5/10/2008 - Al Gore: Punk'd!!! |
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I guess you if ya can't beat 'em, you do the audio version of Photoshop on 'em!
Al Gore did an interview with NPR recently. Now a right-wing media shill organization has taken bits of the interview and literally spliced them together out of order to make it sound like Gore is blaming the cyclone in southeast Asia on global climate change (which he, of course, did not.) Not only that, Drudge and Fox News picked up on the clip and are replaying it for their loyal followers. And, of course, this "fair and balanced" "reporting" is swallowed hook, line and sinker by them since they hate Gore so, so much. It's a pathetic statement of the weakness of your side of the argument when you have to resort to these types of bullshit tactics. You'd think Al Gore was personally responsible for global climate change or something. Sheesh... I'm just sayin'... |
5/10/2008 - dantesinferno Said... |
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It's a pathetic statement of the weakness of your side of the argument when you have to resort to these types of bullshit tactics. - Did you really, really expect anything better from these people? |
5/10/2008 - bebbet Said... |
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These are the people who lambasted Obama for his association with psycho-preacher guy, then lambasted him for turning his back on said nutter. This is same-ol' same-ol'. |
5/10/2008 - birdsnest Said... |
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yeah?
what about man-bear-pig? if not for gore we would all be dead now! i'm super cereal. |
5/10/2008 - libertine Said... |
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These are the same people who insist Obama is Muslim because his middle name is Hussein. |
5/10/2008 - texican Said... |
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I'm not defending what they did but the phrase wasn't spliced out of order. It was parts of two sentences...the end of one and the beginning of the next...that were taken out of context.
Gore did say exactly what was reported and in that order. However, it was carefully plucked out the entire conversation to make it look like he was blaming climate change for Myanmar. Regardless, it's still a bullshit tactic, but what can you expect from Fox News? BTW...who's the douche that did the intro to the sound bite? I wanted to smack that smug-looking prick upside the head. |
5/10/2008 - Eclectablog Said... |
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I have to confess I couldn't bring myself to listen to it... |
5/11/2008 - Aielman Said... |
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These are the same people who insist Obama is Muslim because his middle name is Hussein.
People insist Obama is Muslim because his father is a Muslim and Obama attended a Wahabi school for a short period of time. Regardless, it's still a bullshit tactic, but what can you expect from Fox News? Yeah. You're right. I never expected them to do the same thing Michael Moore does. I have to confess I couldn't bring myself to listen to it... Well that's pretty weak don't you think? If you're going to lambast something, have the deceny to listen to it first. |
5/11/2008 - Eclectablog Said... |
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C'mon, Aiel. Couldn't you find some way to work Clinton into this? I'm so disappointed... |
5/11/2008 - Aielman Said... |
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Why bring him into it.
Taking Gore out of context to make it sound like he said something he didn't is wrong. Just like when Moore does it in every single movie he makes. |
5/11/2008 - texican Said... |
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You're right, Aiel. Michael Moore was the first person I thought of when I read the article. |
5/11/2008 - OgreJehosephatt Said... |
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"I never expected them to do the same thing Michael Moore does. "
Hey, Michael Moore also makes jokes! I haven't seen the Fox and Friend show any signs of a sense of humor. "People insist Obama is Muslim because his father is a Muslim and Obama attended a Wahabi school for a short period of time." Yes, that is true. But there are still people that think he's Muslim because his middle name is Hussein. E posted that entry not too long ago about the church drawing a connections between Obama and Osama because of the similarity of names. Oh, and don't forget that picture of Barack in the Somali garb that caused the idiots to stir. And in any case, it shouldn't matter at all if he were a Muslim. |
5/12/2008 - Eclectablog Said... |
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I'm not defending what they did but the phrase wasn't spliced out of order. It was parts of two sentences
Actually, if you watch the YouTube clip then read the transcript from NPR, you'll see that they definitely were out of order. |
5/12/2008 - texican Said... |
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Are you sure?
 "It’s also important to note that the emerging consensus among the climate scientists is even though any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming — we’ve always had hurricanes — nevertheless, the trend toward more Category 5 storms, the larger ones, the trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming. And specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection, energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful." - from the actual transcript... |
5/12/2008 - Eclectablog Said... |
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Yes, I'm sure. In the clip, he talks about the cyclone in Myanmar and then goes on to talk about what causes cyclones. The order is reversed in the transcript. The switching of the order makes it look like he's specifically tying that particular storm to "global warming" when, in fact, he says you can not do that. |
5/12/2008 - Aielman Said... |
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Hey, Michael Moore also makes jokes!
Oh. Ok. So because he makes jokes, it's ok to completely misrepresent what people say by taking things out of order and/or context and representing it as if that was the way it originally was presented. And then calling it a "documentary." So then all we have to do is have Shepard Smith do the piece and throw in some of his lame ass attempts at humor and call it a day. |
5/12/2008 - texican Said... |
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Ah...I was going by the clip that was at the link. That's where I got the screen shot. I had to go to the other clip...the one with the NPR still shot...and listen to it again. Definitely doctored and out of sequence.
It looks like Fox took an excerpt from the doctored clip, which happened to be the part that wasn't spliced. Sorry for the confusion. |
5/12/2008 - OgreJehosephatt Said... |
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"So because he makes jokes, it's ok to completely misrepresent what people say by taking things out of order and/or context and representing it as if that was the way it originally was presented."
Haha. No, it's not. I was making a joke there. Ever see Fellowship 9/11? http://www.spike.com/video/fellowshi...11/2651184 |
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