GotNews.com has done an analysis of the two videos that made Michelle Fields famous.
The first was Occupy Wall Street. The second was the Corey Lewandowski moment.
Here’s the Occupy Wall Street moment.
Listen to her screams. Do they sound real to you?
Compare her statements. See if you see a pattern.
Occupy Wall Street video: “The police just shoved me down..He shoved me up against the taxi.”
Corey incident: “Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down”
Occupy Wall Street video: “I’m just shaking.”
Corey incident: “Nonetheless, I was shaken.”
Here’s the transcript of Fields interview:
Lamb: So, what is the point of all of that? What were they doing with you? Why were you emotional about?
Fields: We were down on the ground where we were obviously at risk of covering the protesters and we ended up getting in the middle of it when the police decided that they wanted them off the streets and shoved them onto the sidewalks.
Fields: We decided to put this up because I think it shows a different side to Occupy Wall Street. Before I went to Occupy Wall Street, I thought that these people were violent. I mean that is what I saw on news. These people are horrible. You read all these things that they are raping women. They are violent with the police officers but when I went there, these people were so kind and they were not violent at all.
It was the police officers that were the aggressive ones. They were the ones instigating the violence. And although that doesn’t follow the narrative that people who read our Web site would like to hear, it was something that was happening. That these people are not as violent as people are making them out to be. They are actually quite kind and they helped me up.
And also, I think it is interesting that the guy says lets put this on Facebook because it shows that with this new internet world, one voice, my voice, anyone’s voice can be just as loud as The New York Times or The Washington Post. You can just put a video up on the internet and it is distributed globally.
Lamb: What had happened to you? You are right in the middle of that. We can see you there and you are down on the ground at some point. How did that happen? I mean, who was pushing you down?
Fields: The police officers. My camera girl and I were in front of the protestors as they were marching down the street and we were getting footage of them marching down. And at that moment the police officers decided oh OK we do not want them on the street anymore.
Fields: Let’s just shove them back into the park. So they came up. They came with batons and I ended up just getting in the middle of it because I could not move. There was a car in front of me and there were cops around me and protesters and they wanted us to get on the sidewalks but the sidewalks were completely filled with people so there was nowhere for me to move.
Fields: So, the police officer hit me in the back with the baton and I fell on to the car, fell to the ground and I got back up. I am not sure if it was the same police officer but I got hit back down again.
Lamb: There is a still picture of you where you are right down on the ground in the middle and I think that actually – I think I first saw that tweeted out. Who tweeted the picture out?
Fields: I tweeted the picture out. I was instantly – it went up on the Daily Mail and my boy friend called me and said hey, you know, are you OK? I saw this photo on The Daily Mail and I just got it off The Daily Mail’s Web site.
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Lamb: Do you feel a power when you are able to do this [retweeting and Twitter stuff]?
Fields: I feel as thought Twitter and Facebook have enabled people who maybe, are not in the media, they do not have a loud voice to become one of the loudest voices in media. And we see people like Matt Drudge who has no connection to the media. He is a political outsider and look how far he has come.
He took advantage. He saw this potential, this new medium which is the internet journalism and his voice is just as loud as the media establishment.
My favorite moment in the video comes
Lamb: There is a still picture of you where you are right down on the ground in the middle and I think that actually – I think I first saw that tweeted out. Who tweeted the picture out?
Fields: I tweeted the picture out. I was instantly – it went up on the Daily Mail and my boy friend called me and said hey, you know, you’re f…, are you OK? I saw this photo on The Daily Mail and I just got it off The Daily Mail’s Web site.
Notice how she caught herself? You’re famous.
Once again the video produced by one of her friends is unclear but we’re supposed to believe that Michelle Fields was hit not once but twice by a New York City police officer. Sorry but not buying it.
If anything the video shows a police officer helping her up.
