Last year, Michigan Republicans pushed through a radical “right to work” anti-union law. In the days before the law was passed, thousands of Michiganders protested, as it was being pushed through in a lame duck session so a number of defeated Republicans could vote for the unpopular measure.
During those protests, Fox News contributorAi??Steven Crowder claimed that a union protester punched him. The network ran video showing one protester punching Crowder, giving the impression that it was an unprovoked attack. That video has 1.4 million views on YouTube, and was used as anti-unionAi??propagandaAi??by the network.
Crowder soon filed a police report following the December 11 incident. But the county prosecutor,Ai??Stuart Dunnings III, has now said that he will refuse to prosecute. Dunning explained that he viewed an unedited clip of the same situation — captured by The Young Turks — and that it clearly shows that the protester who threw the punch was first pushed down, and that it appears that he was simply acting in self defense against a larger crowd that first attacked him.
Watch the unedited footage:
Why would Fox show a video clip that was edited to show only what Fox wanted to show?
The answer is always because Fox lies.
When does Fox News ever tell the truth?? If that happened, that would be news!
Right wing trolls and anti union people were all over the place talking about this and using this video that union members were ‘thugs’. Even when people posted evidence to the contrary, for example, the unedited video or witnesses, it was usually simply ignored. Why? Because Fox News seldom tells the truth, or at least the whole truth, and when confronted with that fact, their supporters can not handle the truth, so they simply ignore it.
Obviously I mean they were using this edited video as EVIDENCE union members were ‘thugs’. Oops!