Male Union thug assaults Tabitha Hale of Freedomworks

let me get this straight. The “assault” is the big red blob followed by the bad camera work. We’re to assume that the union “fat guy” is pushing the phone camera away from someone and hitting the person who is holding it. This is a stretch at best. This could be faked easily enough. It doesn’t show an assault and even the audio is a bit weak.
Clearly, the FW characters are acting aggressive and provocative. I suspect that the person holding the phone camera is encroaching the personal space of the union “fat guy”.
This is really lame. If this is the only example of illegal aggression against the TP, the I’d say much to do about nothing. It actually makes the TP look bad, putting this out. It’s just not that bad. I’ve watched other vids and in everyone there is a TP person who is acting very aggressively. I’m against that type of tactic. It actually feeds into the bad imagine that people have of the TP. I’m wondering why these people were even out in the crowd. Clearly, they were there to provoke. Not the way to push the TP agenda forward.

Well… you’re partially right about the ‘prank call’ being played all week. Partially right because the sound bytes being played are completely lacking in context, only using the one quote without including any of the rest of the conversation.
The ones using that clip are doing so to promote a political agenda that has nothing to do with unions, the workers, rights of We the People, or any of the things they claim to support. There are a lot of passionate people protesting in WI against the proposals who are sincere in their concerns, they want to ensure their right to choose their own destiny and deeply care for their neighbors and their community. They are being used. Elections have turned into little more than cult of personality popularity contests where whipping people up into an emotional frenzy using their own values of home, heart, and finances serves as a distraction and keeps people from digging a little deeper, following the money, and finding solutions for the bigger problems. Instead, their genuine care and concern for their own state and communities is being twisted and warped into something that serves to enforce habitual, reflexive trench warfare mentality of ‘us vs them, turns friends and neighbors against each other, and destroys the chance for conversation despite all sides wanting the same things-a good life, strong community, and the power to choose their own destinies. That common ground gets lost in translation among the participants who are being used as pawns by organizations that care nothing about the values, work ethic, families, or any of the things the people of WI believe that they are fighting for. It is heartbreaking to see the good will of people be turned against them in this way by outside interests. We need to own our own conversations within our communities and not let them be hijacked like this anymore. It is not only happening in WI, here where I live in NC, it is a lot of the same thing where you have individuals and interest groups masquerading as do gooders making people believe they are doing what is right by their children and families, but are doing so with misinformation, lies, and manipilation. Remember that we as citizens, as individuals are all in this together. I believe that we all want the same things but can rarely agree on how to get there. Only open honest conversation and dialogue, no matter where you live will help us move forward and get to the solutions we all want.

Interviewer was trying to provoke and comes off as a jerk..