John BOLTON Dodges Question From Vet & Insults Him-Fox Edits Out Booing & Replaces It With Applause

[kpete]

FOX edits, fakes applause for John Bolton pro-war statement

Bolton dodges question from anti-war veteran about blowback, insults him; Fox edits out the audience booing and replaces with it applause.

The 2-minute video is a public meeting of former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton responding to a US war veteran’s question. The video shows that FOX then edits-out the audience response to replace it with applause from a different person’s question. The proof is that the applause-segment shows a different person walking away from the microphone than the person who asked the question. The veteran testified that the audience booed Mr. Bolton’s answer.

JUST WATCH!!!

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/2-minute-video-fox-edits-fakes-applause-for-john-bolton-pro-war-statement.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. There should be some way to sue Fox for their lies

[zbdent]

6. NOPE ... Faux won a case where the courts said that

Faux could lie.

[mazzarro]

27. Even if a litigant can show that injury has resulted from Fox News lies? -- n/t

[leftyohiolib]

30. there was a reporter who wrote a story for fox. fox didnt like somepart of it and told her to change

it. the reporter said she didnt want to lie to the public and fox fired her. she sued and lost and that's what the judge said , as her employer they can tell her to lie

[jonthebru]

35. Yup, they did, it was a local station in Florida.

[DeSwiss]

40. Jane Akre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre

[New Yawker]

47. Need to revisit it

It's a major issue.

Media should NOT have any right to lie to the public.

Fine. Label Fox as "Not necessarily the news". Remember that old HBO series?

[MrScorpio]

2. Stalin would be proud. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

36. Proud? Are you kidding me?

Stalin would be JEALOUS.

"If only I had propaganda arm like that, Pravda looks like amateurs next to Fox!"

[MrScorpio]

37. Pieyow! n/t

[shcrane71]

42. Soviet citizens (we were told) knew that Pravda was propaganda. Many Americans

haven't realized the same about the Faux network... even with Murdoch's investigations in the UK.

[Quantess]

3. The original guy had 3/4 sleeves

The guy who asked the question that got applause wore full length sleeves.

[oldhippydude]

9. must not beleive

in freedom to bare arms!!

[Quantess]

69. Clever!

[teddy51]

4. John Bolton is, has been and always will be a POS. He is an asswipe of major proportions. n/t

[DeSwiss]

41. Okay?

[chrisa]

44. Dokey?

[stockholmer]

64. Lokey?

Because even [font color= pink]Pinkie Pie[/font color] FUCKING hates John Bolton

[chrisa]

67. Smokey?

Seriously, why did I bump this? Haha

[vanlassie]

5. Nothing to see here, Citizen, move along.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[socialindependocrat]

8. So the FCC accepts propaganda as O.K.

Do we have a minister of propaganda assigned yet?

Where is the oversight?

You know how to save money?
We get rid of all the oversight committees because they don't do their jobs anyway!
That ought to save us billions!

[bluedigger]

11. What are you, some kind of socialist?

Propaganda was privatized back in the mid 80's.

[fascisthunter]

26. oh... but it's a "left Wing Media".... lol

shows how insane right wingers are to believe in such bullshit, but they have to, because they are guilty of what they project, and too dishonest, and weak to admit to it.

[Octafish]

10. Why don't the other networks run with this? It shows Fox lies.

Then, again, the rest of Corporate McPravda would run with it if they weren't liars, too.

[woo me with science]

17. +1

[raouldukelives]

33. It might be discouraged by higher up's

I know I prefer feeling safe when I walk to the car at night.

[SemperEadem]

48. the same reason why the other networks

took fux's side when Obama made the remark that they weren't really news. Every news outlet stood with fux even though they all know that they lie.

IMO, the fux's editors have absolutely no professional integrity. They're whores trying to make a buck.

[90-percent]

50. other networks

My hope is that Keith will run with this. It is right up his Fox bashing alley. And if there was ever a news organization that deserved bashing, it is so Fox/Rupert/Ailes.

However , it should be the FCC and Congressional hearings doing the bashing.

-90% Jimmy

[Major Hogwash]

12. Fox was the worst thing to ever happen to tv in America

I don't know how many times they labeled some Republican that had just been busted as a Democrat, but they did it many times.

There is no truth at Faux Snooze.

[The Wielding Truth]

20. I agree they have turned freedom of the Press on it's ear. Lies are not true journalism.

[progress2k12nbynd]

13. Who the hell on DU is watching Fox News??

Lord, my head would have exploded by now.

[daleanime]

22. Very hard working people....

just trying to keep track of all those lies is a pretty rough job.





Lord knows I wouldn't last a day.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

28. It's called social responsibility - Gotta keep an eye on bullies & liars, & call them on it. nt

[AtheistCrusader]

62. I believe the video clip was made by the gentleman that asked the question.

Perfectly normal to re-visit footage of an event in which one participated. It appears he noticed the deception, because the applause didn't fit his recollection of the crowd's response.

[David West]

63. Yeah, I don't normally watch Fox news.

I don't even have anything more than an antenna for my TV and I really didn't think my question would make the final cut (for obvious reasons) so I didn't even go out of my way to watch the episode when it aired. Someone else who had been at the event messaged me on FB congratulating me for having made the cut, so I hopped online and found the episode. I was just going to put up the clip for family and friends to see when I caught the ridiculous editing job they did and figured I should point that out to people.

[David West]

14. Thanks for posting this!

Glad to see this is getting some exposure. I actually posted about this yesterday. I'm the guy asking the question in the video. I'm amazed my question made the show at all! Not so surprised about the skulduggerous editing, though. Having been there and KNOWING that he got booed and being a filmmaker and video editor myself, it wasn't hard at all to spot the edit. I wish I had access to a higher quality copy, but it's pretty obvious that it switches from me with no hat and a dark green shirt with rolled up sleeves to a dude with a fedora and rolled down black sleeves. If you look around the 0:20 when the camera is behind me, you can see the guy with the hat standing there. All they did was use the (very meager) applause from the very next question. Very, very dishonest editing. I'm almost surprised they didn't try to make me get booed!

[pinboy3niner]

15. Good job confronting him!

Did you see the story on 2 vets arrested Friday at a Rumsfeld event? ...

Two arrested at Rumsfeld event at Truman Library
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002350107

[kpete]

19. Hey David West

THANK YOU!
peace, kpete

[Tsiyu]

23. Good on you

How creepy can Faux News get? They keep lowering the bar for liars.

Lies, lies, lies, is all they've got to serve, and stupid people just eat those lies right up. Yum. Yum.

for confronting that mean POS.

[mmonk]

24. I posted this on Facebook.

They need to be called on how they operate in a public way.

[renate]

38. good for you!

(That's real applause, by the way.)

[drm604]

55. Welcome to DU

and thank you!

[librechik]

61. welcome to DU!

we all hate Fox over here (or mostly)

[stockholmer]

65. +10000 and........carry on the good fight, Mr West

[Faryn Balyncd]

16. The most honest thing Fox could do is edit out "News" from their fraudulent name.

[edhopper]

18. A Faux viewer says:

Sure they lie, but they lie for the right reasons. Besides, the rest of the lame-stream media lies for the lib-er-al left.
Anyway I'm an idiot.

[newspeak]

32. if a faux viewer really said that

then they are truly fekked. A lie can hurt millions of people. Lying about iraq has cost this country and iraq, thousands of lives and has cost us billions of dollars. What lie would be for the "right" reason, and for whom? So, the truth, even if they don't like it; is worse than the lies told.

We, as a country, have truly gone down the rabbit hole, when americans who proudly wear those flag pins or wave it on their auto; seem to be okay with lying propaganda that pushes an agenda that helps global corporations OVER THEIR OWN DAMN COUNTRY AND ITS' PEOPLE!!!

How fekked up do you have to be to continue to believe the divisive bullshite against other fellow americans propagated by a network started by a cretin who wasn't even from this country?

I remember after 9/11, all the congresscritters putting on their little flag pins. Those pins were originally for congresscritters who actually served their country in the military. But, then, all of the chickenhawks could wear them. And there was faux, castigating some democrat for not wearing a flag pin. Because those pins were once a badge of someone who faithfully served their country in the military.

Yeah, faux viewers, keep thinking you're the real americans, while you get played by a network with their own agenda, which may not be in the best interest for our country or the majority of americans.

[Bainbridge Bear]

46. "lame-stream media"

where did you get that, from Sarah Palin? The so-called librul media is deeply and increasingly corporatist so what are you complaining about? Oh well, your last sentence seems true.

[edhopper]

51. You do understand

it was ?

[think]

21. K&R for Faux News

[fascisthunter]

25. But This is the "REALITY" Reich Wingers want

pathological nut cases without a shred of decency.

[butterfly77]

29. Fox makes up..

shit and then wants to President to implement their bullshit policies in their timeframe.

[eggplant]

31. Has anyone sent this on to Stewart and/or Colbert?

I would, but I don't know how.

[Vincardog]

34. So according to BoltON Bush the lesser, Darth Cheney, Alito, Rice and Rummy all need to be tried.

Or is he saying that they have already been jailed for their roles in the illegal wars and war crimes?

[NICO9000]

39. And HIS military service was in the Maryland National Guard!

Born in 1948 - perfect draft age. What a hunk of fuck this guy is.

[chrisa]

43. Days Bolton spent fighting a war: 0

And yet this tool tells an Iraq war veteran what he should think of his experiences. Hmm...

[NCcoast]

45. John Bolton (R - Chicken Hawk)

Sociopathic chicken st!ts like John Bolton are adept at using peoples principles against them. You'd have to be completely devoid of conscious to sit there and lecture people who served in a war you worked to create but would have never exposed yourself to danger of. Good on that soldier for standing up to that little rat. Men like Bolton should be constantly treated to open contempt. It's not like the media is going to do their job and call him out for what he is. It's up to us.

[90-percent]

49. Hypocritical and stupid Chickenhawk Bolton

That Bolton is absolutely infuriating. Report it to your superiors –he’s telling you to be a whistle blower! Like it’s easy and no big deal. His own administration, and perhaps much more so Obama’s, sets out to crush and destroy whistle blowers. Think of what he would have said about you if you had followed his advice back then, he’d probably have tried to publicly destroy you.

Another implication of his, based on his Pulitzer Prize caliber weasel wording, was that you wouldn’t feel so bad if you had not committed war crimes and killed babies and instead simply followed US rules of engagement. Then you wouldn’t be so upset at your long history of war crimes.

My one call to the great Thom Hartmann was asking about the fact that, in our country, it is perfectly legal to knowingly lie on a news broadcast. Steel Trap Thom was all over it, as he once hosted the principals from the Florida Fox News station on his show.

How many Americas know that anything they learn in any American media can range to professional well researched JOURNALISM to absolute bullshit propaganda?

David West: Thank you for serving, thank you for speaking truth to power in the belly of the beast. Thank you for being a great American. Thank you for your contribution to this video. Lastly, thanks for being on DU. It is an honor!

-90% Jimmy

[onehandle]

52. "News" nt

[AlanGrayson]

53. Reinstate The Fairness Doctrine

The Fairness Doctrine will certainly help to get those propagandists off the airwaves.

The way we have it set up now, it is like you are in court, and the only person allowed to make a case against you is the prosecutor, and he is allowed to say whatever he wants...in fact, he can lie with impunity.

That is exactly what the Conservative movement has done in this country. They built a playing field where they are free to say anything in the name of free speech, and get away with the presentation of false information as being reliable enough to allow the listener to decide. Let's go back to the prosecutor. How bad a prosecutor would he have to be to lose any case before the court? There is no advocate for you that is telling your side of the story, there is no one there to say "I object" when the prosecutor lies, and you hear them call it fair and balanced justice.

If you cannot see that decisions that are based on false information are usually poor decisions, you need look no further than the Iraq War. No WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, just mass distraction.

Reinstate the fairness doctrine, and you'll see Fox News fall.

[wial]

54. worst person in the world

and worst propaganda organ in the world

[Rex]

56. And? Foxnews can hardly get which party someone belong to

right onscreen! If it is something BAD...then the person usually gets a D by their name (even if it is wrong) and if it is GOOD...then the person gets a R by their name. It is sad that there are no laws against this kind of thing. Foxnews should be held accountable for lying to the public, but it is what they do and it seems they will continue to get away with it.

[fascisthunter]

57. I want the Mainstream Media to Answer WHY they are not covering this obvious

violation of trust of Fox News viewers. Why is it they would ignore such a thing. I don't want others here trying to answer for them.. I want to see the media explain itself to the American people. This shit needs to end if we want to save our democracy... we are looking like the Soviet Union more and more and look who is leading the charge.. the right wing media, those who claim to hate totalitarian communists, etc. Bunch of lying sociopaths.

[TownDrunk2]

58. No wonder "communism" isn't a viable manipulative tool for the fed government anymore nt

[Old and In the Way]

59. Fox News: Fairly Unbalanced.

Misinforming the public is their mission statement.

[underpants]

60. Bolton needs to get a f'ing haircut

ABC had to publicly apologize for Stossel twice. He is a joke.

[joshcryer]

66. Wow. Absolutely stunning. Good on that Vet.

I know a lot of Vets feel this way about war, a huge number. Especially Vietnam Vets.

[David West]

68. Stossel responded to my video.

I'm certainly glad I'm not the only one who remembers booing, because this video throws me off a bit. I'm definitely still right though that people did NOT applaud Bolton's answer. If anything the smattering of applause are for me trying to rebut Bolton or just people doing the typical clap

What you still don't see is the people in the back corner of the room where my seat was hugging me and shaking my hand and telling me Bolton can go, "Go F*** himself" as I'm on my way to my seat. Between that and the fact that I was practically seeing red listening to Bolton, I guess that is what is coloring my memory of the event. Still, pretty manipulative editing by Fox to make it look like that answer got applause.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2012/02/27/unedited-students-liberty-video-0