The Obama video answering the "What will you do to keep us safe" question was clearly edited.

[jenmito]

The woman asked, "I want to know specifically what you will do to protect this country from terrorism, and are we gonna close the borders and are we gonna get rid of the illegal immigrants," and it shows him saying, "Iraq didn't launch the twin towers. Neither did Saddam Hussein..." He was clearly responding to something the same woman shouted out while he was answering her first question. The vidwo was played on "Morning Joe" on MSNBC. Did they edit it? ETA: It WAS edited according to how the NBC correspondent described the exchange.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty6krf18huA

[Adelante]

1. I don't know, Jen

I only saw a clip and I don't really know who clipped it. He seemed to be responding correctly to me and that he was yelling at an old lady is a crock.

[Cameron27]

2. I think it was edited.

Someone posted that Micca (sp ?) said that it was.

[jenmito]

8. I don't think it's responding correctly to talk about Saddam not having anything to do with 9/11

when the original question was what he'd do to keep us safe and about the borders. That's why I think it was edited to make him look bad, or out of patience, when he was clearly responding to something further she yelled out. :shrug:

[Cameron27]

14. I think it's been edited,

but I couldn't hear what the woman was asking after her first question.

[jenmito]

18. I think she was connecting Iraq to terrorism...

that's what he was responding to.

[Adelante]

17. I only saw a clip

It wasn't the one in your OP, I don't think, but I don't remember where I saw it. Is there a full video someplace?

[jenmito]

19. I can't find a full video. nt

[Adelante]

26. I hope the campaign was taping it

We'll see, just to be sure.

[alteredstate]

34. Here ya go...

http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2007/11/19/obama-takes-the-tough-questions/

[jenmito]

36. Thanks, but of course Faux's commentary wasn't very fair, and they conveniently

started the video AFTER she asked her questionS. This report is also very different from that of an NBC election correspondent who was there. They also ended the article with this, which proves she's a Repub.:

"After the event, Svoboda told a gaggle of press that the candidate didn’t answer all of her questions and that he didn’t have the experience to be president. No Democrat running, in Svoboda’s opinion, has strong national security credentials. But, she applauded him at the event’s conclusion and said he did “a good job.”

[Imagevision]

3. I didn't get that either, media hypes Obama as snapping?!? totally rediculous video clip

????????????

[jenmito]

10. I agree.

[msongs]

4. te second part of the woman's comments could not be understood... nt

[Texas_Kat]

5. In videoworld, the 'break' is called a transition

and is used by videographers to avoid 'panning' across the crowd. Nothing sinister that I could see,

BTW, no one cares if Obama was 'yelling' or not. It didn't even rise to the level of mid-temperature rant and smells a bit of MSM fight-hyping.

[Cameron27]

7. Yeah, that's MSNBC pushing a non-story IMO.

[jenmito]

9. I think it's called editing to make him look bad...

even though he DOESN'T look bad. He's just answering some other question that the same lady must've shouted out while he was answering her.

[Texas_Kat]

16. No, it's a transition

Panning across a crowd and then trying to reset focus is poor video workmanship. Panning tends to make viewers seasick.

Are you saying something important was cut out? What might that have been?

[jenmito]

20. Yes I think something important was cut out...

the response to her original question.

[MNDemNY]

6. I think the clip clearly shows that Obama will eat babies and kick dogs.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. Of course it was. nt

[yardwork]

12. The woman who asked the question sounds like a right-winger.

"Get rid of the illegal immigrants?" She sounds hateful. I don't blame Obama for speaking forcefully in response.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. She does.

I put her in the category of the woman that called Hillary a "bitch".

[jenmito]

23. Someone who was there just said the situation got heated AFTER she kept interrupting him and

trying to connect Saddam to 9/11, so it must've been edited.

[yardwork]

29. I wouldn't be surprised. She sounds like a jerk.

[jenmito]

30. Yup. And I didn't hear him accuse her of being a plant, either. n/t

[yardwork]

31. If she was insisting on a connection between 9/11 and Saddam, good for Obama for getting mad.

It's about time that people start getting mad when right-wingers persist in these lies. Let the Democratic candidates lead the way. Sounds like Obama did ok.

[jenmito]

32. He was just trying to set her straight, but she's obviously a Repub., so I doubt it will work...

but I'm glad he answered her how he did.

[jenmito]

22. I agree, and so does Chuck Todd who said so...

but I still think he was answering something other than her original question.

[Imagevision]

15. The video we saw was Obama merely giving a reply to an asked question...

Unless this video was edited an shown differently around the country it makes little sense.

[jonnyblitz]

21. This is the first time I watched this video and I honestly don't

see what all the commotion is about. the woman sounded freeperish and I didn't think Obama sounded angry. He was speaking forcefully but I didn't necessarily hear anger. this is getting blown out of proportion if they are playing this endlessly on the tv and making a big thing about . this is just my subjective opinion and I say this as somebody who isn't a fan of Obama. :shrug:

[jenmito]

24. Yup. And the person who reported that the exchange said it started off pretty calm but she kept

interrupting him.

[jenmito]

25. The person reporting what actually happened in full is an NBC campaign reporter

and she did keep interrupting him and finally he was trying to set straight the misinformation about the link between Iraq and 9/11.

[Imagevision]

27. Just seeing it again on MSNBC spinacle, there are TWO obvious splices/edits so it has NO credibility

[jenmito]

28. Thank you. I agree. Did you see what the NBC correspondent said?

She said the conversation got heated only after she kept interrupting giving the misinformation of Iraq being connected to 9/11.

[Adelante]

33. You were right - it was edited

If you haven't seen this:

http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2007/11/19/obama-takes-the-tough-questions

[jenmito]

39. Yup, I saw it. Thanks, though!

It wasn't the FULL video, though. They started the video AFTER she asked her questions as to not let us hear what she actually asked. But it's Faux Noise. What do you expect?

[alteredstate]

35. Here's the actual video:

http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2007/11/19/obama-takes-the-tough-questions/

[jenmito]

37. Thanks, but of course Faux's commentary wasn't very fair, and they conveniently

started the video AFTER she asked her questionS. This report is also very different from that of an NBC election correspondent who was there. They also ended the article with this, which proves she's a Repub.:

"After the event, Svoboda told a gaggle of press that the candidate didn’t answer all of her questions and that he didn’t have the experience to be president. No Democrat running, in Svoboda’s opinion, has strong national security credentials. But, she applauded him at the event’s conclusion and said he did “a good job.”

[alteredstate]

38. I agree.

But this uncut version proves Obama wasn't "screaming" at some little old lady.

[jenmito]

40. True...

but it ALSO doesn't show how it started.