She wasn't even rude to this guy, and he probably smelled like feet and bedbugs.
Once again,
Fox News, The Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, Laura Ingraham, Matt Drudge and apparently most of the rest of movement conservatism all fall for a fake tape—this one on Hillary Clinton supposedly "snubbing" a voter asking for an autograph. Didn't happen, the full tape (as opposed to the quick clip released by anti-Clinton shop)
clearly shows.
Every news outlet that reported on Hillary snubbing the voter got it wrong—and could have easily gotten it right. The story never passed a basic B.S. test. Why would a tracker, with a perfect view of Clinton and the crowd, drop the story after the voter was told to relocate? Why would he not go up to the voter and ask how she felt about the snub? (She'd hardly have been the first person swarmed by media after an awkward candidate moment.) The answer was hinted at in the Vine itself, as a close listen revealed Clinton's handlers promising to "take care" of the voter. To make Clinton look rude, the video had to cut around the awkward fact that the voter got what she came for.
The conservative hit shop marketing the snippet, America Rising, has no apologies. Everyone got their requisite
Hillary is mean story for their television shows or radio broadcasts or websites, so they're happy too, and that the unedited version of the tape shows that their original story was bogus doesn't matter because honestly, none of their viewers/listeners/readers are the sort to look these things up; by merely clipping a tape a certain way, it's now an absolute truth among a certain subset of Americans that
Hillary was rude to a voter and that's just all there is to it.
So you have to ask: Did Fox News and all the rest fall for a fake controversy manufactured from a clipped tape, or did they run with it because they liked it and so it didn't matter if it was true or not?
And really now, what's this ongoing movement obsession with fake tapes? Is that going to be the Andrew Breitbart contribution to America—this notion that so long as you can edit a videotape to make something appear to have happened, it doesn't matter if it's true or false? Vote Republican!
Yes, I know you know the answers to both of those things, dear readers. I was being facetious.