What perturbs me most is when the editing is shown, highlighted, pointed out, LOOK AT ME!...and the damage continues. THAT'S what boggles my mind.
I'd assume a discerning public (if the need to continue the march was still deemed appropriate after the fact) would AT LEAST do so with trepidation...but instead...they seem to shift into an even higher gear. I DO NOT get that. I can't wrap my head around edited material being exposed and it not producing any pause for thought. "Well, he said the same thing anyway, so it doesn't matter." Hell yes it matters.
Don't edit fucking anything. If you're worried I won't see the bigger picture, broader context, or point:
1. You assume or rely on my stupidity to justify the edits.
2. You impugn the validity and neutrality, and thus the substance, of that which you're relaying.
Edits SHOULD NOT EVER be required, except in situations of length AND ONLY THEN, if they do not disturb, change, or confuse context.
"-The actor in Arab blackface claims to be working for the Muslim Education Action Center, and mentions that some of its original founders were American Muslim Brotherhood.
Left out: the actor then reassures Schiller that the American Muslim Brotherhood is different from in the middle east, and much more moderate.
The raw footgage also suggests that the connection is of distant founders, not as a "front group"
-Schiller Badmouth's Republicans
Left Out: Schiller explains that he grew up republican, suggests that he may even be republican (even though he says he tends to vote democratic recently). He expresses admiration for the fiscal discipline of Republicans.
-Schiller Badmouths the teaparty calling them xenephobic and racist:
Left Out: Schiller explains that he is actually repeating the opinion of highly placed elected republican officials, who had told him that they can't bear to vote for T-Party Candidates because of their dangerous xenephobic views, and that Schiller is agreeing with this.
It should also be pointed out, that Schiller's xenephobic comments begin as an agreement with the actor in Arab Blackface, calling the T-Party xenephobic and anti-muslim. One may disagree, but in light of Peter King's muslim hearings, this is not an untenable position that is "off the reservation."
-The NPR execs make disparaging comments about Fox viewers
Left Out: when pushed further by the Arab Blackface actor, the NPR execs do a U-turn and explain that many conservatives and fox viewers are highly educated and intelligent, with a shaggy dog story about smart conservatives from research institutions like Perdue
-Admits NPR doesn't need Funding
Left Out: the NPR execs say the big stations would be OK, but that they are concerned that rural areas, undeserved by any media would be the real victims, and so such funding is necessary
-Also points out that the "unedited footgage" contains sections where the audio might have been purposely destroyed in a way to appear like a technical malfunction."
http://www.slate.com/BLOGS/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/03/11/the-npr-stin-s-racist-tea-party-comment-was-taken-out-of-context.aspx Don't fucking edit, I'm a big boy, I can figure shit out for myself. God, O'Keefe is such a friggin blight. This is all fun and games to him and his "Posse." I hope he's sued into extinction by someone who was fodder for his 15 minutes and agenda.
