Perhaps you can explain what's happening in this video? Or are you claiming that this is "selective editing" as well?
VIDEO: Michigan union protesters tear down Americans for Prosperity tent, punch comedian Steven Crowder - UPI.com
Sure, I can provide a witness who saw someone from Americans-for-Prosperity loosen the tent ropes and kick out the tent stakes. And the tent poles came down from the inside.
HereÂ’s witness Tom Duckworth describing the NRA-clad guy who he had earlier seen with the other AFP people deliberately taking down the tent.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rt6I8BrQCVY]Witness explains how he saw Tea Party activists take down their own tents - YouTube[/ame]
Yeah, we're supposed to believe that guy. Nice try.
Why should we not believe him? Is it because it might destroy the right's whole story? Then what would you do? You folks can't be wrong, can you.
More about what really happened from another eye witness:
This morning I spoke with Matt Allen from Fowlerville, MI. HeÂ’s an 18-year college student and not a union member. He assisted me in putting this piece together and was present for the conversation that happens in the first minutes of the first video below.
HereÂ’s the first, highly edited video which ends with Fox News contributor Steven Crowder getting punched by some union protesters:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_F3oev06i0&feature=player_embedded]UNIONS ASSAULT ON CAMERA!! - YouTube[/ame]
This video is actually a composite of things that happened over the course of the day, many of them hours apart. The initial conversation happened early in the morning. At about 0:16, it cuts to Crowder saying, “You’ve already destroyed one tent, leave this one alone.” That happened hours after the interview with the union workers that starts the segment. The guy he’s talking to is standing quite a distance from the tent but Crowder insists that he’s somehow tearing down the tent.
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 about 1:13, as the tent is coming down, Crowder comes over to the cameraman and waves him off as if to say, “that’s enough filming.” The reason for this becomes clear if you watch this longer, less edited version of the video:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNbL3_zhRWQ&feature=player_embedded]AFP MI Tent comes down at Right To Work Rally pt 2 - YouTube[/ame]
What they apparently don’t want you to see is union members using knives to cut the tent open to let people inside out. Rather, the message that is being sent by the conservative media and blogosphere is that the union members deliberately cut the tent to pieces in an act of malicious vandalism. As Matt Allen points out in his comments HERE, the union members actually ask, “Is everybody out?” and then proceed to make sure that they are.
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.