It should not be surprising that NBC, who is owned by GE and the CEO is Obama lover and liberal, Jeffery Immelt, is starting early with dirty tricks with selective editing and trying to make Mitt Romney look like a fool.
From Fox News:
NBC is taking heat again for selective editing a day after presenting
video of Mitt Romney seemingly awestruck by the process of ordering a
sandwich at a convenience store.
During an afternoon broadcast of "Andrea Mitchell Reports," video of
the GOP presidential candidate seemed to show a politician out of touch
as he discussed ordering a hoagie at Wawa.
The video clip went viral after the blogsite SooperMexican.com
pointed out in a post that it appeared doctored.
“It’s amazing," Romney said, as the Pennsylvania crowd appeared to
laugh. Then viewers saw Romney say, "You have a touchtone keypad, and
you touch that, touch this, go pay the cashier, there’s your sandwich.”
What viewers didn't see or hear was nearly three minutes of Romney
discussing the nightmare of paperwork faced by an optometrist he'd
talked to in trying to get the post office to change his address. He
expressed mock amazement at Wawa's efficiency to underscore how the
private sector often runs circles around the clumsy bureaucracy.
"We went to Wawas and it was instructive to me, because I saw the
difference between the private sector and the governmental sector.
People who work in government are good people and I respect what they
do, but you see, the challenge with government is that it doesn’t have
competition,” Romney said in a portion edited out of the segment.
And of course, liberal bloggers went ape shit about the story. They tried to portray Romney as being out of touch ala George Bush when he was amazed about new technology- the computerized/scanner that is used in grocery stores.
But Mitchell invoked an old perceived campaign stumble by George Bush,
who supposedly marveled at a supermarket scanner at a grocers'
convention during his failed 1992 re-election bid. Even though Bush was
actually impressed not by an ordinary scanner, but by a then
state-of-the-art device that could weigh food and read damaged bar
codes, the anecdote was reported by The New York Times and offered as
evidence that Bush was out of touch with everyday Americans.
Several bloggers including a prominent Las Vegas blogger fell for the deception.
Of course, NBC has been caught two times in the past several months of playing the unflattering editing game:
Last August, Ed Schultz of MSNBC played an edited clip in which
then-presidential candidate Rick Perry described the national debt as a
“big black cloud that hangs over America” to make it sound like a racial
dig at President Obama. Schultz later apologized.
And in March, NBC was caught editing the audio of George Zimmerman's
911 call as he watched Trayvon Martin in the minutes before he fatally
shot the Florida teen. On a tape edited and played on the “Today” show,
Zimmerman was heard calling Martin “suspicious” and volunteering that he
was “black.” But the full, unedited tape showed that Zimmerman only
mentioned Martin’s race when asked by the dispatcher. The result made it
sound like Zimmerman was racially profiling Martin. The network fired
three people after getting widespread criticism.
This is just the beginning of the dirty tricks NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN will be playing this election year as I am sure there is more to come.
And do you think anybody will be held responsible. Oh, hell no, NBC will probably give the employees who edit TV footage to make Romney to look bad will get a bonus.
So, let the trashing begin.
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