By MATT MARGOLIS
At the start of the Senate impeachment trial, House impeachment managers presented video “evidence” of the mob that stormed the Capitol. The Hill described it as a “disturbing video documenting the Jan. 6 siege by interweaving Trump’s address to a group of supporters calling on them to march on the Capitol with violent footage of the attack.”
Interweaving? That’s correct, the video presented by the Democrats was not a straight video of Trump’s speech, but rather a collage of selectively edited clips of Trump’s speech mixed with select clips of video from the assault on the Capitol.
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I’m sorry but didn’t the media call videos edited like this “doctored” recently?
Why yes, they did!
In May of 2019, Nancy Pelosi stuttered her way through a press conference following a failed meeting with Trump, a compilation was compiled and shown on Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business. President Trump retweeted the video. The Hill described the video Trump shared as “edited to make it seem like [Nancy Pelosi] was stuttering,” Reuters ran an article with the headline: “Trump retweets doctored video of Pelosi to portray her as having ‘lost it.’” “Trump shares heavily edited video that highlights verbal stumbles by Pelosi and questions her mental acuity” read the headline at the Washington Post. The impression the media gave was clear: the video was a deception, designed to make Pelosi look bad. The problem was that Pelosi’s stuttering was very real, and each cut between stutters featured a wipe transition, making it obvious it was a montage.
Even a video shared by Trump showing Joe Biden in his basement being sniffed and fondled by another Joe Biden was labeled a “doctored” video. Even the tiniest of alterations were dubbed “doctored”—implying the intent of deception.
Yet, fast forward to Tuesday, February 9, 2021, and the Democratic Party used a video juxtaposing select quotes from Trump’s speech with select moments from the Capitol riot, and the media is fawning over it. “Trump Trial Opens With Harrowing Riot Video” reported International Business Times. Politico ran with the headline: “Trump’s second impeachment opens with haunting video of Jan. 6 riots.” Reuters, which described the Pelosi montage as a “doctored video” didn’t undermine the authenticity of the video in their headline, “Senators vote to proceed with Trump’s impeachment trial after graphic video.” According to their report, “The video presented by the team of nine House of Representatives Democrats interspersed images of the Jan. 6 Capitol violence with clips of Trump’s incendiary speech to a crowd of supporters moments earlier urging them to “fight like hell” to overturn his Nov. 3 election defeat.”
Amazing how suddenly using a montage is no longer called “doctoring” a video? Worse yet, the montage presented by the Democrat impeachment managers is far more manipulating than the montage shared by Trump of Pelosi. By “interspersing” video of Trump’s speech with select moments from the riot, the video is attempting to directly link the two events as connected in a deceptive manner.
@Mary Leonard: Stop teasing us.
Just like in the first impeachment, the Democrats have to LIE in order to have any “evidence” at all.
Its no less then a Witch Hunt by the Democ-Rats and frankly they all need to be voted out of office Next Year
Totally not doctored
@kitt: Surprised Democrats didn’t present that as evidence. Maybe Schiff can give his rendition of what Trump said in his speech; “KILL, KILL, KILL, KILL!!”
This is the typical Democrat that their case is aimed at.
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well the democraps doctored the video on the assassination of jfk. what did you expect. ask the motorcycle cop behind the limo, who picked up part of kennedy’s skull. the second round to hit kenney’s skull was a 5.56 from a usss m16.
Page 34 of House Rules:
The Committee on Ethics is directed to report to the House, not later than December 31, 2021, any recommended amendments to the Code of Official Conduct, as well as any accompanying regulations, intended to address the circumstances and instances, if any, for which a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may be subject to discipline for the dissemination by electronic means, including by social media, of any image, video, or audio file that has been distorted or manipulated with the intent to mislead the public.
You can look for Raskin to be disciplined. Yeah, NEVER. Democrats subscribe to the tenet, Rules For Thee But Not For Me.
@retire05: Like the drunken sot Pelosi imposing fines for not going through the metal detectors SHE insists on, then violating her own rule… because she is above all rules and laws.
@retire05:
didn’t raskin’s kid overdoes and die??? he walked away from the funeral to pursue this faux exercise. what a hypocrite.
@MOS#8541:
Raskin’s son committed suicide. He was very young, like 25. He reportedly suffered from depression.
But I am not surprised that Raskin is now in D.C. trying to destroy Donald Trump. I have known a lot of Democrats, both Congressmen and Senators, in the past, and the new crop are not what I knew and like (not their policies but them personally). This bunch is pure evil. They are driven by hated and a thirst for power that eats at them daily.