The Media Research Center is promoting a new, heavily-edited video that claims to show Congresswoman Melissa Bean “intimidat(ing) constituents” at a town hall meeting, with her own hired “thug.” The American Spectator says, “The meeting was held Thursday at the public library in Round Lake, Illl. While captions in the video label the security guard "Bean's thug," one Illinois source said Monday that the man is actually employed by the library. Mediaite notes that the heavily edited video really misrepresents what actually happened at Rep. Bean’s event. They write, “That event wasn’t a political town hall, either, but rather, an educational forum about credit card debt. According to one source, the video doesn’t show instances of constituents asking the guy with the video to pipe down so they can hear the presentation they came to see.”
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