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Originally Posted by ottopilot
More hate speech from the right... whoops, make that a hard-left!
The following video was taken at a recent anti-Koch brothers protest in Palm Spring, CA. Observe the “peaceful” leftist protesters calling for the torture and death of Clarence Thomas, plus one woman challenging Glenn Beck to a duel with her “Glock.”
You’ll also hear one person calling for revolution and another saying Thomas (who’s black) should be sent “back to the fields”:
Oh those wacky peace  lovin' lefties!
When will the "left" take responsibility for their language of racism, hatred, and violence? |
Otto...we know for a fact that the video was produced AND edited by a guy named Christain Harsock, who claims to be a conservative "journalist (sic) and was involved in videos at ACORN offices.
And apparently was the one egging the responses on with leading questions.
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Christian Hartsock...attended the protests outside of last weekend's Koch conference as an "independent investigative journalist," and asked protestors a variation of a leading question: What should be done to Clarence Thomas, to get revenge for Anita Hill? Among the answers: "put him back in the fields," "torture him," and "string him up."
I got interested in this when James O'Keefe, the ACORN sting artist, tweeted a link to it directed at Politico's Ken Vogel, one of the few reporters who filed stories from the Koch meeting and the protest. "Why didn't you mention the 'lynching' stuff these protesters said in your Politico articles?" asked O'Keefe. Vogel responded: "because I didn't instigate them to say those things, just like I don't instigate at Tea Party protests. Not your style, I know."
This is a revealing little incident. There is a subgenre of political video in which the videographer infiltrates an event and asks leading questions to see how the subject responds. The best stuff shows up in a rundown of clips that, inevitability, makes the event look completely insane.
Weigel : BREAKING: Jerks React to Leading Questions on Video
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The clip does include a montage of reprehensible suggestions from people at a Koch Brothers protest, and the titular suggestion from a couple of people outside the rally, but the real surprise here is that conservative filmmaker Christian Hartsock spends the entire clip cheering them on! He laughs, and when he’s not cutting away before we can hear him, he agrees with suggestions like sending Clarence Thomas “back to the fields,” or “torturing” Thomas.
On the surface, it appears that Hartsock cleverly egged on some moonbat protesters, in a desperate attempt to provide some false equivalence with leading conservatives like Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle. However, the damaging claim he makes in his video’s title is belied by the footage, which actually shows the most reprehensible, racially-charged suggestion being made by unidentified people outside of the protest. If this video was from a Tea Party event, I expect Hartsock (or his influential mentor, Andrew Breitbart) would be the first to point this out.
Christian Hartsock | Lynch Clarence Thomas | Koch Brothers | Mediaite
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Was the video highly editing (like the ACORN videos) for the purposes of misrepresenting what occurred? Were the worst remarks made by the protesters or outsiders (only heard on the video)? I dont know...do you?
Just another perspective on the event.