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SEAN HANNITY, HOST: There's continued breaking news out of Lansing,
Michigan, where protest turned violent today as big labor demonstrators
took to the streets of Michigan's capital city in reaction to the passage
of a bill that dramatically limits the power of unions. Now, in just a
few short minutes, I'll be joined live by Steven Crowder. Now, Crowder as
you can see on the screen left is a Fox News contributor and he was in
Lansing today, he was viciously assault by a union member. He was
standing near the tent that was owned by Americans for Prosperity, a
conservative group that supports the right to work. Now, that tent, that
organization, quickly became the target of angry union demonstrators. And
as you can see, the mob of left-wing thugs ultimately tore down the
structure and they did so with people inside. However, what transpired
before that is even more disturbing. Let's take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
STEVEN CROWDER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: What is it about right-to-work that
you oppose so much? What is it about right-to-work?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It's because it's the freedom to free load.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: They can suck all of the parasitical benefits and hard
wages that unions have negotiated and they did it for free.
CROWDER: You destroyed one tent. Leave the tent alone.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Get out of my (bleep) face.
CROWDER: Don't tear down the tent.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Get out of my face.
CROWDER: You hurt a lady in there.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Bleep) I didn't hurt nobody. Get the (bleep) out of my
face. Back off. Back the (bleep) off.
CROWDER: Don't tear down the tent.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Back the (bleep) off.
CROWDER: OK.
(CHANTING AND YELLING)
CROWDER: You just assaulted me.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: What are you going to (bleep) do?
(YELLING)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: He's got a gun!
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I'll kill a (bleep) with a gun! I've killed plenty
(INAUDIBLE) --
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Hey, leave him alone.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANNITY: Joining me now from Michigan to talk about exactly what happened
now there today, Fox News contributor Steven Crowder. Steven, first, you
got hit pretty hard. You have a chipped tooth, you have another injury.
What happened?
CROWDER: Well, listen, I'm under-rested, overworked right now and still
tough enough to take the union's greatest punch apparently. I'm not that
hurt. Listen, it was more mentally shaking to see this happen, more
upsetting to get home and see my wife so upset. I went out there and
leftist right now are saying that I deserved the beating that I got,
completely physically unprovoked, and the reason for that is that I did
go went in and apparent I provoked it by asking them, why they are
against right-to-work? By asking them, what about someone in Michigan who
might want to work for a company and might not want to join a union?
And then of course, I asked them as they were consistently destroying
private property with people in the tent, they were tearing the tent
apart, Sean, and destroying it. I asked them to stop. Many of us tried to
pull them off the tent. And so, yes, in that sense apparently, I did
provoke the four unanswered punches directly to my face. Call me a
provocateur, Sean.
HANNITY: All right. But this is in a state that is the birthplace of the
modern labor movement. Now, we cannot under estimate what has happened
here. This is a huge victory for workers, for America, you know, because
what a lot of people may not know, right-to-work means you don't have to
join a union to get a job. In other words, you don't have to pay union
dues to work at a company. In other words, you have freedom of choice, so
there's a lot at stake here.
CROWDER: Well, there's absolutely a huge amount at stake. And you see
most Americans of course want the right-to-work. Union, being a union
manufacturing job, that's one of the biggest single threats you can have
to your job security. You look at the amount of the manufacturing jobs
that have been shipped overseas in the union sector versus the nonunion
sector, it's several fold higher. You see this people, they're angry.
Unions are founded on violence here in this country. And to give you
prove that Americans right now are angry by this, this video went out
about 3:00, 4:00 today and there's already been $6,000 coming in in
donations to find the perpetrator from this video.
It's very important for the conservatives to realize right now there is a
line drawn in the sand and there are Republicans and there are true
conservatives out there laying it on the line. You can side with the
people or the talking heads sitting back in their political strategist
rooms or you can side with the people like me and the folks who
essentially worked with Andrew Breitbart in light and still do in death.
Right now, it's a very serious line being drawn, Sean.
HANNITY: All right. Before we get into the specifics of the issue which
as we will be doing throughout the hour tonight, as we also follow other
breaking news. This is really important, walk our viewers step by step to
what we are seeing in this video. Because this is important. Explain
exactly what happened.
CROWDER: OK. Well, I can't see the portion of the video you are running
right now, I'm assuming it's right before the assault.
HANNITY: Walk us through the events. You know what's in the video. So,
walk us through to what happened.
CROWDER: OK. Well, first off, I went in, asked a few people why are you
against right-to-work. People were immediately hostile, were immediately
violent. I was near the Americans for Prosperity tent. They began tearing
this tent down, tearing it apart while people were still in it. A tent by
the way, Sean, that can fit about 800 people. Do you realize how long
that takes? It wasn't someone pulled out a pin. These people assaulted
the tent and tore it down. When we came out to say, listen, there are
women in here, there are old people in here, stop doing this, that's when
they got even more violent and unruly and assaulted me.
HANNITY: All right. Let me start -- were there women and old people in
there when they collapsed that tent?
CROWDER: You can see in this video, a woman walking out as they are
trampling on that tent. You can see her walking out from it. There were
certainly women and old people in there beforehand as they started
tearing it down. If some got out, I don't know. Just like was I able to
mitigate the injuries as this guy was wailing on my face? Yes.
Absolutely. But that doesn't change the intent. And I want to make
something very clear here, Sean -- I never went out here to try and to be
assaulted as leftists might say. I went out here to prove the left for
who they truly are, certainly these union thugs. And I have achieved
that.
But people want to see civil actions taken against them. So, I just want
to say one thing really importantly. I am issuing an ultimatum right now,
they are trying to find this man who assaulted me, to find this man who
assaulted other people. And you have a choice, you can come forward, I'll
press charges and you will go to jail, or since you wanted to cheap shot
me, we can host a bout in a sanctioned to legalized MMA competition where
the winner will get the money to go to the charity of his choice.
So, all of this money that's been raise, you have this man prosecuted and
put in jail, I will match that and donate it to the union of his choice.
It is your choice. Jail or face me like a man one-on-one legally and I am
easy to find, @SCrowder on Twitter.
HANNITY: Steve, I have known you for long time. You are actually very
well-equipped to protect yourself. You decided not to fight back. Explain
--
CROWDER: Right.
HANNITY: You do have the ability to fight back.
CROWDER: Yes. Well, let me say a couple things, Sean. First, I knew that
it would prove nothing, and secondly, honestly, I don't want to use the
word literally here because when people use the word, you know, literally
and they use it improperly, it makes me angry, figuratively speaking
there. But I literally believe, Sean, that if I have defended myself at
all, even flick the small little jab, that they would have killed me
where I stood. I have never seen this kind of angry, vitriolic hatred.
You take a scene from "The Dark Knight Rises," it is not as bad as this.
I expected Bane to walk in with his cheap little mask. I still don't know
why that movie is getting rave reviews.
But, yes, I expected these people to actually tear me limb from limb. I
knew, I couldn't take that. On one person, fine. Like Mr. Miyagi said,
three people is too many for anyone, let's toss 1,200 into the mix, and
of course, by the way, Sean, are we not addressing the fact that someone
threatened to murder me with a gun on that tape, too?
HANNITY: Well, I heard that. It's at the end of the tape after the
scuffle.
Now, there was a second moment here with the guy actually cold-cocked you
when you weren't even looking. At least from my view of the tape, is that
true?
CROWDER: I have to be honest, Sean. I took his guy's hardest hit on the
jaw. My instinct was a clinch to mitigate damage. And you can see
everyone holding him and he's not hitting me and I say, listen, I'm going
to let you go, I'm going to let you go, please don't hit me. And I let go
and try to run away and he sucker punches me. After that, I got to tell
you, I'm going to be honest. I'm not playing tough guy. I was out on my
feet, I didn't go down, walking back. Now, looking at the tape, some guy
grabbed me from behind by the neck as I was going into the tent and
yanked me, all of it is a blurred. It became a real melee. So, I can't
tell you. I do know that I was cold-cocked and I was sucker punched. And
as you can see in the video, it went unanswered. Maybe I deserve it,
Sean.
HANNITY: I don't think you deserve it. But you didn't do anything to
encourage this. And I have watched this tape a number of times. I didn't
hear you say anything provocative or start a fight. Is there anything I
didn't hear on the tape, just for the record?
CROWDER: No. I did a lot to encourage it, Sean. I asked them why they
were against right-to-work. I asked them to stop hurting people in a
tent. I asked them to stop destroying private property, so I guess I
warranted getting a facial beating repeatedly, Sean, apparently.
HANNITY: Well, I disagree with that. But the real issue --
CROWDER: I'm saying that's the response from leftists right now. They're
saying, you went down and you deserved it. Well, right now, we just
showed the longer footage. You see, they were tearing down a tent. Again,
it is very important to realize we were trying to defend women and people
in that tent before they started assaulting people who were defending
those women and old people in the tent, Sean.
HANNITY: All right. When we come back, this is really important. Steven,
I'm glad you are healthy. Take care, be careful in these situations,
please. And we will continue to follow this in the days to come. And I'm
glad you were able to make it on the show tonight. Thanks for being with
us.
CROWDER: Thank you, God bless.
--
"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the iceberg
a second time."
Michigan, where protest turned violent today as big labor demonstrators
took to the streets of Michigan's capital city in reaction to the passage
of a bill that dramatically limits the power of unions. Now, in just a
few short minutes, I'll be joined live by Steven Crowder. Now, Crowder as
you can see on the screen left is a Fox News contributor and he was in
Lansing today, he was viciously assault by a union member. He was
standing near the tent that was owned by Americans for Prosperity, a
conservative group that supports the right to work. Now, that tent, that
organization, quickly became the target of angry union demonstrators. And
as you can see, the mob of left-wing thugs ultimately tore down the
structure and they did so with people inside. However, what transpired
before that is even more disturbing. Let's take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
STEVEN CROWDER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: What is it about right-to-work that
you oppose so much? What is it about right-to-work?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It's because it's the freedom to free load.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: They can suck all of the parasitical benefits and hard
wages that unions have negotiated and they did it for free.
CROWDER: You destroyed one tent. Leave the tent alone.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Get out of my (bleep) face.
CROWDER: Don't tear down the tent.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Get out of my face.
CROWDER: You hurt a lady in there.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Bleep) I didn't hurt nobody. Get the (bleep) out of my
face. Back off. Back the (bleep) off.
CROWDER: Don't tear down the tent.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Back the (bleep) off.
CROWDER: OK.
(CHANTING AND YELLING)
CROWDER: You just assaulted me.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: What are you going to (bleep) do?
(YELLING)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: He's got a gun!
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I'll kill a (bleep) with a gun! I've killed plenty
(INAUDIBLE) --
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Hey, leave him alone.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANNITY: Joining me now from Michigan to talk about exactly what happened
now there today, Fox News contributor Steven Crowder. Steven, first, you
got hit pretty hard. You have a chipped tooth, you have another injury.
What happened?
CROWDER: Well, listen, I'm under-rested, overworked right now and still
tough enough to take the union's greatest punch apparently. I'm not that
hurt. Listen, it was more mentally shaking to see this happen, more
upsetting to get home and see my wife so upset. I went out there and
leftist right now are saying that I deserved the beating that I got,
completely physically unprovoked, and the reason for that is that I did
go went in and apparent I provoked it by asking them, why they are
against right-to-work? By asking them, what about someone in Michigan who
might want to work for a company and might not want to join a union?
And then of course, I asked them as they were consistently destroying
private property with people in the tent, they were tearing the tent
apart, Sean, and destroying it. I asked them to stop. Many of us tried to
pull them off the tent. And so, yes, in that sense apparently, I did
provoke the four unanswered punches directly to my face. Call me a
provocateur, Sean.
HANNITY: All right. But this is in a state that is the birthplace of the
modern labor movement. Now, we cannot under estimate what has happened
here. This is a huge victory for workers, for America, you know, because
what a lot of people may not know, right-to-work means you don't have to
join a union to get a job. In other words, you don't have to pay union
dues to work at a company. In other words, you have freedom of choice, so
there's a lot at stake here.
CROWDER: Well, there's absolutely a huge amount at stake. And you see
most Americans of course want the right-to-work. Union, being a union
manufacturing job, that's one of the biggest single threats you can have
to your job security. You look at the amount of the manufacturing jobs
that have been shipped overseas in the union sector versus the nonunion
sector, it's several fold higher. You see this people, they're angry.
Unions are founded on violence here in this country. And to give you
prove that Americans right now are angry by this, this video went out
about 3:00, 4:00 today and there's already been $6,000 coming in in
donations to find the perpetrator from this video.
It's very important for the conservatives to realize right now there is a
line drawn in the sand and there are Republicans and there are true
conservatives out there laying it on the line. You can side with the
people or the talking heads sitting back in their political strategist
rooms or you can side with the people like me and the folks who
essentially worked with Andrew Breitbart in light and still do in death.
Right now, it's a very serious line being drawn, Sean.
HANNITY: All right. Before we get into the specifics of the issue which
as we will be doing throughout the hour tonight, as we also follow other
breaking news. This is really important, walk our viewers step by step to
what we are seeing in this video. Because this is important. Explain
exactly what happened.
CROWDER: OK. Well, I can't see the portion of the video you are running
right now, I'm assuming it's right before the assault.
HANNITY: Walk us through the events. You know what's in the video. So,
walk us through to what happened.
CROWDER: OK. Well, first off, I went in, asked a few people why are you
against right-to-work. People were immediately hostile, were immediately
violent. I was near the Americans for Prosperity tent. They began tearing
this tent down, tearing it apart while people were still in it. A tent by
the way, Sean, that can fit about 800 people. Do you realize how long
that takes? It wasn't someone pulled out a pin. These people assaulted
the tent and tore it down. When we came out to say, listen, there are
women in here, there are old people in here, stop doing this, that's when
they got even more violent and unruly and assaulted me.
HANNITY: All right. Let me start -- were there women and old people in
there when they collapsed that tent?
CROWDER: You can see in this video, a woman walking out as they are
trampling on that tent. You can see her walking out from it. There were
certainly women and old people in there beforehand as they started
tearing it down. If some got out, I don't know. Just like was I able to
mitigate the injuries as this guy was wailing on my face? Yes.
Absolutely. But that doesn't change the intent. And I want to make
something very clear here, Sean -- I never went out here to try and to be
assaulted as leftists might say. I went out here to prove the left for
who they truly are, certainly these union thugs. And I have achieved
that.
But people want to see civil actions taken against them. So, I just want
to say one thing really importantly. I am issuing an ultimatum right now,
they are trying to find this man who assaulted me, to find this man who
assaulted other people. And you have a choice, you can come forward, I'll
press charges and you will go to jail, or since you wanted to cheap shot
me, we can host a bout in a sanctioned to legalized MMA competition where
the winner will get the money to go to the charity of his choice.
So, all of this money that's been raise, you have this man prosecuted and
put in jail, I will match that and donate it to the union of his choice.
It is your choice. Jail or face me like a man one-on-one legally and I am
easy to find, @SCrowder on Twitter.
HANNITY: Steve, I have known you for long time. You are actually very
well-equipped to protect yourself. You decided not to fight back. Explain
--
CROWDER: Right.
HANNITY: You do have the ability to fight back.
CROWDER: Yes. Well, let me say a couple things, Sean. First, I knew that
it would prove nothing, and secondly, honestly, I don't want to use the
word literally here because when people use the word, you know, literally
and they use it improperly, it makes me angry, figuratively speaking
there. But I literally believe, Sean, that if I have defended myself at
all, even flick the small little jab, that they would have killed me
where I stood. I have never seen this kind of angry, vitriolic hatred.
You take a scene from "The Dark Knight Rises," it is not as bad as this.
I expected Bane to walk in with his cheap little mask. I still don't know
why that movie is getting rave reviews.
But, yes, I expected these people to actually tear me limb from limb. I
knew, I couldn't take that. On one person, fine. Like Mr. Miyagi said,
three people is too many for anyone, let's toss 1,200 into the mix, and
of course, by the way, Sean, are we not addressing the fact that someone
threatened to murder me with a gun on that tape, too?
HANNITY: Well, I heard that. It's at the end of the tape after the
scuffle.
Now, there was a second moment here with the guy actually cold-cocked you
when you weren't even looking. At least from my view of the tape, is that
true?
CROWDER: I have to be honest, Sean. I took his guy's hardest hit on the
jaw. My instinct was a clinch to mitigate damage. And you can see
everyone holding him and he's not hitting me and I say, listen, I'm going
to let you go, I'm going to let you go, please don't hit me. And I let go
and try to run away and he sucker punches me. After that, I got to tell
you, I'm going to be honest. I'm not playing tough guy. I was out on my
feet, I didn't go down, walking back. Now, looking at the tape, some guy
grabbed me from behind by the neck as I was going into the tent and
yanked me, all of it is a blurred. It became a real melee. So, I can't
tell you. I do know that I was cold-cocked and I was sucker punched. And
as you can see in the video, it went unanswered. Maybe I deserve it,
Sean.
HANNITY: I don't think you deserve it. But you didn't do anything to
encourage this. And I have watched this tape a number of times. I didn't
hear you say anything provocative or start a fight. Is there anything I
didn't hear on the tape, just for the record?
CROWDER: No. I did a lot to encourage it, Sean. I asked them why they
were against right-to-work. I asked them to stop hurting people in a
tent. I asked them to stop destroying private property, so I guess I
warranted getting a facial beating repeatedly, Sean, apparently.
HANNITY: Well, I disagree with that. But the real issue --
CROWDER: I'm saying that's the response from leftists right now. They're
saying, you went down and you deserved it. Well, right now, we just
showed the longer footage. You see, they were tearing down a tent. Again,
it is very important to realize we were trying to defend women and people
in that tent before they started assaulting people who were defending
those women and old people in the tent, Sean.
HANNITY: All right. When we come back, this is really important. Steven,
I'm glad you are healthy. Take care, be careful in these situations,
please. And we will continue to follow this in the days to come. And I'm
glad you were able to make it on the show tonight. Thanks for being with
us.
CROWDER: Thank you, God bless.
--
"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the iceberg
a second time."
Barb May
Dec 13, 2012, 2:16:14 PM12/13/12
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Ubiquitous wrote:
> HANNITY: I don't think you deserve it. But you didn't do anything to
> encourage this. And I have watched this tape a number of times. I
> didn't hear you say anything provocative or start a fight. Is there
> anything I didn't hear on the tape, just for the record?
Anyone who has seen the tape knows there was an edit right before the
> HANNITY: I don't think you deserve it. But you didn't do anything to
> encourage this. And I have watched this tape a number of times. I
> didn't hear you say anything provocative or start a fight. Is there
> anything I didn't hear on the tape, just for the record?
assault. What was cut out?
Why was the tape edited?
Here's why:
"I went out here to prove the left for who they truly are... Call me a
provocateur, Sean," added Crowder.
http://www.eclectablog.com/2012/12/fox-news-steven-crowder-americans-for-prosperity-use-breitbart-style-film-editing-to-show-union-thug-brutality.html
"Selective editing at about 0:39 mark shows what appears to be union guy
attacking Crowder for no apparent reason. However, if you look closely,
you'll see that the guy is getting up off the ground - that he was NOT
the one that became aggressive first."
"At 1:49 in the longer video, one union members notes that an AFP guy
has a gun and brags that he's "killed plenty of mother fuckers with a
gun" (i.e., he's killed people who were in possession of guns.) This is
being played up as if a UNION MEMBER had a gun. Not true."
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/selective-editing-by-fox-news-contributor-revealed-by-fox-news/
"Unfortunately for Mr. Crowder, a look at the video broadcast on the
Sean Hannity show appears to show quite clearly that he left out an
important section of the footage when he put together his edit. A
section of the Fox News broadcast preserved by the Web site Mediaite
shows that Mr. Hannity's producers at Fox News started the clip five
seconds earlier than Mr. Crowder did. What the extra footage reveals is
the man who punched Mr. Crowder being knocked to the ground seconds
before and then getting up and taking a swing at the comedian."
--
Barb
JRStern
Dec 13, 2012, 3:04:37 PM12/13/12
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When a third party jumps between two guys fighting, that is supposed
to be an attempt at peacemaking.
So, does adding another five seconds show Crowder not being hit?
Clearly the left initiated thug tactics. Add all the footage you
want, and that will only become clearer.
As for Crowder, if he was going to jump in, maybe he should have been
prepared to defend himself. Or is your criticism that he was acting
too much like Gandhi, trying to make peace non-violently?
J.
Barb May
Dec 13, 2012, 4:49:19 PM12/13/12
to
carried by an AFP thug and the threats that he made?
> When a third party jumps between two guys fighting, that is supposed
> to be an attempt at peacemaking.
"Call me a provocateur, Sean," added Crowder.
When a political operative like Crowder sets out to make a tape to
further the "union thugs" meme he would engage in "peacemaking" when the
camera is on and taunting when the camera is off. Or he just edits the
tape and hopes no one notices. Too bad for Crowder and Fox News that
everyone can easily see that the tape was edited.
>
> So, does adding another five seconds show Crowder not being hit?
for Crowder's physical assault that knocked the man to the ground). The
edit proves that the tape is a lie and that Crowder is a liar.
--
Barb
JRStern
Dec 13, 2012, 6:08:50 PM12/13/12
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:49:19 -0800, "Barb May"
Does it show your other fantasies either? Lordy, I hope not.
>> When a third party jumps between two guys fighting, that is supposed
>> to be an attempt at peacemaking.
>
>"Call me a provocateur, Sean," added Crowder.
>
>When a political operative like Crowder sets out to make a tape to
>further the "union thugs" meme he would engage in "peacemaking" when the
>camera is on and taunting when the camera is off. Or he just edits the
>tape and hopes no one notices. Too bad for Crowder and Fox News that
>everyone can easily see that the tape was edited.
He was a provocateur by putting his face in front of a mad guy's fist.
Dedication to his craft, I guess.
I see no hint that we know just how the guy got on the ground in the
first place. If he was tearing at the tent and a guard pushed him
away, you have any opinions on that?
>> So, does adding another five seconds show Crowder not being hit?
>
>The tape was edited because it shows WHY Crowder was hit (in retaliation
>for Crowder's physical assault that knocked the man to the ground). The
>edit proves that the tape is a lie and that Crowder is a liar.
Really, you're going to say you think Crowder hit the other guy first?
(I have no evidence either way, nor do you, but such an assumption
seems absurd)
J.
>> When a third party jumps between two guys fighting, that is supposed
>> to be an attempt at peacemaking.
>
>"Call me a provocateur, Sean," added Crowder.
>
>When a political operative like Crowder sets out to make a tape to
>further the "union thugs" meme he would engage in "peacemaking" when the
>camera is on and taunting when the camera is off. Or he just edits the
>tape and hopes no one notices. Too bad for Crowder and Fox News that
>everyone can easily see that the tape was edited.
Dedication to his craft, I guess.
I see no hint that we know just how the guy got on the ground in the
first place. If he was tearing at the tent and a guard pushed him
away, you have any opinions on that?
>> So, does adding another five seconds show Crowder not being hit?
>
>The tape was edited because it shows WHY Crowder was hit (in retaliation
>for Crowder's physical assault that knocked the man to the ground). The
>edit proves that the tape is a lie and that Crowder is a liar.
(I have no evidence either way, nor do you, but such an assumption
seems absurd)
J.
RichA
Dec 13, 2012, 6:51:27 PM12/13/12
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On Dec 13, 4:49 pm, "Barb May" <barb...@nonofyourbusinessx.tv> wrote:
> JRStern wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:16:14 -0800, "Barb May"
> > <barb...@nonofyourbusinessx.tv> wrote:
>
> >> Ubiquitous wrote:
> >>> HANNITY: I don't think you deserve it. But you didn't do anything to
> >>> encourage this. And I have watched this tape a number of times. I
> >>> didn't hear you say anything provocative or start a fight. Is there
> >>> anything I didn't hear on the tape, just for the record?
>
> >> Anyone who has seen the tape knows there was an edit right before the
> >> assault. What was cut out?
>
> >> Why was the tape edited?
>
> >> Here's why:
>
> >> "I went out here to prove the left for who they truly are... Call me
> >> a provocateur, Sean," added Crowder.
>
> >>http://www.eclectablog.com/2012/12/fox-news-steven-crowder-americans-...
> JRStern wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:16:14 -0800, "Barb May"
> > <barb...@nonofyourbusinessx.tv> wrote:
>
> >> Ubiquitous wrote:
> >>> HANNITY: I don't think you deserve it. But you didn't do anything to
> >>> encourage this. And I have watched this tape a number of times. I
> >>> didn't hear you say anything provocative or start a fight. Is there
> >>> anything I didn't hear on the tape, just for the record?
>
> >> Anyone who has seen the tape knows there was an edit right before the
> >> assault. What was cut out?
>
> >> Why was the tape edited?
>
> >> Here's why:
>
> >> "I went out here to prove the left for who they truly are... Call me
> >> a provocateur, Sean," added Crowder.
>
> >> "Selective editing at about 0:39 mark shows what appears to be union
> >> guy attacking Crowder for no apparent reason. However, if you look
> >> closely, you'll see that the guy is getting up off the ground - that
> >> he was NOT the one that became aggressive first."
>
> >> "At 1:49 in the longer video, one union members notes that an AFP guy
> >> has a gun and brags that he's "killed plenty of mother fuckers with a
> >> gun" (i.e., he's killed people who were in possession of guns.) This
> >> is being played up as if a UNION MEMBER had a gun. Not true."
>
> >>http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/selective-editing-by-fox-...
> >> guy attacking Crowder for no apparent reason. However, if you look
> >> closely, you'll see that the guy is getting up off the ground - that
> >> he was NOT the one that became aggressive first."
>
> >> "At 1:49 in the longer video, one union members notes that an AFP guy
> >> has a gun and brags that he's "killed plenty of mother fuckers with a
> >> gun" (i.e., he's killed people who were in possession of guns.) This
> >> is being played up as if a UNION MEMBER had a gun. Not true."
>
> >> "Unfortunately for Mr. Crowder, a look at the video broadcast on the
> >> Sean Hannity show appears to show quite clearly that he left out an
> >> important section of the footage when he put together his edit. A
> >> section of the Fox News broadcast preserved by the Web site Mediaite
> >> shows that Mr. Hannity's producers at Fox News started the clip five
> >> seconds earlier than Mr. Crowder did. What the extra footage reveals
> >> is the man who punched Mr. Crowder being knocked to the ground
> >> seconds before and then getting up and taking a swing at the
> >> comedian."
>
> > Does it show the tent not being ripped down?
>
> Does it show the taunting and threats by AFP thugs? Does it show the gun
> carried by an AFP thug and the threats that he made?
http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/there-will-be-blood-union-violence-in-the-age-of-obama/
> >> Sean Hannity show appears to show quite clearly that he left out an
> >> important section of the footage when he put together his edit. A
> >> section of the Fox News broadcast preserved by the Web site Mediaite
> >> shows that Mr. Hannity's producers at Fox News started the clip five
> >> seconds earlier than Mr. Crowder did. What the extra footage reveals
> >> is the man who punched Mr. Crowder being knocked to the ground
> >> seconds before and then getting up and taking a swing at the
> >> comedian."
>
> > Does it show the tent not being ripped down?
>
> Does it show the taunting and threats by AFP thugs? Does it show the gun
> carried by an AFP thug and the threats that he made?
Antonio E. Gonzalez
Dec 14, 2012, 12:48:46 AM12/14/12
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:16:14 -0800, "Barb May"
the whole thing, but started it with assault!:
<http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41332_Another_Breitbart_Fake_Outrage_Bites_the_Dust-_Crowder_Admits_He_Shoved_Union_Members>
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/cmuhz7j>
"Today in the fake right wing scandal we’ll call UnionThug-Gate, we
learn that provocateur Steven Crowder was not just standing there
minding his own business when he was punched in the face outside the
Michigan Capitol — he was shoving union members.
And how do we know this? From Crowder’s own words, in this smug,
self-aggrandizing interview with Canada’s Fox News imitation, Sun
News. The thing about dimwits like Crowder is that if you let them
keep talking long enough, they’ll eventually out themselves. They
can’t help it.
The pertinent section begins at about 4 minutes in, as the interviewer
rants about thugs and asks why the police didn’t arrest them (maybe
because Crowder never filed a police report?):
“I’ve been very honest about this, the fact that as they started
ransacking the tent, yeah, me and some men went out there … and we
didn’t get violent with them but we did try to push them off the tent.
That is true. We tried to push them off the tent.”
That’s right, he’s admitting on television that he was the original
aggressor in this incident, but edited his video to remove the part
where he was pushing union members. Idiot. Another Breitbart invented
outrage bites the dust."
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NoBody
Dec 14, 2012, 6:19:50 AM12/14/12
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vandalizing but if you defend yourself or your property *you're* the
attacker?
trotsky
Dec 14, 2012, 7:38:16 AM12/14/12
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Barb May
Dec 14, 2012, 12:20:36 PM12/14/12
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They can't let this go.
--
Barb
trotsky
Dec 14, 2012, 4:29:05 PM12/14/12
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On 12/14/12 11:20 AM, Barb May wrote:
numbers are horrific.
> trotsky wrote:
>> I sure hope Thanny and his teabaggers have an explanation for all
>> this.
>
> Heh. Count on it.
>
> They can't let this go.
Their desperation since the election is palpable. And their poll
>> I sure hope Thanny and his teabaggers have an explanation for all
>> this.
>
> Heh. Count on it.
>
> They can't let this go.
numbers are horrific.
Antonio E. Gonzalez
Dec 15, 2012, 4:42:04 AM12/15/12
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assault.
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