Something the Dog Said wrote: all you have to do is look at the actual video and see for yourself.
That's not gonna happen. Bill's opinion was completely cemented before he opened this thread.
Amazing how many conservatives think their fellow countrymen who work in manufacturing and other union positions are 100% mooching low life "thugs"...I love the comraderie...the support for fellow Americans...THEN, they say they support this because they CARE about Americans and want to see lower unemployment, more jobs for the very same Americans they just told you were completely despicable.
Was nobody paying attention during the GOP convention? Remember Mitt's glorious acceptance speach...where he detailed how Americans who lose their $22/hr jobs go out and get TWO $8/hr jobs, for a net loss of $6/hr likely with fewer benefits...THIS was Mitt's objective and the objective of these "right to work" laws. The effort is to bring this nation down to the labor rates of 3rd world countries...but it's okay...you can go out and get a SECOND poor paying job. Just get a THIRD if you need to. If you're a real self-starter motivated up and comer...you'll pick up a FOURTH job! Yeah! Prosperity! Working two or more jobs has gotta be better than just one, right? I mean, it's more.
You fools sit and watch these aristocrats redistribute the wealth from the middle class to their offshore bank accounts...and you cheer them on and kiss their butts hoping they'll let you be a part of their club. WAKE UP! You're not getting into their club ever!
Yep, the video is edited to only show the punches thrown. It looks like there is a cut and before the protester starts throwing punches he is getting up from the ground. Let's see the raw footage that shows why the protester was coming up off the ground. The commentator is called a conservative comedian on the Fox website. It is possible that he was going around interviewing people, but from the reaction of some of the protesters, he also may have been engaging in provoking behavior before the confrontations, but we won't know until the raw footage is released.
Given Fox Opinion's stated slanted bias and the very obviously edited footage of the events, I cannot give the benefit of doubt to the commentator.
When you plant ice you're going to harvest wind. - Robert Hunter
MI Union destroys hot dog cart, calls owner an ‘Uncle Tom’ over right-to-work
“Early today, Clint Tarver, known as “The Hot Dog Guy” here in Lansing had his business attacked by out of line and out of control protesters near the Capitol,” a blog post associated with a fundraiser to restore the hot dog cart explains. “‘It was when he returned to gather his equipment that the taunts and racial slurs began.”
When attacking the cart, the people were “yelling N*gger & Uncle Tom,” according to Michigan Republican State Committee member Nick Hawatmeh.
Whatevergreen wrote: Too bad some bad apples can spoil this for the rest of us.
That's the standard response when the knuckle-draggers and Aryan racists paint swastikas on offices, vandalize cars, and attempt to run people off the road who happen to have the wrong bumper-sticker on their car...Right?
That must be what it is this time... a "bad apple."
I want to see the whole unedited footage from the FauxNews "thug"...
archer wrote: Makes perfect sense to me....the lower the wages go, the higher the profits go.....and that seems to be ALL the conservatives are concerned about.
And meanwhile Obama is concerned about everyone but instead of creating good jobs, a record number are now on food stamps. And millions more have taken themselves off the work rolls and even the looking for work rolls.
Incompetence personified.
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archer wrote: Makes perfect sense to me....the lower the wages go, the higher the profits go.....and that seems to be ALL the conservatives are concerned about.
And meanwhile Obama is concerned about everyone but instead of creating good jobs, a record number are now on food stamps. And millions more have taken themselves off the work rolls and even the looking for work rolls.
Incompetence personified.
There you go again, attacking those baby boomers who are reaching retirement age, what you want to keep people working into their 70's and 80's?
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Something the Dog Said wrote: It would be more believable if they would show the unedited video. the video is edited to make events that were hours apart seem to happen seamlessly at the same time. In fact, what you see in the video is Crowder sticking his face into the protestor's personal space, even after being asked to back up, you see Crowder not acting as a journalist but instigating reactions. It is curious that the video was edited to delete the events leading up to the "attack" and only showing a "protestor" throwing a few wild punches that did not come close to connecting. Violence has no place in political protests, but neither would a responsible journalist intentionally provoke participants in order to create a response such as this.
I also saw union protestors ripping up the tent to let people trapped out, just the opposite of what Fox had reported.
