Posted on 05/23/2016 12:44:21 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
“Creative” editing by Katie Couric, who must have graduated from the Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism, has intentionally and significantly changed the response of VCDL members in a new video called “Under the Gun” - and I have PROOF.
VCDL APPROACHED TO BE PART OF A “DOCUMENTARY”
I received an email in March of 2015 from Kristin Lazure, a producer for Atlas Films, asking if VCDL would be part of "a documentary about the gun violence prevention movement in America.”
In the email, Kristin said, "Some of the storylines we're exploring include the legislative process on the federal and state level, how the Second Amendment has been interpreted in the wake of the Supreme Court's Heller ruling, and what impact mass shootings like Aurora and Sandy Hook have on gun reform legislation.” She continued, "In order to fully understand the complexities of this hot button topic and speak to an audience with varied viewpoints, Ms. Couric is very eager to include all perspectives in this discussion."
As is VCDL’s general policy with the media, we do our best to accommodate their requests, as it gives us a chance to get our message out to the public. It is a policy that has worked well for as long as VCDL has been around, with the exception of four times, and this was to be one of those exceptions.
Katie’s team was set up to film in Washington, DC, and Kristin wanted to know if I could come there for the interview. I said that I would not come to DC, so they rented a conference room in a hotel in Northern Virginia and brought down their crew for what ended up being a two hour interview with Katie on April 13, 2015. (The audio of the raw interview is below).
Later, Dennis O’Connor and I took Katie and her crew to Blue Ridge Arsenal to film Katie learning how to shoot on May 11, 2015. While there, she also interviewed Dennis.
GROUP INTERVIEW
Later, Kristin contacted me about arranging an interview of a group of VCDL members.
The group interview was held in the room where VCDL meetings are held and ended just as VCDL members were coming in for the regularly scheduled Annandale membership meeting on June 18, 2015.
Participating in the group session were Ed Levine, Patricia Webb, Terrell Prude’, Dan Hawes, Leonard Harris, John Wilburn, Rubiner Toor, Barak Ulrich James, and Judy Rudek.
THE “DOCUMENTARY” TURNS OUT TO BE AN “INFOMERCIAL” FOR GUN CONTROL
While the movie claims to be a documentary, it's clear after watching it that it was never intended to be a balanced presentation of the issues.
People from other gun groups were also interviewed, but in the end the video dedicated a mere fifteen minutes or so to the pro-self-defense side (of which VCDL had only about four minutes), while giving an hour and a half to the antis.
CREATIVE EDITING BY KATIE COURIC CHANGES THE VCDL GROUP’S ANSWER TO A KEY QUESTION
Katie apparently wasn’t getting anything from either the group or me that she could use to further her pro-gun-control arguments. In fact my entire two-hour interview was left on the cutting room floor, but some of the group interview made it into the final film. However, one of the question/answer responses was altered - and therein lies the problem.
Watching the video, you hear Katie ask, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorist from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and purchasing a gun?” The camera then shows the group members TOTALLY SILENT FOR EIGHT SECONDS. The camera zooms in on one member, who looks down.
The clear implication is that none of the group had an answer for that question and was being evasive and avoiding eye contact.
The truth is, and as you will hear in the audio, below, that the group responded to Katie immediately, with answers to her question! Yet the video shows no one responding. Clearly, when Katie didn't get the answer(s) she wanted, she changed the group’s answers by replacing them with other video of the group sitting around quietly between questions.
Unbelievable. And extremely unprofessional. In essence Katie lied about the VCDL members' answers. If she so cavalierly lied in this instance, what other things did she alter in this movie or any of her previous reporting to advance her own personal agendas?
While I am used to our side being given less time in the press than the antis are given, I’m not used to having our words changed. That is a big journalistic “no no.”
Back in 1993, Dateline faked an accidental explosion of a truck to show that model truck was dangerous if involved in a collision. Dateline couldn’t actually create an explosion by crashing vehicles into the truck, so they ultimately, and shamefully, planted incendiary devices on the truck to force it to blow up.
What Katie did is similar.
Speaking of cheerleading for gun control, at the end of the infomercial the names of eight anti-self-defense groups that participated in the project are prominently listed under the title of "Join Those Already Making a Difference," with viewers encouraged to contact them for more information. Not one single pro-self-defense group, including VCDL, is listed as a source of information.
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The audio of the full group interview is here, skip to the 36 minute and 43 second mark to hear the question on felons and the answers the group provided. There is no silence, but Katie needed something to show gun owners are unreasonable in their opposition to universal background checks, so she provided eight seconds of silence for us:
http://vcdl.org:80/resources/Media/katiecouricinterview06182015.mp3
Feel free to listen to the entire interview. I think the group did a phenomenal job defending our gun rights and that’s why the group doesn’t appear in the infomercial but for a few minutes, with a key part edited to serve a gun-control agenda.
You can watch Katie Curic's gun control infomercial for free at: http://www.epix.com/movie/under-the-gun/
(The Epix web site for the movie says "with a narration from renowned journalist Katie Couric". Renowned for what? Lying?)
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As an FYI, my full interview (raw) can be heard here:
http://vcdl.org:80/resources/Media/PVCInterview_1.mp3
POST THIS FAR AND WIDE TO GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT KATIE’S PHONY “DOCUMENTARY” CALLED “UNDER THE GUN”
Moral of the story, never participate in a left wing “news” show, because it’s all propaganda.
The solution is never allow the slime “news” media to ‘interview’ you,
since they will falsify it anyway.
They are your enemy.
Leftists lie.
All the time.
About everything.
Skunks stink. Sharks bite. Leftists lie.
It’s their nature; they are of their father the devil, who was a liar and a murderer from the beginning.
Virginia Citizen’s Defense League. One of the premiere state level gun rights groups in the country.
I hope you get this out far and wide to all gun groups and to all non leftwing media.
A proggy lives on lies. Lies about America, sexuality, family, guns, Christianity, morality, race, conservatism, global warming, all of it. They effectively ARE a lie. Couric is a sad, lost, greedy soul.
Moral of the story: stay OUT of the public eye in EVERY way, shape or form...or, unless you have TrumpMoney. THEN, you can say whatever you darn well want to.
Good question. Because it works. If you are looking to expand your reach (that is to say...to evangelize) beyond the folks who already agree with you, you have to be willing to talk to folks who wouldn't otherwise hear your message. So you use the leftmedia's own platform to reach them. The downside risk is that the leftmedia will lie and distort like they usually do.
So sorry for perky katie: her would-be victims were recording the interview as well and can prove the falsehood. Just like Dan Rather.
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I respectfully disagree.
People are TAUGHT to lie.
People have a CHOICE whether to lie or not.
Leftist parents teach their children to tell the story of life from their own socialist, communist perspective but DON'T, of course, want to ANYONE to disagree with them. Perhaps they think that they don't need God.
I agree with you on: Satan, being the adversary, liar and murderer. One of God's light bearers, a beloved angel...who allowed PRIDE, the nadir of human direction, to dictate his soul. What a shame.
Liars and murderers listen to Lucifer-turned-Satan.
What’s the point of having free speech or even freedom if you’re going to remain silent and hide under a rock?
Our human nature is broken, corrupted, and absent the saving Grace of God is inclined toward sin. Lying is a sin. Last time I checked.
Leftism explicitly rejects the Grace of God and wallows in sin.
The point?
Too many people have their free speech mocked and debased. If one doesn't "free speech," it seems, in the correct manner then, s/he is excoriated at home, work and play.
SOME people don't mind that and have the strength of mind to keep on because they KNOW that they are right. Others want acceptance from the entire world.
I keep company with people of my "ilk," Catholics who practice their faith, go to daily Mass...and TRY very hard to follow God's simple words: LOVE GOD and love each other.
And that, for me, is difficult as I have to "love" the moron [usually a foreigner from Asia] who SEEMS to be trying very hard to kill me with his/her car. And, that car is USUALLY a black BMW.
Virginia Citizen Defense League
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YUP.
Leftism USED to be communism and, as I recall, their mantra was: "There is no God."
This gets easy when you truly understand that these people are “activists” posing as “journalists.”
That’s the thing about free speech: you can only be heard if you’re willing to talk.
Being mocked isn’t that big of a deal. And in the long term, you learn why “turning the other cheek” is not only the good thing to do, it’s also the effective thing to do.
Chances are you’re not going to persuade the person who smites you. BUT, you may well persuade some members of the crowd who are watching. And if I might be so bold to point it out; gun rights is one of very few places where our side is clearly winning. In large part because we’ve never given up the narrative.
Will A publication by VCDL that mostly goes to membership, and some of the “chorus” (as in 2nd amendment advocates) get the coverage Missy Couric gets on Mainstream television Nationwide?
I think not, but it’s interesting to note by we of the “chorus” how she deliberately socked it to us with her lying manipulation.
I see this as one for Missy, and 0 our side, but we learn as we go.
I guess you either don't work (retired) or work for yourself. We all gotta work to live, eat and such. People HAVE to hire you and if decide to say your spiel on day one, you MIGHT NOT get a job.
MOST people are more persuaded by ACTION rather than lip-flapping. How a person LIVES is more important to me that what he says.
As for guns, lol, I love'em. My husband taught me to shoot. He's passed on now and I sold all his guns.
Now, I only use my pellet gun, which is legal in this state and in this city, to own and fire at any time. I HAVE gotten rid of all the crows in the area and nice birds are back, even SINGING in the morning.
I actually HIT a crow once with one of those tiny little pellets as it was only 10 feet away. It didn't kill, hurt or knock him off his flight path. BUT, crows have "facial recognition" ability and remember faces.
Lol. EVERY time that crow sees me it caws at me. [It probably means "bitch" in crow.] All the other zillions of crows around the city ignore me but ONE crow hates me. LIFE IS GOOD.
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