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MSNBC.com Deceptively Edits Dave Brat to Suggest He Was 'Dodging' Questions
NewsBusters ^ | June 11, 2014 | Ken Shepherd

Posted on 06/12/2014 9:45:57 AM PDT by EveningStar

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: ...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: agenda; cantor; chucktodd; corruption; davebrat; democrats; election; ericcantor; fraud; liars; mediabias; msnbc; obama; teaparty; virginia
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1 posted on 06/12/2014 9:45:57 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

The Left’s hatchet job on Brat has barely begun.


2 posted on 06/12/2014 9:47:24 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

Why get upset about it? They are playing to their (exceedingly tiny) audience. No reasonable person watches that propaganda channel other than for “know your enemy” purposes.


3 posted on 06/12/2014 9:51:19 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: EveningStar
You can edit anyone to make them look like you want them to...
4 posted on 06/12/2014 9:51:57 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: luvbach1

It shows that much like Ted Cruz they are scared Shirtless over any Small Government conservative...


5 posted on 06/12/2014 9:53:29 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: EveningStar

I despise the legacy media.


6 posted on 06/12/2014 9:55:26 AM PDT by iceskater (Enjoy your chains, comrades.)
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To: EveningStar
NEVER trust ANYTHING the communist queers in Big Media are trying to sell you.

Lying speech is their native tongue ... they are servants of their master, the "Father of Lies".

7 posted on 06/12/2014 9:57:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: The Antiyuppie; luvbach1
Why get upset about it? They are playing to their (exceedingly tiny) audience. No reasonable person watches that propaganda channel other than for “know your enemy” purposes.

Do a search and you'll find that other media sources have jumped on this and spread it far beyond the MSNBC world.

8 posted on 06/12/2014 9:58:10 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: iceskater

This is why conservatives should always request a full feed real-time recording of any interviews, and should record their own full record of any public appearances or speeches. It also strikes me that it would be wise to place a digital timer in the frame, perhaps on the podium, or on a shelf behind, so that the out of sequence edits are obvious to the viewer. For a small campaign like Brat’s, with a highly constrained budget, it’s a pain to have to divert resources to stuff like this, but the example of George Allen should suffice.


9 posted on 06/12/2014 10:02:13 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: EveningStar; All

Brat is just the newest figure that MUST BE DESTROYED by the Kos Kids.

Take a look at some of the things that have been said about him on MSNBC,Twitter, etc in the last couple of days.

Just looking at Tweets from the last couple of minutes:

“extremist teabagger”
“Climate Science Denier”
“Ayn Randian wingnut”
“scary economic thinking”

Article after article bashing him, from Salon, Vox, The New Yorker, etc. The Left has someone new to “Palinize”. Many tweets already claiming he is a RACIST, that hates the idea of America being run by a black man.

We have seen all of this before, many times. He is the leftist cause-celeb to pile their hate upon.


10 posted on 06/12/2014 10:02:32 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: EveningStar

Fortunately, NBC and its clones are not the broadcaster of record.


11 posted on 06/12/2014 10:02:38 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: EveningStar

If you want news , why would you ever go to MSNBC ?
The information comes right from the 'White HUT'!


12 posted on 06/12/2014 10:05:57 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Political Correctness is Tyranny .. with manners ! Charlton Heston)
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To: EveningStar

MSNBC - America's least trusted news source.

13 posted on 06/12/2014 10:06:03 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: EveningStar
Why do Republicans, and conservative Republicans in particular, even bother to talk to MSNBC?

Stop talking to the knee-pad media! All they will do is just try to trip you up with "gotcha" questions.

The Democrats ignore unfriendly media all the time. The Republicans should do the same.

14 posted on 06/12/2014 10:06:44 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; Fido969

Other media sources have jumped on this including NYT, Politico, Hot Air, WaPo, HuffPo.


15 posted on 06/12/2014 10:12:00 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Fido969

I posted that very article. :)


16 posted on 06/12/2014 10:13:43 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
THey have jumped on the deception ?
or are repeating the deception as shown on MSNBC ?
17 posted on 06/12/2014 10:15:32 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Political Correctness is Tyranny .. with manners ! Charlton Heston)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Repeating it.


18 posted on 06/12/2014 10:17:29 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

hope you don’t mind that I added a few “keywords” to get your thread seen a a few more areas.

This is what the media does so don’t always believe what you see......either side but in my opinion the left is way better at deception so beware


19 posted on 06/12/2014 10:47:58 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: EveningStar

It begs the question WHY do conservatives GO ON THOSE PROGRAMS??

The good news is that BOTH Todd’s viewers were in jail for obscene phone calls to Sarah Palin so nobody saw or heard it.


20 posted on 06/12/2014 10:49:41 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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