MSNBC Uses Selectively Edited Video in Smear of McCain Liberal news outlets were quick to run an edited video of Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) at a recent town hall meeting, alleging it shows the senator’s insensitivity towards a grieving mother who lost her son in the 2012 Aurora shooting. The edited video first appeared on Phoenix’s KTVK during a news package of the town hall meetings McCain has held during his most recent trip through Arizona. The video shows Caren Teves, whose son was killed when spree killer James Holmes attacked a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, asking the senator about assault weapons. “These weapons don’t belong on our streets,” she says. The video then cuts to McCain responding by saying, “I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons’ ban will not pass the congress of the United States.” However, a simple YouTube search finds the full video, uploaded by user “PoliticoMafioso,” of Senator McCain’s town hall meeting, including his entire response to Caren Teves’s question: Well, first of all can I say thank you and God bless … our hearts and our prayers go out to you and your family. I just had a town hall meeting yesterday in Tucson and the people who were affected by the terrible, tragic shooting there. I met with Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords in my office last week on this issue – as you know they are becoming, understandably. Great advocates on this issue, and I will continue that conversation. I can tell you right now, you need some straight talk, that assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States. It won’t. Now I owe it to you to give you my opinion. All I can tell you is what I told this young lady and this lady here: I will continue to work with the bipartisan group on both sides of the aisle representing all of America, not just California, and we will try to come up with ways to prevent this from happening again. That means increased background checks, closing loopholes, other things like that – that’s fine. But you know again, you didn’t like some of my response, I didn’t like the response to Chicago. Those murders in Chicago – there’s no assault weapon-using. There’s no large clip that’s being used. It’s a handgun where people go out an kill people. So to somehow think that an assault weapons ban will have the slightest effect on the murders in Chicago and other metropolitan areas obviously is not an accurate depiction of the facts on the ground. But I appreciate your opinion – I promise you that you have my commitment to work with every member of Congress no matter where they are in the political arena to try and prevent this from happening again. McCain does, in fact, use the term “straight talk,” but only after first expressing his condolences and sympathy for Teves and his desire to find a solution to prevent future shootings. However, despite the video’s availability, the media has discussed only KTVK’s edited version. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow ran with KTVK’s segment during her show Thursday night, sarcastically saying that McCain’s use of the phrase “straight talk” led to “boisterous” applause from the senator’s constituents. Maddow admits, “Obviously there was an edit between the end of the woman’s question and the part where John McCain sneers the straight talk line at her. So maybe that edit was cut in a way that’s not fair to John McCain. Maybe he wasn’t in real time so insensitive and abrasive, to a woman who probably deserves some sensitivity when she is talked to about these matters.” Maddow is right. The edit was “cut in a way that’s not fair to John McCain.” In “real time” McCain was not “so insensitive and abrasive to a woman who deserves” as much. Unfortunately, Maddow did not feel it was necessary to play the full video for her viewers. Click on the link to view the edited and non-edited videos: http://nation.foxnews.com/john-mccain/2013/02/22/msnbc-uses-selectively-edited-video-smear-mccain
They are getting to be pros at that. Maybe someday people will actually be suspicious of their "news". Until such time, we will have to live with the consequences.
They'll defend MSNBC's lies (or just simply won't comment) then turn around and attack conservative news outlets. Just watch.
Here is what you flakes on the Right can't seem to understand and probably never will... When you come out with utter nonsense, we on the Left are not obligated to respond. In other words, no we do not beat our wives nor do we do so often. Not responding does not mean you have been proven right. It still means that you posted utter nonsense. Posting utter nonsense is it's own reward. In other words, no responses. Unless of course you consider this a response, then, glad to help. What a pair of morons!
He seems to think that MSNBC's editing of videos is "utter nonsense" which, of course, it isn't. That pretty much proves my assertion that he's a complete partisan hack. Well, that and not condemning MSNBC for their actions. Oh, and launching an attack on the right instead of placing blame squarely where it needs to be placed. He's an ignoramus, but at least he's entertaining. Let's see if he has the courage to condemn (or, at the very least, admonish) MSNBC for this. Waiting... waiting... waiting........
... and now, it's ABC's turn: ABC broadcast edits out Michelle Obama claim that Chicago teen was killed by an ‘automatic weapon’ In an interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts aired this morning, First Lady Michelle Obama recalled the tragic death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton who was shot and killed in Chicago after performing during the President’s Inauguration celebration in Washington D.C. “She was caught in the line of fire because some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need,” the First Lady explained. “I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.” Chicago police reported, however, that Pendleton was shot by a man who “opened fire with a handgun before fleeing in a waiting car” according to the Associated Press. It is extremely unlikely that the murder weapon was an automatic handgun, an extremely rare occurrence, even in the streets of Chicago. An overwhelming majority of handguns bought and sold in America are semi-automatic. Police officials have not recovered the firearm, but prosecutors stated that the accused attacker shot “at least six times” into the crowd. For the broadcast, ABC’s Good Morning America producers edited out the First Lady’s “automatic weapon” line. She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids grow – grew – up, where our house is. She had just taken a chemistry test. And she was caught in the line of firebecause some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need. I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first. In the web edition of the story, however, Michelle Obama appears to be quoted in full: “She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids…grew up, where our house is. She had just taken a chemistry test. And she was caught in the line of fire because some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need,” she said. “I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.”http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2522593
It is extremely unlikely that the murder weapon was an automatic handgun, an extremely rare occurrence, even in the streets of Chicago. An overwhelming majority of handguns bought and sold in America are semi-automatic. Police officials have not recovered the firearm, but prosecutors stated that the accused attacker shot “at least six times” into the crowd. Automatic, Semi-Automatic, most people don't know the difference.
Why would she? You guys were the ones that made the point in earlier threads that few people know the difference.
Are you saying that Michelle Obama, who is speaking on the topic of "automatic" weapons, doesn't know the difference? Her husband may be taking away our Constitutional right to certain firearms, she's speaking on the topic of those self-same firearms and SHE doesn't know the difference? You don't think she's THAT stupid, do you?
