Attorney General Bill Schuette
Atty. Gen. Bill Schuette (file photo)
Remember that story a couple weeks back about the video of a 35-year-old Bill Schuette being all Sleazy McLeer with some unseen female camera operator back in 1989? It wasn't much of a story, but the Schuette campaign still responded, calling the clip -- in which the then-single Schuette does kind of an oily come-on -- "embarrassing" before suggesting it was "edited."
That it was embarrassing goes without saying. But The Detroit News got the full seven-minute video, and it turns out it wasn't edited unfairly.
Reports Jonathan Oosting:
The clip that Schuette suggested was "heavily edited" accurately depicts a brief exchange between Schuette and the camera woman before a male interviewer chimes in and begins asking questions.
The woman asked Schuette to move closer to a nearby lamp. “I’ll do anything you want,” he responded, adjusting his tie. “Some things I may not let you run the camera on.”
If this makes you think things about the Republican candidate for governor that you'd rather not, Deadline Detroit apologizes.
