Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Michelle Fields Slams Prosecutor Who Dropped Charges

Hell hath no fury like a reporter seeking attention.

On Sunday, former Brietbart reporter Michelle Fields spoke to CNN’s Brian Stelter about charges against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski being dropped, despite video that showed Lewandowski pushing her out of the way. Fields seemd to remain in a huff.

One needs to be made clear here is that there is bumping and pushing amongst the media around high profile people all the time.

This reminds me of a few incidents. In Washington DC, I once hired a photographer to snap pictures of then-Federal Reserve president Ben Bernanke at a conference. I wanted pictures of Bernanke walking into the room and showed the photographer the angle I wanted befroe Bernanke entered the room.

I noticed the large number of photographers in the room and said to him, "You are going to have to be aggressive. All these other photographers are going to want to take pictures. They are going to push."

Bernanle walked into the room and the young kid came over to me after Bernanke had passed. His glasses were knocked off kilter.  He said to me, "Boy, they really push." He didn't get any pictures.

In New York City many years ago, I was passing by the Palace hotel with a woman. There was quite a commotion outside. There were police and secret service agaents and then out from the hotel walked then-Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres. The gal I was with stepped into the middle of the sidewalk to get a better look, but Peres turned in our direction with his entourage. A secret service agent just slammed her to the side.

If Michelle Fields has never before been bumped or pushed while covering a politician or government leader, she doesn't do her job very well.

In his 1977 book, The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist, Dan Rather recounts the time early in his career when Barbra Walters, in high heels, purposely stepped on his foot to gain an advantage in  a press mob.

Bringing charges against  Lewandowski for pushing her is absurd.

 


-RW

2 comments:

  1. One day soon she will learn what a real assault is like. I suspect her puppetmasters may soon give her the Harry Reid treatment.

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  2. Re: Robert Wenzel,

    ─ former Brietbart reporter Michelle Fields spoke to CNN’s Brian Stelter about charges against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski being dropped, despite video that showed Lewandowski pushing her out of the way.─

    She wasn't 'pushed out of the way' as you claim. There are three videos, one from a bird's eye view and two from the side, that show Lewandowski GRABBING Michelle from her arm and yanking her hard back.

    ─ One needs to be made clear here is that there is bumping and pushing amongst the media around high profile people all the time. ─

    Maybe. This is irrelevant. Michelle wasn't 'pushed' or 'bumped'. She was grabbed by the arm and yanked back.

    ─ This reminds me of a few incidents. ─

    All of which are irrelevant.

    ─ If Michelle Fields has never before been bumped or pushed while covering a politician or government leader, she doesn't do her job very well.─

    She probably has been pushed or bumped. All of it is irrelevant. Corey Lewandowski GRABBED her by the arm and yanked her back hard. That is what he DID. The fact that the prosecutors dropped the case only means it was difficult for them to prove ASSAULT or BATTERY but not that the act as described wasn't committed.

    ─ Bringing charges against Lewandowski for pushing her is absurd.─

    Michelle didn't bring charges against him for 'pushing' her. She brought charges against him for GRABBING her by the arm and yanking her back hard.

    I've seen Michelle at work and she has said in interviews that pushing and shoving comes with the territory. What she asked for, an apology from Lewandowski, was promised to her but Lewandowski then decided to questiion her sanity, while engaging in character assassination against Fields. That is when she decided to press charges.

    I compare her legal action against Lewandowski with the defamation suit brought by Dr. Walter Block against the New York Times for taking his slavery comments completely out of context in an effort to smear his character. Dr. Block stated that his only goal was to have the NYT set the record straight.

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