You have probably seen the photos of the Marco Rubio "robot" protesters that met Rubio at one of his New Hampshire events. You have probably also seen the photos of Rubio campaign staff knocking one down and manhandling another.
“I just felt his hands and arms around my neck,” [progressive activist Aaron Black] told TPM. “I asked, ‘Why are you putting your hands on me?’”
There is video of the event, and the video clearly shows one man forcibly shoving "robot" Black away with a large campaign sign while another, Rubio state campaign chair Cliff Hurst, grabs him around the neck and attempts to either knock him over or pull him backwards.
Or, if you're Hurst, you go with the "He was coming right at me!" defense.
But Hurst cast Black as the aggressor in the run-in, telling Breitbart in an interview that “he just attacked me.”
“We were right crowded together and he just almost knocked me down,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. I mean, he was violent against me.”
Except the actual video doesn't show anything of the sort. It doesn't show "robot" Black so much as lifting a finger towards Hurst, as (1) his vision is so obstructed he likely couldn't even see Hurst before Hurst grabbed him and (2) he was holding up a paper sign at the time.
So let's see. We've got Rubio campaign officials knocking over protesters, and then we've got a Rubio campaign official whining to conspiracy outlet Breitbart that despite what the video shows, the exact opposite thing happened so shut up.
Sounds about right. It seems the Rubio campaign is inheriting his trademark twitchiness.