Labor Studies
<strong>5) University of Missouri Labor Class:</strong> In <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=4350" target="_blank">another phony video sting</a>,
Breitbart published a video of the proceedings of a class on the
history of labor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. As usual,
the video was a deceitful mash-up that misrepresented the professors
and students as supporting violent labor activity. The twist here is
that it was Breitbart’s one-time friend Glenn Beck who published an
accounting of the video deception and vindicated the professors. As a
bonus intrigue, the party from whom Breitbart got the UM video is
identified only as Insurgent Visuals. That, however, <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=4350" target="_blank">may be a ruse</a> to disguise Breitbart’s long-time partner in crime, James O’Keefe.
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<p>Andrew Breitbart has taken this notion to new levels. His capacity
for dishonesty is boundless and entirely devoid of shame. The latest
episode in his recurring series of video lie-fests takes place at the
University of Missouri in Kansas City. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oTooyabyA&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">The video</a>
posted at his BigGovernment blog shows a professor and a guest lecturer
engaged in a discussion that includes statements that imply they are
advocating violence on behalf of labor interests. <em>“Yeah, that’s the ticket.”</em> The only problem with this expose is that, like just about everything else Breitbart does, it isn’t true.
Judy Ancel, Director of Labor Studies at UMKC, is the professor in
the video. She responded to Breitbart’s smear in an email with several
examples of how Breitbart fiddled with the content to deliberately
convey a meaning that did not exist in reality. For instance, she
writes…</p>
<blockquote><p>Breitbart is a master of taking quotes out of context,
deletion of what doesn’t serve his purpose, and remixing to achieve
totally different meaning. For example he has me saying:
<strong>o Breitbart’s version:</strong> “Violence is a tactic and it’s to be used when it’s the appropriate tactic.”
<strong>o The real version:</strong> After students had watched a
film on the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike and the
assassination of Martin Luther King, they were discussing nonviolence. I
said, “One guy in the film. . . said ‘violence is a tactic, and it’s to
be used when it’s the appropriate tactic.’. . . ” The class proceeded
to discuss and debate this.</p></blockquote>
It is apparent that Ancel was quoting somebody in the film, not
expressing her own views. This is typical of Breitbart and his ilk.
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"Indeed, just last week a conservative research group in Michigan issued
a public records request to the labor studies departments at three
public universities in that state. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy
is seeking any emails involving the Wisconsin labor turmoil from
professors at the University of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State
University. This request also is being roundly criticized as an attempt
to intimidate academics who may be sympathetic to organized labor."