Katie, You Got Some 'Splainin' To Do

What exactly do you call it when a television news program asks a politician a question, and he gets the answer blatantly, egregiously, obviously wrong, but they cut the answer out and input another portion of the interview that makes the politician look better?

Well, since they did it for John McCain, the idea that CBS is the "liberal media" must now be forever retired, as if it ever had any validity in the first place.

Here's what happened. Katie asked McCain to respond to Obama's statement that the Anbar Awakening may have had more to do with Sunni actions than it did with the "surge" of American troops, since the Awakening began before the surge started (a documented fact). McCain responded that he did not know how to respond to such a statement since, and here McCain was either lying or ignorant, the Awakening happened after our troops arrived.

CBS, in the face of a completely inaccurate statement by a man whose entire candidacy is based on being supposedly more experienced and knowledgeable about foreign and military affairs than his opponent, cut the answer, and inserted McCain's later attack on Obama for wanting to withdraw forces prior to the surge.

They then broadcast the interview without telling their viewers that the answer had been edited. It is not known whether the McCain campaign paid CBS News for its help.

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