01 November 2004

No, no, someone else did the edit!

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Officials said that in the 18-minute long tape — of which only six minutes were aired on the al-Jazeera Arab television network in the Middle East on Friday — bin Laden bemoans the recent democratic elections in Afghanistan and the lack of violence involved with it.

On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military’s unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

A portion of the left-out footage includes a tirade aimed at President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, claiming the war in Iraq is purely over oil.

I can’t believe that al-Jazeera thought the work of Osama bin Laden could be improved via editing. Isn’t that lesé majeste?

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Old Media Watch

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The 28 Oct transcript of Senator Kerry’s remarks looks like this:

Brokaw: Someone has analyzed the President’s military aptitude tests and yours, and concluded that he has a higher IQ than you do.

Kerry: That’s great. More power. I don’t know how they’ve done it, because my record is not public. So I don’t know where you’re getting that from.

The same transcript from 31 Oct looks like this:

Brokaw: “Someone has analyzed the president’s military aptitude tests and yours, and concluded that he has a higher IQ than you do.”

Kerry: “That’s great. More power. I don’t know how they’ve done it.”

Just cut a bit of superflous information that the public doesn’t need to cluttering their views and voila — a fake but truthful transcript!

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