!

If a pap was that close to the car, that really violates personal space.

[TalkingDog]

31. *sigh*.... here's the pic and how to

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1204615.1353354359!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/article-broadwell-1119.jpg

Right click on image
View Image
Select info in address bar. Should include a jpeg png or gif
Paste info into post

this picture was titled: http://assetsDOTnydailynewsDOTcom/polopoly_fs/1.1204615.1353354359!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/article-broadwell-1119.jpg

with DOT where the periods would be so you can see what it looks like

In this case... no go.

So, go to imgur or photobucket or a photo sharing site and up load the image, then paste that info here:



which looks like this: http://iDOTimgurDOTcom/s7834.jpg

[anobserver2]

37. Thanks.

I will try it again.

[anobserver2]

38. Thanks again!

Got it posted. FINALLY!

[libdem4life]

32. Insanity. Some photog went to court for Lindsay Lohan driving over his FOOT? But hey,

consumers/tabloids with "inquiring minds want to know" will pay gigantic sums for these "money shots".

If someone was literally in my face with a camera and I had a car door at my disposal, I'd call it a two-fer...one fer the camera and one fer the forehead.

[Enrique]

34. that's a secret CIA maneuver

she must have gotten that from Dave.

[DefenseLawyer]

35. At least she didn't smack a car door with her forehead

That thing's more like a fivehead.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

36. Get out of her space and you won't get hit in the face. eom

[Ghost in the Machine]

40. Awww, the poor little papparazzi.. wonder if she'll get a purple flash bulb medal for

being injured in 'papparazzi combat'?

[No Vested Interest]

41. Did Broadwell apologize?

Or seem remorseful or sorry for the injury in any way?

[KinMd]

42. Im not a Doctor, I dont play one on TV either but...

I believe Nell will survive her wound.

[WinkyDink]

43. So what was she doing right up at the vehicle? Harassing, is what.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

44. Good. Stop harassing people. nt

[anobserver2]

46. Here's the video of what happened

Also - here's the video:

http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/nov/19/paula-broadwell-bumps-photographer-15772-vi-53886/