"Booing" of Hillary Clinton Electronically Transformed into "Applause" for TV Viewers!

Media Research Center - Cyber ALERT! (Media Bias; Pro-Liberal & Pro-Facist) ^ | Friday August 30, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 133) | Editorial Staff

[vannrox]

A holiday weekend video treat: How cable music channel VH1 turned booing of Senator Hillary Clinton into cheering.

Senator Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert in Madison Square Garden to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, as ABC's John Stossel illustrated in a July 20/20 special on media distortions, when the Viacom-owned cable channel replayed it sound technicians replaced the booing with cheering and applause. And that version is the permanent record VH1 put onto its DVD of the event.

During his July 12 20/20 look at media manipulation and distortions, Stossel used the Hillary Clinton incident as his first example.

Earlier this summer, ABC's John Stossel showed how VH1 last year replaced booing of Hillary Clinton with applause

Stossel explained: “Last fall Paul McCartney headlined a concert to benefit victims of September 11th. Some politicians appeared, including Senator Hillary Clinton.” Over the booing of Senator Clinton as she walked on stage and waved, Stossel noted: “And people in the audience booed her. Booed and heckled.”

Stossel told viewers: “But then MTV's channel VH1 re-ran the same concert and made it into a DVD.” As 20/20 showed the same scene again, but this time VH1's new version with applause, Stossel pointed out: “Notice a difference? The booing has been removed. Now and forever on the DVD the crowd applauds Senator Clinton.”

The MRC's Mez Djouadi has posted a RealPlayer clip of what Stossel showed. To watch it, go to the posted version of this CyberAlert: POSTED VERSION.

[Wissa]

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell

[Prodigal Son]

The thing is- we know she got booed. But will people a hundred years from now or even the next generation? Shades of 1984. Orwell may have been a socialist but at least he understood the nature of his ideological beast. I can't help but wonder if the person that did the editing even thought of Winston Smith while he was rewriting history?

[Russell Scott]

Never forget how the media giants got huge favors and lots of cash from the Clinton admin. Thats the first thing they did when they got into office, buy off the media giants. All dictators know the most important thing in politics is to control the media. Look at Al-Gee-Sear-Your-Mind and Pravda for proof. Thats why I stick with the Bible when I need a dose of truth. This self-serving idiots can't touch it.

[Freemeorkillme]

Let's see if O'Reilly will expose this. FWDed.

Bill O'Reilly
E-mail Address(es):
oreilly@foxnews.com

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I don't know about this being an old story. All I could find on the web about this was that VH-1 replaced the booing with "crowd noise". I looked it up after one Freeper mentioned the cheering substitution part. That post was the only place I saw it mentioned so I was waiting for verification before I mentioned it.

[eggman]

These are truly unashamed proselytist cult Nazi tactics. These people are nuts and paranoid to think America is going to sink if we hear that whore being booed.

Simply VH1's method of saying "Seig Hillary!"

[Thinkin' Gal]

Did anybody ever figure out if this was real?

[NYC GOP Chick]

The thing is- we know she got booed. But will people a hundred years from now or even the next generation? Shades of 1984. Orwell may have been a socialist but at least he understood the nature of his ideological beast. I can't help but wonder if the person that did the editing even thought of Winston Smith while he was rewriting history?

Does anyone have videotape from the original broadcast? Perhaps we can find a way to circulate that.

[Musket]

This is kinda old news. We talked about it here months ago. I saw the original and really wanted a tape of it--I should've recorded it that night-- but when I heard what they did they lost a sale. Fox News played the altered clip a bunch back then.

[Nachum]

Didn't the original mpeg circulate all around the internet? If we go back to the date in the archives of FR, perhaps some of the links are still active. <p<

Heck, maybe this would even make for an interesting website. Show the real one, then the doctored one.

[Russell Scott]

No wonder they call him Summer RedStoned. Summer, you can't take it with you, and you'll be forgotten as soon as your dead. In other words, without Christ and integrity, your a LOSER FOREEVER. Wake up from your delusional self importance, only what you do for Christ and your fellow man will have ANY lasting impact.

[ElkGroveDan]

This kind of thing was really popular in the USSR under Stalin

Left: A meeting of the St. Petersburg Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class in February 1897.

Right: The man standing on the left in the original, Alexander Malchenko, has been removed from this version published in 1939. He had been executed on 18 November 1930 but was 'rehabilitated' in 1958, at which point his presence was allowed to reappear.

[Dengar01]

Did they digitially edit the boos that Richard Gere got at the same event. I'd bet my bottom dollar that they did or they probably just deleted the whole segment because he got booed off the stage.

[Aquinasfan]

Let's see if O'Reilly will expose this. FWDed.

Great idea. I sent an e-mail. This is right up his alley.

[Windcatcher]

I just did a Google search, and I can't find it. It's like it disappeared off the Net. In light of the clear attempt to rewrite history, maybe keeping a before and after in a prominent place is called for. Lest we forget.

[Madame Dufarge]

Good point.

[Republic]

This is truly outrageous. We all knew of this long ago-but I never knew they had replaced the booing with cheering. Thta is incredibly fraudulent. Wonder who owns Viacom. I feel an urge to email the liar.

[RightOnline]

Um..............vann, buddy.............this "news" is so old, it has applied for AARP membership.

[semaj]

I grew up with MTV. I now have young daughters and neither MTV or VH1 is allowed. The media has simply goten to big for its britches and needs to be taken down a notch or maybe a dozen. If not illegal, falsifying historical records or documents (even if its just entertainment)is immoral to say the least.

[Freemeorkillme]

---Just wondering how far the Clinton ties really extend----

I can imagine this being used as campaign propaganda for sure.