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Posted on YouTube: June 10, 2010
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Posted on DU: June 21, 2010
By DU Member: TrollBuster9090
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I'm curious to know what you all think of this editing job. A violent incident at a North Carolina Tea Party rally involving Nathan Tabor, the Chairman of the Forsyth County Republican Party.
Here's what happened:
There's a tea party protest. A guy named Governor Spencer comes up to the Tea Party protesters and tells them they're full of it. A shouting match ensues. Spencer tries to leave, Tabor and his wife block him from walking away on the sidewalk. He asks/demands that they "move." At most, Spencer touches Tabor's wife with the tips of his fingers. Tabor then violently shoves Spencer, telling him "don't touch my wife, you got it!?" Spencer then punches Tabor after being shoved.
The sequence of events is clearly shown here (on the website of a conservative wingnut, ironically) where several videos from different angles are spliced together. Watch the whole thing, and then watch from the 1:20 minute mark where the video shot from the back overlaps with Tabor's own video, which cuts out as soon as he starts shoving Spencer saying "don't touch my wife, you got it?". You can clearly see that Spencer didn't shove Tabor's wife and, at most, might have touched her with the tips of his fingers to convince her to move out of his way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlbf4lQApYsAnd then Fox News shows the video you see above, where they CAREFULLY EDIT OUT the two seconds that preceded the punch, showing Tabor shoving Spencer, and claim that Spencer punched Tabor without provocation. Editing it and showing it that way would, no doubt, stir up violent feelings from the Tea Party crowd.
Is that what Fox is trying to do? Or do they even realize that editing it this way will incite violence?