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‘Threats’ over satiric Clinton video stir claims right and left

‘Threats’ over satiric Clinton video stir claims right and left

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LOS ANGELES – The owner of a landmark Hollywood comedy club claims that someone representing Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's campaign pressured him to pull down a video segment featuring comics spoofing the former First Lady and Secretary of State – or risk facing consequences. "They threatened me," said Jamie Masada, who founded the popular Laugh Factory in 1979, according to Judicial Watch, a conservative organization specializing in investigating government abuses of p

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a landmark Hollywood comedy club claims that someone representing Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's campaign pressured him to pull down a video segment featuring comics spoofing the former First Lady and Secretary of State – or risk facing consequences. "They threatened me," said Jamie Masada, who founded the popular Laugh Factory in 1979, according to Judicial Watch, a conservative organization specializing in investigating government abuses of p…