Mother Jones admits Romney vid is not complete

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Thepaindispenser

Nice try Riot, Mother Jones has admitted some key parts are missing, only the really gullible believe their line about it being an accident.

Um, no.

You're way behind the news, Sockpuppet

I'll post it here for you, so you can read about the Romney campaign walk back today of their bogus claim, based upon non-Mother Jones journalists pointing out the Romney campaign is wrong.

Is there anything the Romney campaign has said in the past two months that has not been walked back? Doesn't seem so.

Romney's Video-Debunking Claim Is…Debunked
—By David Corn
Wed Sep. 19, 2012 4:00 PM PDT

This is getting ridiculous.

After Mother Jones posted video of Mitt Romney sharing remarks with millionaire donors that he would never express to voters—noting that nearly half of the American electorate are moochers and that Romney doesn't believe a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is feasible—Romney did not deny he said what he said.

As the cliché goes, he doubled down, saying his remarks were inelegant but a reflection of his views about the rapid growth of entitlement programs in the United States.

(Actually, this was a bait-and-switch operation. Romney was not talking policy when he disdainfully described half of the citizenry as parasites and victims.)

On Wednesday afternoon, he went further, with his campaign claiming that the video had been "debunked."

In lashing out at the Obama campaign, Romney's crew issued this email:

The Romney campaign was clearly implying the whole video was rubbish. But there's a slight problem.

Politico's Dylan Byers, the source for the Romney debunking charge, quickly noted that he had done no such thing. He wrote:

In his article, posted earlier in the day, Byers had noted how some folks were complaining that we had edited a long clip of Romney talking about the Middle East selectively.

In that clip—watch it here—Romney trashed the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, said the Palestinians (whom he lumped into one mindset) did not want peace and only sought the destruction of Israel, that he would not actively pursue the peace process and would instead seek to "kick the ball down the field," and that he had paid no real attention when a former secretary of state had told him that peace might be possible in the Middle East.

That is a total diss of the peace process—and would represent a radical break with US policy, which has supported a two-state solution since the Clinton years.

Yet Romney went on to say—and this clip did not include this—that if the United States showed "resolve….the Palestinians will some day reach the point where they want peace more than we're trying to force peace on them." Thus, peace might be theoretically possible at some point in the distance.

This was not a case of selective editing. The point was to show what was newsworthy: Romney breaking with current policy and stating views that he has not stated publicly. (In an interview this summer, he said he supported a two-state solution.)

Nevertheless, some Romney backers have cried foul and managed to turn this into a dispute they can use to raise questions about the secret Romney tape.

But don't take my word. Here's more from Byers:

Slate's Dave Weigel has weighed in as well:

It was bizarre. After Byers and Weigel had debunked the Romney camp's debunking, Byers heard from a Romney aide who said that the campaign only takes issue with the clip regarding Romney's view on the Mideast, not the entire video.

In other words, the Romney campaign walked back the push-back.

It's not challenging the "47 percent" material or anything else; only the Mideast remarks.

But, as I've said a few thousand times on television these past few days, the wonderful thing about this story is that people can view for themselves.

Watch Romney talking about the Mideast, and it's clear he has contempt for the peace process as it has been conceived for years; does not believe it can work; and would chart a radically different course.

The few sentences not included in that clip—but which were included in the full transcript and complete tape we released—do not a debunking make.

This maneuver smacks of desperation from a campaign hurt by the undeniable words of its candidate.