New Video Reveals MoveOn Activist's Aggressive Provocation

The so-called head-stomping incident outside Monday evening's Kentucky Senate debate has received an enormous amount of media attention, but questions still remain. The big question: what started the scuffle?

The infamous video footage caught supporters of Rand Paul wrestling a MoveOn.org protestor to the ground. Meanwhile, the liberal activist, Lauren Valle, appeared on MSNBC Tuesday evening and speculated the Paul supporters had "attacked" and "dragged her to the ground" because of her work with MoveOn.

But new video evidence anonymously submitted to RedState captures the moments leading up to the altercation and seemingly shows instigating aggression on the MoveOn activists' part as a protest sign was forced into Rand Paul's face through an open car window as his vehicle approached the debate venue:

RedState reports:

[The video] shows what Valle was doing when the Paul supporters grabbed her. No one chased her around the car. She was never in front of the car. As you can see in the video, Valle reached in the candidate’s window with her “RepubliCorp” sign and shoved it in his face. Several supporters in Paul shirts have her surrounded at that point, and a man in a suit is the first person to actually intervene physically. It’s hard to tell from the video, but it could be that the man in the suit was with Paul’s security staff.

Toward the end of the video, you see several Paul supporters asking a police officer to come intervene. It was Paul supporters who told Profitt to back off. It was Paul supporters who brought the police. Contrary to the growing narrative on the left, this video clearly shows that Valle was not the victim of a conspiracy to “take her out.”

While the video seems to negate the "tea party thug" narrative liberals like MSNBC's Ed Schultz are claiming, it suggests the Paul supporters' actions were re-actionary, not blunt unprovoked violence.  Nothing justifies the ensuing behavior which threatened to harm Valle, but Valle's innocent victim claim doesn't seem so innocent anymore.