The FOX transcript has been HEAVILY REDACTED - whole sections missing

[Stephanie]

But they still have the original posted! They're not too bright over at Fox.

Media Matters already pointed out that the beer section was edited out. But that's not all. Entire sections are missing! If you can run track changes in word, you can see for yourself. They deleted the discussion that led up to the lunch/beer comment. They deleted the whole section where he discusses talking to Rove and Card on Sunday. And they deleted a big chunk where he talks about McClellan and why he delayed announcing the incident.

And they also redacted this (the insertion of "CROSSTALK" replaces the missing question about whether Cheney ever declassified unilaterally). This is what FOX calls editing "for clarity."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185013,00.html

HUME: Let me ask you another question. Is it your view that a vice president has the authority to declassify information?

CHENEY: There is an executive order to that effect.

HUME: There is.

CHENEY: YesYeah.

HUME: Have you done it?

CHENEY: Well, I've have certainly advocated declassification and. I have participated in declassification decisions. The executive order

HUME: Have you —

HUME: You ever done it unilaterally?

(CROSSTALK)

CHENEY: I don't want to get into that. There is's an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously it focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president.

HUME: There have been two leaks, one that pertained to possible facilities in Europe; and another that pertained to this NSA matter. There are officials who have had various characterizations of the degree of damage done by those. How would you characterize the damage done by those two reports?

CHENEY: There clearly has been damage done.

HUME: Which has been the more harmful, in your view?

CHENEY: I don't want to get into just sort of ranking them, then you get into why is one more damaging than the other. One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

HUME: Mr. Vice President, thank you very much for doing this.

CHENEY: Thank you, Brit.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185012,00.html

Transcript: Cheney on FOX News
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
The following is a transcript of the interview Vice President Dick Cheney gave FOX News regarding the accidental shooting of Austin attorney Harry Whittington:


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185013,00.html

Exclusive Interview With V.P. Dick Cheney
Thursday, February 16, 2006
This is a partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume" from Feb. 15, 2006, that has been edited for clarity.

[Wickerman]

1. edited for clarity?Then you don't call it a transcript

Oh, right, this is Faux News. A fictitious station for a fictitious government.

[Inland]

5. And you don't remove entire paragraphs.

That's editing for brevity....hardly a concern on the internet, right?

Instead of a transcript, you have "What the Vice President Should Have Said."

[Eric J in MN]

6. It says "partial transcript"

nt

[Wickerman]

8. oh, ok, that makes it all a-ok!

:eyes:

[Caoimhe]

2. Wow, good job

I don't know how to track changes in Word but that really illustrates the spin!

[Nikki Stone1]

3. Good catch.

I'd recommend if I weren't using my school handle that doesn't have enough posts.

[robbedvoter]

4. Amazing! A canned interview with Faux - and still needs primping...

How stupid can these guys be?

[Javaman]

7. Here's the new transcript...

Hume: good evening...Cheney...

cheney: I...sure...glad...am...good to see...be here.

Hume: That...shot...blood and bbq...over?

cheney: yes. no...I am...still...being...done for...always...

Hume: thank you Mr. dick...

cheney: well, same...to all...them.

[Tin Man]

9. "edited for clarity"? More like "edited for charity" to DeadEye

Especially interesting how Fox chose to remove the discussion of the VP unilaterally declassifying documents, hmmmm....

[Stephanie]

10. Well there's the point

Hume says, did you ever do it unilaterally, and Cheney says, "I don't want to get into that." He doesn't DENY it. So the best way to fix that is just to take the question out. Now it looks like he's responding to the whole issue in a general way.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

11. CNNs cocktail cheney armstrong is still coming up

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/15/cheney/index.html

I thought it might be scrubbed also.

Your posts are great Stephanie. Not surprised on the Faux stuff, State Run News.

[Stephanie]

12. Save it!

And save a screen shot. Stuff is disappearing all over the place.

When news gets scrubbed online, does it also get scrubbed in the Nexis/Lexis archives?

[im10ashus]

13. No kidding?

Is there no end to their shame?

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

14. I don't know how to~

I printed it, but that doesn't help online. Do you have Nexis access?!! Damn, I want that.

[dwahzon]

15. kicking n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. White House site has transcript still with beer comments.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/02/20060215-3.html

THE VICE PRESIDENT: No. You don't hunt with people who drink. That's not a good idea. We had --

Q So he wasn't, and you weren't?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Correct. We'd taken a break at lunch -- go down under an old -- ancient oak tree there on the place, and have a barbecue. I had a beer at lunch. After lunch we take a break, go back to ranch headquarters. Then we took about an hour-long tour of ranch, with a ranch hand driving the vehicle, looking at game. We didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3:00 p.m.

The five of us who were in that party were together all afternoon. Nobody was drinking, nobody was under the influence