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Breitbart Spokesman Quits over Trump Incident
The Hill ^ | 3/11/16 | Harper Neidig

Posted on 03/11/2016 2:13:35 PM PST by KansasGirl

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To: Penelope Dreadful

And another thing. There isn’t any “free speech” inside the rallies. Nobody goes to a James Taylor concert and then gets up and starts singing. Same with these protesters.


61 posted on 03/11/2016 4:31:14 PM PST by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for thoughts. (Ophelia, from Hamlet))
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To: dforest

I’m worried that the more Trump wins, the more deranged the antis become.

What if the GOPe issues a hit?

Sounds tin foilish, but I think Trump needs to be better protected, and not let “reporters” or anyone else get within touching distance unsupervised.

In any case, it stuff like this that ISIS and Al Qaeda notices... Let alone the spinless RINOs.


62 posted on 03/11/2016 4:31:18 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: moehoward

Frame by frame stepping of the Cspan video & other source pics/videos:

Here is the best review of video (using frame by frame with a high res computer system)
1. Fields moves in and starts walking next to (& closely to) Trump.
2. AS she does she reaches with her left hand and touches Trump on his left arm. At the same time she pushes her right arm towards Trump’s shoulder/face area holding a recording device (smart phone).
3. Trump slightly turns to Fields from this action.
4. As Fields is holding a device up to Trump near his shoulder/face and causing Trump to turn from her arm touching Trump, Lewandowski & security person are alerted by this action.
5. Lewandowski & security person react.
6. Security person grabs Fields’ left forearm (where the bruises were purported).
7. Lewandowski places his left hand on Fields’ left bicep area just under the shoulder (non-grab but a slight palming).
8. As soon as Fields’ arm is pulled down, both people quickly release.
9. Fields is standing and nothing shows any type of jerk or fall.
10. Trump continues on as Fields remains.
11. It all happens very quickly and orderly. But there is no evidence of any dramatic scuffle.
12. The forearm “grab” to Fields’ forearm is very brief and it was NOT from Lewandowski. (note the pics of the purported bruises by Fields were on the forearm. Lewandowski did not touch her on the forearm).


63 posted on 03/11/2016 4:34:11 PM PST by EarthResearcher333
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To: KansasGirl

Short fuse.


64 posted on 03/11/2016 4:35:12 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: KansasGirl

You’ve embraced a lie and won’t let go of it. I’ve asked you now three times to post the link of your precious left-wing commie reporter getting molested by Trump’s staff. You can’t do it because the video doesn’t exist.

Here’s the only video showing this incident:

Video Emerges to Suggest WaPo Reporter Ben Terris Misidentifies Lewandowski in Fields Incident
Breitbart

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3407896/posts?q=1&;page=51

You’re a troll.


65 posted on 03/11/2016 5:06:04 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: sergeantdave

Just because nobody’s posted a video yet doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, waiting for the highest bidder.


66 posted on 03/11/2016 5:09:04 PM PST by txhurl (Voted for Cruz, and another Bush, apparently!)
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To: EarthResearcher333

Fields showed her manhandled bruises on GMA this morning.


67 posted on 03/11/2016 5:12:19 PM PST by txhurl (Voted for Cruz, and another Bush, apparently!)
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To: txhurl

“Just because nobody’s posted a video yet doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, waiting for the highest bidder.”

Just stop the crap!

The video showing the incident is here, posted on FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3407896/posts?q=1&;page=51


68 posted on 03/11/2016 5:22:06 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: combat_boots
Apparently, the reporter touched Trump with a pen in her hand.

Considering that the Russian KGB operative was poisoned in London, one theory with the tip of an umbrella, that's not cool; she should have known better.

69 posted on 03/11/2016 5:33:44 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: HarleyLady27
Here is the photo from your link:


70 posted on 03/11/2016 5:38:05 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: KyCats; DoughtyOne

This kind of failed pseudo attack on Trump by a liberal female reporter reminds me of the trial runs performed by the islamists who carried out the September 11th attacks on the United States.
I’m pretty sure that those who wish Donald Trump evil are paying close attention to how close she got, how she got close to begin with, and the reaction time and methods of the Secret Service who are protecting him.
I am of the opinion that the closer Donald gets to reaching the number of delegates required, the more likely it is that the powers-that-be will try to remove him by any means possible.
Yes I think they are that corrupt and will do everything they can to subvert the will of the people of the United States of America.
A disastrous event like that Could set events in motion that would trigger a brokered convention with who knows it might be they pick and then Jam down our throats Jam.


71 posted on 03/11/2016 6:37:29 PM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (When you see a drowning liberal, throw them the anchor...)
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To: sergeantdave

All it takes is a google search “video surfaces showing Lewandowski grabbing Fields arm”

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/03/11/new-cspan-video-shows-trump-campaign-manager-reaching-for-reporter-michelle-fields-n2132371

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/11/video-shows-trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski-grabbing-reporter-michelle-fields.mobile.html


72 posted on 03/11/2016 6:43:02 PM PST by KansasGirl (So proud to say, "I voted for Ted Cruz!")
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To: MIA_eccl1212

I think along those lines too.


73 posted on 03/11/2016 6:43:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: KansasGirl

‘“video surfaces showing Lewandowski grabbing Fields arm”

Where? These videos don’t show anything. Nobody is grabbing anyone anywhere.


74 posted on 03/11/2016 6:51:15 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: rdcbn
In other words, Kurt Bardella falsely and improperly accused Donald Trumps compaign manager of assaulting one of his reporters without properly investigating and verifying the truth of those claims - major breach of journalism procedures and ethics ...

... The fact that Corey Lewandowski has been slandered is beyond dispute so Bardella has opened himself and his employer to serious liability if Corey Lewandowski chooses to pursue a sander case in the courts.

That's what it looks like. Breitbart has a big problem here, and this reporterette looks to be a real kook ...

We’re Calling Bullsh!t On Michelle Fields

... That story is from a Cruzer who knows this Fields character, has personal first hand knowledge and history with her, mentions Allen West ( wtf! ), Daily Caller, her boyfriend, and provides lots of detailed background about her.

She is a certified Cruz supporter employed by a certified pro-Cruz billionaire fatcat Mercer-owned Breitbart. Her boyfriend is a anti-Trump pro-Rubio exec at the Daily Caller where she got fired from. In fact she may be an anti-Trump Hispanic racist agitator as she describes her lineage as Honduran in posts and tweets that have been unearthed.

Lots of derangement from cult Cruz.

75 posted on 03/11/2016 7:41:21 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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To: KansasGirl
All it takes is a google search “video surfaces showing Lewandowski grabbing Fields arm”

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/03/11/new-cspan-video-shows-trump-campaign-manager-reaching-for-reporter-michelle-fields-n2132371

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/11/video-shows-trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski-grabbing-reporter-michelle-fields.mobile.html

How about skipping Google and just giving us a direct link to a video? I mean show me a video that has you convinced.

What I see in all the videos and stills is an amateur reporterette who stupidly broke security protocol and is really REALLY lucky she didn't get tackled or yanked to the floor. We had Glenn Beck just a few days ago talking about getting close and stabbing 'someone' ( most people think he meant Trump of course ), he received a visit from the Secret Service so everyone knows there is heightened security.

Kansas Girl, see article: We’re Calling Bullsh!t On Michelle Fields written by one of your fellow Cruzers, except this guy doesn't have any Trump Derangement Syndrome.

76 posted on 03/11/2016 7:41:28 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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To: KansasGirl; All

‘“video surfaces showing Lewandowski grabbing Fields arm”


To accurately see what happened you need to step frame by frame on a big hi-res computer display. Otherwise you really don’t see it as the incident happened so quickly.

Both Lewandowski and the security person reacted to Fields at the same time.
Lewandowski did NOT grab her arm as she says (where the purported bruises resulted in the forearm). A hand IS seen grabbing her forearm (possibly/likely the security person), but Lewandowski reached over with his left arm and only palmed his hand at/on her left arm bicep just under the shoulder.

I do not see how this mild palming can be construed as an attack.

Both of them released quickly. From this video she clearly did not fall or suddenly jerk from the momentary grab.

I really believe that this is being played up for political reasons.

Video from Cspan (step frame by frame with hi res full screen mode) 7sec+ mark.
https://twitter.com/cspanJeremy/status/708333405692231680/video/1


77 posted on 03/11/2016 7:47:58 PM PST by EarthResearcher333
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To: EarthResearcher333
Do you know how to post a jpg or other type of pic file here?

Well first you need to upload the image to a server on the internet somewhere. And then you need to obtain its URL ( the address of the image online ). Once you have this accomplished you can use code like this in a FreeRepublic comment ...

<P><IMG SRC="xxx"><BR CLEAR="all">

... where xxx is the address of the image such as ...

http://i.imgur.com/lKwHLXM.jpg

... put together you have ...

<P><IMG SRC="http://i.imgur.com/lKwHLXM.jpg"><BR CLEAR="all">

... which will render as this ...


NOTE-1: the <P> is a paragraph break and pushes the following item ( your image ) down past the current like pressing ENTER twice on a keyboard. If you leave it out then the image will appear inline to the current paragraph.

NOTE-2: the <BR CLEAR="all"> is similar but clears after an image so that whatever words or images following your picture do not butt up to it. It is the only correct way to break after an image.

78 posted on 03/11/2016 7:58:29 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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To: Democratic-Republican

Got it. I suspected I needed to put it on an accessible internet location (and point to the URL).

There are so many frames in this small section of video I’m afraid I’ll create a monster set of pics. The alternative is to create a very slow motion video of each frame stepping that has arrows and text to point out precisely what is happening.

I’ve seen some who have done a poor version video of this by highlighting an area, but they get it wrong (i.e. they miss the critical in-between frames & thus infer Lewandowski is grabbing at the forearm when he is not).

Perhaps there is another FReeper that can verify or vouch for this frame-by-frame method so you won’t have to just take my word on it.

BTW - the security person saw Fields well before Lewandowski. This security person put on the gas to close the gap to Trump as Fields was rushing in. The security person’s movements and his locked on stare is what caught the eye of Lewandowski. Then they both reached her at the same time. You can see that the security person used his right hand in the momentary forearm grab on Fields as his thumb can clearly be seen as he swiftly released his grab.

Why can’t the media and all the tech-ies figure this out. Geez.

P.S. I’ve worked designing Massively Parallel Supercomputers that were used at Sandia Nat’l labs & other leading military companies. But this analysis seems simple to anyone who has a fairly decent computer.


79 posted on 03/11/2016 8:43:14 PM PST by EarthResearcher333
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To: EarthResearcher333
Got it. I suspected I needed to put it on an accessible internet location (and point to the URL).

I'd recommend using Imgur if your new to this kind of thing. I use pretty much all of the different hosts but at least Imgur is still friendly to direct linking rather than using clickbait catch pages.

You can also put animated GIFs up there, but not sure about MPG or AVI or MOV or WEBM etc. You might have to experiment.

I *believe* if you upload one of them to Imgur it will be converted to GIFV, which is designed for HTML5 browsers. The URL they give you will have the "v" attached to the file extension.

However you can strip off the last letter like this ...

... to use it traditionally. Here is how the first one renders leaving in the "v" in the name. Note that what someone sees here will entirely depend on their browser capabilities ...


... And here it is again without the trailing "v" included in the IMG SRC tag ...


I don't have time to experiment right now, but maybe someone here already has done this? If so, perhaps they can kindly explain to EarthResearcher333 how to get his video online. Maybe there is a better site for animations I'm not aware of.

IMPORTANT NOTE: all sites have some kind of file size limit obviously, though I have no idea what they are anymore. But if you make a video that is really large, it is not a great idea to even try to embed it. This is expensive ( in the processor and bandwidth sense ) because everyone's web browser downloads it to a cache and then displays it.

In this case it would be better to just upload it to a file host only site ( a cloud thing, file storage/sharing type skydrive/onedrive/etc ). Then you just post the URL alone rather than inside and IMG SRC tag and the people can download it directly and display it in whatever program they choose.

P.S. I’ve worked designing Massively Parallel Supercomputers that were used at Sandia Nat’l labs & other leading military companies. But this analysis seems simple to anyone who has a fairly decent computer.

Boy we could sure have fun talking, but shouldn't. Check your SA's and NDA's, I'll bet yours are like mine and don't expire, ever ;-)

80 posted on 03/11/2016 10:18:12 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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