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cactusfractal

(497 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:58 AM Oct 2012

Fox News Drops Romney's Response On Gun Control In Second Debate Transcript

They skip it altogether, citing "Audio Gap"...

"CROWLEY: Governor Romney, the question is about assault weapons, AK-47s.

ROMNEY: Yeah, I'm not in favor of new pieces of legislation on -- on guns and taking guns away or making certain guns illegal. We have

(AUDIO GAP)

OBAMA: because I do believe that if our young people have opportunity, then they're less likely to engage in these kind of violent acts."



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/16/transcript-second-presidential-debate/

Fair. Balanced. Seems legit.
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Fox News Drops Romney's Response On Gun Control In Second Debate Transcript (Original Post) cactusfractal Oct 2012 OP
LOL. Are they channeling Rosemary Woods? Nixon's secretary? mnhtnbb Oct 2012 #1
The gap, I think, is... cactusfractal Oct 2012 #7
Snipped on Obama too M---Girl Oct 2012 #2
Mitt Romney blames single mothers for Gun Violence Ian David Oct 2012 #3
Wow. Fox (R) is worse than the Soviet news outlet Pravda ever was Berlum Oct 2012 #4
Their version of Obama's Rose Garden speech regarding Benghazi looked strange to me too. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #5
What they left out.. Sky Masterson Oct 2012 #6
Looks like they re-edited their transcript to put this stuff back in. Mayberry Machiavelli Oct 2012 #8
Oops you beat me to it :-) cactusfractal Oct 2012 #10
UPDATE... FNC HAS CORRECTED cactusfractal Oct 2012 #9

mnhtnbb

(31,405 posts)
1. LOL. Are they channeling Rosemary Woods? Nixon's secretary?
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:05 AM
Oct 2012

Maybe they could contact a real news organization to fill in the 'gap' for them.

M---Girl

(35 posts)
2. Snipped on Obama too
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:08 AM
Oct 2012

That cuts off Obama saying he supports the 2nd amendment too.

Audio gap! Seems like an easy thing to remedy, if they truly had a malfunction in their recording.

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
4. Wow. Fox (R) is worse than the Soviet news outlet Pravda ever was
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:08 AM
Oct 2012

What Mindf*ckers (R) they are as they serve their 1% Saudi owners and overlords.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
5. Their version of Obama's Rose Garden speech regarding Benghazi looked strange to me too.
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:21 AM
Oct 2012

Fox does not report the news as it happens. They report it as they wish it had happened. Bunch of liars.

Sky Masterson

(5,240 posts)
6. What they left out..
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:37 AM
Oct 2012

"ROMNEY: Yeah, I'm not in favor of new pieces of legislation on — on guns and taking guns away or making certain guns illegal. We, of course, don't want to have automatic weapons, and that's already illegal in this country to have automatic weapons. What I believe is we have to do, as the president mentioned towards the end of his remarks there, which is to make enormous efforts to enforce the gun laws that we have, and to change the culture of violence that we have.

And you ask how — how are we going to do that? And there are a number of things. He mentioned good schools. I totally agree. We were able to drive our schools to be number one in the nation in my state. And I believe if we do a better job in education, we'll — we'll give people the — the hope and opportunity they deserve and perhaps less violence from that. But let me mention another thing. And that is parents. We need moms and dads, helping to raise kids. Wherever possible the — the benefit of having two parents in the home, and that's not always possible. A lot of great single moms, single dads. But gosh to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone, that's a great idea.

Because if there's a two parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will — will be able to achieve increase dramatically. So we can make changes in the way our culture works to help bring people away from violence and give them opportunity, and bring them in the American system. The — the greatest failure we've had with regards to — to gun violence in some respects is what — what is known as Fast and Furious. Which was a program under this administration, and how it worked exactly I think we don't know precisely, where thousands of automatic, and AK-47 type weapons were — were given to people that ultimately gave them to — to drug lords.

They used those weapons against — against their own citizens and killed Americans with them. And this was a — this was a program of the government. For what purpose it was put in place, I can't imagine. But it's one of the great tragedies related to violence in our society which has occurred during this administration. Which I think the American people would like to understand fully, it's been investigated to a degree, but — but the administration has carried out executive privilege to prevent all of the information from coming out.

I'd like to understand who it was that did this, what the idea was behind it, why it led to the violence, thousands of guns going to Mexican drug lords.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82484_Page7.html#ixzz29ZDCXBCg

Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts)
8. Looks like they re-edited their transcript to put this stuff back in.
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:28 AM
Oct 2012

Story was blowing up in blogosphere but not yet in major media outlets, guess they decided to get ahead of it.

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