To say “absolutely a difference” is to repeat the robo-meme.
Excerpting is a form of editing. Fixing typos is a form of editing. Rearranging excerpts — say like the Coppola did to the three Godfather movies in order to produce the chronological “The Godfather Trilogy 1901-1980,” is a form of editing.
An apple is a fruit. A pear is a fruit. To say that Eve gave Adam a pear is wrong. To say that Eve gave Adam a fruit is correct. To say that Eve gave Adam a fruit is a common and old way of quoting the passge.
The word used in the original Hebrew is “p’ri”, which in means fruit of a tree in general, and in some contexts means a more specific fruit, perhaps an apple, even.
The truth here is the edits of the Sherrod video, which were all excerpts kept in order, did present a variant message than that she intended to provide with her whole speech, in in that sense, the excerpted tape was unfaithful to her whole message in a way. However the excerpted tape was indeed a accurate representation of Sherrod’s racism in office and how it negatively affected a fellow human. By being an excerpt highlighting and focused on that action of hers it no more misrepresented her later claimed ‘redemption’ than a security camera of a thief robbing a convenience store misrepresents his possible later ‘redemption’.
And in fact, as we all have learned a bigger picture of Mrs. Sherrod continuing today by her present actions and statements, she still comes off as a truly UNREDEEMED racist.
To say that Eve gave Adam anfruitapple is a common and old way of quoting the passge.
In the common idiom of our time, you "excerpt" something when you pull a contiguous, unaltered piece from a larger piece. It is a specific type of edit, but that specificity is important and relevant to this case.
The more general term "edit" implies much more than simple excerpting, and is being used with ominous and disingenuous overtones in this case.
It is being used that way with intent.