NBC Meet The Press Transcript Conveniently Edited

[FourScore]

Mon Sep 08, 2014 at 05:13 PM PDT
NBC Meet The Press Transcript Conveniently Edited
by illinifan17

The earlier excellent diary by TeamSarah4Choice pointed out Chuck Todd's blatant lie to the face of President Obama, and demonstrated that he had mentioned Syria four times before Todd said

You've not said the word, "Syria," so far in our conversation.

The NBC New website now has a transcript of the interview up, and it is curious, to say the least.

The transcript is far from complete, but nowhere does is say it is edited, abridged, or just highlights. And three of the four references to Syria are gone. Only the earliest one, furthest from Todd's false claim, remains. Here is the portion that jumps over the refernce to Syria 12 seconds before Todd's claim.

You don't believe these people--

PRES. OBAMA:

Not yet. But they-- they can evolve. And I was very specific at that time. What I said was, not every regional terrorist organization is automatically a threat to us that would call for a major offensive. Our goal should not be to think that we can occupy every country where there's a terrorist organization.

CHUCK TODD:

You've not said the word, "Syria," so far in our conversation. Obviously, if you're going to defeat ISIS, you have used very much stronger language. It's gone through the week during your trip to Wales. You have got to go to Syria in some form or another.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/08/1328194/-NBC-Meet-The-Press-Transcript-Conveniently-Edited

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended to highlight the pond scum; that is NBC.

Thanks for the thread, FourScore.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Fuckers can go to hell.

FFS.

[avebury]

3. K&R for exposure, nt

[grahamhgreen]

4. WTF is going on here? The White House needs to be aware. And walk away from MTP.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. I'll tell you what's going on....

MSNBC and NBC are two different corporations and one of them believes in and promotes the Right Wing version of reality.

[coldbeer]

57. The "Smoking Gun"

Todd works for NBC and they tell him what to say.

He is assured they will cover him. CYA

The pundits are paid to say what they say.
that's their job.

The Toad just croaks.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

78. More likely the execs at the NBC are after the coveted Sunday Talk Demo who use Charles Schwab.

[Enthusiast]

61. The President was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. Twice.

I seriously doubt that he sees MTP as the enemy camp. But that's just me.

[grahamhgreen]

85. But he should. He should give the ratings to people on our side, like Rachel. It

legitimizes her and raises her stature at the network.

[maddiemom]

84. Agree completely---at least until they replace Todd with someone like Maddow.

[grahamhgreen]

86. It's crazy they go with the toad instead of someone on our team.

[maddiemom]

89. Sarcasm much? Maddow may be on the liberal team (and hers was the first name that came to mind),

but she does her research, is always informed, and, while she doesn't do obvious "gotcha," can definitely lead blowhards into it on their own. Someone LIKE HER. The trouble is, they don't make right wingers like they used to. If I could raise the ghost of William Buckley, I'd be delighted to see him moderate MTP.

[jeff47]

5. The video was edited.

From your linked dkos article:

Update: Apparently, the interview was edited for airing on Sunday morning. The transcript to which I linked above is an accurate record of the edited interview. They have also posted the full inter view and full transcript here, and it does contain all four references to Syria.

[morningfog]

13. That's poor editing.

So Obama hadn't said "Syria" until chuck asked and then said four times?

[Fred Sanders]

23. That is some convenient editing to cut out their massive bias being so clearly exposed....

[morningfog]

30. Indeed. They are clearly banging the war drums.

Obama hadn't mentioned Syria until pushed by chuck, then the 4 times he says something about Syria after that get front loaded to before chucks question.

The purpose of this interview was to bang the Syrian war drums and gin up support.

[Fred Sanders]

31. I also only heard the NBC surrogate banging the bongos as he was commanded, frustrating Todd

who was clearly promised a bonus payment for his whoring if he got a gotcha....double if it had to do with war.

Obama was the one that got the last laugh though, look at all the damage control going on that is just further eroding their credibility.

Chess player versus checker players.

WTF do other people see!

[3catwoman3]

68. Not even checkers, which does...

...require some ability to look ahead at least a few moves. More like Whack-A-Mole.

[malaise]

82. +1,000 n/t

[JimDandy]

49. No. Obama said Syria 4 times before Todd stated he hadn't done so.

The unedited video and transcript of it clearly show what both Obama and Todd said and when they said it.

NBC edited out (deliberately?) of the original video every place Obama said 'Syria' prior to Todd's making his embarassing statement. Todd's statement in the edited version then appears to be correct.

[sheshe2]

6. NBC and the Toad.

They don't report the news, they edit the news. A**SHOLES!

Thanks for the thread FourScore.

[Omaha Steve]

7. K&R!

[jimlup]

9. fascinating - rarely can they be so blatant

I wonder if they are just incompetent or if it just better fits their narrative and is intentional. I really don't know.

[bvf]

36. It better fits their narrative and is quite intentional.

The elisions are too obvious to anyone familiar with the entire transcript to result from mere incompetence, IMO.

Tell people this when they tell you how much they like Chuck Todd and/or NBC.

That was supposed to be the "gotcha" moment to make Todd-the-up-and-comer look penetrating and insightful.

So happy to see so many people paying closer attention.

[JimDandy]

50. I believe it was intentional too.

Unfortunately Obama doesn't call him on it and in fact he says "You're correct" in reply to the just prior series of questions/statements Todd made in which the Syria statement was first.

If a taped interview is going to be edited for showing, the president should be allowed to approve the edit. I know the Supreme Court has said networks may lie, but I'd think the president would insist on such a contract clause prior to an interview.

Hopefully Obama declines all future interview requests from Chuck Todd.

[daleanime]

10. It didn't happen....

if we don't admit it.

[Fred Sanders]

25. Deny, deny, deny. Always good advice when folks start asking tough questions....

[daleanime]

45. When your a republican.....

any question is a hard one.

[PatSeg]

11. You know Chuck,

you aren't interviewing some guy on the street. This is the president of the United States. Besides being disrespectful, people will really, really notice when you edit the transcript to cover your ass. I wouldn't be holding your breath until your next White House interview.

Nice start on your new gig!

[SunSeeker]

12. Lying douchebags. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[samsingh]

15. by convenient editing, they have gone from being a show with a stupid or

distracted interviewer to a dishonest fox like operation.

good bye meet the press. you can join the heap of propaganda bullshit

[stillwaiting]

16. They have ZERO credibility. Horrible people really. nt

[Vattel]

17. Not true, what was edited was the video of the interview that they showed on Meet the Press!

The transcript was not edited. It is an accurate transcript of the show. The video was edited to make Todd not look so stupid. To be fair, Todd did mention that Obama had used the word Syria before he asked the question.

[Fred Sanders]

27. Todd did mention that .....when was that?

[Vattel]

95. Right after the edited video of Todd saying Obama hadn't used the word Syria etc.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

18. K&R for some truth - nbc/chuch todd are liars.

[PumpkinAle]

19. Dumbing down for Fox Viewers

I knew Todd was a moronic fool, but this - really NBC - do they not think anyone with a brain watches the show?

[graegoyle]

35. So much irony in your statement.

[blkmusclmachine]

20. ,

,

[Fred Sanders]

21. Media coverup. I sarcastically posted that what would NBC do to hide this horrible exposure of their

propaganda bias, perhaps by editing the transcript or video, har, har........but really? Really, they actually dropped that low?

And which other corporate media will report on all this?

[PatrynXX]

22. nothing like making David Gregory looks smart

face palm didn't actually know that was possible

[rhett o rick]

24. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[Cali_Democrat]

26. Joseph Goebbels would be proud. nt

[Fred Sanders]

28. Even prouder of the ongoing coverup and obfuscation. Was there a chapter about that?

"How to respond to your propaganda being exposed by an idiot making an error."

[Jack Rabbit]

34. Josef Stalin would be prouder

Rewriting history was his forte.

[Enthusiast]

62. +1

[SidDithers]

67. Putin would be proud. Sounds like something RT would do...nt

Sid

[Cha]

29. muriel_volestrangler caught it at 5pm EST here..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5504002

Despicable.. where would we be without the net.. social media?!

Thanks FourScore

[IkeRepublican]

32. Not surprising

Not to rock anybody's canoe, but we remember how they jostled around the George Zimmerman phone call.

They probably do this sort of thing a lot.

[defacto7]

33. K & R

For exposure. Thanks for the tip.

[lpbk2713]

37. NBC has no intention of allowing truth to get in the way of their reportage.

Looking more and more like Faux with each passing day.

[Enthusiast]

63. ABC and CBS are little better.

The entire media SUCKS!

[lpbk2713]

66. Newton Minow was amazingly prescient.

When he spoke of a vast wasteland.

[Enthusiast]

70. The worst is squandered potential. TV could be a wonderful tool for educating the population.

Instead it is a tool used to misinform and dumb down the population. Reason enough to call it a vast wasteland

[reddread]

96. "our airwaves"

we need to use our resources shoring up our infrastructure in our interest.
let the spying telecoms that pay no taxes cover the illegal wars.
let the contracted merceneries do the fighting/killing.
better yet dont.

[proReality]

38. Sounds like they knew before the interview that they would edit.

The questions were scripted in advance to make the president look as bad as possible to the dumbed down.

[Octafish]

39. President should call them out.

Show Todd and NBC COMCAST for the liars they are.

[Enthusiast]

64. That would be the day.

[Octafish]

71. It's what makes me think our side is forever playing the Jersey Generals to the GOP Globetrotters.

Our side would use the Bully Pulpit to make clear that the other side is obstructing progress, as well as a lot more, but no. They get a pass. Everyone knows their role. The game continues.

[Enthusiast]

76. It is designed to discourage us—to make us feel like there is no hope.

They hope we will be so discouraged that we will stay home in November.

[Stellar]

40. S.O.B

[Rex]

41. The M$M is trash, I guess just more blatant about it now.

Private Infotainment channels.

[George II]

42. David Letterman just showed four clips of Obama saying "Syria", then Todd saying...

..."you have not mentioned Syria"!

[lpbk2713]

46. Excellent

I was hoping Dave would pick this up.

[blue neen]

54. Good on Dave!

I love it! Let's hope that Jon Stewart and Colbert also pick up this story.

[Cha]

55. Yay!! Way to give it some more Legs, Dave! Mahalo George!!!!

[George II]

79. You can see last night's monologue at this link, starting about 3:10 into it...

Unfortunately you have to sit through a 30 second commercial, but it's worth it!

http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/video/4816982A-CC62-4565-17C5-57CDD2F8AD07/david-letterman-s-monologue-9-8-14/

[Cha]

94. Mahalo George.. getting more legs on this site, too..

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[B Calm]

59. Good, more people watch Letterman than Todd. How embarrassing for Chuck Todd!

[3catwoman3]

69. One would have to have some self-respect and some...

...standards in order to be embarrassed, so Mr. Todd is probably feeling just fine.

[jwirr]

77. Good that will get it out there. Edited to say that the toad thinks he is sooooooo smart but in

reality he is so out of touch he is not even as smart as a kindergartener.

[Tsiyu]

43. Oh, that is just hilarious

They really have no shame, do they?

[Major Hogwash]

44. This is great! Meet the Press is in its dying throes.

They can't recover from something like this, in this day and age.
Chuck Toad should just quit hosting that show . . . he blew it bigtime!

[mountain grammy]

47. "curious" indeed! Lying bastards every one of them.

[raindaddy]

48. Stop playing their game!

This show and network has been biased for years...Why do Democrats continually consent to appear on a weekly infomercial for the military industrial complex, Wall Street, etc?
Who watches Sunday morning "news" shows anymore? MTP's ratings are already in the gutter. Tell them to take a flying fuck and spend the rest of the year throwing softballs at Romney, McCain and Boehner until their fall into obsolescence becomes obvious even to the dwindling number of seniors who still waste their time with this crap.

[tomm2thumbs]

51. 'Meet The Press' should be renamed 'Press the Meat' -- this garbage is recycled sink trappings

If you think this network has any scruples after seeing their conveniently edited transcript, think again.

Their editing and production staff should answer to why a black-lined script was posted when all the controversy surrounding the conveniently abridged interview arose -- the full transcript is what shoiuld be considered the NEWS as a real NEWS organization would do, perhaps with what was aired either italicized or underlined. This is like having a court reporter conveniently 'lose' a few paragraphs when they find it convenient to the case of one party or another. The editing for the show also gave a false impression of the interview context and Todd is 100% answerable for that. As if he even knows what an 'answer' is.... the morning buffoon.

Where is the 'PRESS' in Meet the Press anyway?!!!!

[hvn_nbr_2]

87. I suggest "Meet The Propaganda". nt

[grasswire]

52. that Brian Williams interview of Ed Snowden was heavily edited, too.

Who knows what ends up on the cutting room floor?

Could be the most important and revealing part!

[chillfactor]

53. thank you for the post....

i sent two emails to NBC today to harp on their idiocy....first for making chuckie the host...and the second to address their editing of the chuckie tape

[JDPriestly]

56. NBC is completely discredited by this. Who could trust that network after they misrepresented

the transcript to make themselves appear more competent than they are?

[cstanleytech]

58. "Who could trust that network" Republicans.

Hell they still trust fox news even though news corp has been caught from calling a republican a democrat by accident when its a scandal story to illegally wiretapping telephones.

[reddread]

60. "by accident"?

they worked hard to have that right granted to them by their friends on the SCOTUS.

those illegal wiretaps arent issues here in the US, and thats no accident either.
our problems have always been deeper than Rupert Murdoch and his associates.
US citizens wont even fight for a decent media and the information commons.
they must put something in the Starbucks to keep them pacified by mindlessness
and fleecing.

[Enthusiast]

65. +1

[marym625]

72. Great! that's just what we need!

Censorship to protect the reporter from their own idiocy. What a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE thing for them to do. My dog the ramifications of this are astounding! WT-EVER loving-F have we become!?

Great post, FourScore! Any chance you're related to 20Score? A grandfather maybe?

[Heather MC]

73. Time to stop watching NBC News

[underpants]

74. NBC News has been a joke since John Chancellor stopped doing the evening news

[jwirr]

75. Is anyone getting a protest ready to email into MSNBC? He should have edited his own lie out not the

words of our president. I did not watch MTP and will not but I watch other MSNBC programing and do not want this kind of thing happening.

What is the email address for both MTP and the MSNBC bosses?

[rocktivity]

90. We did it before and we can do it again

Remember that petition that went up when he said it wasn't the media's job to sell Obamacare?

It isn't as though he mispronounced something, or forgotten that he'd asked the question. He needs to explain what happened and apologize, not cover it up!


rocktivity

[SleeplessinSoCal]

80. Worthy of FNC and Riger Ailes

Are they trying to provoke the president into losing his temper and us our minds?

[Dollface]

81. As if I needed another reason to not watch Meet the Press, Yuck Todd being the first.

[W T F]

83. Ministry of Truth: Double plus good!!!!

[gratuitous]

88. Well now, THAT's edgy

Just like they promised.

[rocktivity]

91. "...Chuck Todd outlines the questions President Obama still has to answer

following his September 7, 2014 appearance on Meet the Press."

Chuck Todd still has some questions of HIS OWN he still has to answer! Isn't this how Ronald Reagan got started?


rocktivity

[world wide wally]

92. I think it's safe, and accurate, to say that Fox has lowered the bar so much that "truth" has bocome

just a sidebar when it comes to "news".

[derby378]

93. CHUHTAWWWW!!!

Chuhtawwww knows no fear. Chuhtawwww feels no pain. Chuhtawwww can't be reasoned with.

And besides, Comcast isn't about to let NBC pee on his MtP inauguration, so war is peace, freedom is slavery, and Obama has not said the word, "Syria," so there we are.

NBC's news division is dead for all practical purposes, and Chuhtawwww is just one of the nails in the coffin.