Union Man Stands His Ground When Attacked by Fox News Anti-American Thug Steven Crowder

Union Man Stands His Ground When Attacked by Fox News Anti-American Thug Steven Crowder

A video of Fox News contributor Steven Crowder getting punched by a Michigan union protester was selectively edited, and that editing was revealed during Crowder’s appearance on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News.

The original video shows Crowder getting punched by a protester on Tuesday while Crowder was trying to stop an Americans For Prosperity tent from being torn down. The video, which is approaching a million views on YouTube, was picked up by the right as evidence of “union thuggery”:

 Katie approaching@KatiePavlich
Note to union thugs: don't punch new media people or threaten to kill them. Smile, you're on camera! ow.ly/g19uC
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 Monica Crowley@MonicaCrowley
My pal @scrowder survives attempted union beatdown in MI. This is the Left. Violent & outrageous, but not a big mystery. It's who they are.
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 Michelle Malkin
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@michellemalkin
Oh dear Lord. Did you see vid of @scrowder assaulted by bloodlusting union mob as he tried to protect AFP tent? youtu.be/u_F3oev06i0
11 Dec 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
But on Wednesday, Eclectablog’s Chris Savage argued that Crowder’s video “actually a composite of things that happened over the course of the day, many of them hours apart.”
Crowder defended himself on Twitter:
 Steven Crowder
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@scrowder
All editing is selective by definition. Try the hours of raw footage all over the net. RT @aus_cull: @scrowder SELECTIVE EDITING. #dirtbag
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He added that the full footage was shown on Sean Hannity’s show the night before.
As Robert Mackey of the New York Times’ Lede Blog points out:
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.
Mackey adds that there’s another problem: “The still frame he used for the clip’s title image on YouTube, which offers a much clearer image of the man punching him, was obviously shot by a second camera, from an entirely different angle than the rest of the footage he presented of the man hitting him.”

There is video at the link. Anti-American conservatives really love stand your ground laws. Well, this union guy and others felt threatened, they stood their ground. Don't want to get punched, then don't get up in someone's face and act threatening. More here, Fox News' Conservative Anti-American Thug Steve Crowder Absurdly Challenges MI Protester To Duel In The Octagon

Notice how he uses the word "provoke"? Guys like Crowder have been with us forever. They rooted for the strikebreakers in the 1920s and '30s, and they delighted in going to civil-rights protests in the South in the '60s and pouring sugar on lunch-counter protesters. They aided and abetted the worst of American politics then, and now, with their provocations.

Gov. Snyder lied to the voters of Michigan when he said he would not get involved in the right-to-work debate because it was too divisive. He passed it in a blink of an eye in a lame-duck session. This is going to have a ripple effect on the lives of these working-class people -- people that guys like Crowder and his pal Sean Hannnity hold in contempt. The absurdity continues when he issued an idiotic ultimate challenge to his would be attacker on F&F and then repeated it to Hannity.

Violence is not a good way to handle things, but if you preach violence like conservatives do. If you act violently towards someone and engage in a form of baiting, than generally such people are aware of the possible consequences. The police in Lansing said that protesters were generally well behaved for such a large and sometimes angry crowd. Michigan Republicans just stole some basic human rights from workers like the Taliban does to average citizens in Afghanistan. That is how conservatives define freedom. Anti-American Conservative Media Like Steve Doocy and Fox News Are Wrong About Worker Contributions For Unions' Political Spending