I had difficulty in telling this actual
Two University of Missouri professors — one in Kansas City and the other in St. Louis — are in the crosshairs of Andrew Breitbart, the right-wing hitman whose doctored video falsely presented an exemplary black employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Shirley Sherrod, as a racist.
I’m amused by individuals who are unable to differentiate between an “excerpt” and “edited,” or “doctored.” What Big Government published was an excerpt, an excerpt of a full video from the NAACP. Logic dictates that if the excerpt was “doctored” then the entire video from the NAACP itself, online, was doctored since the excerpt was the same thing as was and is in the original.
Breitbart’s website, biggovernment.com, has posted video of University of Missouri-Kansas City professor Judy Ancel and University of St. Louis professor David Giljam engaged in a discussion with students about when violence might be acceptable as part of the labor movement.As is Breitbart’s way, the video skips among excerpted segments and places no value on context. The professors sound pretty far-out and irresponsible, but of course that’s the point. Anybody who draws conclusions from it without a complete transcript of the discussion is falling into Breitbart’s trap.
“Breitbart’s way?” I guess Shelly just discovered the webernetz and is unaware that Breitbart doesn’t actually edit or produce videos; he serves as a publisher and aggregate, period. In super-layman’s terms that even reporters at the Kansas City Star can understand, this means that other people make the videos and then bring them to Andrew Breitbart who then decides if he wants to publish them on one of his websites. Shelly’s suggestion that he does edit these videos is a lie.
The thought never occurs to Purely Partisan Shelly that the professors in the videos actually said the things they are saying.
No, the more logical conclusion is that Andrew Breitbart teleported himself to appear simultaneously at UMKC and UMSL, where he manipulated the mouths and vocal chords of said professors and forced them to talk about industrial sabotage, violent tactics, and how the “American flag is racist” while manipulating another student to record it. Then, after successfully manipulating these things coming from the mouths of these professors and the student recording it, Breitbart teleported back to his secret batcave which is lined with Reagan wallpaper and houses no less than six large, gas-eating vehicles, and downloaded the recordings onto his computer. Even though we live in an era where the best special effects and audio dubbing software still fail at entirely suspending disbelief, Breitbart has state-of-the-art magical equipment that allows him to put people where they are not, and insert dialogue they did not say, flawlessly. While he doesn’t need to do this because he has the magical skills to manipulate people on site, as Barb Shelly so cleverly believes above, he likes to have it as a fail safe.
Because this, what I just explained, makes so much more sense.
Thanks to the due diligence of super sleuths like Barb Shelly, I’m sure we’ll see the KC Star‘s subscriptions soar and their distribution explode.
For the first time in the modern newspaper era, The Kansas City Star’s Sunday circulation has fallen below 300,000.In all probability, Sunday circulation has not been below 300,000 since it crested that number, perhaps around 1950 or earlier.
According to the most recent report, issued Monday, by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, The Star’s Sunday circulation fell to 290,302 for the April-September reporting period.
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