2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFox 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.
mnhtnbb
(31,405 posts)Maybe they could contact a real news organization to fill in the 'gap' for them.
cactusfractal
(497 posts)ETHICAL.
M---Girl
(35 posts)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.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Is this what they skipped?
Mitt Romney blames single mothers for Gun Violence
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021564079
Meanwhile, See also:
President Obama Has Only Ever Signed Gun Laws That Expand Owners' Rights
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-vs-romney-gun-control-2012-9
Did Mitt Romney flip-flop on gun control?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/18/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-exhibits-marked-change-gun-rhetoric/
Mitt Romney And The NRA: A 'Diss' Before Courtship
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/mitt-romney-nra-courtship_n_1422258.html
Mitt Romney Against Guns!
http://www.guns.com/forum/welcome/support-and-feedback/mitt-romney-against-guns-17487.html
Berlum
(7,044 posts)What Mindf*ckers (R) they are as they serve their 1% Saudi owners and overlords.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)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)"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)Story was blowing up in blogosphere but not yet in major media outlets, guess they decided to get ahead of it.
cactusfractal
(497 posts)cactusfractal
(497 posts)Mirabile dictu!