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MSNBC Caught Selectively Editing Another Clip — This Time of Sandy Hook Victim’s Father
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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir (Credit: Getty Images)
No stranger to selectively edited video clips, MSNBC on Monday aired a misleading and incomplete clip of testimony given by the father of a Sandy Hook victim at a hearing before the Connecticut Legislature. The edited version of his remarks, aired on Martin Bashir’s show, make it appear as if pro-gun advocates maliciously interrupted (or “heckled” as many have said) the dad for no reason as he calmly argued against civilians owning semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. In fact, the edit was so subtle not even we picked up on it in our original story.
“It’s not a good feeling to look at your child laying in a casket. Or looking at your child with a bullet wound to the forehead. It’s a real sad day,” Neil Heslin, father of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis, said during Monday’s hearing.
“I ask if there is anyone who is in this room that can give me one reason or challenge this question: Why anybody in this room needs to have done of these assault-style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips?” he asked rhetorically. He paused and then said, “Not one person can answer the question.”
It was at this point that a few members of the audience voiced their support for the Second Amendment. “The Second Amendment shall not be infringed,” one man yelled, appearing to try and answer Heslin’s question.
As the presiding official pointed out, comments were not permitted during the testimony, however. And Bashir was quick to hop on that point.
Here is how he presented it in his selectively edited clip on Monday:
But on Tuesday afternoon, more complete footage of Heslin’s remarks began circulating. In those remarks, it appears the “hecklers” were responding to his rhetorical question.
Watch the unedited footage below, courtesy of the ever-vigilant team over at Twitchy (the clip will start at the relevant point):
As you can see, MSNBC decided to completely remove the portion of the video where Heslin asks his rhetorical question. Does that mean no one would have spoke up had Heslin not posed the question? That’s impossible to say. But what is clear is that by removing the full remarks, MSNBC cheated its audience of making up its mind about what the video shows. And although a relatively small edit, the absence of the question changes the context drastically.
MSNBC has been caught selectively editing video in the past, too. In June, host Andrea Mitchell aired a doctored clip of Mitt Romney talking about WaWa convenience stores to make him look “out of touch.” In reality, he was explaining the difference between innovation in the private and public sectors.
Then of course in March, NBC was busted selectively editing the George Zimmerman police tapes to make it appear as if he voluntarily proclaimed Trayvon Martin “looks black” when he was actually asked by a police dispatcher.
Finally, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough in September aired edited video of a Romney rally in which he argued supporters were chanting “Ryan! Ryan!” as Romney spoke, insinuating that he was being overshadowed by his running mate Paul Ryan. Romney then attempted to get the crowd to chant “Romney-Ryan! Romney-Ryan!” — Scarborough mocked Romney incessantly for his “failed” chant.
However, upon closer review of the tape, it became evident that the crowd was actually chanting “Romney! Romney!” and the former GOP presidential candidate was attempting to get the crowd to include Ryan. A Blaze reader who was present at the event also confirmed that to be the case.
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UPDATE 9:10 p.m. ET: CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Slate and even (kind of) Piers Morgan have conceded that Heslin was not really “heckled” during the hearing. Our friends at Twitchy have the details.
MSNBC, on the other hand, had yet to issue a correction as of Tuesday night. The network did later post the full video of Heslin’s testimony but did not clarify as to why it allowed such a deceptively edited clip to air on Bashir’s show.
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UPDATE II: MSNBC is now reportedly “reviewing” the “heckling” tape aired on the network Monday, The Washington Post reports.
“We’re reviewing the video in question,” an MSNBC source said.
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TheHalfrican
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:16pmAre you referring to the gun nut who shoots skeet all the time ? President Oblamea /
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RDavis49
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:15pmWhile I desperately feel sorrow deep in my heart for this man loss of his son, as I do for the loss of a son to a military member’s family. I’ll be the first to say if I had the power to reverse all of it I would. He’s understandably thinking out of his grief and not thinking clearly on overall picture, nor considering the American citizens constitutional right to keep and bear arms for their own protection. Yes Sir, there is a need for these weapons, expecially with the current push for a socialist government take over in this country by this administration. I noticed no one was allowed to answer you question, that was really 1st amendment fair. I’m sorry there are stupid people in this world who do stupid things with all sorts of lethal weapons and objects and kill innocent people such a your son and others in their wake of rage, all the more reason to be armed and have the ability to defend yourself at home. But, consider the number of unborn children the socialist democrat left have murdered with their laws on abortion. Where’s the grief for those silent victims of the socialist left’s hate and rage?
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:15pmThe media wants to cherry pick the news so they can rewrite history, how much international business is the United States loosing to China when China can go around and say, look at Israel, and look at every dime the United States sends to an Islamic state to support the nation of Islam?
The media cherry picks events and ignores common sense, sending the mentally ill over the edge into insanity by protecting Hollywood and their pyschotic entertainment, and supporting politicians that create gun free zones, that invite the mentally unstable to carry out their fantasy’s with what ever means necessary?
The only defense against a cherry picking media is to stand up for your civil rights?
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dmforman
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:13pmI love my child very much! However, the gun did not kill the children at Sandy Hook. The guy that pulled the trigger killed the children. That many had psychological problems as did many of the other people involved in mass shootings.
Having grown up in a home with guns. I knew were gun and bullets were. I knew how to shoot the guns and I knew that they were not toys and that if I was ever caught touching them, showing them off to friends, or anything like that, that their would be hell to pay.
It’s not that I don’t care about children. It’s that the gun is being blamed on the deaths of the children and the gun didn’t pull his own trigger. The killer stole his mother’s guns and pulled the trigger. The media is not looking at the facts, and is siding with the government who wants to take our rights away, and that is something that I and others will fight for.
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AvengerK
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:13pmHow unusual for MSNBC. They do this kind of selective editing routinely. Well of course they’re liberal elitists, it’s for your own good. Any means justifies the end.
I actually saw when they aired footage of a man at an Arizona rally who was carrying (coincidently) a firearm, which is legal in his state. They used this photo to establish a meme whereby tea partiers and conservatives were “dangerous and racist”. What BSNBC didn’t show you though was the rest of the man in the looped footage. The footage was edited to hide the man’s race. He was black.
Here’s how BSNBC aired it.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/19/unreal-msnbc-edits-clip-of-man-with-gun-at-obama-rally-to-support-racism-narrative/
Notice when the camera pans up to where it will show that the man is black, MSNBC cuts the shot and loops it back to the beginning?
Here’s how Arizona local news aired it.
http://www.examiner.com/article/race-bait-msnbc-lies-edits-out-black-gun-owner-says-white-people-with-guns-threaten-obama
Lo and Behold MSBNC have found a black man that’s racist against Obama.
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Free_Thought
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:20pmAvengerk…. Do you hold the same hostilities towards the heavily editted version of the secret acorn tapes that glenn presented? Guess not since you are here on the site. Glad to see you are a man/woman of principles.
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:42pmFreeThot.
Not a bit. The Collectivist Staist Redistributionist BlackRacist Bastids of ACORN got EXACTLY what their Collectivist Statist Redistibutionist BlackRacist Lying Cheating and Stealing DESERVED.
Well, not quite, they should all have been beaten to death in the Public Square.
And to this dumbaszed “grieving” dad I say: “Ain’t for YOU or ANYone to say WHAT, of ANYTHING ANYbody else NEEDS. That’s TYRANNY. Makes you NO DIFFERENT from Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot or Castro or Kim Jung Ill, or Mao or Sodem Hussien.”
It don’t matter if I have NO “need” in ANY way for ANYthing. I have a God Endowed Unalienable Individual CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT and LIBERTY to KEEP and BEAR ARMS that SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! You got NOTHIN to say about it, Gerk, and neither does Dead Baby Daddy.
What DISPICABLE Moral and Intellectual COWARDICE to use one’s GRIEF as an EXCUSE for Abrogating People’s GOD ENDOWED UNALIENABLE HUMAN RIGHTS!
NAZI!
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AvengerK
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:45pmLOL…typical lefty response…your beloved MSNBC arm of the Obama adminstration gets caught ONCE AGAIN doctoring footage for it’s agenda and your response it to distract from it.
The ACORN footage speaks for itself. It’s a dirty little race hustling, class warfare inciting group that now has to operate under different names to syphon tax dollars for itself. Go peddle your idiocy on Huffpo where the other liberal chimpanzees applaud you on cue..then hold out their tin cups for their “fair share”.
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AvengerK
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:46pmBy the way NOORIGINAL_THOUGHT…..did you like what I offered? MSNBC’s looped footage, and the actual footage…”racism straight up” right? LOL. Idiot.
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Clownzilla
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:08pmFree Thought:
Again, there are none of these special ACORN tapes.
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qpwillie
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:11pm@encinom
Look you sick, cowardly hoplophobe, you feel like some big S**T hiding behind that keyboard saying something like that. I’d like to see you make such a sick ass statement to the face of any parent here.
You have crossed the line many times on this forum but if anybody had any doubts that you are the lowest of lowlifes, you just removed them.
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Fubared
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:42pmJudging by all these scattered posts, Encidiot was here at some point spewing and offended a few peeps. Standard. Encidiot, what handle will you go with next?
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Joe_The_Patriot
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:48pmYep he “IT” was here…. here and gone…..
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Joe_The_Patriot
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:10pmWe love freedom ya dope…
You left wing progressive wack jobs hate children, that’s why your side supports abortion and wants the tax payer to fund it…
I find it disgraceful that you and your lowlife buddies use dead children to try to push your agenda and quellish my freedoms…
Let me tell you something ballbag… Gun control is a non starter.. NOT GONNA HAPPEN.. SORRY.. SO SAD FOR YOU.. BooooHoooo
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The-Monk
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:10pmI saw/heard “Martin the Basher” do the same thing to Rush today.
Yes, I was watching LSDNC at 4pm.
Someone got to do it and report back…. LOL
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spirited
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:22pmHello MONK
Thanks for watching…
;^>You have a strong constitution. -lol
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gyro
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:38pmspirited – its called three bottles of pepto a hr and a bucket beside the chair
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henryKnox
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:33pmEverytime I watch distortion of the facts like on MSNLSD I wonder how the people keep a straight face. The only explanation is that these are evil people, I’ve known that about julian epstein for a very long time. What is wrong with them? They must have a deep seated hatred of this country.
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Jake Dog2
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:24pmHello MONK
Do you ever sleep?
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:45pm@The Monk –
Keep up the good work! Yep, we have to scan the LameStreamMedia….as Sun Tsu said, “Know Your Enemy”
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The-Monk
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:06pmHi Jake Dog2,
4 hours this morning… none in the 48 hours before that…. and 4 hours the day before that.
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gmoss
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 11:24pmMonk, you know that by tuning in you just increased the audience by 25%
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MoGyver
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:09pmThanks for the straw man argument, but I think I’ll pass. Or better yet, let me fix for you:
“Does not change the fact that [Abortion] Nuts love [themselves] more than they love children. Or that disrespectful [Abortion] Nuts would heckle a father who lost his child. [Abortion] Nuts are inhuman, with no place in any rational debate.”
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momrules
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:07pmDo you see what would happen without conservative media to catch them in their lies? This is why Obama and his champions are going after Fox and Rush. All conservative media is next.
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dmforman
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:14pmYup!!! They do not want people to know the truth and will do whatever it takes so that the truth does not come out. This is Soviet style media the way I learned about it growing up in the 80s.
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qpwillie
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:40pm@JRook
Selective editing is editing parts out for the purpose of accusing people of heckling when you know that’s not going on.
Not sure what Romney, Ryan, Chrysler and all the other things you were doing all that lying babbling about has to do with the second amendment.
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AvengerK
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:51pmJCROOK…by all means show me Harry Reid’s and his Democrat majority’s budget and when it balances. Oh wait…they haven’t done their constitutional duty since April 2009 so there isn’t any budget for you to show me. Ryan had to threaten them with withholding their pay in order to coerce them (through smiling Chuck Schumer) to even give lip service to passing a budget this year.
Obama on the othe hand offered such a disgrace of a budget that the Senate voted UNANIMOUSLY against it.
Get better material you dullard.
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Liberty_and_Tyranny
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:55pmJrookie – Not to up to date on current events I see. It has been proven that your trusted politico site was busted for posting Romneys Jeep jobs to China remarks as lies when they were indeed truths. I find it ironic that you are calling out someone for lying when Obama tells blatant lies EVERY time he steps up to the podium in front of a national audience. Just the other day he stated that 40% of guns were released to citizens without background checks. That is not just an exaggeration but an out right lie. Maybe you should read a little more and come back later.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/whoops-politifacts-lie-year-turns-out-be-true_696223.html
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:06pmThey have a website just to out people like you IDIOT!http://commieblaster.com/
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:03pmyea for some reason everyone wants to silence gun nuts and ron paul types
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:28pmIronic,isn’t it?
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tonypro
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:01pmNaaaa,
I won’t respond, after all you showed your ignorance with your words better than I could’ve pointed out.
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tonypro
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:00pmI’m sorry for his loss, but it’s sooooooo obvious he has been coached on ALL of the communists talking points, as well as the sympathy tactic with the photos.
What a bunch of low life’s to use a parents grief to achieve their agenda.
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VDS64
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:55pmWHY IS THIS STILL BEING COVERED UP YOU WOULD THINK THE PARENT ALREADY HAVE THE CORONERS REPORT!!!
Coroner Confirms: No Assault Weapon Used in Sandy Hook Shooting
Posted on January 24, 2013
adam-lanza
An AR-15, or the so-called “Assault Weapon”, was not used in the school shooting. The shooter even tried weeks earlier to buy a rifle but was turned down in the background check. So he had to kill his Mother to steal her rifle. There were initial reports, right after the shooting, that police found the AR-15 in his car, NOT IN THE SCHOOL. The rifle was not used. The shooter went into the school with 4 handguns, NOT an Assault Rifle as the media has charged.
In the initial hours of this shooting, the Police said they found the rifle in the car. But the Administration-controlled MSM had a pre-planned attack already waiting, to ban so-called assault weapons and jumped on that line of reporting, knowing it was a lie, which included people like Piers Morgan who said the shooter used an AR-15 that shoots hundreds of rounds per minute, as if it were a machine gun.
Read more: http://conservativebyte.com/2013/01/coroner-confirms-no-assault-weapon-used-in-sandy-hook-shooting/#ixzz2JP56enTc
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theaton
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:17pmEven Glenn covered this fact up in his “debunking” episode. He glossed over two areas for which he had no material to debunk with. He didn’t talke about four handguns being found in the school and he didn’t adress reports from federal officials stating that the AR-15 was found in the trunk. An AR-15 doesn’t look like a shotgun and LEOs, local, state and fedral, would know this. They wouldn’t report the AR-15 was found in the trunk if it was actually a shotgun. He also didn’t explain what an off-duty LEO from another town was doing in the woods?
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Eastinfection
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:18pmyour link provides no quotes from a coroner, and no source for the “leak” it’s reporting.
Read the official response to it from Ct. State Police:
** UPDATE **
STATE POLICE IDENTIFY WEAPONS USED IN SANDY HOOK INVESTIGATION;
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
In previous press conferences, the Connecticut State Police clearly identified all of the weapons seized from the crime scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
To eliminate any confusion or misinformation, we will again describe and identify the weapons seized at the school crime scene.
Seized inside the school:
#1. Bushmaster .223 caliber– model XM15-E2S rifle with high capacity 30 round magazine
#2. Glock 10 mm handgun
#3. Sig-Sauer P226 9mm handgun
Seized from suspect’s car in parking lot:
#4. Izhmash Canta-12 12 gauge Shotgun (seized from car in parking lot)
This case remains under investigation.
Lt. J. Paul Vance
Content Last Modified on 1/23/2013 8:18:21 AM
http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?Q=517284
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cowgirl
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:35pmyea, that pesky little murderer didn’t follow instructions- he was supposed to use the AR-15
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txgunhand
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:40pmwe really dont’t know exactly which weapons were used but some of the accounts seem more consistent with buckshot.
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:51pmYou are all correct. No “assault rifle” was used. He supposedly had one in his trunk (or he did after the government agents got there). Why hasn’t someone, somewhere asked obama,..”Mr. anal-opening,….how can you try and take away “assault” weapons and use Sandy Hook as your excuse when one was not used in that incident?” I am not one of those that think Sandy Hook was all a set up and never happened….but I do believe more than Lanza was involved and it was a black-ops move. Do not ever think obama is not above killing babies for his NWO agenda.
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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 11:33pmThe monkeys only do what the organ grinder tells them to do, nothing is random with the 1WO crowd. Just because i’m paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get me….
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Eastinfection
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:52amYou guys are too much.
The police and the coroner have said all along that the AR-15 was used, and that the weapon found in the vehicle was a shotgun. No reports from police have ever strayed from that.
The helicopter footage of the shotgun being removed from the trunk backs it up.
The only sources that have claimed otherwise are speculating reporters from the early hours of the tragedy when half of them were still mis-pronouncing the name of the town.
Keep asking questions, but try to stick to the ones that haven’t been answered yet.
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Pat Alexander
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:54pmThe high point of Martin Bashir’s career was when he was helping Michael Jackson pick out wildly overpriced vase’s.
If been downhill since then. But every time I think he has reached the bottom, he surprises me by sinking even lower.
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MattMott
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:51pmI love how he pretty much says he has no idea whats going on in America, but people should listen to his opinion. I feel for his loss, but his views are bias. He is still too emotional to make a level headed decision. The problem is people like him get the spotlight and lead the way into a debate. He is an idiot. While his motives are just and sincere, his “opinions” to solve problems are biased. MSNBC….honestly at this point do we expect any diffrerent…im surprised they havent made a clip and cgi one of the kids faces saying how bad guns.
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jcldwl
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:57pmBig sis answered his question when she ordered 7000 personal defense weapons. Case closed. Thanks Big Sis.
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MattMott
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:55pmwat???
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Galt45
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:51pmThis is what propagandists do, is anyone surprised?
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RoDogg
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:50pmImpossible. The MSM would never. The Blaze is getting as bad as faux news!
Kidding…… Just wanted to save the trolls some time.
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:50pmwhy is it that so many blaze articles are written about nothing. Why should be care what MSNBC is doing? Shouldnt we be focused on discussing ways to fix things? Theblaze rarely or never talks about the following:
-Homeschool
-Flat Tax / Fair Tax
-Fixing corrupt election laws
-Dumping republican party for 3rd party
-Teaching about Constitution
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Cavallo
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:58pmThey also like to arbitrarily delete posts. Their comment section is extremely subpar. They love to fill their line up with a lot of fluff pieces.. oh look a fluffy bunny viral video.. which shoves a lot of the important stories off their top lineup. It all seems really shady.
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jcldwl
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:00pmThat’s because they put storyies up that people link to them. I have given them several from the St Louis area. Don’t know how many original stories they put up. I know they do some of their own. Of course they do rely a bit too much on Snopes.com
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Southernsoul
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:15pmThat is my ongoing challenge to Beck and the Blaze. Beck got over 800,000 people to gather in DC. He got people to fly to Israel. He has taught us all so much about what is wrong with our government, but will do nothing to offer a fix. He has a powerful, national voice that people listen to. He has the potential to focus our attentions and fix this country. But does he? Nope?
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grimmster
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:49pmIts mslsd, the slime of the MsM, you expected more? And this mussy bastard needs to go back to where he came from, the pos…….
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Chuck7884
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:49pmThe Difference in the clips means a world of difference. WOW
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strawberry411a
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:54pmNazi’s…the entire US media. They will destroy us all.
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barber2
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:59pmSTRAW: I agree. The MSM is a biased, irresponsible bunch of International Left Wing Parrots.
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theaton
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:24pmstrawberry411a,
The media will not destroy us, we will. It is our responsibility to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. If we are to lazy to do our duty, that is our fault. As long as their is beer in the fridge, American Idol and sports on the televison and gas is under $15 per gallon, we just set on our couches doing nothing.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:49pmIt’s not like their racist to…http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/29/al-sharpton-demands-obama-support-a-black-agenda-as-payback-for-their-support/
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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:48pmI don’t really think this is what anyone means by ‘freedom of the press’. This modern tendency to twist stories to your agenda and edit them like this is completely wrong and misleading to everyone.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:53pmAnd against the law!
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Cavallo
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:46pmNBC has done this so many times its virtually SOP. There is a reason journalists are rated on the same level as ambulance chasing lawyers.
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The_Woofster
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:57pmYou place them that high?!
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Ceefour
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:01pmAnother perfect example of contemporary news media…disgustingly dishonest..and msnbc is the lowest of the low where all the has been losers wind up before they are left in the snowbank.
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