60 Minutes Scrubbed Obama's Transcript

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical ^ | 9-26-08 | Rodger Schultz

[DannyTN]

"Isn't that like --- fraud?"

MSM prefers the term "fake but accurate".

[VeniVidiVici]

There are two different transcriptions on two different pages. The first is dated 9/21, the second revised and extended transcript, 9/24:

Ouch. They gave Osama a mulligan for his answer?

[aruanan]

Thanks. Maybe he really did make the second response and it got edited out of the show tape.

Highly unlikely because the first response isn't anywhere in the text of the second response. Each would have had to be edited out of the other. I don't think that's what happened. Maybe they did several takes after it was apparent that his original response (the one of the 21st) was so boneheaded. But even then, there's still the problem of two different transcripts with two different dates.

[savedbygrace]

Maybe they did several takes

Exactly.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Well, the teleprompter must have malfunctioned on that question.

The first transcription is what he actually said, having to rely only on himself to answer.

The second transcription is what he was SCRIPTED to say in response to that question.

[donaldo]

Obama is an ideologue, plain and simple. He is the most liberal Senator around. He is much more likely to view public policy through some puerile notion of doctrinal purity than McCain and Palin. McCain and Palin are the true problem solvers. I can’t imagine Obama coming out for any public policy position before its passing muster with special interests like, say, teacher’s unions or the trial lawyers association. He’s not about nonpartisanship, period!

[aruanan]

Well, the teleprompter must have malfunctioned on that question. The first transcription is what he actually said, having to rely only on himself to answer.

The second transcription is what he was SCRIPTED to say in response to that question.

This is the most likely scenario. The liberals all go on the basis of what was intended rather than on the reality, unless, of course, the reality happens to get them closer to whatever happens to be their goal.