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MY VIDEO of Michele Bachmann’s Christian Testimony Used in SMEAR JOB

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 79 Comments

This is so shocking I don’t know how to begin to describe it. Regular readers will recall that on Friday, Aug. 5, I covered an appearance by Michele Bachmann at the Spirit Midwest Christian Music Festival in West Des Moines, Iowa. It had been raining all afternoon before Bachmann arrived and gave her Christian testimony, which I recorded on video and posted the next day.

Some vicious monster ripped off my video and edited it, so that when Bachmann begins by jokingly asking the crowd, “Who likes wet people?” — because everybody was soaked to the bone, including me — instead there is a caption, “Who likes white people?”

Ken Layne of Wonkette then spread that smear all around the Internet.

Thank goodness, Chris Moody of Yahoo News spotted the lie and posted the truth.

Now, who do I sue for copyright infringement, piracy and fraud?

UPDATE: Linked by Da Tech Guy, by Eternity Matters and by Lisa Graas at The American Catholic and welcome, Instapundit readers! I’ve also written this up at Right Wing News and cross-posted at the Hot Air Green Room, concluding:

[A]fter I learned that my video had been stolen and misused for such a defamatory purpose, I put up a blog post denouncing the smear, and sent an e-mail to the anonymous proprietor of the “On Knees” Web site. He then deleted his first lie and substituted another vicious smear as a “correction.” But his pirated and re-edited version of my video — a clear violation of my copyright, and of YouTube’s terms of service agreement — is still online. I have spoken to an attorney and fully intend that the perpetrator of this crime will be brought to justice.

And I want the creep who did this to understand that he has just forfeited whatever legal right he had to anonymity. In pursuit of legal action, my attorney informs me, we can subpoena YouTube to get the actual name of this pseudonymous monster, who has made the mistake of picking the wrong dude to rip off in pursuit of his vile purposes.

By the way, Bachmann’s campaign manager is Ed Rollins, a guy who isn’t likely to take this kind of crap too kindly, either.

UPDATE II: Linked by Roxeanne de Luca and by Joy McCann at the Conservatory — thanks!

UPDATE III: Linked by Duane Lester at All American Blogger and by Bob Belvedere at The Camp of the Saints — thanks!

UPDATE IV: Lowlife Who Pirated My Video Apologizes for Smearing Michele Bachmann — we’ll see what my attorney says about this.

Linked at Pirate’s Cove — thanks!


Category: Michele Bachmann

Comments

79 Responses to “MY VIDEO of Michele Bachmann’s Christian Testimony Used in SMEAR JOB”

  1. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 1:22 am

    I waded thru the comments on the wonkette thread (you’re welcome) and, boy, those posters are even stupider than  bunch who make up the echo chamber over at LGF.

  2. Jerry Wilson/Goldfish & Clowns
    August 30th, 2011 @ 1:27 am

    Gawker owns Wonkette. Start with the owner.

  3. ThePaganTemple
    August 30th, 2011 @ 1:29 am

    Are they ever. Wonkette has always been leftist, but at least they were funny once upon a time. The last two or three years they’ve gone straight to hell. The posts aren’t funny and neither are the comments.

  4. Charles
    August 30th, 2011 @ 1:29 am

    I remember thinking “who likes white people” was what she said when you first posted the video. Who do I sue for having my mind read and thoughts expropriated?

  5. ThePaganTemple
    August 30th, 2011 @ 1:31 am

    RSM, it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out, but you’d better act fast before the edited video is taken down. Soak them for every dime you can get off them. Nothing would be cooler than seeing a leftist smear merchant out on the street. Show no mercy.

  6. The haters are so quick to judge « Eternity Matters
    August 29th, 2011 @ 9:32 pm

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  7. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 1:40 am

    If you’d see the EDITED version — the version PIRATED BY SOME DISGUSTING LOWLIFE CRIMINAL – you’ll see they take out the “winds and rains” part that might have provided some context.

    But it’s the PIRACY and COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT that have me roaring mad: I stood in the rain and mud to get that video, and for some DEGENERATE JACKAL to STEAL my work and use it in a DISHONEST SMEAR is enough to make me say he’d better start praying I never get my hands on him.

  8. ThePaganTemple
    August 30th, 2011 @ 1:57 am

    No need in making a big mystery out of it. You’ve got the guilty culprit linked on your post, with the same YouTube username as on his blog, On Knees For Jesus. Here’s his YouTube home page which says he’s uploaded 297 videos. So you’ve got the person dead to rights. At the very least, he’s violated YouTubes TOS and you can have them take the edited video down. But if you’re really seriously considering suing the culprit, and I hope you are, it might be best to leave it up for the time being.

  9. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 2:13 am

    All of them.  Every last cockbiting little bastard of the lot.  Sue them down to their navel lint and leave them just as destitute fiscally as they are morally.

  10. JeffS
    August 30th, 2011 @ 2:36 am

    Wonkette was never funny, between their politics and fixation on anal sex.

  11. Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Christian Candidates Have Got to Go! | The American Catholic
    August 29th, 2011 @ 10:37 pm

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  12. William Quick
    August 30th, 2011 @ 2:39 am

    Man, Layne has sure turned into an all-purpose turd over the years, hasn’t he?   He and Matt Welch of Reason used to be best buds.  I wonder if that is still the case?

  13. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 2:50 am

    Having an outrageous appetite for sarcasm myself, I am prepared to forgive much in that direction. My quarrel isn’t with Layne, it with the anonymous asswipe who STOLE MY VIDEO.

  14. ThePaganTemple
    August 30th, 2011 @ 3:06 am

    He’s not anonymous. YouTube knows who owns that account, its in their records, all you need is a lawyer to set it all in motion.

  15. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 3:07 am

    RSM, I saw this ALL over the leftistsphere today.  Have you sent the original video to Drudge and Rush (and maybe even David Limbaugh)? I share in your anger. 

  16. ThePaganTemple
    August 30th, 2011 @ 3:08 am

    At one time they were, but that’s just my opinion. At least they weren’t as overtly hateful as they are now. They don’t even try to be funny anymore, they just spew and spit bile. All they are now is a high gloss version of Democratic Underground.

  17. Instapundit » Blog Archive » STACY MCCAIN: My video was ripped off! “Some vicious monster ripped off my video and edited it, so…
    August 29th, 2011 @ 11:15 pm

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  18. daveinboca
    August 30th, 2011 @ 3:21 am

    Wasn’t Ken Layne busted for a journalistic fraud a few months back—forget about what—man up, TOMcC, and sue the buttwipe for his family jewels, or what’s left of them….!!!!

  19. Tom Callow
    August 30th, 2011 @ 3:24 am

    No video is safe, just as no candidate is safe (except Romney and Johnson, mark those words)
    They are going to go after everyone with anything and everything
    I shudder to think of what they will do to Palin (again) but I think she is NOT thin-skinned and is probably the only one with the cajones to go after people like this you-tuber.
     She might let her commited base take part in that defense and rise to attack the left. She might even call it what it is,a crime commited in defense of clusterfuckery
    Good times ahead, and I hope you take the guys youtube profits away Stacey

  20. Steve Funston
    August 30th, 2011 @ 3:25 am

    Wow, and she’s supposed to be this weird Christer who we should  all be afraid of and this is the best they can come up with?  They have to take doctored video and lamely try to pass it off as real? No wonder these people are losing so badly.

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  23. Alan Kellogg
    August 30th, 2011 @ 4:01 am

    Can’t say I care much for wet people, they drip all over everything and ruin your carpet. And unfortunately it costs a dollar a load to use the drier.

    So keep your eyes on the weather before you come over.

  24. AngelaTC
    August 30th, 2011 @ 4:06 am

    Still, I’ll take wet people over wet dog any day.

  25. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 4:06 am

    wet, white, whatever…i’m looking for a presidential candidate, not a preacher. i suppose that this video mini-scandal will now paint michelle as some sort of a martyr for the ‘persecuted christians’ crowd. are we sure that this wasn’t an inside job?

  26. Datechguy's Blog » Blog Archive » Hey it’s OK to lie about Bachmann
    August 30th, 2011 @ 12:06 am

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  27. Anon Y. Mous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 4:08 am

    The scumbag has changed the caption. It now reads:

    Error in video: She says “who likes wet people?” in reference to how Marcus hasn’t made her wet in a long time

  28. ThePaganTemple
    August 30th, 2011 @ 4:16 am

    Yeah, like he would be in any position to know that’s what she meant. Lame.

  29. Top
    August 30th, 2011 @ 4:30 am

    I hope Stacy screen capped the original.

  30. Charles
    August 30th, 2011 @ 4:57 am

    That “God of the winds and the rain” part sounds a little pagan crazy, the rainstorm is the real missing context.

    Just to register my paranoia before the mindreaders steal my thoughts and go viral again, where this goes next is “Herman Cain blogger posted original Bachman Who Likes White People video.”

    Then they hit you with “Bachman video hatchet job featured Ladd Ehlinger-style editing, and guess who shared a car ride back from Iowa.”

    Finally, just when you think it’s gone away someone will dredge up a white supremacist heavy metal rock band named “White People” (whose to say it wasn’t there) and we’re off to the viral racetrack again.

    Better keep those lawyers on speed dial!

  31. Leftist Rips Off My Video for Vicious Smear on Michele Bachmann – Hot Air | Christian Media Cross
    August 30th, 2011 @ 12:58 am

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  32. Adjoran
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:02 am

    Well, we obviously can’t be 100% certain until the culprit is outed, but it seems far less likely Bachmann did the hit on herself than, say, your being a jackass.

  33. Adjoran
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:07 am

    Stacy, I applaud you for defending your intellectual property rights!

    We won’t know if a suit is likely to bring any significant damages until we know who the perp is – and face it, most of these little lefty snots are living in Mom’s basement or some starter apartment and if you seized all their personal wealth it wouldn’t pay the disinfectant bill.  But you never know . . .

    Attorneys cost money, and in this sort of situation you might get some help from a group or foundation – of course the attorneys will get paid off the top if you do win anything, but the point is to enforce your property rights and to make the offender pay.  The publicity won’t hurt you, and might discourage other would-be thieves.

    And make NO mistake, the perp is a common thief.

  34. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:14 am

    Look, Charles: He STOLE MY VIDEO. He then edited it to create a LIE and uploaded that stolen work to his own YouTube account and posted it his blog. Let anybody say what they will about me, because I’ve got this guy dead to rights from a legal standpoint. Monetary damages aren’t likely to amount to much — the commercial value of a YouTube video isn’t a king’s ransom — but the wrongfulness of his actions are so blatant, he would damned sure be liable my attorney’s fees and court costs and, best of all, his anonymity is forfeited by the legal proceedings.

  35. Njoriole
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:20 am

    “Charles,” huh? As in that low-life totalitarian, Jump-the-Sullivan CJ/LGF?

  36. AngelaTC
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:36 am

    Watermarks, dude.

  37. Jorge Emilio Emrys Landivar
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:42 am

    Its also an attempt to commit libel.

  38. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:56 am

    Oh, I expect to have no shortage of legal assistance, one way or another.

  39. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 5:57 am

    No, a different Charles. This one lives in Boston.

  40. kalilover
    August 30th, 2011 @ 6:17 am

    I hope you reported him through the “abuse” button on Blogger.

    The other thing to do is craft a Limited Power of Attorney enabling readers of this blog to act as your agent regarding Copyright Infringement of the video.   Therefore they could go through the Google “report abuse” scree. That would allow all your readers to smash Google and yank the asshole on his knee’s site.

  41. at Haemet
    August 30th, 2011 @ 2:24 am

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  42. Paul031164
    August 30th, 2011 @ 6:40 am

    Hope they realize that the whole, “It sounds like you said…”,  b/s works both ways.

    Example:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_B5UrI7nAI

    Because, you know, once you’ve lost the elf vote…

  43. last_woof
    August 30th, 2011 @ 8:32 am

    Spencer Ackerman call your office.
    This has Journolist written all over it!

  44. Happycabbie
    August 30th, 2011 @ 8:33 am

    I sense much butthurt in you.  Begun the whambulance has.

  45. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 9:23 am

    Sue. Win the case. Then mark the victory with a “Hitler Downfall” video parody.

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  47. Zilla of the Resistance
    August 30th, 2011 @ 10:53 am

    GET HIM Stacy! That is totally fucked up and just plain evil. You get that bastard and everyone associated with the dastardly deed and you make ’em PAY! 
    Sue them to hell and back and then some. All of them. You’ll get some of the $oros bucks which funds the lefttardosphere and it will be sweet to see it diverted from those evil bastards to you!

  48. Anonymous
    August 30th, 2011 @ 10:55 am

    You know plenty of lawyers who would probably do the initial paperwork pro-bono. Quit yer grousin’ and get to work while the iron’s hot.

  49. Buck
    August 30th, 2011 @ 11:25 am

    Is Michelle Bachman in a wet T-shirt?  I think she could rock a wet T-shirt

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