Blogger Who Doctored Bachmann "White People" Video Comes Clean

Last week we reported how Wonkette blatantly spun a comment Michele Bachmann made about the weather into a “racist remark.” It was one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I’ve seen so far this election cycle.

Now the blogger behind the doctored video has egg on their face.

Newsbusters reports:

The blogger who wrongly edited the video issued his apology to McCain yesterday, writing:

I want to apologize for misusing Stacey Robert McCain’s [sic] original video…I was angry so I decided to take Mrs. Bachmann’s line out of context to make her seem more overtly racist in light of her recent signing of that Iowa marriage pledge that said black children were better off under slavery than in Obama’s America. Whether or not I dislike Michele Bachmann, it wasn’t right to deliver a dishonest blow like that. I wanted to apologize to Mr. McCain and all of you directly…[…]

I have removed the video from my Youtube channel.

Beyond the libelous action against Bachmann’s campaign, McCain also has the claim of copyright infringement against the blogger for pirating his video. This further extends against Perez Hilton, who branded the edited video with his own watermark.

CBS News even labeled the video as the number one selection in Michelle Castillo’s “Top 5 Viral Videos of the Week” before fact checking it, saying:

Everything that comes out of Michele Bachmann’s mouth is gold. A new video has her asking a crowd of people, “Who likes white people?” It doesn’t make any sense, so many explanations are surfacing from “White People Soul Power” being the band that played before, to the fact it was raining and Bachmann is asking about “wet” people.

With a simple online search, the entire lineup of the musical festival would have been available, clearing up any confusion in band names.

Read the rest here.

The blogger’s disingenuous double-entendre response:

I was angry so I decided to take Mrs. Bachmann’s line out of context to make her seem more overtly racist in light of her recent signing of that Iowa marriage pledge that said black children were better off under slavery than in Obama’s America. Whether or not I dislike Michele Bachmann, it wasn’t right to deliver a dishonest blow like that.

And you wonder why progressive journalism blows.