Elizabeth Warren was captured on video at an Andover house party, speaking animatedly about her view that nobody got rich on his own. Her supporters flooded the Internet with it, thinking it showcased passion. But the Massachusetts Republican Party saw something different. They repurposed the video with ominous music and grainier images for a Web ad that made Warren look like an extremist, even slightly unhinged.
“Politicians have to assume that they are always being taped no matter where they are,’’ said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She pointed to the comments that then-candidate Barack Obama made at a San Francisco fund-raiser about down-and-out Pennsylvanians who get bitter and “cling to guns or religion.’’
The person who captured the quote wasn’t a Republican tracker but an Obama supporter and blogger.
“That was a citizen journalist,’’ said Jamieson....
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