richardbelldc:  It’s called “editing” and it pays pretty well—especially if you are short on ethical scruples and common sense.

Does Fox have some poor intern sitting 24/7 next to a red button, to be pushed if the intern believes that some derogatory words about Palin (or any other Fox “pets”) are about to be uttered? Or does this functionary only get called up when the producer knows that the context of the broadcast might allow someone to say something Fox does not want its viewers to hear or see? What a job!

So? If it was good enough for ‘Pravda’ it’s good enough for Fox. Murdoch can craft until his spotty old hands cramp up but as Obama so accurately observed, ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.’ The whole idea that she could ever be president would have made Groucho Marx trot out a one liner and wiggle his cigar and eyebrows simultaneously. Groucho knew a bad joke when he saw one.

For the guy who asks “how does this matter?”
  It matters because it cuts off an important part of the segment to protect a loudmouth fireball who obviously went too far, creating a close encounter with avocacy of violence.  It matters because it is presenting “doctored” information as “news”, changing it from objective to bias toward one point of view, and in the process changing the entire meaning of the clip. Whoever the speaker was, he was denied his rights of free speech.  If it could happen to him it could happen to anyone, and if that happens, free speech is not worth the paper it’s written on.  It’s called “doctoring” the news.  It’s called willful deceit.  It’s called propaganda.
It’s called “spin” as you probably very well know. The fact that it is done everywhere doesn’t make it right or helpful.

Sarah Palin has been given an opportunity to rise above the fray, to even take the
lead in this crazy debate that has reduced to the right finding as many examples
as they can (you know, Obama once said the cliche about bringing a knife to a
gunfight or referred to an “enemy) to show that liberals are responsible for the
vitriol poisoned rhetoric.

She can do the “leadership thing.”  Instead of tweeting or facebooking, call a press
conference, answer questions, fly to Arizona and talk to the families. 

This is what leaders do.  Say, we make some mistakes but we are given
opportunities to correct them.

Betty,
Typical. Can’t even spell the name of your own hero correctly.

How is this different than the mainstream media self-censoring themselves about
the oil spill in order not to offend Obama?

Both sides do it…both sides are to be condemned for fabricating “truth”.

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Yep, fux news protecting THEIR national treasure. Now that that
is established, keep watching to see how rube murdock will craft
sarah into the republican nominee for president in 2012.