Reply #155: The video did not start at the beginning of the disturbance

[karynnj]

Before the video, from audio that was posted here and the student accounts
1) He ran from the back of the line to the front, with the police running after him (likely because they would do that to anyone unexpectedly running towards the stage.) Even at this point he was shouting at the police.
2) Kerry spoke to the police at that point, asking them to leave him and said he would answer his question after he finished with the answer that was interrupted.
3) The guy then started a rant, mentioned the Palast book - which Kerry said he read. He then led into an explanation of the book. Asked to get to the question, he then said that people had listened to Kerry's "crap" for two hours, they had to listen to him for 2 minutes. Then he asked the election question. Kerry started to answer - and Meyer than started shouting again and he asked his second question and then without pausing a second continued to rant. At that point the mic was cut and the tape began.

The problem is you watched a video produced by Meyer and friends that did not have any of the initial provocation, that was up on his web site before he was out of jail. Kind of makes this look like a stunt. The tape was also filmed near Meyer. Kerry, who calmed the crowd and continued the event is far less audible on the tape than Meyer. Kerry was speaking into a microphone. As the distance from Kerry to Meyer's was greater than the distance between Kerry and the person video taping, it is very easy to conclude that the screams you heard on the tape were considerably less audible than Kerry's voice on the tape. (Simple laws of science - the sound was of lower volume at the source and it had to traverse a longer distance.) Given that he was screaming at the police, the event host, and Kerry for the entire time, that he was at a distance screaming would not be note worthy.

The fuller accounts - not from Kerry or any of us - were posted late in the evening it happened. Video can distort and this one did. (I do think the police over reacted in tasering him.)

Kerry had NO problem with the questions. Because the gospel according to Meyer didn't include it, you can't see that Kerry started to answer it. Very few people would have let him ask a question in the first place, much less to tell the police he was willing to answer it - even after the rudeness.