On Thursday, Steven Crowder issued a tweet saying that his wife is under armed guard after receiving “severe” threats.
“Right now I have a former police officer, heavily armed at my house protecting my wife. The threats are severe. Prayers appreciated,” he tweeted.
Predictably, liberal union supporters on Twitter responded with the usual hate, Twitchy said.
“You stand with evil Koch brothers making up lies, assauting people and cry when you get death threats awww hope you die soon whore (sic),” tweeted “William A. Hunter.”
Despite video clearly showing Crowder being assaulted, liberal union supporters claim that Crowder initiated the assault in a systematic effort to accuse the accusers.
Dana Loesch wrote that Robert Mackey of the New York Times published a “suggestive piece” implying that “Crowder ‘selectively edited’ his video in a way to hide some manner of complicity in his own attack.”
“What the extra footage reveals is the man who punched Mr. Crowder being knocked to the ground seconds before and then getting up and taking a swing at the comedian,” Mackey wrote.
“Mackey specifically chooses the words ‘being knocked to the ground’ to describe Tony’s state and thus implies that Crowder did it — with zero proof, of course. Mackey has spent more time on Tony’s state than what is clearly seen on the video: a mob attack on Crowder,” Loesch wrote.
She then dissected a portion of the video frame by frame to show that Crowder did not push the assailant, identified as possibly being one Tony Camargo, a member of the IBEW.
On Thursday, the conservative group Americans for Prosperity filed a police complaint over the destruction of a tent they had set up in Lansing. The tent was destroyed during the same melee in which Crowder was assaulted.
Related:
- Americans for Prosperity files police complaint over tent destruction
- Watchdog: ABC, NBC, CBS ‘turning a blind eye’ to union violence in Lansing
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Democrat-media complex
- Liberalism remains an ideology of genocidal hate and rage
- Liberals, MSNBC claim union assault on tent a setup despite multiple videos
- Liberals on Twitter issue death threats against Gov. Snyder over right to work
- Unions react with violence after Michigan legislature passes right to work bill
- Michigan Democrat on right to work bill: ‘There will be blood’
- Liberalism: An ideology of rage and hate
- Michael Moore calls for revolt in Michigan, vows to disobey right to work law
- Do liberals really want a second civil war in America?
- Democratic Congressman says it’s time for unions to get bloody
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I watched the video at Mackey’s post, and it doesn’t appear to me that Crowder had anything to do with the union guy falling down, nor does there appear to be any evidence that the video Crowder posted was “selectively edited” to be misleading. It shows exactly what the other video shows.
Others should check it out for themselves. But it doesn’t look to me like Mackey has a case about “selective editing.”
I guess it falls to the contrarian to say that it looked like there was a cut in the vid just before it went to the punches.
Crowder’s entire demeanor, prior to being assaulted is that of someone NOT looking for confrontation. Initially, he tries to question and reason with the union members but when they get verbally abusive, he backs up and turns away…his facial expressions are consistent with someone seeking to avoid physical confrontation.
Not the actions of someone looking too falsely ‘frame’ the other side.
Clearly the union members are emotionally upset and the physical attack is an expression, though of course unjustified, of that emotion. Crowder was a convenient target.
There’s no reason to presume that the purported threats against Crowder’s wife are false and they should be easy to substantiate (voice mails, phone messages) and if substantiated, this has now escalated into more than just emotionalism. The threat of physical violence against his wife would be premeditated and a far more serious issue than a brief physical attack. And if substantiated, far more than a guard needs to be involved, the justice dept. would be appropriate. (I know Holder?, please)
While the far left no doubt welcomes the possible intimidation of conservative activists, liberals have far more reason to be concerned. A justice dept. that fails to investigate when circumstance clearly dictates that and thus fails to prosecute, fatally undermines justice, which over time leads to societal instability. In such an environment, sooner or later everyone pays an inordinate price.