Posted on 09/19/2012 5:18:14 AM PDT by KansasGirl
Mother Jones, the left-wing magazine that released a controversial video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remarks to a fundraiser in May, now admits that it has no full tape of what Romney said, and that its video is missing "one to two minutes" at the most important moment.
The Legal Insurrection blog's William Jacobson and The Blaze both raised questions on Tuesday about whether Mother Jones had, as promised, revealed the full video, given an apparent jump cut in the critical section of Romney's remarks.
"Something is missing. Romney’s 47% answer was cut off before completed, and is not picked up on the Part 2 audio video," Jacobson noted.
Late Tuesday evening, Jacobson obtained the following comment from David Corn of Mother Jones:
According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one [sic]. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.
Corn was forced to update his original post, which promised the "full" video, to reflect the fact that a key portion of the video is, in fact, missing.
There is no way to know, without the missing footage, exactly what Romney said. On Monday evening, Romney called for a complete video of his remarks to be released.
That now turns out to be impossible, either because Romney's remarks were never recorded in full (as Mother Jones now claims), or because some of his remarks--perhaps mitigating some of the controversial effect of his statements--were selectively edited out of the tape by Mother Jones or its chain of sources (including former President Jimmy Carter's grandson).
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It's amazing republicans win any elections with this pack of media vultures perpetually on their heels (and infiltrating their meetings in order to gather more data to electronically mutilate). The nazi propagandists would be put to shame by the national legion of Obama Cultists who pretend to be reporters.
Not sure that's true. Wouldn't most people choose bread on the table over ideology?
I am shocked!! shocked!!!
Is there a victim mentality among a large percentage of people in this country? Yes -and we can point to the Justice Brothers, ACORN, La Raza, GLAAD and all the other "victim coalitions" and thank them for it. They've only been fostering it for 40+ years and they've finally been successful. I would only argue that it's more than 47%. Look to the Tides Foundation, Annenberg, etc. to see who has been funding this rabble-rousing for all these years. Victimhood is big, big business.
More of same “fake but accurate?”
Mother Jones CNN row boat moment.
Videos embarrassing to leftist freaks are always ASSUMED to be taken out of context.....
Forget bread on the table. I gots to get new rimz. The onez that spinz.
Not when they already have bread on the table.
But what Romney needs to do is to get some instruction from Newt about how to attack the moderators who pose the trick questions, and make people laugh at them for doing so. That was Newt's best quality and why we knew he would beat Obama in the debates. Mitt needs some Newt channeled to him.
Who taped this?
Nixon’s secretary Rosemary Woods?
“People should also start drawing an analogy between this and the missing 18 1/2 minutes in the Nixon Watergate tapes.”
The difference is that the sentiment was that Nixon didn’t want us to hear what was omitted from the Watergate tapes, because it was criminal, whereas here, it would be (what?) exculpatory?
the issue is damage.
The missing/edited tape would damage the Obama/left/communists/socialists/msm.
He will certainly have ample opportunity for that in the debates.
The media, including FOX, are completing ignoring this revelation. This was a set-up from the get go. A months old video, selectively edited, then released to a pre-planned assault by the media and Dems. Although Fox is defending Romney on the substance of his remarks, they are ignoring the bigger story - media complicity with the Obama campaign. This has gone way beyond mere bias - the networks are now an adjunct of the Democratic campaign machine.
“Selectively edited, most-likely, for MAXIMUM Obamabot effect, and taken out of context in an illegal taping of his remarks.”
I had the feeling that a lot of people agreed with his remarks. What would you think would have been a proper context to make them more agreeable?
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The people not paying taxes isn’t the worst problem.....
It’s the person EATING DOGS that is the real problem.
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The people not paying taxes isn’t the worst problem.....
It’s the person BREWING BEER while he is skipping White House intelligence briefings that is the problem.
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KEEP IT SHORT STUPID!
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