Video posted online prompts threats to UMKC professor

A University of Missouri-Kansas City labor studies professor says she has been bombarded by “ugly e-mails and scary telephone calls” since a political website posted what school officials say was a doctored video suggesting she supports union violence.In response, UMKC has posted uniformed police — and others in civilian clothes — in and around Judy Ancel’s classroom, said university spokesman John Austin.

A second instructor shown in the video, Don Giljum, said he has received two death threats since Monday, when the video appeared on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government site.

Giljum has since resigned as adjunct professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

The Internet video purports to show the professors advocating violence while team-teaching — by videoconference — a class on labor, politics and society.

But in a statement released Thursday, UMKC provost Gail Hackett said the video was edited and rearranged to depict their statements “in an inaccurate and distorted manner.”

Ancel said that in one snippet, “Giljum’s clothing changes midsentence.”

Breitbart did not respond Friday to e-mails seeking comment. His posting, however, prompted a number of threatening comments on the Big Government site.

One responder talked about buying ammo and added, “I won’t shoot first, but I do expect to shoot last.”

Ancel, who directs UMKC’s Institute for Labor Studies, issued a statement Friday.

“My students and I are outraged at Mr. Breitbart’s invasion of our classroom and his attempts to intimidate us and my colleagues at the university,” she wrote.

Later, Ancel said she was speaking for herself, not the university.



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Can't somebody splice together a tape of him calling for the assassination of his mentor, Rupert Murdoch? Only they would be stupid enough to fall for their own tricks.

But they do get away with it, because the sheer velocity of contemporary events tends to overwhelm a lot of folks. It's why the Faux Noise Channel stuff works; simple message, repeated endlessly until the next talking point comes up -- injects rote memorization into the minds of the viewers. Plus, the feedin' trough (corporate media) has a vested interest (their jobs) to continually repeat Breitbart's trash.