By Brandon Hall
(Email Him At WestMIPolitics@Gmail.com)
A video of Bill Schuette described as "creepy as hell" has created a firestorm just as Schuette will debate Gretchen Whitmer Friday evening, and the controversy has a ton of unanswered questions.
The video in question features Schuette apparently flirting with a female reporter. He tells her he will do anything she wants, but he might not let her run the camera on everything.
Whether or not it's "creepy as hell" is debatable, but the story surrounding its release is immensely interesting.
First of all, out of nowhere, Schuette released a statement about the video hours before anyone had mentioned it. Subsequently, a liberal group released a statement about the video, blasting Schuette.
According to The Detroit News:
"Schuette’s campaign said he did not know the origin of the video and does not recall the apparent interview it came from. But he watched it recently and responded late Wednesday before the Democratic group had published its version of the clip...
A spokesman for American Bridge said the group does not have any additional footage from the interview.
The clip was “sent to us via a file sharing service by someone who gave us an assumed name,” Zach Hudson told The Detroit News in an email. “We don’t know anything beyond what is in this video.”
The only place the video appears is the website Michigan Conservative News. It was allegedly posted in early July, but that has been disputed.
According to Gongwer:
"The video was posted to the miconservativenews.com website with a July 6 timestamp but a search of the Internet Archive, which last archived the website August 23, showed no evidence the article had been posted prior to August 23, meaning it had been backdated."
So, was it backdated, and only posted recently!?
Regardless, other things about the video don't add up.
-Michigan Conservative News is a strong pro Schuette website. Why would they EVER post this video?
-The video is uncategorized, despite multiple categories it could be classified into. This prevents the post from being linked with an indexed/archived parent page. Why?
-The video is the only post from the site that does not have a corresponding Facebook post. Why?
-Bill Schuette's name isn't just spelled wrong, it's BUTCHERED, throwing off any search engines capturing and archiving material related to "Bill Schuette." Why?
The whole thing is just really, REALLY strange. Something doesn't add up here...
Stay tuned!
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Brandon Hall is a lifelong political nerd from Grand Haven, and is the Managing Editor of West Michigan Politics.
Just another sick libtard Brett Kananugh style attack. Co-incidence in the timing? Yeah, right. The folks doing this junk need to be IDed and, if appropriate, arrested and sentenced to end this junk. If not crime, punish libards at the voting booth.
ReplyDeleteI really didn't see anything strange, it appeared as though he was trying to get posed for the interview and wanted to be situated for her and the camera.
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