Video: Bill Clinton loses temper with Pro-Life protestors

Breaking news. Here's the only video available so far:



Bill Clinton was campaigning for Hillary in Steubenville, Ohio. A group of about 100 pro-life students from local Franciscan University of Steubenville crashed the rally with their pro-life message.

Bill has been testy on the campaign trail lately, sparring with an Obama Supporter earlier today.

Nicholas Hardesty of Phat Catholic, who noticed the scheduled appearance, was on the ground spreading the word and helping to organize the protest. You sir, get an AmericanPapist shout-out:

LifeSiteNews has more, including a transcript of Bill's comments. LifeNews, meanwhile, reminds us:

In 2004, John Kerry campaigned in Steubenville and was greeted by over 500 pro-life students, who rejected his support of abortion-on-demand despite his Catholic faith.

Reports of the thousands of people who turned out against Kerry made the national news and Steubenville residents were credited with helping President Bush carry Ohio and, thus, the nation.

An MSNBC blog has picked up on the story as has most of the media coverage (updating list here).

Local WOTV9 has video coverage, and reports there was a large pro-life demonstration outside the building.

It would be helpful if someone could upload a better-quality video to YouTube.

update: per the combox below, the organizer of the protest was Billy Valentine of Steubenville Students for Life. Excerpts from their press release at here. Students for Life has a statement. TownHall has indeed covered the story, and doesn't give Bill much room. update 2: Drudge has linked it. That's impressive. update 3: Jill Stanek adds details and points out "[Bill Clinton] says we're the ones who "tear people up"? What a gruesome irony.

update 4: better-quality video here, after a commercial (via phatcatholic). I wish it could be embedded.

update 5: as of 4:45pm EST, the video has been viewed 120,000+ times, helped by Brietbart & NRO's The Corner. It has a very good chance of making the YouTube front page. Talk about the little video that could!

update 6: probably the last update, for the sake of completeness: after the first day, the video has received over 275,000 views, 2,700 comments, and made the top 10. The story has also been picked up by HufflePuff Post (shudder), HotAir, and Gawker. So really, prettymuch everyone.

Most of the attention, I'm sure, has to do with the ongoing prurient interest that folks have in watching Bill Clinton embarrass himself, but I'm sure the subject matter is also gaining a share of the attention.