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To: Alighieri who wrote (696198)1/30/2013 6:20:17 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1575772
 
Another Dishonest Video Edit from NBC as Martin Bashir Smears Gun Rights Supporters

By Matthew Sheffield | January 30, 2013

MSNBC and NBC News--already famous for their perpetual bashing of conservatives and Republicans--are fast acquiring another claim to fame: dishonest editing of news footage to gin up the left-wing outrage machine.

The latest edit appeared on the Monday edition of the “Martin Bashir” program where the father of one of the victims of the Newton, Conn. school shooting was shown supposedly being shouted down by gun rights supporters as he testified before a hearing about banning certain types of guns in the state. Full video below the fold.

“A father’s grief, interrupted by the cries of a heckler,” a smug Bashir pronounced
after running the clip.

In reality, however, no such interruption took place because the man, Neil Heslin, actually had invited people to challenge his question “Why anybody in this room needs to have one of these assault-style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips?”

Several members of the audience responded to his inquiry. Unfortunately for the poor souls who tune in to MSNBC trying to find actual news, they never saw the question because Bashir cut it out.



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NBC and its cable arm MSNBC are no stranger to false editing of news footage. In March of last year, NewsBusters exposed both news operations for repeatedly presenting to viewers dishonestly edited audio clips of George Zimmerman which made him appear to be making racial statements against Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager he later shot. The deceptive edits were shown three times on NBC’s “Today,” once on “NBC Nightly News,” and also in an article that appeared on MSNBC.com.

The improperly edited footage and its wide dissemination provoked Zimmerman to sue NBC and its parent company, NBC Universal, for defamation.

Just a few months later, MSNBC was back in the editing booth again as snooty correspondent Andrea Mitchell, not exactly a woman of the people, presented a dishonestly edited clip of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supposedly being amazed at a sandwich ordering machine at a Wawa convenience store. In fact, he was actually making a point about how much better the private sector is at creating innovation than the government.

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To: Alighieri who wrote (696198)1/30/2013 8:57:50 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1575772
 
I don't understand your confusion. You want a name, group, or agenda. People who you align with on this thread have stated their desire to have gun ownership made illegal (you know who that is). Left wing organizations are actively campaigning to discourage home owner gun ownership (you know who those organizations are). We can then surmise this is the long range agenda and if/when successful, home owners will be left without protection. while the criminal element will not be unarmed. Kicking in a door is the common smash-and-grab technique. What do you recommend then... we sit down and wait for you and yours to show up in a protective capacity? (fat chance)