Posted on 09/05/2016 12:37:13 PM PDT by richardb72
Shouldn’t journalists who want to tackle the issues related to illegal use of guns in America, and thereby help us find real solutions to violent crime in places like Chicago’s South Side, start by being honest? John Lott thinks so. It is this principled position that caused him to agree, despite his prior experiences, to be interviewed for Katie Couric’s film “Under The Gun.”
As an expert on these issues, he hoped to offer some perspective and balance. Although he says he went into the interview like a person readying himself to be grilled by a prosecutor, even he was surprised at what happened after he left the four-hour-long interview with Couric. . . .
As I wrote here back in June, Lott had wanted to leave the New York City hotel room where Couric, backed by seven staffers, had interviewed him. He wanted to leave because, he said, “She kept asking me the same questions in different ways. It was clear they were trying to get me to say something that could be taken out of context.” However, he didn’t walk out because he didn’t want that on film.
Months later, Lott learned he was cut from the film while live on the radio. Lott was on “The John Cardillo Show” promoting his smashing new book The War on Guns (“smashing” because it bludgeons the anti-gun media and groups with the substantiated facts about guns), when Cardillo said, “I don’t know if you know this … I don’t know if we spoke about this, but my brother knows one of the financiers on the Katie Couric project—he was sort of an ancillary financier who’s actually pro-Second Amendment—and he told me your footage from that documentary was cut after a private between Katie Couric and Michael Bloomberg.” . . .
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Yes he agreed to the interview, because he wanted to have a serious conversation on the matter of illegal guns, but he knew it wasn’t in the cards once he got there. His knowledge of the Leftists did him well.
Were I Lott I would be proud they couldn’t trip me up, and use me for their purposes, therefore having to cut out my entire interview.
Did Lott have his own camera crew? Sixty Minutes was notorious for cutting & splicing footage and Couric did the same thing.
He should wear a body cam so when they say “you can’t bring your cameraman in here” it’ll be for the record. If they demand to body search him, Lott should then leave.
Bloomberg is dangerous to the Republic.
I had a producer of a famous show interview me over the telephone for a segment about gun control.
We spoke for nearly an hour.
They never used me.
Mr. MICROPHONE,,,
They Control the Audio
They Control the Video
They Want to Control the World.
Hmm...I would have told the host, “No phone sex for me. I’ll meet you for an interview & record it on my iPhone. Otherwise, pack sand.”
An audio recording can be cut & spliced & make you say crazy stuff. Remember Lying Katie Couric, and that’s recent.
Real question: did you have any doubt where this host stood on the subject of gun rights?
No.
I did contact a close friend, Alan Korwin, who has done numerous interviews on the subject.
It turned out that they had contacted him as well.
He advised me to accept the interview. He said that the interview might inform the producer to some extent, and do some good. He also assured me that we both were too informed and careful to be included in the show.
He was exactly correct.
Ping.
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