MSNBC.com Deceptively Edits Dave Brat to Suggest He Was ‘Dodging’ Questions
By Ken Shepherd | June 11, 2014 | 18:52
Editors at MSNBC.com trimmed down Republican congressional nominee Dave Brat’s June 11 phone interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd in order to paint him as dodging questions from the Daily Rundown host.
But a review of the full interview [listen to the mp3 audio here] shows that Brat had already and seemingly quite gladly answered a few policy questions on such hot issues as the minimum wage, immigration reform, and his stance on Wall Street’s influence on the business wing of the GOP.
“Brat dodges Chuck Todd’s questions,” blared a teaser headline. “Brat: I just wanted to talk about the victory,” reads the headline at the video link. “Virginia primary winner and Tea-Party member Dave Brat joins Chuck Todd to discuss his primary win – and it appears that’s all he wanted to talk about,” was how MSNBC.com summarized the clip.
Readers of the MSNBC.com website who hadn’t the benefit of watching the interview earlier in the morning would have come away with a wildly different perspective than someone who watched the full interview.
Below is the full segment’s transcript. The portion underlined is the portion that MSNBC.com isolated:
Excellent
I take back my previews posts here after reading the transcript. He actually answered the questions rather well.
Thanks ansel for posting the full interview. The excerpt that chessplayer posted is very misleading and does a disservice to Brat and us freepers.
Thanks for the link. That article deserves it’s own thread.