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Did NBC Edit Out Kerry's Admission on Military Records? (removed 'because my record is not public')
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| 10/31/04
Posted on 10/31/2004 11:25:14 PM PST by Cableguy
Edited on 10/31/2004 11:30:55 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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Many readers have written us, expressing outrage that when NBC's Dateline rebroadcast Tom Brokaw's interview with John Kerry, which was previously shown on MSNBC, Kerry's admission that not all of his military records have been released was edited out. Other bloggers are accusing NBC of covering up Kerry's admission that he has repeatedly lied about making all of his records public.
There is no question that a key line got edited out. Here is the original exchange as it appeared on MSNBC:
Brokaw: Someone has analyzed the President's military aptitude tests and yours, and concluded that he has a higher IQ than you do. Kerry: That's great. More power. I don't know how they've done it, because my record is not public. So I don't know where you're getting that from.
And here is how the exchange was shown on the much more heavily-watched Dateline:
"Someone has analyzed the president's military aptitude tests and yours, and concluded that he has a higher IQ than you do." Kerry: "That's great. More power. I don't know how they've done it."
Superficially, this is rather damning. But if you read the complete transcripts of the two versions of the interview, you will see that they are quite different. The Dateline version included some exchanges that were not played on MSNBC, and MSNBC included others that were cut from the Dateline version.
Power Line readers are news junkies who are tuned in to the issues surrounding Kerry's military service that have been raised by the Swift Boat Vets and others. Realistically, however, the number of non-junkie listeners who would have understood the significance of the sentence that Dateline cut from Kerry's answer is close to zero. My guess is that whoever edited the video footage for Dateline had no idea that the omitted material was significant.
There is no question that the mainstream media covered up for John Kerry with respect to his military service. But they didn't do it by this minor bit of editing. They did it by never--ever--asking him the basic question: "Why won't you make all of your military records public?"
It's true that the Kerry campaign has falsely claimed that all of his records are publicly available, but they can't seriously maintain that position if it is subjected to any scrutiny. The Navy has said that it has around 100 pages that have not been released because Kerry has not signed the necessary form. That is an indisputable fact. So if a reporter asked Kerry the question, he would have to come up with some kind of an answer. And it is hard to see what answer he could give that would not lead no additional, more penetrating, questions.
But the mainstream media, while constantly slandering the Swift Boat Vets as disseminators of "discredited" information, have slammed the door on "legitimate" discussion of Kerry's military record by refusing to ask him the most basic of questions: what is in your records, and why won't you let the voters see them?
That's the real cover-up. And because that cover-up has been so successful, NBC could have played the full version of the IQ exchange, and hardly any viewers would have been the wiser.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: admission; dateline; kerry; militaryrecords; nbc; nbcnews; tombrokaw
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:25:14 PM PST
by
Cableguy
To: Cableguy
Did NBC Edit Out Kerry's Admission on Military Records? The MSM edited out his whole selfishly calculated rotten life. Welcome to 'The Rabbit Hole'!
America is going to get someone they will never know!!!
To: All
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:31:03 PM PST
by
glory2
To: beyond the sea
The question on the completeness of his release of military records would have been one of the first asked if the debates had had any Fox news or unbiased moderator.
Why didn't the republicans insist on at least one unbiased moderator?
This is a major failing in the campaign. Why do we let the liberals control the debates?
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:32:45 PM PST
by
Oldexpat
To: Cableguy
I respect Power Line, but I disagree. The editors knew exactly what the were doing. It is frakly fatuous to assume this was innocent. The MSM are as keenly aware of Kerry's military records as the most diehard rightwing blogger.
Why is that likely? It is likely because a good reporter has a nose for dirt and ommisions like this would cause a good reporter to start sniffing like a bloodhound. They are protecting Kerry, end of story.
To: Cableguy
NBCLIES
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:37:36 PM PST
by
timestax
To: Cableguy
NBCLIES-BIGTIME
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:38:14 PM PST
by
timestax
To: Anti-Bubba182
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:39:35 PM PST
by
mlocher
(america is a sovereign state)
To: Oldexpat
Why do we let the liberals control the debates?We don't - but the 'pubbies mostly do.
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:43:00 PM PST
by
Grut
To: Cableguy
see
linkBIAS, MALFEASANCE, AND SINS OF OMISSION
By Geoff Metcalf
October 31, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!" -- Edmund Burke
Notwithstanding routine protestations to the contrary, America's mainstream media is on a 'Jones' to undermine a President in wartime, and collude with leftists to assist a candidate, who not only gave aid and comfort to the enemy 30 years ago, but also was their pawn.
New documented archive evidence proves that John Kerry was either a knowing co-conspirator with the communist Vietnamese (while he was still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice), OR he was a "useful idiot". Regardless of which of the available options is true, he is certainly 'Unfit for Command'...at ANY level.
CBS was quick (premature articulation?) to pick at a phony scab sparked by fabricated documents. Political and personal bias synthesized to conspire with CBS to create a critical self-inflicted wound. Dan Rather says, 'Whoops!'....Kinda.
The New York Times (reportedly beating CBS to the punch) splashed a bogus story about 380 tons of missing Iraqi munitions. When NBC and an Army officer directly involved refute the bogus claim, the graying lady looks at her shoes (possibly seeing the reflection of Jason Blair) and shuffles her feet.
Meanwhile, a for real blockbuster story languishes beyond the view or attention of most Americans because 'it might be too controversial and influence the election'? Huh!?!?
I recently interviewed Dr. Jerome Corsi (co-author of 'Unfit for Command') and Scott Swett (founder of www.wintersoldier.com) and learned they can't get ANY big time media (including the presumed defenders of the truth at Fox News) to touch the product of their documented research?
Et tu Rupert? Maybe Fox was too busy with lawyers and cost benefit analysis of protecting their Marquee product...or have finally become intimidated my name callers?
Regardless of the reason, Fox News is as guilty of this sin of omission as the mainstream media they routinely vilify.
Newly discovered documents (hiding in the ocean of data in archives) reveal a very direct and symbiotic link between John Kerry and the Vietnamese communists. No wonder the POW community is outraged (www.stolenhonor.com).
This stuff 'should' overshadow
* Questions about Kerry's hyperbolized daring do in Vietnam
* His 'revised' DD 214
* His multiple Silver Star citations
* His alleged less than honorable discharge and subsequent Carter/Clinton do-over...
* Or even his billionaire heiress du jour's piles of money and abrasive verbiage.
This is HOT...and the media (even the once dependable Fox News) is too chicken excrement/scared spitless to even try to discredit it?
The documents from 1971 were found in the Texas Tech Vietnam archives in Lubbock, Texas.
They reveal the Vietnamese communists were not just 'talking' but were in fact guiding and directing the American antiwar movement. They used meetings in Paris between their delegation to the Paris Peace talks and American antiwar activists to direct (not advise) efforts in the U.S.
In the summer of 1970 John Kerry reportedly met with Madame Binh, the Viet Cong's chief negotiator in Paris. He subsequently returned to the U.S. to push for Madame Binh's '7-Point Peace Plan'. He made his pitch in Washington. D/C. in July 1971.
Kerry didn't use the Binh 7-Point Plan as a 'guideline' for his recommendations...he used (and implemented it) as an Operations Order...complete with Surrender, Admission of Guilt, Reparations, the whole magilla. [Read: Hanoi's American Puppets?]
Everything Madame Binh instructed Kerry to do, he DID. He did so either as a complicit co-conspirator, or as a 'useful idiot'...you decide.
CBS, CNN, The New York Times et al seem to have to compunction about reporting on fabricated urban legends if or when it is in consonance with their preconceived views, opinions and prejudices. However, if or when corroborated documentation, which is irrefutable, emerges that undermines their biased agenda, the silence is deafening.
Corsi and Swett have tried to share the details and documentation of the story with EVERYONE in the media...and with the exception of some talk radio and Internet venues... this story is anathema. Why?
PLEASE check out www.wintersoldier.com for the documentation and contact everyone you can to ask WHY is this significant information being denied the American people?
Ask:
CBS evening@cbsnews.com
NBC nightly@nbc.com
ABC peterjennings@abc.com
CNN www.cnn.com/feedback
FOX hannity@foxnews.com oreilly@foxnews.com
MSNBC joe@msnbc.com imus@msnbc.com
The New York Times executive-editor@nytimes.com managing-editor@nytimes.com
The Washington Post ombudsman@washpost.com And your elected members of Congress.
John Kerry should not be elected to ANYthing...Ambrose Bierce once observed, "The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff." Amen!
To: Cableguy
"My guess is that whoever edited the video footage for Dateline had no idea that the omitted material was significant"
Well .. I hate to burst your bubble .. but THE EDIT WAS DONE ON PURPOSE.
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:46:04 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(Election 2004: This election is for the SOUL OF AMERICA)
To: Oldexpat
Why do we let the liberals control the debates?Good question. I don't know. The fact that the RNC caved on that and many other things makes me think this is all a huge charade and that things are, shall we say, arranged already.
We'll see.
Kerry has been allowed to slide, and people said Hillary could never get elected with the certain exposure of her by the press in a long campaign ---what a joke. The media is the most ruthless and destructive force in this country.
To: Cableguy
I heard Kerry specifically say in the interview in response to the question about IQ:
I don't know how they would know that, my records are not public.
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:50:29 PM PST
by
ArmedNReady
(George Bush has wood for the democrats.)
To: Cableguy
They did cut out the words about his records not being made public. Brokaw passed on the opportunity to challenge...surprised??? Please drop nbc a note, just to let them know that we are in our pajamas but our eyes and ears are wide open!!!
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:55:19 PM PST
by
BlessedAmerican
(Pray for our President and those who are fighting to preserve our freedom!)
To: Cableguy
Screen captures as PROOF for when MSNBC "fixes" their website...
Also note the original contains reference to Gephardt's own gay daughter and that comment by Kerry,
right before the records "slip" was completely eliminated from the "edited" broadcast and transcript..
Mary is "fair game". Chrissy is not.
ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT/BROADCAST
EDITED TRANSCRIPT/BROADCAST
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:56:22 PM PST
by
cgk
(I'll keep posting it until you READ IT. Pay attention!)
To: beyond the sea
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:57:46 PM PST
by
fuzzy122
(GBGB [God Bless George Bush] and Our Armed Forces!)
To: CyberAnt
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:58:20 PM PST
by
fuzzy122
(GBGB [God Bless George Bush] and Our Armed Forces!)
To: cgk
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posted on
10/31/2004 11:58:59 PM PST
by
fuzzy122
(GBGB [God Bless George Bush] and Our Armed Forces!)
To: fuzzy122
I saw the original - and tonight's... and now I've heard Rush - THANKS!! :)
Rush is the best. Thank God he's on our side.
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posted on
11/01/2004 12:00:43 AM PST
by
cgk
(I'll keep posting it until you READ IT. Pay attention!)
To: fuzzy122
I heard it when he said it. He's a bum and the media sucks.
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