nbc Dishonest Video Edit of Gun Rights Supporters

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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthe...ideo-edit-nbc-martin-bashir-smears-gun-rights

MSNBC and NBC News--already famous for their perpetual bashing of conservatives and Republicans--are fast acquiring another claim to fame: dishonest editing of news footage to gin up the left-wing outrage machine.
The latest edit appeared on the Monday edition of the “Martin Bashir” program where the father of one of the victims of the Newton, Conn. school shooting was shown supposedly being shouted down by gun rights supporters as he testified before a hearing about banning certain types of guns in the state. Full video below the fold.
“A father’s grief, interrupted by the cries of a heckler,” a smug Bashir pronounced after running the clip. View program excerpt below:

In reality, however, no such interruption took place because the man, Neil Heslin, actually had invited people to challenge his question “Why anybody in this room needs to have one of these assault-style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips?”
Several members of the audience responded to his inquiry. Unfortunately for the poor souls who tune in to MSNBC trying to find actual news, they never saw the question because Bashir cut it out.
Here is the full, unedited clip of the meeting, courtesy of our friends at Twitchy:

As of this writing, MSNBC has not issued a correction to inform that it had presented a false clip.
A transcript of the relevant portion of the “Martin Bashir” show:

NEIL HESLIN: Why anybody in this room needs to have done of these assault-style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips?
[MSNBC cut]
AUDIENCE MEMBER: The Second Amendment shall not be infringed.
HESLIN: All right.
Unidentified Moderator: Please, please, no comments while Mr. Heslin is speaking. We’ll clear the room.
MARTIN BASHIR: A father’s grief, interrupted by the cries of a heckler. That was the scene today in Hartford, Connecticut where the parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary testified before an audience that wasn’t always friendly.
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The video below from CNSNews.com producer Bob Parks juxtaposes the original footage of the hearing with the deceptive MSNBC edit:

NBC and its cable arm MSNBC are no stranger to false editing of news footage. In March of last year, NewsBusters exposed both news operations for repeatedly presenting to viewers dishonestly edited audio clips of George Zimmerman which made him appear to be making racial statements against Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager he later shot. The deceptive edits were shown three times on NBC’s “Today,” once on “NBC Nightly News,” and also in an article that appeared on MSNBC.com.
The improperly edited footage and its wide dissemination provoked Zimmerman to sue NBC and its parent company, NBC Universal, for defamation.
Just a few months later, MSNBC was back in the editing booth again as snooty correspondent Andrea Mitchell, not exactly a woman of the people, presented a dishonestly edited clip of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supposedly being amazed at a sandwich ordering machine at a Wawa convenience store. In fact, he was actually making a point about how much better the private sector is at creating innovation than the government.
No doubt NBC and its defenders will proclaim no political motive in any of these infractions. That is predictable. What they will not be able to answer is why neither NBC or MSNBC has been exposed for editing news clips to skew things to the right. The problem is not simple sloppiness or incompetence.
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NBC has done it again with another biased video edit this time targeting gun rights supporters.

In the video Neil Heslin a father of one of the victims of Sandy Hook asks the people
Why anybody in this room needs to have done of these assault-style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips?
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The crowd responds that the 2nd Amendment shall not be infringed and Heslin says alright and is not angry, He says he respects their views and wants them to respect his

NBC edited the video to take out the pause after he asks the question to make it look like they heckled him. There are two videos in the article which show the difference. bashir used this to attack them

This isn't the first time that they have done this, They did it to george zimmerman when they edited the recording to show the part where he said the Trayvon Martin was black but they edited out the part where the dispathcer asks him what was the race

So NBC has exposed their bias and their incredibly dishonest "journalism" with this clip.

NBC has yet to issue an apology or retract the statements they made. nbc was wrong for editing the video, they deliberately mislead the public and should apologize. This video once again shows the clear bias of the media


Was nbc wrong for editing the video? Should they issue an apology and retraction of the statements?




http://www.mrc.org/press-releases/nbc-demonizes-gun-owners-phony-heckler-story

http://nation.foxnews.com/msnbc/201...ogize-deceptive-video-hecklers-newtown-father

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/29/no-a-sandy-hook-parent-did-not-get-heckled-by-gun-nuts/

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/17ipwp/nbc_caught_editing_and_lying_again_media_falsely/
 
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That was dishonest. The timing and additional words impact this dialogue meaningfully.
 
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I'm shocked I tell you...shocked! Frank Zappa wrote a song about it 35 years ago (I Am The Slime). Nothing has changed.

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I'm absolutely shocked, we know only fox is biased, all the other media outlets just present the truth ;)

Typical MSNBC / NBC hack job. What a worthless organization.
 
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I'd like to see a game show where MSNBC and FOX News talking heads duke it out. I'd PPV to see that.
 
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I am sure some low level editor will get fired for acting alone in editing the footage. Rinse and repeat with this dishonest network.
 
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PokerGuy said:
I'm absolutely shocked, we know only fox is biased, all the other media outlets just present the truth ;)

Typical MSNBC / NBC hack job. What a worthless organization.
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Good point, Fox absolutely has a bias but to claim the rest are "fair" is just lies. Its good to see these POS exposed for what they are.

The media is biased and serves an agenda
 
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Genx87 said:
I am sure some low level editor will get fired for acting alone in editing the footage. Rinse and repeat with this dishonest network.
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Whoever was responsible for this should be fired but the people that reported on this BS must also be held accountable
 
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That is definately a dishonest edit. Yeah NBC is becoming the FOX news of the left. Where can we find journalists that actually report the news instead of manipulate it? So far I believe NPR is the closest to neutral even though they lean slightly left. Al Jezeera and the BBC are also rather neutral when reporting about the US. CNN doesn't even report news at all, just what celebrities are doing or whats trending on twitter.
 
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar..._for_editing_of_gun_hearing_video_116869.html

MSNBC doubled down on dishonest along with Ari Melber of The Nation magazine.

Bashir was out sick on Wednesday, but substitute anchor Ari Melber said Bashir had made note of questions about whether Heslin had been heckled. MSNBC then played an unedited video of the passage in question.

"Martin and others have called that interruption heckling," Melber said. "Some disagree. He wanted you to hear that in full so you can draw your own conclusions."

Melber said nothing on the air about the fact that it initially aired an edited portion of the video.
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yeah heard about this last night. pretty bad edit. it really changes the situation. They are the flip side of fox now
 
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KB said:
That is definately a dishonest edit. Yeah NBC is becoming the FOX news of the left. Where can we find journalists that actually report the news instead of manipulate it? So far I believe NPR is the closest to neutral even though they lean slightly left. Al Jezeera and the BBC are also rather neutral when reporting about the US. CNN doesn't even report news at all, just what celebrities are doing or whats trending on twitter.
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Haha, sounds about right. I think NPR is a bit left leaning is because, and bare with me here: Take any debatable issue, a sensible opinion or solution to the issue is generally left leaning. Conservatism, as it is in the etymology, does not embrace change or progressivism. When I catch up on the news these days, I have on my iPAD BBC, FOX, CNN, USAToday. On TV, I will flip back and forth between CNN and FOX News for shits and giggles.
 
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sigurros81 said:
Haha, sounds about right. I think NPR is a bit left leaning is because, and bare with me here: Take any debatable issue, a sensible opinion or solution to the issue is generally left leaning. Conservatism, as it is in the etymology, does not embrace change or progressivism. When I catch up on the news these days, I have on my iPAD BBC, FOX, CNN, USAToday. On TV, I will flip back and forth between CNN and FOX News for shits and giggles.
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i hate to admit i flip between CNN, Fox and MSNBC. I find it funny how they have the same story, same situation and can get it soo different.
 
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As much as I hate to say it I think MSNBC is even worse than Fox. It is grossly biased and I recall seeing a report durin election time counting the criticisms Obama vs Romney. Not a perfect comparison but it was absurd.
 
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Doppel said:
As much as I hate to say it I think MSNBC is even worse than Fox. It is grossly biased and I recall seeing a report durin election time counting the criticisms Obama vs Romney. Not a perfect comparison but it was absurd.
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They're not worse than Fox, they're both bad, but Fox has been doing it for far longer than any other "news" network.
 
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