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Breitbart's Latest Scam Video

Breitbart's BigGovernment website posted a new sting video in which they targeted a union official and a university professor claiming the duo endorsed violence as a protest tactic. Of course -- they most certainly didn't. The Breitbart video was brazenly edited to remove a key piece of the puzzle.

o Breitbart’s version: “Violence is a tactic and it’s to be used when it’s the appropriate tactic.”

o The real version: After students had watched a film on the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, they were discussing nonviolence. I said, “One guy in the film. . . said ‘violence is a tactic, and it’s to be used when it’s the appropriate tactic.’ . . . “ The class proceeded to discuss and debate this.

Karoli has more details and video evidence over at C&L.