Oops

My original post is retracted. I was taken in by a bogus video. Here’s the full context and, if anything, it shows the exact opposite of the doctored clip.

Thanks to Hot Air for the correction.

POSTSCRIPT: This one is pretty interesting too, though. Obama is trying to have it both ways; to tie McCain to the excesses of the right while escaping the excesses of the left. Stephanopoulos will have none of it.

2 Responses to Oops

  1. Jeff Lloyd says:

    come on, how could you have fell for that? What did you originally say?

  2. K. Crary says:

    I said that Obama has a record of making stupid statements when separated from his teleprompter.

    How could I have fallen for it? Well, when Stephanopolous corrected him, and he momentarily accepted the correction, it sure looked like he had made a mistake. It was convincing dishonest editing. (Very much like the truncation of McCain’s hundred-years remark in the Democratic attack ad earlier this year.) But I agree I should have known better; when someone deletes context, there’s usually a reason.

Leave a comment