Surprisingly, ABC hasn’t removed the video wherein one of their highly esteemed producers edited out the First Lady’s claim that the gang bangers who gunned down Hadiya Pendleton used automatic weapons (which must be banned!). Here’s the sanitized version [as above]: “She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids grow – grew – up, where our house is. And she was caught in the line of fire. I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.” And here’s the online version with Michelle Obama’s remarks in full . . .
“She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids…grew up, where our house is. She had just taken a chemistry test. And she was caught in the line of fire because some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need,” she said. “I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.”
mediaite.com reached out to ABC for an explanation. The network sent a statement: “The full story was posted to our website in advance of the interview being broadcast. The edits made to Robin’s interview with the First Lady were made solely for time.”
Your humble scribe was a videotape editor for CNN for three years. I can state without equivocation that ABC’s equivocation is bullshit. The edit removes, what, two-and-a-half seconds of sound out of a 4:31 package?
Nope. Like CBS’ edit of George Zimmerman’s 911 call and faked Bush-era documents, ABC got caught red-handed distorting the news to further a left-leaning agenda. Without any professional or commercial blowback, without smoking gun screw-ups like the online transcript, what’s to stop them from doing it again?
Why edit anything out?
S#!+ eating gang bangers going about shooting at one another on busy streets don’t need weapons, “automatic” or otherwise.
They need to be strung up slow.
It’s clear that these assault medias are out of control. We need universal checks on everyone wanting to use these mass communication devices. I mean, this is a clear abuse of the 1st amendment in which ANYONE can claim they’re the media and are spreading “news”. Everyone knows that the 1st amendment was only meant for purposes of spreading the goverent’s propoganda, I mean message.
She doesn’t want to keep disappointing kids?? When I was a kid, I dreamed of the day I could have my own guns, I would have been disappointed if I couldn’t buy the guns I now have!! I’m not sure which kids she’s worried about disappointing. Surely the Call of Duty generation dreams of owning tactical firearms for the most part.
I see this all the time with AR15. One women cracked her head off the wall from the recoil. Women should probably use bull-pups instead if their gonna use a rifle, more control.
anything about Kellerman’s zombie lie that guns in the home are 2.7 more time likely to kill you. like this: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/03/bruce-w-krafft/lies-damned-lies-and-washington-ceasefires-statistics/
the correct conclusion is that guns in the homes of criminals are 2.7 more time likely to kill you.
I thought NBC edited Zimmerman’s tapes. They’re the one’s he sueing.
The Panel is submitting conflicting statements. One said that in the average shooting there are four rounds fired, well within the proposed 10 round limit. The next person states that people are getting shot, 10 – 15 times and bleeding out before they can get to the hospital.
Most of what Michael Nutter says does not make sense. It would be funny, if not so tragic.
The AR15 “is not a self defensive weapon. It’s a self offensive weapon.” What? So it’s only used for suicides?
Hunting adventure? This has all the makings of a Top Gear style adventure/challenge/race/challenge. Take pictures(video)!
reckless handling of a firearm?
i can’t shoot guns in my own damn house? sheesh.
Here is his problem is he shot out the window without a target in site instead of up in the air as a warning shot. Secondly the criminals were outside of his house so he would have had to waited till they were inside the house as per the laws state in some states.
Is the same NYT talking about jackbooted thugs being some paranoid fantasy the same NYT that was crying about how George W. Bush was going to institute jackbooted thugs?
So let them buy foriegn parts. Who cares if the boycot actually slows them down or not, a symbolic gesture still shows some fv@%ing integrity!
Jesus, not this bullshit again.
Right because its perfectly reasonable to alienate loyal law enforcement customers that support the 2nd amendment *rolls eyes (This is what those f^cktards at AR15.com were doing with PWS, then PWS responded, conspiracies were thrown around, etc)
“youre either with us or against us”
Another hegelian dialectic and george bushism. Brilliant. That attitude sure benefitted the United States *facepalm*
Oh, your state has a magazine ban??? F^CKING MOVE!
Its interesting how you tough guys constantly talk about boycotts. Hmmm, lets see, you better get rid of your Berettas, HKs, FNs, Glocks, SIGs, S&Ws, Colts, LWRCs, Benellis, Remingtons, Winchesters, Mossbergs, Sakos, and countless other brands that continue to sell to law enforcement and government agencies.
That leaves you with very few brands.
That is if you are truly intellectually honest.