CNN edits tape of Bush backers booing Clinton's health problems

[Bozita]

They showed Bush speaking and mentioning the Clinton situation. At the completion of Bush's phrase, CNN cut the sound from the tape while continuing to show the video for a couple of seconds. This was shown at about 4:45pm EDT.

Kinda like what AP did an hour ago.

Disgusting.

[Kadie]

1. Did anyone record it the first time it was played? CSPAN maybe?

[zaj]

2. Fox News audio... I don't hear boo's...

Someone provided this link... Fox News, but it sounds like the full audio.

http://tinyurl.com/6yfug

[Bozita]

4. In another thread, C-SPAN carried the rally -- Booing was loud ...

... and plentiful.

[cthrumatrix]

6. well....if we can compare tapes CNN and Fox are toast ...!

[wicket]

9. c-span tape

Anyone know where we can get the c-span tape??

[merbex]

3. I just saw that too

they immediately cut away as you started to hear a chorus of boos

CNN is disgusting

Imagine if that were news of Reagan's death at a Kerry rally and that had happened?

[Mick Knox]

5. MSNBC not showing boos

I never heard it til here on DU and I've seen it replayed over and over.

[zaj]

8. If AP got it wrong, what does that say about the "liberal media"...

[Spazito]

7. I have no doubt they have edited the tapes to take the booing out...

it would be "unseemly" for the public to see what the bush supporters are REALLY like.

[zeemike]

10. If C-Span recorded it it will not be cut.

I just saw MSNBC and the tape ended right after boy George's last word.

[wicket]

11. we need to get a copy of c-span's tape

Drudge and others are already running with it (he has audio up) and trying to make it seem like some sort of anti-Bush media bias. :mad:

[Bozita]

12. Doesn't CSPAN replay these events on weekends?

We gotta lotta weekend coming up.

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[Vickers]

18. Yes, who could that be, who could that be????

:spank:

[atre]

22. Same here

I saw the live feed on CNN and did not hear any booing. In fact, it sounded like polite applause. If there was any booing, it was drowned out by that applause.

Unless he gave the speech at two different venues to two different reactions or CNN editted the original live feed, I don't think that the reaction was truly as negative as originally reported by AP.

[neoteric lefty]

13. I watched it on either CNN or MSNBc (can't remember which one) live

and I didn't hear any boos. I cannot say that there weren't boos but on that network's sound board, I didn't notice boos. Just what I noticed.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. It'l show up here eventually, I imagine:

http://www.c-span.org/

A lot of archived vids here.

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[Vickers]

17. Welcome to DU!

Enjoy your stay!

[progressivebydesign]

20. OH goody.. another new person attacked here...

.. perhaps this new person, as others on DU, did NOT hear the boos. Is there some sort of contest to see how soon you can savage a new poster on DU? Is that why there are so few people with posts under 1000. Chill.. let the mods figure out if someone is disrupting.

[Vickers]

21. Yeah, you're right. I apologize. It won't happen again. I promise.

[newsguyatl]

19. it;s called a SOT in our biz

meaning sound on tape.

all sots we use are cut at an end point, when the sound is faded.

trust me, it wasn't a conspiracy.

[wndycty]

23. Here is the AP story

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/247/region/Audience_boos_as_Bush_offers_bP.shtml

Audience boos as Bush offers best wishes for Clinton's recovery
By Associated Press, 9/3/2004 13:57

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) President Bush on Friday wished Bill Clinton ''best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery.''

''He's is in our thoughts and prayers,'' Bush said at a campaign rally.

Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.

Bush offered his wishes while campaigning one day after accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in New York. Clinton was hospitalized in New York after complaining of mild chest pain and shortness of breath.
-snip-

[newsguyatl]

25. i'm not saying they DIDN'T boo

i'm just saying cnn wouldn't specifically drown out sound of that to protect his supporters... the news biz works in SOTS, and it's common practice, to look for natural outs on bites, to lower sound. in other words, bush said what he said, and THEN they might have booed. well the purpose of the story was to get bush's comment on it, NOT the booing. so when bush was finished talking, it's cut.

[Protected]

24. Chris Matthews showed it and there were no boos

only polite applause.