In response to a video showing day laborers being hired to hold campaign signs for Barbara Boxer, the Pasadena Star-News published a story about the video that has been a “viral phenomenon” according to the story written by staff writers Brian Charles and Frank C. Girardot. The video shows day laborers holding signs for the Boxer campaign during a rally outside of the location where Carly Fiorina showed up to debate Boxer, who was joining via satellite from Washington, D.C., where she was to vote on the very important bill to limit the volume on our TV commercials. The video was taken using a hidden camera and captures the day laborers holding signs for the campaign and when questioned about the sign they responded with “I don’t speak English.” When questioned further about who made the sign, one man referred to the lady “that pays” along with some other broken English that was not audible.
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The Pasadena Star-News seemed compelled to come out defending Boxer and her supporters, by trying to refute the story by questioning the video’s authenticity — and why not, since the video was released on the Breitbart.tv and Big Government websites. After all, the left wing media never pays attention to details of the facts surrounding one of their fellow leftists. They do however, pay very close attention to detail of those that they choose to apply Alinsky tactics to by following those sacred rules for radicals that the left is so fond of deploying. The Star-News article attempts to apply these rules although it’s clear that writer Brian Charles might be a newbie at this game as well as the sources from MoveOn.org and the Boxer campaign. In seeking to determine whether the video was authentic, Charles spoke to a spokeswoman for MoveOn.org who said:
“The tape has numerous problems. The caption doesn’t match what the man is saying,” said Ilyse Hogue, MoveOn.org communications director. “He said more than what appears in the caption. The amount of syllables coming from his mouth doesn’t match what was in the caption.”
This spokeswoman mentioned “numerous problems” with the video but, for some reason could only mention one issue – a rather weak argument at that, considering the only thing that matters is the fact he pointed to a “lady that pays.” The story gets more interesting as Rose Kapolczynski, Boxer’s campaign manager seems to insinuate that the day laborers were really Boxer supporters. I can’t expect them to answer any other way but, really…
One of the more interesting aspects to this story is where the writer and identifies the man who shot the video:
A man identifying himself as Derek Broes, a contributor to Breitbart’s network of websites, claimed Thursday to have shot the video, but declined further comment.
I can confirm this to be true as I am the one who shot the video and spoke to Charles multiple times during the day. I was very clear that I would not reveal my identity but that I was happy to talk about the video and what I saw during the day that lead up to the moment of the video. During one of the calls, Charles and I began talking about the event when Charles put me on hold. While on hold my cell phone dropped the call. I quickly returned the call and left a voice message and again I did not use my name. About an hour later while I was on another call, Charles returned the call that went to my voicemail where my outgoing message reveals my name. I attempted to return Charles’s call more than five times with no response. Hours later his story is published, saying, “A man identifying himself as Derek Broes, a contributor to Breitbart’s network of websites, claimed Thursday to have shot the video, but declined further comment.” Kudos to Charles for journalistic integrity!
Charles’s story continues to fall apart as he writes;
A group of men waiting for work outside a U-Haul rental facility on South Raymond Avenue – a block from where Wednesday’s protest took place – said Thursday they were neither offered money nor received any payment.
“A group of men?” Maybe that was the group of men seen in the video who didn’t get the job because they ran out of signs to hold but, it gets even better. Charles quotes one of the men seen in the video and considering his quote, he must have been the man waiting for more signs to arrive.
The man agreed to speak on condition they didn’t use his name. Most likely because he is in the country illegally and didn’t want to be exposed. Charles dutifully complied with a request for anonymity from a future Democratic voter.
During the course of Charles’s attempting to absolve the Boxer campaign of unethical activity. He unwittingly throws the Boxer camp under the bus as he quotes the anonymous day laborer.
“Some of the guys thought they might make some money by holding the signs, but they were never paid,” he said.
So, not only did the campaign hire the day laborers who never take a job without agreements to be paid or risk missing the one good U-haul renter that pays well, but they stiffed them.
In the following video you will see more from the woman seen in the video who takes credit for making the sign. She is told that more of the day laborers are willing to holds signs for whatever they could get. I don’t think she thought that “whatever they can get” means that NOTHING will suffice. After all, the economy is making it very difficult for illegal to make a living in this country today.
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