This is what happens when the national media falls for the bait and runs down to “town hall” meetings looking for spectacular video. Last night I saw a clip from Missouri being repeated over and over again, without context, showing an African-American woman, seemingly upset, being carted out of a Claire McCaskill town hall by the police. Here’s a typical example of Tuesday’s cable news coverage, from CNN:
But here is what actually happened and was not shown on national TV:
The woman the media enjoyed shown being dragged away, was holding a poster of Rosa Parks. When she tried to show it to a journalist, a wingnut attacked her and ripped up the sign. Guess which person was then shown on TV acting “unruly” while being dragged out of the hall and humiliated? Which one had 5 cops jump on her, and which one got only one cop?
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