New England Republican has a must read post concerning the interview President Bush gave to Tom Brokaw over the past weekend.
Since I had missed the beginning, I decided to go to the NBC site to see if the video was available. As I watched the video, I also read the transcript. Although it was not my intent, this allowed me to see what had been edited out of the video. I was not surprised to see that whole questions and answers had not been used in the video. However, I was surprised to see that important portions from the middle of some of the President's answers had been deleted out, in some cases removing points that helped the President present his side to the American people. Viewers of the video would have had no idea that the answers were shortened unless they had read along with the transcript as I had.
Go read the whole thing. It's not surprising, but it continues to amaze me that the news media will do this stuff when the internet is available. Huge Kudos to NERepublican for the catch!
Comments