Posted on 09/19/2012 5:18:14 AM PDT by KansasGirl
Mother Jones, the left-wing magazine that released a controversial video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remarks to a fundraiser in May, now admits that it has no full tape of what Romney said, and that its video is missing "one to two minutes" at the most important moment.
The Legal Insurrection blog's William Jacobson and The Blaze both raised questions on Tuesday about whether Mother Jones had, as promised, revealed the full video, given an apparent jump cut in the critical section of Romney's remarks.
"Something is missing. Romney’s 47% answer was cut off before completed, and is not picked up on the Part 2 audio video," Jacobson noted.
Late Tuesday evening, Jacobson obtained the following comment from David Corn of Mother Jones:
According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one [sic]. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.
Corn was forced to update his original post, which promised the "full" video, to reflect the fact that a key portion of the video is, in fact, missing.
There is no way to know, without the missing footage, exactly what Romney said. On Monday evening, Romney called for a complete video of his remarks to be released.
That now turns out to be impossible, either because Romney's remarks were never recorded in full (as Mother Jones now claims), or because some of his remarks--perhaps mitigating some of the controversial effect of his statements--were selectively edited out of the tape by Mother Jones or its chain of sources (including former President Jimmy Carter's grandson).
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Rofl! Love it. In my dreams.
Just my opinion here, but this kind of thing is why people on our side shouldn’t get hysterical over stuff like this.
Too many on our side were on the attack Romney bandwagon, more of this selective editing will come out. We’re better and smarter than this. Obama’s in full blown panic mode. Just get behind Romney/Ryan and disregard this media nonsense.
Any self-respecting journalist (oxymoron, I know) would have noticed the jump cut and immediately followed up with the source to find out if a full version was available and/or why there was an edit in the tape. But the lap dog media was so eager to smear Mitt that they left their professionalism and integrity at the door.
To think we used to laugh at Pravda. Our media is far worse now.
I think that selective editing is pretty much the norm for Liberal campaigning.
For my money, it’s the same as libel and slander. I don’t know why it is tolerated to the extent that it is.
Good advice
Let me fix that:
Any journ-o-list would have immediatly checked Media matters and typed their spin, lies and excuses.
People should also start drawing an analogy between this and the missing 18 1/2 minutes in the Nixon Watergate tapes.
Hold the Libs to their own standards ...
They are only working on cheap tricks, like the edited Romney video, to convince the "undecided" (i.e. room-temperature IQ or flat-lined) voter to vote for Obama.
:: To think we used to laugh at Pravda. ::
Send that to the Romney campaign, stat! That is a very useable sound bite that can be repeated by the candidates (both) at every opportunity.
It can be the equivalent of “well ... there you go again”.
Happens all the time. /sarc
Only the libs would call someone telling the truth "controversial".
someone needs to send that to them via the suggestions form on their website.
given that on the second part of the tape you see the hand of a waiter leaning on the table means the spy was an employee of the site! you can see the waiter in the first part.
Yes, Romney needs to “go Newt” on them right out the gate at the first debate. Come out strong and on fire.
Won’t happen , unfortunately .
The lesson here: Make sure that you tape, video, record all your public appearances.
All Mitt needs is to be schooled by Newt and he’ll be fine.
[ The lesson here: Make sure that you tape, video, record all your public appearances. ]
Yes. I cannot believe that is not standard procedure.
Maybe there is another tape?!
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