Here's How That Anti-Battleground Texas Video Was Deceptively Edited
The video released last week by convicted criminal James O'Keeffe about Wendy Davis and Battleground Texas is the latest in the man's stream of falsified videos claiming to depict something they don't. O'Keeffe's work is found falsified at every turn. He was even arrested in 2010 for trying to manipulate the phones in a Democratic senator's office. Even Glenn Beck has discredited O'Keeffe's work.
At numerous points, O'Keeffe simply used audio splicing to edit the video in the direction he wanted. The final product was a video that made Battleground Texas volunteers look disrespectful and callous, but that appearance is little more than a cheap hack job by the chief conservative "gonzo" hack.
A primary impact of the video is that it appears volunteers are laughing at Abbott's wheelchair confinement. This "looks to be the work of creative audio splicing," the Texas Tribune explains. When an unidentified woman at a bar says Abbott is "not good looking. He doesn't speak very well, he doesn't have a very good personality and he's in a wheelchair," no one in the raw footage laughs. But in O'Keeffe's video, "the comment appears to provoke derisive laughter". Derisive laughter which wasn't there.
In fact, supporters only laugh at a later comment made about Greg Abbott's hair (presumably also about Rick Perry's famous hair). In the video, a hacking laugh comes after the wheelchair comment. The Austin-American Statesman called this the "most egregious edit of all," one among a "few problems" with the video.
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14728/heres-how-that-antibattleground-texas-video-was-deceptively-edited .
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