Did MSNBC censor Bush MtP transcript?

[derby378]

Here's the NBC version of the transcript:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4179618

Now, here's a Washington Post transcript:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23218-2004Feb8.html

The past does not exist. The past has never existed.

[tom_paine]

1. Can you summarize what's missing from the NBC transcript?

I'm poring through these suckers, but it's ponderous work. Perhaps you could help me cut to the chase?

[Bunny]

2. I was going to ask this as well.

Can you direct us to the pertinent parts?

[derby378]

3. The "I don't testify" quote

Censored from the "official" NBC transcript; now reads: "You know, testify?"

Preserved in the Washington Post transcript. Check Page 1 on the WP version.

Hope this helps!

[ChickMagic]

5. Are they still tinkering with it?

To make it sound legit?

[soup]

8. 'yeah.' msnbc

becomes 'yes.' wp

[ChickMagic]

4. Pertinent parts

Russert asked Bush if he would testify before the commission. He quickly and definitively answered, "I don't testify".
The "I don't testify" phrase was reinterpreted "What, to testify?"


Unaltered transcript here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23218-2004Feb8.html

[tom_paine]

6. Orwell in action

We are surrounded by the same kinds of monsters that aided and abetted Hitler bilthely.

Luckily, our Hitler is "kinder and gentler" for the moment.

But how can that last with a Totalitarian Press?

[derby378]

10. God Bless the Post

...for telling it like it is instead of caving in to der Fuehrer. :evilgrin:

[derby378]

9. Of course...

As you told me earlier, this is the same George W. Bush who apparently thinks he doesn't owe an explanation to the American people - the ones who supposedly elected him to begin with.

[soup]

13. Confused here.

ginbarn, where are you seeing this: "What, to testify?"

Just noticed the MSNBC transcript was updated? Why does a transcript need updated?
NBC News
Updated: 4:44 p.m. ET Feb. 09, 2004

I may go totally insane. Want to ride along?

[Eric J in MN]

23. A transcript can be updated for more accuracy then a rushed version (nt)

nt

[indepat]

18. His words get scrubbed/cleaned up nicely: now if someone could clean

up/fix the fiscal, environmental, economic, and international messes and the human tragedies.

[AZCat]

7. My head hurts

Every time I try to read transcripts of * speaking, I struggle to understand what he says.
I don't know too many people who are this incoherent. How did this jackass ever get elected in the first place? (oh wait, he didn't)

[derby378]

11. Don't feel bad

My head hurts every time King George opens his mouth. Swamp gas does the same thing to me.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. There was a thread about that like comment yesterday

He definitely said, I don't ah mmm, ah testify.

Good thing original copies of the video and the transcript are all over the internet already. It will make a great campaign video.

[buycitgo]

14. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1098831&mesg_id=1098831

now///

at what point in the 'interview' does he say this?

I have a tape, and was looking for a reason to watch.....not a pleasant task, but this has me piqued.

[soup]

15. very close to the beginning.

shortly after he says he's a war president.

Still, a lot to endure, brave soul.

[OutlawCorporatePolls]

16. yup, they sure did..

they added a question mark.

this reminds me of the tony snow interview with bush, when george declared that
"we didnt know that there would be baathists leftovers who were mad about not being in power" and fox pulled the 'didnt' out in the transcript later.

lol.

"the country is run by corporate media thugs" - tomas king, guerrillafinga.

[OutlawCorporatePolls]

17. also, the part about skull and bones..

.. when bush says 'i dont know i havent seen the BLANK yet' he clearly said WEB PAGES. lol. we dont want to send folks googling now do we.

[VOX]

19. It may be that whoever's doing the transcribing can't understand *'s mush.

For example, farther down on the MSNBC transcript, toward the end, there's this:

President Bush: I'm sure they are. I don’t know. I haven't seen the (unintel) yet. (Laughs)

Far be it from me to defend that criminal asshole, or the whoring NBC, but the differences in transcription just may be a function of a baffled transcriber.

[fleetus]

20. Any links to the video/audio clip?

I'd like to see this for myself. I hate when history gets re-written.

[Krakowiak]

21. If you have Bittorrent

you can get it from Novasearch (disregard if you are not used to using BT)

[Eric J in MN]

22. I think it's an honest mistake.

One says "You know, I don't testify."

The other says, "You know, testify?"

I doubt anyone intentionally removed the words "I don't" on the theory that would help Bush.

The real bias is blatant. Dennis Miller, Joe Scarborough, and Bill O'Reilly get to express their conservative opinions an hour-a-night, and no one on tv is expressing a liberal opinion for an hour-a-night.

[Stephanie]

24. Had a thread on this yesterday, and will kick it

because soup and I were doing real-time comparison on different transcripts, etc. Also there was a video link in there somewhere.