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发帖数: 29846 | 1 June 18, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Once again the left-wing media edits a video to misrepresent what a
Republican is saying in order to make him look the idiot. This time on June
18 at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, MSNBC and Andrea Mitchell edited the
context right out of a video of what Romney said about eastern U.S. chain
restaurant Wawa’s in order to make it seem as if he was out of touch with
reg’lr Americans.
Mitchell likened her heavily edited video to George H.W. Bush’s “grocery
scanner moment,” when, in his run for reelection in 1992, he was portrayed
by the Old Media as never having seen a price scanner at a grocery store (
though this characterization was untrue). The media used that moment to
smear Bush as an out of touch elitist that simply couldn’t understand the
common man. Mitchell used her current dishonest video to promulgate the same
smear against Romney.
MSNBC edited out all the things that Romney said in connection with Wawa’s
in order to make Romney into a person that was “amazed” by the technology
of using a touchscreen system to order his food at the Wawa restaurant.
MSNBC portrayed Romney as someone who had never seen such technology,
systems with which regular Americans throughout the east coast are well
familiar. Mitchell made Romney into an elitist that had never had to deal
with something the rest of us use every day.
But the truth is that Romney wasn’t saying he was amazed at the technology
as if he’d never seen it before at all. Romney’s real point was that the
technology was an example of the private sector competing and making all our
lives better. He then noted that government isn’t innovative like Wawa and
its touchscreen ordering system.
How MSNBC and Mitchell portrayed Romney was absolutely nothing like what he
actually said. The leftwing cabler simply edited out everything around his
mentions of Wawa’s sandwich shops in order to smear him as an out of touch
elitist. MSNBC simply lied.
Interestingly, not all members of the left media seemed to be as interested
in pushing the false narrative as Andrea Mitchell is. Former MSNBC host
David Schuster took to his Twitter account to praise a conservative blogger
for helping to expose MSNBCs hatchet job. Obviously Mr. Schuster was tickled
to be able to take a shot at his former employer but credit where credit is
due, there, for sure. |
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