This is an update of one of my previous posts, "Oh! what a tangled web we weave" (Sir Walter Scott), about the latest of Andrew Breitbart's dishonestly edited video clips. A couple of video clips on Breitbart's Big Government site showed two professors apparently explaining and recommending the use of violence in labor disputes. But as with all things Breitbart, it's best to assume the video has been dishonestly edited, and to look into it further.
I did that, and I found that -- sure enough! The videos had been cut and rearranged to portray the professors as saying things they hadn't said. The corresponding unedited clips were posted on Crooks & Liars, and they presented an entirely different view.
The university investigated the situation; as a result, the professors were exonerated.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- University of Missouri-Kansas City officials say they're standing behind a labor studies professor whose lecture comments about union agitation tactics have created an Internet stir among conservative commentators.One of the professors, Judy Ancel, director of the university's Institute for Labor Studies, called the Breitbart video "part of a broad agenda to weaken unions."
Video clips on conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website show professor Judy Ancel seemingly endorsing violence as a union tactic during a recent class. UMKC Provost Gail Hackett pledged support for the academic freedom of the school's professors and said videos posted on Breitbart's site rely on "selective editing" and are presented in "an inaccurate and distorted manner."
Breitbart, when reached by the AP, declined comment but referred a reporter to a posting on his website. The posting attributed to someone writing under the name "Insurgent Visuals" accuses Ancel of distorting a quote from the film. The posting also features a video clip from the documentary apparently shown in Ancel's class in which a former Memphis sanitation worker discusses "nonviolence as a tactic," not violence.
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