Rep. Baron Hill Ends Up On YouTube In A Compromising Position

Baron Hill, wearing a suit in a cornfield...for some reason

Just because one knows the results of a policy doesn’t mean one can stop the inevitable, as Rep. Baron Hill (D., Ind.) demonstrates.  A young journalism student took the Representative to task for not allowing his town meeting to be filmed, and Baron Hill explained that such videos usually end up on YouTube.

Constituent: First of all, for journalism students, why can’t we film this? We have school projects, and I have just been taken aside and told that I can’t film this. I’m not disrupting, I’m keeping my opinions to myself, but now that I’m not getting to do this for a project, I was going to ask a question. I just–why can’t I film this? Isn’t this my right?

Hill: Well, this is my town-hall meeting, and I set the rules, and I’ve had these rules– [audience jeers]

Let me repeat that one more time! This is my town hall meeting for you [more jeering]. And you’re not going to tell me how to run my congressional office. Now, the reason for why I don’t allow filming is because usually the films that are done end up on YouTube in a compromising position.

In the Congressman’s defense, he’s absolutely correct.  See him in a compromised position in the YouTube video here: