FOX News Deleted Debate Segment Documented for Posterity

By Natalie Schultz

This post is my attempt at not allowing censorship to toss truth down the Memory Hole.

This regards the sudden (albeit not surprising) attempt by FOX News to eradicate an entire segment of the January 10, 2008 South Carolina debate. 

When the debate first aired live, there was no censorship, but then, when FOX News re-broadcast the debate, they edited out an entire response from Ron Paul.  Ron Paul’s response was to an attempted ‘trick’ question by FOX News asking if he was “electable” in a Republican primary.

Realizing that when it was re-broadcast, this entire segment, a segment that was among the most memorable, if not climactic debate moments, had been completely edited-out, someone posted it to YouTube and Digg.

This was originally posted to www.digg.com at ~ 9:30am Friday Jan. 11, 2008.

Then, at some point during the day, FOX News had YouTube remove the video.  Nevertheless many more copies popped up, but there is a heavily invested “search and destroy” mission going on as we speak.

So, in the interest of upholding the Freedom of Information Act, and, of course, in the interest of being “Fair and Balanced” I have taken the liberty of documenting the these occurrences in a time-line fashion.  And then I transcribed the doubleplusgoodcrimethink right here for all to read.

CHEERS!

This clip was originally posted to www.digg.com at ~ 9:30am Friday Jan. 11, 2008.

http://www.digg.com/2008_us_elections/Cut_from_re_air_What_Fox_News_doesn_t_want_you_too_see

5917 diggs  (at ~11:00pm Friday, Jan.11, 2008)

youtube.com — Watch the Ron Paul response at the South Carolina debate which Fox News cut out during the re-broadcast.

Submitted:

13 hr 22 min ago, made popular 8 hr 9 min ago

When you clicked on the link to the clip at 11:00pm you got this:

http://www.youtube.com/index?&session=uGjf9wtfb89nrYy7VaDsn-fNhRGiO_Cghg4yjuZnEUrZoUu59PJBTwmGC04rsUzhXHi0mobXd49Mb77EN70t-cGOLDOBzmYONiaNbz3T3pJPM9roLBlNOTFopNQKFdswZ97S0N3LQoNElOz7CFtnXPKKd4M5hxj8vi9Q8NF304wxVtYxcyoD9qa-z_3UzWiMeXJbP0ub5cAwpTfRBerwE1-CqZLDh-PirNgmWNTADcucseq4Ck5jmtkLRS4jQKErCSf9qEtkyTdTPTwqcbnYxvLSTLBJwOPXpaSWg5jTXm4A_GW4PWC23_LXx3iqbea4

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

Then this post appears on Digg:

http://digg.com/politics/Fox_forces_removal_of_Ron_Paul_clip_from_YouTube

218 diggs (at ~11:05pm Friday Jan. 11, 2008)

flickr.com — Ok, now this is just sick. Can we file charges?

Submitted:

1 hr 27 min ago

A post within reads:
http://www.newscorrupt.com (NewsCorp) has the video and won't be taking it down.

This is the video that I used for the transcript.  BTW: newscorrupt is NOT actually NewsCorp.

As you can see / hear, Ron Paul receives overwhelming applause for his response.

So, what was FOX trying to hide?  Well, they didn’t exactly ‘snag’ Paul with the question of elect-ability:

Cameron:  “Congressman Paul, you get another question on electability:  Do you have any sir?  [laughter]  There is always the question as to whether or not you are viable. [another candidate laughs sarcastically (I think it was Rudy – sounded like him and he was right next to Paul)]  Your differences with the rest of the Republicans on this stage has raised questions as to whether or not you can actually win the General, uh, Republican nomination, sir?”

Ron Paul’s response (transcribed from the closed-captioning) (same as what was said):

“Well, we have only had two little primaries so far, so it’s pretty premature to decide which one is going to be the candidate.

But, you know, when you think about it, if you measured everything I have ever said, every vote I have ever taken against the Constitution, I’m a strict Constitutionalist.

Are you suggesting the Republicans should write me off because I’m a

strict Constitutionalist?

I’m the most Conservative member here. 

I have voted against more spending and waste in government than anybody else. (applause)

So you are suggesting that I’m not electable and the Republicans don’t want me?

Because I’m a strict fiscal Conservative? 

Because I believe in civil liberties? 

Why should we not be defending civil liberties? 

Why should we not be talking about foreign policy that used to be the part of the Republican Party? 

Mr. Republican Robert Taft didn’t even want us to be in NATO and you are saying now that we have to continue to borrow money from China to finance this Empire that we can’t afford? 

Let me see if I get this right. 

We need to borrow $10 Billion from China and then we give it to Musharraf who is a military dictator who overthrew an elected government and then we go to war, we lose all these lives promoting democracy in Iraq.  I mean, what’s going on here? [cheers and applause] (ROARING cheers and applause)

And you are saying that this isn’t appealing to Republicans? 

Where did this come about?

I think this is a Republican message.

I defend the platform. 

It Used to say get rid of the Department of Education. 

It doesn’t say that now. 

We as Republicans went and doubled the size of the Department of Education. 

So where have we gone? 

I think we have lost our way. 

Then the insinuation that I am less Republican because of that?”  (Bell; cheers and applause)

Total time 2:16 minutes (including the question being asked)

I don’t think that it was Ron Paul’s response that made FOX News try to have this debate segment eradicated from the internet, rather I believe it was the enthusiastic response of the audience to his comment on borrowing billions from China to build up a military dictator who overthrew a democracy in Pakistan, only to send Americans to be killed in an attempt to democratize Iraq.

The cheers and applause were very loud and robust!

NOT what FOX News was expecting, nor what they wanted to hear.

So, here it is, just incase FOX decides to invade the civil liberties of http://www.newscorrupt.com and unconstitutionally have this video removed.

I just spent way too long typing it all out for you!

Update: here is a link to the entire SC debate transcript:
http://www.thestate.com/presidential-politics/v-print/story/281494.html


Awesome video compliments this Inner Party mentality very well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aNHZI66BPs