So what exactly is Mother Jones, Jimmy Carter’s grandson and David Corn hiding? Turns out the big ‘super-secret’ Mitt Romney tape with the 47% remark that the media has spent three straight days obsessing over is missing between 1 to 2 minutes of video and audio. What exactly are these clowns hiding, and why isn’t the media showing any concern for this? So it turns out that the David Corn/Mother Jones video was deceptively edited. Remember when the pink slime media and leftists hated edited video clips. Shirley Sherrod ring a bell? Remember when leftist obsessed over James O’Keefe’s video releases? Funny, they don’t have a problem now do they, especially when it turns out to be deceptively edited.
The last 48 hours of media commentary has evinced an interesting, and entirely unsurprising, double standard, or perhaps triple standard. When undercover videos of ACORN and NPR by James O’Keefe or of Planned Parenthood by Lila Rose get published, the media immediately insinuates that they contain deceptive editing and demand that the full videos get released — even though media organizations like the broadcast networks rarely if ever operate by that same standard. Mother Jones ripped O’Keefe at the time for not providing all of the video from his undercover exposé of NPR