CNN Removed Obama's 'Fallen Heroes' Gaffe from Soundbite

News Busters ^ | May 30, 2008 | Rich Noyes

[Clintonfatigued]

Conservative bloggers and talk radio hosts have noticed the rash of gaffes — some goofy, some more serious — emanating from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama lately, but the mainstream media’s coverage of Obama’s bouts with foot-in-mouth disease has been sparse, to say the least. In the case of one of Obama’s more recent gaffes, however, a CNN reporter did Obama the favor of editing the gaffe right out of his story.

On Monday, Obama weirdly talked about honoring the nation’s “unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience today.” In a report on Tuesday night’s CNN’s Election Center, correspondent Joe Johns used that Obama soundbite in a piece on the candidate’s “polling problem on patriotism” — but snipped out the part where Obama seemed to be seeing ghosts:

[JLS]

That is why operation chaos was so necessary. The MSM was not about to criticize the black guy. McCain and the GOP had already said they were not going to criticize Obama. Since the Clintons are experts at dirtying other up, the primary season had to be extended so they could do the job others would not.

[tophat9000]

You know I'm not surprised that CNN edits out Obama gaffes...

I'm just surprised that CNN hasn't figured out a way to edit Obama gaffes in to McCain mouth yet....

CNN could take all the Obama gaffes in Obama own voice and dub it over McCain video and the typical leftists is so nuts these days they would buy it

[Impy]

OMG, if McCain did this it they would be screaming senility and SNL would go ape wild with it.

I call for CNN to be fined 5,000,000,000. That will teach them.

[the invisib1e hand]

...and their lawyers are feverishly working to obtain the authority to remove it from all internet files while Google compiles a list of their locations...

I guess I should add the "/s" but it's certainly not too unlikely.

[the invisib1e hand]

editorializing is one thing but editing content for propoganda is problematic it’s hard to figure how to stop them though

let's see...how was the last regime that was built upon this tactic stopped?

[wardaddy]

with blood of course

[fieldmarshaldj]

“10,000 people died in the Kansas tornado.” — Presidential material.

“Potato(e)” — Destroyed career, butt of jokes, family shamed for ever and ever.

Guess which is the rodent and which is the Republican.

[darkangel82]

Depends on how you define “is”. Seriesly, there’s always been a double standard for ‘rats.