CNN sorry after clumsy edit shows Hillary Clinton ‘laughing about’ Benghazi deaths

[meegbear]

Source: RawStory.com

CNN apologized on Monday after a video edit made it appear that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was laughing about the Americans who died in Benghazi.

Speaking at the National Automobile Dealers Association, Clinton said that the deaths of Americans during the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi were her “biggest regret” while serving as secretary of state.

But that statement was immediately followed by laughter from Clinton while the words “Hillary: Biggest Regret Is Benghazi” remained on the screen.

It was not immediately clear from the editing that CNN had transitioned into a second portion of the question-and-answer session about the 2016 presidential race.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/27/cnn-sorry-after-clumsy-edit-shows-hillary-clinton-laughing-about-benghazi-deaths/

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You can see the video itself by clicking the link above.

Smooth CNN. Real smooth.

[Indi Guy]

1. Here's the video:

[meegbear]

3. Thank you ...

I just saw the embedded one on the page.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Librul Media!

smh

No way that should have been aired...

[DFW]

4. Oh, gimme a f***ing break

I've been inside TV studios. Unless it's a live segment (which very few are), these things are edited and run through before they are broadcast.. They have to be, as time is allotted for the various subjects and segments in seconds.

This is like Fox Noise "apologizing" for putting up a "-D" in front of some Republican who just disgraced himself in public. They no more regret their "error" than they offer advertising slots on major sports events for free. It was deliberate.

[Wilms]

8. 99% correct.

Sure. In the hectic pace of television, things can go wrong. But it's not a stretch to imagine that this "mistake" was more likely an intentional one.

And I don't even like Hillary. I just despise liars way more.

[DFW]

10. I know what the pace of TV is like.

But when editing a segment of a few seconds, it's easy to edit and slant what is shown to mean something the original segment did not.

I could live with Hillary and like her personally, but this kind of stuff ALWAYS seems to happen to Democrats in general. I say "seems to" because when it could have been deliberate, where editing is involved, it usually was.

[MindMover]

5. The editor needs editing ... probably a Repuke ...

[JDPriestly]

6. Hillary is going to have to deal with this sort of thing over and over.

That is one of the reasons I don't think she should be our candidate.

I don't understand why, but even when she was in the White House, everyone enjoyed picking on her. It is something about her personality that seems to attract that.

There was absolutely nothing behind the Whitewater scandal or the accusation that she had a role in the suicide of Vince Foster. But so many people believed the lies about her.

Maybe it is that she reminds people of the know-it-all good-girl who tattled too much in the first grade, but this is the reality that she has to deal with.

I don't think she should run. I really don't think so at all.

[hrmjustin]

13. They will do it to whoever we nominate.

[JDPriestly]

17. But they have been practising oh Hillary for way over 20 years.

They pick on her in part because she prickles up. Not the way to handle attacks. Obama deals with attacks very well. He doesn't brace himself or prickle up or frown in an angry way. He just listens, acknowledges whatever is true in the attack and corrects calmly and with facts and either a nonchalant look on his face or sometimes a smile the incorrect facts of the hecklers. Obama is master at handling difficult people. Hillary gets mad. She may try to hide it, but she wants very much to feel that she is right and that others agree that she is right. Too much pride. She needs to relax a lot.

[hrmjustin]

18. Hillary handles the attacks just fine. Lord knows she has had the practice.

[arcane1]

7. "Clumsy".

Yeah right.

[jsr]

9. Fuckers sorry they got caught

[olddad56]

11. I don't think they are even sorry that they got caught. They do things like this and then apologize

as if it were a mistake or an accident.

They know what they are doing

[truebrit71]

12. Wow. Aping Lush Limpballs now?

Remember Fatboy's "Whitehouse dog"?

[truebluegreen]

14. "Clumsy," eh? I'll bet.

[tabasco]

15. Funny how we never see videos of Bush or Cheney laughing about troops killed in Iraq

or any mistakes with repuke videos.

Funny, yeah, not haha funny.

[Merlot]

16. "clumsy?" Is that what we're calling it now?

Looked very pre-meditated, not accidental.

[Blue Owl]

19. Call it ham-fisted

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