Interesting what is missing from these reports is who is being assaulted and who is doing the assaulting. So far all the attacking has been Obama supporters attacking opponents. Still have yet to find any reports of opponents being violent.
When do you think we’ll see the opponents getting violent? I think it’s pretty close right now, and the employment of union goons and plants doesn’t help create a fire break.
The paper also included this explosive quote from an SEIU official hinting at plans to instigate trouble at the event: "We're prepared [for disruption]. We have strategies to deal with it if it should come up." That language provided important context about a group whose leader once described his thug-like organizing philosophy like this: "[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn't work we use the persuasion of power."
The rewrite of the story a short time later dropped the quote and changed the tone of the story to what Henke rightly called "something far more SEIU/Democrat friendly." The second version downplayed SEIU's role even though it was billed as an organizer, and it spun the story from the critical perspective of pro-Obama protesters.