Perchance like the employee who, with the aid of edited tape, was made to look like they were very interested in helping traffic children across boarders for sex trade...only to later find out his interest in asking where and when was called in to a local police detective...that was left off the edited tape?
One of many edits.
I might add...the second you include edited footage into the equation, the whole thing becomes dicey. I've said it before and I'll say it again...if you can't call attention to an issue or problem you've found, without edited video footage as part of your evidence, you shit all over any legitimacy you thought you had.
I've no respect for people who say and do this. The Breitbart's out there who pull this shit are almost as big of fools as those who consequently read/hear/see the lies and believe them.
http://www.slate.com/id/2202428As far as "gotcha" stunts go, the right-wing feeding frenzy over the vile vote-fraud treachery of ACORN has yet to yield much fruit. Investigations are indeed under way. But then, they are always under way this time of the year—and as the indefatigable Brad Friedman points out, so what? Evidence of voter-registration wrongdoing is no more a sign of widespread, Obama-sanctioned vote fraud than evidence of minorities being misled and intimidated on Election Day is a sign of official, McCain-sanctioned vote suppression. What's the real point of turning voter-registration shenanigans into "one of the greatest frauds in voter history"? The object here is not criminal indictments. It's to undermine voter confidence in the elections system as a whole.
There's no denying that the organization's system of paying workers $8 an hour to gather voter registrations creates screwy incentives. Encyclopedia Brown could have cracked that mystery. That's why ACORN is either obligated by law or opts voluntarily to turn over all its voter-registration cards suggesting that Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and the entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys just registered to vote in Nevada. That GOP elections officials started screaming "gotcha" when those registrations were turned in is the real fraud here. Jump back, Encyclopedia Brown! There is wrongdoing afoot in low-paying voter-registrationland.
Last week, media attention focused on a "raid" on ACORN offices in Las Vegas in which voter registration documents that had mostly been voluntarily turned over were dramatically seized by force. Right-wing screeching over nefarious doings in Ohio (where Freddie Johnson of Cleveland testified that ACORN encouraged him to sign 73 voter-registration forms—all in his own name) overlooks the fact that all 73 registrations would still have allowed Freddie to vote just once. The connection between wrongful voter registration and actual polling-place vote fraud is the stuff of GOP mythology. As Rick Hasen has demonstrated, here at Slate and elsewhere, even if Mr. Mouse is registered to vote, he still needs to show up at his polling place, provide a fake ID, and risk a felony conviction to do so.
What sickens me even more is when these people toss the phrase "liberal so-and-so" about like it's worse than saying Mother Fucker Nigger.
Grow up. The liberals aren't the ones lying, deceiving, cheating and stealing.
