Did MSNBC Fake Its Own Transcript to Cover for Ed Schultz?
source: http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/02/did-msnbc-fake-its-own-transcript-to-cover-for-ed-schultz/
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Does MSNBC edit its transcripts to make its hosts look better and conservatives look worse? The network’s transcript of Monday’s edition of “The Ed Show” did just that. Host Ed Schultz had on Ron Christie, former deputy advisor to Dick Cheney, to discuss Obama’s ever-weakening Homeland Security policies. In the discussion, Ed made an embarrassing verbal blunder, and Ron ably defended himself — but the edited transcript posted on MSNBC’s website has elided key parts of their discussion.
Ed mocked “this idea that [Bush and Cheney] kept the country safe,” thundering, “We were hit, big time, on Cheney’s watch, not on Obama’s watch.” The Left has used this line, without effect, since at least the 2004 elections — as though al-Qaeda sprung from whole cloth on January 21, 2001, and accomplished its grandest plans in a mere nine months. Christie had his number — and Schultz’s inept response proved it:
CHRISTIE: Do you even want to go there with me, Ed?
SCHULTZ: Yeah, I wanna go down that road. Go ahead!
CHRISTIE: Let’s talk about the Clinton administration. Let’s talk about the Clinton Justice Department that viewed acts of terrorism – the first World Trade Center bombing, the bombings overseas of our embassies – as a law enforcement matter.
SCHULTZ: Uh, excuse me, on American soil—
(Cross Talk)
CHRISTIE: Let’s look at Jamie Gorelick, Ed. Let’s look at Jamie Gorelick, who refused —
SCHULTZ: …the people that [sic.] hit during the Clinton administration, they ended up getting prosecuted and those people that [sic.] hit in New York back in [it sounds as though he said '92, or slurred some amalgam of '93 and '92] — those folks are behind bars. The point is this—
First off, U.S. embassies are “sovereign U.S. territory.” Second, Ed Schultz’s retort proved Ron Christie right: the Clinton administration viewed terrorism as a matter for the courts, and not a high priority, at that. There was no military response, and al-Qaeda grew increasingly belligerent until 9/11. Words alone don’t do Ed’s idiocy justice. Watch the way Ed thoughtful pause before saying Clinton “prosecuted” the terrorists, as though it were a ripping rejoinder, and his leering, “gotcha” look upon noting the mass murderers were “behind bars.” You can verify my transcript and Ed’s body language at the 6:55 mark below, or in MSNBC’s video clip:
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Ed mocked “this idea that [Bush and Cheney] kept the country safe,” thundering, “We were hit, big time, on Cheney’s watch, not on Obama’s watch.” The Left has used this line, without effect, since at least the 2004 elections — as though al-Qaeda sprung from whole cloth on January 21, 2001, and accomplished its grandest plans in a mere nine months. Christie had his number — and Schultz’s inept response proved it:
CHRISTIE: Do you even want to go there with me, Ed?
SCHULTZ: Yeah, I wanna go down that road. Go ahead!
CHRISTIE: Let’s talk about the Clinton administration. Let’s talk about the Clinton Justice Department that viewed acts of terrorism – the first World Trade Center bombing, the bombings overseas of our embassies – as a law enforcement matter.
SCHULTZ: Uh, excuse me, on American soil—
(Cross Talk)
CHRISTIE: Let’s look at Jamie Gorelick, Ed. Let’s look at Jamie Gorelick, who refused —
SCHULTZ: …the people that [sic.] hit during the Clinton administration, they ended up getting prosecuted and those people that [sic.] hit in New York back in [it sounds as though he said '92, or slurred some amalgam of '93 and '92] — those folks are behind bars. The point is this—
First off, U.S. embassies are “sovereign U.S. territory.” Second, Ed Schultz’s retort proved Ron Christie right: the Clinton administration viewed terrorism as a matter for the courts, and not a high priority, at that. There was no military response, and al-Qaeda grew increasingly belligerent until 9/11. Words alone don’t do Ed’s idiocy justice. Watch the way Ed thoughtful pause before saying Clinton “prosecuted” the terrorists, as though it were a ripping rejoinder, and his leering, “gotcha” look upon noting the mass murderers were “behind bars.” You can verify my transcript and Ed’s body language at the 6:55 mark below, or in MSNBC’s video clip:
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