When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

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By edhat staff

KEYT reporter John Palminteri has gone viral in local channels for pushing a photobombing selfie taker out of his live camera shot on Tuesday.

Palminteri was reporting live from the downtown area when KEYT news anchors C.J. Ward and Beth Farnsworth sent the camera to Palminteri's view. For a few seconds, you can see a teenager attempting to take a "selfie" with the veteran newsman before he quickly, and promptly, pushes him out of the live camera shot before reading the news. 

Live newscasters have to put up with a lot. The weather, finding people to interviews, asking tough questions, staying composed, looking great, photobombers, selfie-takers, the ever-annoying person who waves in the background. It's a tough job but John Palminteri has been Santa Barbara's man on the street for years sending news we can trust. His nickname is Primetime for a reason.

Now he has reached immortal fame in the GIF world. Enjoy the viral fame Primetime! Here's hoping the likes of Jimmy Kimmel increase your viral status.

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ZeroHawk
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Feb 18, 2020 01:31 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

....and who cares really? both are in the wrong. John's an adult and knows better. Keep your hands to yourself bro.. the teen is man enough to know that he's impeding someone that is clearly working and this kid has no respect for others. The teen should have kept his distance, and kept his phone in his pocket. JP has cameras on him, and was probably frustrated and upset that this kid was ruining his job. Remember his job is on camera at a specific time. It's not like he pics and choses when they go live.

ZeroHawk
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Feb 19, 2020 03:15 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

EMINENCE THREAT you seem to just troll all topics on Edhat, and seem to only post rude, immature and low brow comments. Just an observation... as for a crime? how is this a crime? perhaps JP could say the kid commited a crime and touched him first and JP had to push the kid away to protect himself and his property. We can look at this in 10 different ways dude. Rule of law? Lol...

Coolio
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Feb 18, 2020 01:28 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Palminteri lost his cool on this stupid teen. I'm sure he wishes he would've handled with a bit more graciousness. He should just acknowledge it was a poor reaction to a rude and immature teenager.

a-1591124322
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Feb 17, 2020 11:55 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

I believe a simple public apology from this teen and his parents would go a long way toward smoothing this over. After the apology, maybe John and the kid could then get milkshakes or something like that.

a-1591124322
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Feb 17, 2020 08:18 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Would a reasonable person assume a person lunging at you with something in their hand was a possible threat? Is is reasonable to act in self-defense? Who was the initiator? Who was the defender? These are the legal questions that will get asked. You don't have to wait until an attack actually takes place before you then can exercise self-defense. Palminteri was well within a reasonable self-defense reaction mode. Get this aggressive lunging person out of his safety zone. Ironic now that young people are demanding their own safe spaces and the total pre-emptive censorship of potential trigger words who they claim are thought-crime speakers now claim others cannot ask for safe physical space when being immediately and physically threatened. Okay Millennials, explain that one to me. Used to be sticks and stone scan break my bones but names can never hurt me. Now it is names and words can permanently traumatize me, but threatening sticks and stones at another person are okay

Ahchooo
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Feb 16, 2020 04:19 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

The reason I cheer when I see this is only partly because I feel some affinity for Mr Palminteri. Mostly it just feels good to see someone literally push back against a self-important, entitled person who seems to think his own selfie is more important than respecting another person’s space. Palminteri may or may not also have an exaggerated sense of his own importance, but the instigator here was the selfie-taker, and selfie-takers are inherently annoying.

a-1591124322
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Feb 16, 2020 10:33 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

It’s called a teenager. He just hadn’t grown up yet. They are all self important. It’s up to the adults to show them how to be in the world. JP just taught him adults can be self important Jerks too.

Ahchooo
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Feb 16, 2020 05:19 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

I don’t see anger on his face, more like determination. That shove probably took a lot of effort. The kid is not a baby. Do we have to let teens do anything they feel like? He is responsible for his behavior. But I agree, Palminteri would have been wiser not to shove. I just think he was focused on the task at hand and reacted spontaneously. It wasn’t a premeditated assault.

a-1591124322
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Feb 16, 2020 04:56 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

You are equating apples and oranges here. This kids behavior has everything to do with his age. He will grow out of this obnoxious behavior as they all do. JP has absolutely NO EXCUSE for loosing his shit like this. The hatred on his face? Disturbing!

Get over it
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Feb 16, 2020 02:16 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

So, yeah... It's kinda funny to watch, but how incredibly unprofessional. I this day and age how is this seen as okay and even applauded? I have no issues with JP and have met him several times around town. If I shoved a teenager like that and was filmed on live TV, there would for sure be an issue with that. All you people holding JP's jock would be totally flaming me.

a-1591124322
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Feb 16, 2020 02:31 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Whatever transpired before short of the kid threatening him has nothing to do with the fact that JP acted incredibly unprofessionally. I don’t get all the people thinking just because he has hidden this side of himself well, that he is someone to support. JP is loosing it!

a-1591124322
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Feb 16, 2020 10:21 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Funny how people who are jealous of John's success and popularity want to tear him down: Porn mustache, washed-up, dark side, and the "when I/me/me/me/I/myself/me once was a reporter." It's plain to see (if you aren't jealous), that John Palminteri, JP, The Palm, The Mustached One, is beloved by nearly everyone in Santa Barbara and well beyond. He's a local institution. A local celebrity. His detractors are few and far between, but for some reason fixated on his signature mustache. Jealousy, jealousy, and more unbecoming jealousy coming from those who want to bring The Palm down, and gleefully giggle when he does something out of character. Laugh, bully, and hate his supporters (Palminterians) all you want, but don't mess with The Palm.

Bene
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Feb 17, 2020 03:10 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Oh, are you referring to the old news report about the ex-girlfriend fight? If so, yes, I too couldn't find a hint of it online anymore. I have seen ads for a service that "cleans " negative news about one's self off the web--doctors use it a lot I am told. Maybe that happened or just got "dropped off." Dunno. But I have a pretty good memory and pretty sure I know what I read years back. Guess the only way to find it would be to go through microfiche archives of SBNP.

Bene
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Feb 16, 2020 03:08 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Well, I wasn't going to bring this up, but I will because people don't seem to be believing you about the "dark side" you say you have observed. Doesn't anyone remember the media reports from some years back about an ex-girlfriend saying he abused her physically?

a-1591124322
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Feb 16, 2020 01:22 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

I am the one that wrote about his dark side and I can tell you I have NO jealousy in regard to JP. I have witnessed his snarky, rude, pushy side first hand thus the reference. Folks basically aren’t getting his inappropriate behavior and are focused on a sub adult behavior instead.

seaninsb
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Feb 16, 2020 07:20 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Love this so much. You’re all looking at this wrong. Every young idiot in this town wants the perfect picture for Instagram or Facebook. Honestly, who really gives a rip. I love that he gets ejected from Johns personal space like getting launched off a trampoline. John 1, young tool = 0

a-1591124322
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Feb 17, 2020 03:58 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

You do know, 1:24, how popular "wrestling" is, right? (Makes me sad in part because it was my mom who helped me see what a great sport Greco-Roman wrestling is.) And how prez loves and takes advantage of the poorly educated? I'm not saying the audience doesn't get it. Guess I'm not not saying it either.

jqb
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Feb 16, 2020 03:37 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

I'm looking at this correctly, you aren't. The kid was a jerk, and JP reacted unprofessionally and committed (simple, misdemeanor) assault and (simple, misdemeanor) battery as defined by the law.

a-1591124322
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Feb 16, 2020 10:40 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

The way he pushed the kid away was classic! Double open palm (not to be confused with The Palm) with a slight upward projection, and the kid's pencil-thin neck slightly warps inward as he is quickly ejected out of the camera shot. Classic E-Jeck-Shun and the crowd goes bonkers for Johnny P for showing his "shadow side." (ohhhhhhhh noooooo, NOT the the the the shaddddddow side)

a-1591124322
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Feb 16, 2020 10:13 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

It’s the WAY he was rejected that is at issue. I think everyone here agrees the kid behaved rudely but Palminteri as an adult supposedly has fully developed frontal lobes where the kid does not. JP should have acted like an adult and NOT have put his hands on this kid. His shadow side is in clear view here.

MR2
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Feb 15, 2020 09:29 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Assault is assault, John Palminteri shouldn't get a pass because he's on TV and you like him. I've jumped into John's shot before but he didn't shove me, they just edited me out. I hope the kid sues and wins.

Bene
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Feb 15, 2020 04:47 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

I used to be a television reporter and people did all kinds of things when I was out in the field. I would never have pushed anyone, I would have dealt with it another way. Probably I and my camera woman/man would have made it verbally clear we weren't keen on the photo bomb method. BTW, I don't think anyone in local TV news is of the celebrity status some folks seem to think. Local news isn't the "big time" and doesn't equate with being a movie star. Local TV reporters aren't that highly paid and it is a sometimes difficult and un-glamorous job.

a-1591124322
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Feb 17, 2020 03:42 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Yes, right?! Unintentional, I sure hope, but sounds like q-anon, from what I've read, or any other cult, I guess. I find these under or over-tones scary. Aw heck, of course that's just what the poster wants, lol. The q anon tagline is Where One Goes All Goes One or some such stuff. If you don't know this, you should, so you can both avoid and call it out. ------------------------------------------------------------------ "QAnon believers commonly tag their social media posts with the hashtag #WWG1WGA, signifying the motto "where we go one, we go all."

Bene
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Feb 16, 2020 01:43 AM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

That is hysterical! An attack on him is an attack on all of us?! I think it is mentally healthy to have one's own identity and reserve loyalty for those we actually know personally. I don't have anything at all against John. But I really do have something against the imagined closeness people assume with those "in the public eye." When I was on air I found it nauseating when people would see me on TV and try to call me for dates and or social gatherings--just because they saw me on TV. Their interest in me would have felt more normal if those people actually knew me or talked to me. I'm sure that your deep feelings for John will never be returned.

a-1591124322
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Feb 15, 2020 09:31 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Bebe: Totally agree! And having had a bizarre experience with Palminteri When he was trying to drum up a non-story and being a total JERK about it, he ain’t all that I can tell you.

a-1591124322
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Feb 15, 2020 06:03 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Bene: What you would have done has nothing to do with this. As has been the case for a hundred years or more, SB and its environs are filled with mega-celebrities. We are used to seeing the likes of Oprah, Ellen, Striesand, Douglas's, Reagan's, Kardashian's, Julia Child, Katy Perry, Kennedy's, and on and on. Locals don't "lose it" when we see these folks, we leave them alone. So, when OUR mega-celebrity The Palm gets accosted by some random kid, of course peeps get upset and are on John's side. So what if local news reporters are not "big time" or paid all that much, what matters is their character, of which John The Palm has puh-lenty. If you have something against The Palm, that's your issue, but an attack on him is an attack on all of us.

Bene
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Feb 15, 2020 05:38 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Mini beast, did you read the story above? "Photo bomb" is the term used in the story. That is not my term, so if you take issue with it guess you need to tell edhat staff. It is your choice if you want to be a fan of someone. I personally think that being a "fan" is demeaning. Especially to be a fan of local news.

Minibeast
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Feb 15, 2020 05:06 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

"Photobomb" is a term used for photos, not video. ***** C. J. Ward, Tracy Lehr and The Palm will always be star celebs to me. They're on-camera news reporters who live/work in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara. The very definition of stellar. Plus random sightings are fun.

toot
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Feb 15, 2020 01:24 PM
When Push Comes to Shove, Palminteri Gets the Job Done

Roger, you argued that "the kid" needs to be sent to Juvenile Hall and his parents to jail "for putting him up to this." I know the family and they "did not put him up to this." They are honest, hard-working parents who are working with their son who is neither delinquent nor malicious. He has a problem with being impulsive. And that's it. They are working with him. I know that "the kid" regrets his actions. But just because it fits your narrative, don't go mouthing off about the character of the parents or their son until you have more intimate info about all the dynamics involved. You came from a hard-scrabble past and clawed your way back to self-respect and should be applauded for it. Extend that same courtesy to others.

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