MSNBC- selective editing again
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Watch both videos, this is pretty sad. Take about 90 seconds.
You have to watch the MSNBC editing job they do on Romney speech and then see the real speech , it’s amazing they don’t call them out on this type of stuff.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/some-ne ... -of-touch/
You have to watch the MSNBC editing job they do on Romney speech and then see the real speech , it’s amazing they don’t call them out on this type of stuff.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/some-ne ... -of-touch/
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The MSNBC clip takes out the silly story about him not being as muscular as Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bit about state competing but then he goes back to raving about touch screens. He's also doing what Ross Perot and Meg Whitman did... showing that they really just think of America as more of a business that exploits workers and exists just to bring revenue in. The people are secondary to money when you get outrageously rich people wanting to be leaders. Look at what a mess George W Bush made.
Yes, we all know that when a politician goes on his speech and tries to connect with the audience they often make fools of themselves. Barack Obama in the mom jeans bowling, Michael Dukakis in that silly rubber coat on the tank, George W Bush "clearing brush."
What's funnier is that he called the place "WaWa's" when the place is called "WaWa."
It would be like saying "Have you been to Wallmart's today?" or "My favorite band is the Pearl Jams."
next on MSNBC news, Obama sings "call me maybe"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1YVzdnpEc
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The saddest commentary on politics and journalism in America today is... the closest thing to true political journalism today can only be found on The Daily Show... a PARODY about American Political Journalism!!!
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If you get your political information from places like MSNBC or FOX News... basically, you are an idiot and the EXACT Target market these liars fed upon.
Hail, Hail!!!
I'm sorry, where were we? Oh, yeah... well at least we can trust Fox News not to pull this kind of crap!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Wawa hoagies are made by real humans, but the ordering process is on a computerized touch screen.
(Wawa's - haha - only people around here will appreciate that)
The editing seems like a hack job as is all too common these days.
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Not sure what the point of this is? Everyone knows Fox News is biased, that doesn't excuse MSNBC for beingthe same thing and doing the same stuff Fox does. I agree with Cosmo. Both FoxNews AND MSNBC are jokes.
Thanks, fox news is guilty of it too.
It's more interpretation and making crap up than getting the actual facts anymore.
Great post
It's the worst of both worlds... not only are news networks doing it to push an agenda, but they are also doing it to fill airtime with self-created stories. 24hour news networks are like sports talk radio... they take the smallest quotes out of context, blow them up in a big story, so they can get reaction and have something to talk about for the day.
If MSNBC or Fox just showed full context clips from the campaign stops everyday, people would be bored stiff because it's the same stupid pandering in every city/state they go to. Instead, they pounce on a quote or out of context remark and make a story of it. Pathetic...
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Three days after one of its highest-profile news anchors played manipulated video that made Mitt Romney appear out of touch with everyday voters, NBC officials seem content to let the controversy die down without an apology or explanation.
Other than issuing a terse, one-sentence statement late Tuesday afternoon, NBC has virtually ignored what the blogosphere dubbed “Wawagate.” The carefully-edited segment, aired on Monday's edition of "Andrea Mitchell Reports," spliced together a Romney speech, making it appear that he was expressing genuine amazement at a convenience store's use of technology to take sandwich orders. In reality, he was facetiously comparing the tech-savvy private sector to the clumsy government bureaucracy.
“All standards have gone out the window,” said Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, which compared the edited MSNBC clip to unedited video of the rally on YouTube.
“They are editing at will and it doesn’t matter that they are caught. My guess is that they will continue to do it,” Bozell added.
Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster said the network should have owned up to its mistake.
"Covering up Wawa video is bad for accuracy," said Shuster, who was guest hosting for Bill Press on MSNBC competitor Current TV. "Digging in their heels, they have made this, instead of a one-day story, a three-day story," he said.
Writing in Investor's Business Daily, Andrew Malcolm recalled similar distortions aimed at Dan Quayle and President George Bush.
"The repetitive media meme for Republicans is 'out of touch,'" Malcolm wrote. "Well, this may be the best/worst one yet."
Still, the network declined to comment on Wednesday, apparently standing on a Tuesday statement denying any wrongdoing.
"MSNBC did not edit anything out of order or out of sequence and at no time did we intend to deceive our viewers," NBC spokeswoman Lauren Skowronski said in a written statement provided to FoxNews.com.
Romney's comment came on a Pennsylvania campaign stop in which he discussed ordering a sandwich at convenience chain Wawa.
“It’s amazing," Romney said, as the Pennsylvania crowd appeared to laugh. Then viewers saw Romney say, "You have a touchtone keypad, and you touch that, touch this, go pay the cashier, there’s your sandwich. It’s amazing.”
After the clip, Mitchell and MSNBC contributor Chris Cillizza laughed out loud as Romney seemed to be in awe of the touchscreen menu board.
What Romney actually was referring to as amazing was explained in the rest of the video that originally didn’t make it to air.
Viewers didn't see or hear was nearly three minutes of Romney discussing the nightmare of paperwork faced by an optometrist trying to get a change of address completed. He expressed mock amazement at Wawa's efficiency to underscore how the private sector often runs circles around the clumsy bureaucracy.
"We went to Wawas and it was instructive to me, because I saw the difference between the private sector and the governmental sector. People who work in government are good people and I respect what they do, but you see, the challenge with government is that it doesn’t have competition,” Romney said in a portion edited out of the segment.
On the original broadcast, Mitchell compared Romney’s “gaffe” to an old perceived campaign flub by George Bush Sr., who supposedly marveled at a supermarket scanner at a grocers' convention during his failed 1992 re-election bid. Even though Bush was actually impressed not by an ordinary scanner, but by a then state-of-the-art device that could weigh food and read damaged bar codes, the anecdote was reported by The New York Times and offered as evidence that Bush was out of touch with everyday Americans.
“It’s so unnecessary. So trite to make the comparison to Bush 41 and the scanner gaffe,” Bozell said,
Officials for the Romney Campaign declined to comment on the matter.
Requests for comment to multiple officials at MSNBC and parent company NBC Universal were not immediately returned.
“Wawagate” is not the first time NBC has caught flack for their news coverage in recent months.Last August, Ed Schultz of MSNBC played an edited clip in which then-presidential candidate Rick Perry described the national debt as a “big black cloud that hangs over America” to make it sound like a racial dig at President Obama. Schultz later apologized.
And in March, NBC was caught editing the audio of George Zimmerman's 911 call as he watched Trayvon Martin in the minutes before he fatally shot the Florida teen. On a tape edited and played on the “Today” show, Zimmerman was heard calling Martin “suspicious” and volunteering that he was “black.” But the full, unedited tape showed that Zimmerman only mentioned Martin’s race when asked by the dispatcher. The result made it sound like Zimmerman was racially profiling Martin. The network fired three people after getting widespread criticism.
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If Obama said "I was at Walmarts the other day, and I was in shock that you could check yourself out at Walmarts, I can't believe you can do that at Walmarts" you would be saying the same shit about him regardless of what his point is.
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Kind of like the "private sector is doing fine" thing, which actually was a legitimate statement especially in the context of his overall point. But the Obama campaign reaped the whirlwind from the "fundamentals of the economy are strong" McCain quote.
Still doesn't make it right for MSNBC to do it.
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