Gibson aired edited Limbaugh clip to "prove" Media Matters had edited Limbaugh clip

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200710010005

During the September 28 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, in response to Media Matters for America's documentation of Rush Limbaugh's recent description of service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as "phony soldiers," Fox News host John Gibson asserted, "Rush was specifically talking about a particular one, Jesse MacBeth, who had pled guilty in court to lying about even being in Iraq." Gibson falsely claimed that Media Matters "said Rush said something, posted an audio recording of it and a written transcript, and cut it off at the precise moment where the next thing he said proved them wrong." To support this claim, Gibson aired a clip from the September 28 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show in which Limbaugh purported to air the "entire" segment in question from the September 26 broadcast of his program. In fact, as Media Matters has documented, the clip Limbaugh aired on September 28, which Gibson reaired, had been spliced. Excised from the clip was a full 1 minute and 35 seconds of the 1 minute and 50 second discussion that occurred between Limbaugh's original "phony soldiers" comment and his reference to MacBeth, the full audio of which can be heard here.

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[Richardo]

1. Gibson's going for another 'Worst Person in the World' title...

What a tool.

[Fuzz]

2. Using their own words is just so not fair

;)

[NewJeffCT]

4. I know, it's not fair

Only Democrats can be held to their words - even when it's out of context.

[DBoon]

6. only republicans can splice an audio recording

and pass it off as the original.

[LiberalFighter]

3. If the other networks want to reduce FOX's ratings they need

report the truth about this. It will place FOX in the position of not being trusted by any viewers.

[Jim__]

5. It's the integrity of media matters versus the integrity of fox.

Media Matters should fight this to demonstrate, one more time, that FoxNews lies.

[Supersedeas]

7. a little media thuggery at FOX

[jpgray]

8. When a major news org can't be held to the journalism standards of a blog...

Boy.