Why is cadet applause missing from Fox's video of Obama speech?
May 24, 2010 9:41 am ET by Jamison Foser
Did Fox News edit video of President Obama’s commencement speech at West Point to remove audience applause? Filmmaker Michael Moore thinks so:
In the Fox version of the video, Obama abruptly stops talking at the 0:44 mark and spends about 10 seconds just silently looking around the room. Here's the video, as saved and uploaded to Moore's YouTube account (it is also available on Fox's web page, but I'm having trouble embedding that video):
But in video available on the White House’s web page, we see that Obama stops talking because of audience applause (the portion of the speech in question occurs at roughly the 10:24 mark):
Now, maybe Fox didn’t intentionally remove the audience applause. Maybe Fox’s video used a direct feed from Obama’s microphone, and it simply didn’t pick up audience noise. But if Fox didn’t intentionally try to make Obama look silly, why did it choose a 2-minute clip -- out of a 32-minute speech -- that portrayed Obama looking silently around the room, seemingly for no reason?
We all know the reason. They are not a legitimate news organization. They deal in right wing propaganda...
That's what they do.
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Fair and balanced by countering the mainstream media pro-applause crowd.
They want to be able to say, "See, we told you Obama is anti Military, because even the cadets don't applaud him..."
Same tech who exchanges D for R whenever an R pol does a nono?
{Liberty U., A.V. grad}
Just like when Palin was on Leno and they added a laugh track to her jokes. An audience member and blogger posted that there was nothing but silence for most of her appearance and the actual end product that everyone else saw was quite different.
They actually did that? I wish there was footage of that not from the actual broadcast so we could see how people weren't clapping or laughing.