[Breitbart] 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).
Not that this will change anything at the macro level. Business Insider linked to CNBC and Yahoo Finance polls showing they agree with Romney's statement as originally portrayed, and are 5 to 3 more likely to vote for him after knowing about it, respectively
#1
I was surprised at the comment itself, but told myself that what was gonna count was not what Mitt said, but what he would do when (not if) he was attacked for stating the truth. Thus, I was very much more surprised, and pleased, to hear him standing by his comment. I'm sending his campaign money shortly after this friday's paycheck comes out, and will add a note specifically stating that it was his backbone that impressed me to send it.
I got caught last night watching ABC News with that disreputable old tart Diane Sawyer last night when they were talking about Romney's remarks. It pissed me off because they were not content to air the remarks but they spent a couple of minutes afterwards spinning, interpreting and wondering about the so called "fallout" that they were certain would follow. The whole tone of it was all about how Romney had made a huge mistake and the clever journalists had caught him at it. I was so upset that Mrs. Uluque sent me out of the room.
#6
Ebbang: the spin was the essential part of the story. The issue isn't what Mittens said, it's what the press can do with it.
We don't have a press: we have Obama cheerleaders with bylines.
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And in 10 years half of them will be out of jobs. I'll be shocked if the NYT lasts another 5, but phony accounting can last you a long way I suppose.
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#8
Romney's campaign should be doing its own recordings. Then, the second some bullshit like this comes out, release the unedited version.
#9
Bill Jacobson has been doing yeoman work this year. I comment over at LI occasionally and left a thought on this issue as well --
Im not clever enough to know for certain if the camera moved or not, or whether the source edited the video. But the video we do see shows Mittens as a true conservative, as an excellent dinner speaker, and as someone who is engaging, comfortable and clear-thinking.
We may never know what is in the missing video. But Im comfortably certain that the missing video doesnt hurt Mitt in any way. More important, the video we DO see doesnt hurt Mitt in any way.
If the Romney campaign has any sense theyll make TV and radio ads from these video clips.
Mr. Corn and Mother Jones: thanks for bringing the video to the publics attention. Well-played, gentlemen, well-played.
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#10
My gawd the RoseMary Wood Virus is back in the wild!
#13
I'm not sure who this blogger is, other than tht the Instapundit linked to this post, but he has done a LGF analysis on the gap between the two vidoe segments put up by Mother Jones. Link
#14
Not sure it matters. The lies are in the context of framing the story. They pretend as if he only wants to govern the 53% instead of saying he won't waste time campaigning trying to convince the 47% to vote for him which would be a waste of time and money. I think most Americans would agree that's sensible and further one might quibble with the 47% being the right number for those addicted to the government cheeze but certainly those that are would be unlikely to vote anyone else in power.
#2
Interesting how the Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were delayed by the gov't for months, and then only answered well after Holder's congressional hearings and meaningless contempt charges involving Operation Fast and Furious.
#5
Freedom of the press in the United States is 1st Amendment is generally understood as prohibiting the government from interfering with the printing and distribution of information or opinions.
...more like aiding and abetting a crime or akin to p0rn what they do. Soros at work again.
#6
Freedom of the press in the United States is 1st Amendment is generally understood as prohibiting the government from interfering with the printing and distribution of information or opinions.
Which reiterates the principle of the free flow of information. Of course this piece amply demonstrates that 'professional' or MSM is not concerned, if not in fact antithetical, with the free flow of information. Never confuse 'free press' [the media of distribution of information] with the institution generally referred to as the 'Press' [which is engaged in the distortion and suppression of the free flow of information].
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