Joel P. Pollack @ Big Journalism:
other Jones, the left-wing magazine that released a controversial video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks to a fundraiser in May, now admits that it has no full tape of what Romney said, and that its video is missing “one to two minutes” at the most important moment.
The Legal Insurrection blog’s William Jacobson and The Blaze both raised questions on Tuesday about whether Mother Jones had, as promised, revealed the full video, given an apparent jump cut in the critical section of Romney’s remarks.
“Something is missing. Romney’s 47% answer was cut off before completed, and is not picked up on the Part 2 audio video,” Jacobson noted.
Late Tuesday evening, Jacobson obtained the following comment from David Corn of Mother Jones:
According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one [sic]. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.
Corn was forced to update his original post, which promised the “full” video, to reflect the fact that a key portion of the video is, in fact, missing.
There is no way to know, without the missing footage, exactly what Romney said. On Monday evening, Romney called for a complete video of his remarks to be released.
That now turns out to be impossible, either because Romney’s remarks were never recorded in full (as Mother Jones now claims), or because some of his remarks–perhaps mitigating some of the controversial effect of his statements–were selectively edited out of the tape by Mother Jones or its chain of sources (including former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson).
Earlier on Tuesday, new media pioneer James O’Keefe pointed out the hypocrisy of the mainstream media in accepting, without question, a snippet of a video recording that aimed to portray a Republican in a bad light, while conservatives are still doubted even after providing full video or audio, as O’Keefe did with his famous ACORN tapes.
See also David Corn lies about tape
According to senior diplomatic sources present at the $50,000-per-plate fundraiser, the missing 1 to 2 minutes included the part of the speech where Mr. Romney condemned apple pie and railed against puppies.
@Greg: Greg:
Whoa,,,,you missed that actual missing text. He was railing against people eating puppies, ala Obama (EC). That was right after he had heard that they are seving puppies for state dinners at the white house. He suggested rescuing all the puppies you could, putting them on your cartop carriers and getting the hell out of DC.
Greg, you must be really thrilled to find out that EC’s crowd is now admitting they were wrong about the spontaneous riot, finally admitting they were lying about it not being a terrorist attack. Just shows you what a stand up guy you are supporting.
well, well, well. it now appears the video was edited. didn’t I say that it probably was in another thread? you just can’t trust these people. they will do whatever it takes to get barry re elected. he is their meal ticket. WAKE UP PEOPLE
A single, continuous segment of 1 or 2 minutes that wasn’t recorded hardly alters the meaning of what was said during the totally unedited 49 minutes and 27 seconds that were.
An analysis of the 47% of the population who don’t pay taxes include about 50% Republicans. I wonder how many on this website—who rail against this 47%—don’t pay income tax because they don’t make enough money, or for some other reason (perhaps they are one of those 7000 millionaires or billionaires who don’t pay any federal income tax; or maybe they’re disabled or elderly and make less than $20,000—which composes almost half of the 47%; or maybe they are parents with dependents and make less than $30,000 to $40,000; or possibly Mitt Romney?). It’s no crime to be poor—except in the Ayn Rand world of conservatism.
And by the way, what ingratiating comment could Romney have made in the “missing two minutes” which would invalidate everything else he said derogatory about the 47%.
OHIO, FLORIDA, VIRGINIA, YOU ARE BEING FED A BUNCH OF LIES
BY OBAMA AND HIS UNIONS THUGS, GET YOUR FACTS AND COME JOIN MITT ROMNEY,
HE MIGHT NOT BE A BIG TALKER BUT HE HAS THE BRAIN TO HELP AMERICA, BUT YOU HAVE A RESPONSABILITY TO GET HIM THERE TO REPLACE THE FAIL PRESIDENT WITH FALSE PROMISES,
WHICH HE WILL NOT MEET AFTER IF HE WIN,
HELL EVEN THE ENEMIES ARE CALLING HIM LIAR, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT TO REMOVE HIM,
AMERICA IS CALLING ON YOU ALL, WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
@liberal1(objectivity):
Yet another example that shows you know nothing about what Ayn Rand was about.
The irony is that you still choose to use that silly (objectivity) tag when you are anything but that.
Please continue to make a fool of yourself by posting on here. Everyone needs a laugh or two a day.
@liberal1(objectivity):
Well, perhaps you would like to start about those who don’t pay taxes. Can we start with Turbo Tax Tim, who now heads our Treasury Department but found Turbo Tax just too complicated to come up with his full tax liability?
If you think that most seniors just depend on Social Security as their only source of income, you remain the delusional fool you have proven to be so many times. Do Obama’s beloved union members not draw a retirement check when they retire from GM, or GE? Do the Teamsters not draw a retirement check, along with Social Security. Five years ago, before their latest contract, Teamsters union member received $100 per every year they were in the union as a monthy retirement. 30 years equals $3,000/month, over and above their Social Security. That puts them having an income of at least $4,600/month or $55,200 per year income and puts them in the second tier of tax brackets.
Why do you liberals/progressives/socialists have to lie? Why do you not think that your message is strong enough to stand on its own?
@Greg:
Actually it can. Funny, you tried to push the claim that “editing” meant it was all a lie/taken out of context when it was O’Keefe behind the video.
Could you possibly be any more transparent as a far left shill?
I think that mother jones is a fraud and deliberated to hurt ROMNEY CAMPAIGN,
HE IS A DESPICABLE PERSON TO INFILTRATE AND CHANGE THE WHOLE CONTEXT OF A SPEECH WITH PRIVATE FUNDRAISER, HE HAD NO DECENCY TO EVEN GET THE OTHER PART OF THE VIDEO, HE NOW
ADMIT TO HAVE SWINDLE THE MESSAGE TO FAVOR OBAMA, HE LIED,
IS IN THERE ANYONE HONEST AND DESERVING TO BE TRUST IN THAT DEMOCRAT PARTY?
ARE THEY ALL CROOKED TONGUES LIKE OBAMA DONE IN THESES LAST FOUR YEARS,
AMERICA DISMANTLE THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY LIED TO YOU GOOD PEOPLE,
YOU GAVE THEM A CHANCE THEY FAIL TO MEET WHAT THEY SAID BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE THE BRAIN ENOUGH TO THINK THAT THEIR ACTIONS HAS KILLED GREAT PEOPLE HARD TO REPLACE,
THEY HAVE NOT PURSUE THE AMERICAN DREAM, THEY HAVE FAVOR OTHER COUNTRIES AND SPEND YOUR MONEY WITH THEM, YOU ALL AMERICANS DO NOT DESERVE TO BE TREATED WITH
SUCH ARROGANCE IN THESE LAST FOUR YEARS, WAKE UP AMERICA, WAKE UP WOMAN OF
THIS GREAT COUNTRY,
IF YOU ARE ATTRACTED SEXUALY TO OBAMA , KEEP HIM IN YOUR DREAMS BUT NOT AS A LEADER OF THIS SUPER AMERICA HE IS DESTROYING WITH A SMILE,
A SMILE OF AN ARROGANT DESTROYER. CHECK IT UP FLORIDA AND OHIO, AND VIRGINIA,
Bees I commend you for zeroing in on the 3 KEY states Romney MUST WIN to become POTUS.
He currently trails in all 3. Keep watching.
Richard Wheeler
thank’s yes, I’m your man,
It remind me of our 600 hundreds on TEBOW,
but It’s more important for AMERICA,
and a real challenge, we must all tackle,
bye
@Richard Wheeler:
Carter was way ahead in the polls before being re-elected too.
Oh, wait…
Bees You’re welcome. Tebow also running 2nd but may catch Sanchez who’s polling lower than Obama in N.Y.
Aye Yes he was. But he led R.R. not M.R.– big difference. Think BHO a little tougher than Jimmy.