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To: Sully- who wrote (49418)	6/8/2004 5:01:49 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 793622

Tom Brokaw Interviews President Bush The NE Rrepublican Monday, June 07, 2004 Last night while flipping channels, I came across the tail end of the Tom Brokaw interview with President Bush in Normandy, France. While Brokaw repeatedly tried to catch him in a gotcha moment, the President came across as thoughtful and gave well-reasoned answers. The interview was much better than the Meet the Press interview of a few months ago. 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. I have posted the transcript from the interview below and I have bolded the portions that were not shown in the video. I have also interspersed some of my thoughts as well...... <edit: see link for transcript - apparently Brokaw cut out quite a bit of the interview> .... That whole middle section giving a historical context of the difficulties of reconstruction was edited right out. The average viewer had no idea that the President's answer was more detailed than what was presented..... .... References to Zarqawi and Abu Nadal are completely removed even though they are examples of a terrorist connection in Iraq. This is important information that needs to be repeated to the American people but is filtered right out of the President's message. Don't tell me that those two sentences were edited out for time constraints either, as they were very short..... .... Make sure you hide that strong jobs report Tom!.... .... You mean we learned some lessons in April that will be used going forward. This administration doesn't learn things, edit that right out. And Iraqis fighting for their country against terrorists. This doesn't fit with our doom and gloom civil war stories! Axe that footage!.... .... These were whole questions and answers that were edited out. I don't have a problem with that as they don't change the meaning of any of Bush's answers..... .... The terrorists want to drive us out of the Middle East to cut off our oil supply and get their hands on more weapons. That's not important, the American people don't need to hear that..... .... More full questions and answers not used. Not a big deal although I wish they had used the question about the draft. The American people need to hear that the President has no intention of reinstating the draft. It is some Democrats that keep pushing it in Congress..... .... A little bit was edited out of that answer but I don't think it affected the meaning..... .... More full questions and answers were removed here, probably for time constraints. The end of the video also has an interview with the First Lady that is not included in this transcript. Just keep all of this in mind the next time you are watching an interview on TV. It doesn't surprise me that this happens, but one would think that the President talking about war and peace would get a little more leeway in having his whole answers presented to the American people. Especially since these same elites in the media will be the first to complain that the President doesn't answer their questions often enough. nerepublican.blogspot.com