Camera Tricks and ABC news


	Camera Tricks and ABC news

strider72

9-22-2008 2:54 PM

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politics, fraud, bias, editing charlie gibson, sarah palin

strider72 says:

This is in tandem with how they edited to footage to change her answers to questions, such as when she said "Yes" she had met foreign leaders, and the interview they aired showed her saying "no" to that question. (She was answering a different question!)

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9-22-2008 4:12 PM

The REAL Napster

Talk about 'smoke and mirrors'.

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