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Posted on 03/14/2016 6:42:41 AM PDT by servo1969
A reporter and editor for the conservative news website Breitbart resigned their positions late Sunday over the site's response to an alleged assault on the reporter by Donald Trump's campaign manager.
Reporter Michelle Fields and editor Ben Shapiro confirmed their resignations in statements to Buzzfeed News and on social media.
I can't stand with an organization that won't stand by me: https://t.co/pohxCKScpf -- Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 14, 2016
Tonight, I resigned from Breitbart News due to their treatment of @MichelleFields. My full statement: https://t.co/kEFev1L0Af -- Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 14, 2016
Their departures from the site stem from the alleged actions of Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at a rally Wednesday night. Fields claimed that she was grabbed by the arm and pulled down. Washington Post reporter Ben Terris identified Lewandowski as the assailant. Fields did not see who grabbed her arm herself.
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Fox, just show the entire video, fair and balanced, and let the viewers decide. It is pretty clear Ms. Fields was not “assaulted”. However we and Trump have been assaulted by Megan Kelly’s constant verbal smears and lying.
Fields evidently worked for Fox and a few other media outlets before. She supposedly is the one that accused Allen West of sexual harassment, while she worked at Fox.
She also claimed a policeman attacked her at Occupy Wall Street.
Looks like a drama queen to me.
We all knew that this sleazy gold digging tramp was fibbin and was in fact, conjuring up of a big $ law suit.
She was moved out of the way by Corey...in a press scrum it is no big deal. She blew it way out of proportion. No media entity should put her in a press scrum if this is going to be how she acts.
Fox News on the whole hates Trump. They will cover up anything favorable to Trump. There’s a few honest reporters on Fox, but they are not allowed to say much. I can’t stand any of the networks anymore. The bias is absolutely disgusting.
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FOX and Beck were in on the scam - dollars to donuts.
Timing is so very convenient. Just as people were talking about the guy that got punched at a Trump rally.
It looks as if FOX NEWS is funding the opposition to Trump
MEgyn Kelly, Glenn Beck, Kelly’s stooges, and now Shapiro and his Hero.
. But
Breitbart today: ‘We will miss Shapiro’s listicles.’
*snicker*
One time Roman Puchinski pushed me.
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I have been thrown to the floor.
She was not thrown to the floor.
She got in the way of a guy trying to keep up with his boss in a big, noisy room full of people.
Perhaps this delicate little flower should get out of the rough-and-tumble business of being a reporter and do something much more suited to her delicate and sensitive nature......
Like being in the Infantry.
Faux News, “We decieve you believe” Faux hides the video because they are supporting the left.
This is what happens when you don’t stand by your people.
I believe Michelle Fields is already a "Fox News contributor."
Shapiro:
As a close personal friend and mentee of Andrew Breitbart’s, it saddens me tremendously to announce that as of 9:00 p.m. Pacific Time, I have resigned from Breitbart News as editor-at-large. I met Andrew Breitbart when I was seventeen years old and remained his friend until his tragic death; I signed on with Breitbart News two weeks before Andrew’s death because I believed in his mission.
I am proud of what we accomplished in the years following his death, fighting back against the leftist media and debunking the left’s key narratives. I have many good friends at Breitbart News, including editor-in-chief Alex Marlow and editor-at-large John Nolte, and I admire CEO Larry Solov for his dedication to ensuring a financial future for Andrew’s widow, Susie, and his four children.
Andrew built his life and his career on one mission: fight the bullies. But Andrew’s life mission has been betrayed. Indeed, Breitbart News, under the chairmanship of Steve Bannon, has put a stake through the heart of Andrew’s legacy. In my opinion, Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda, to the extent that he abandoned and undercut his own reporter, Breitbart News’ Michelle Fields, in order to protect Trump’s bully campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who allegedly assaulted Michelle. I spoke with Michelle the night after the incident. She told me her story. That story was backed by audiotape, eyewitness testimony from The Washington Post’s Ben Terris, physical bruises, and video tape.
Both Lewandowski and Trump maligned Michelle in the most repulsive fashion. Meanwhile, Breitbart News not only stood by and did nothing outside of tepidly asking for an apology, they then attempted to abandon Michelle by silencing staff from tweeting or talking about the issue. Finally, in the ultimate indignity, they undermined Michelle completely by running a poorly-evidenced conspiracy theory as their lead story in which Michelle and Terris had somehow misidentified Lewandowski.
This is disgusting. Andrew never would have stood for it. No news outlet would stand for it.
Nobody should.
This truly breaks my heart. But, as I am fond of saying, facts don’t care about your feelings, and the facts are undeniable: Breitbart News has become precisely the reverse of what Andrew would have wanted. Steve Bannon and those who follow his lead should be ashamed of themselves.
Fields:
Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate resignation. I do not believe Breitbart News has adequately stood by me during the events of the past week and because of that I believe it is now best for us to part ways.
I’ve seen the video, and it’s clear she was assaulted.
But none of this matters to Trump, Lewandowski, their little toadies at Breitbart, or the Trumpkins.
You must have seen some other video, or you define "assault" differently than the rest of us.
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