Nightline EDITS the Bush "if we knew ANYTHING" quote from today

[buycitgo]

could NOT believe it!

the thing he said after the cabinet meeting, that included "if we know ANYTHING about an attack on NYC, we'd have done all we could," or whatever the exact words were.....

they EDITED out NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY? it was very obvious

what is their point?

are they trying to cover for him?

truly amazing

EDIT....here's the quote, thanks to eleny

"had my administration had any information that terrorists were going to attack New York City on Sept. 11th, we would have acted..."

acted like the swinish, cowardly, thieving bastard that you ARE

this

"And had my administration had any information that terrorists were going to attack New York City on September the 11th, we would have acted. "

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1. please report this to

www.fair.org

thanks!

[Nashyra]

2. It's always bothered me that they keep saying

we didn't expect anything here in America we thought it was going to happen overseas. I thought it was the duty of the president to protect all Americans and American interests?

[buycitgo]

3. thanks!

good idea

anybody got that quote?

[eleny]

4. it's in this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1274429

[Guaranteed]

5. Holy...crap.

Are they planning on attacking NY?

[buycitgo]

6. if that's supposed to be amusing........there are LOTS of people here

who don't appreciate that kind of crap

do YOU think it's funny, or what?

did you hear/see that worm say what he said today?

Nightline is obviously trying to cover for him, to give him parsing room, by eliminating NYC from the mix

way too obvious a Clintonian/lawyerly answer if NYC is still there

understand now?

[althecat]

7. The quote is...

"And had my administration had any information that terrorists were going to attack New York City on September the 11th, we would have acted. "

EXTRACTED FROM

Q Mr. President there's been a lot of attention over the last couple days to a book written by your former counterterrorism advisor that suggests that you understated the threat of al Qaeda before September 11th, and then rushed to blame Iraq after the terror attacks. Is there any basis at all in any of these allegations? And do you agree with the Republican Senator Chuck Hagel that the White House needs to take these charges more seriously and not just undermine Mr. Clarke's credibility?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, the facts are these: George Tenet briefed me on a regular basis about the terrorist threats to the United States of America. And had my administration had any information that terrorists were going to attack New York City on September the 11th, we would have acted. We have been chasing down al Qaeda ever since the attacks. We've captured or killed two-thirds of their known leaders. And we're still pursuing them, and we will continue to pursue them so long as I am the President of the United States.

I want to thank the troops involved. We've got a couple of thousand troops involved in Afghanistan that are hunting down al Qaeda in that part of the world. We've got intelligence officers all over the world collecting information so that we can act. We've got a strong network of cooperative governments trying to chase down terrorist money and to prevent that money from being spread around to cause harm.

I was on the phone today to Gerhard Schroeder, reminding them that we need to stay strong in the fight on terror. And I appreciated his strong comments today by phone, that he fully understood the stakes. We're making progress. There is more work to do. And this country will stay on the hunt. The best way to protect our country from further attack is to find the terrorists before they come to our homeland, or anywhere else, to inflict harm.

Steve.

*****

For what it is worth I don't think Nightline is trying to cover for him. Just a case of sloppy editing... lord only knows why.

Why do I think this?

It would be pointless for any media to attempt to cover for him in this way. I.E. it would achieve nothing...

[buycitgo]

8. they ONLY edited out New York City

I work in a TV studio (OK, it's a jr high, but hey), and editing out a few words like that takes conscious effort, little though it may be, depending on whether they digitized it, but they'd still have to load it, edit it, download it.

it would take awhile, and to WHAT purpose?

much much easier to play it as it lays

makes no sense, what they did

[buycitgo]

9. taking aluminum colander off head now

[MinnFats]

12. Jeeeezus! Evade the question or what?

Typical of Bush.
Ask a question, any question; he's going to give the answer he was prepped to give.
what in the f'ing hell does
"I want to thank the troops involved" have to do with the question he was asked?

Oh. right. I guess we all know that.
Pump a few phrases from the speechwriters into him, wind him up and he'll repeat them until he runs out of breath.

I can't wait for a debate with Kerry. Give Bush a little rope...

[LoZoccolo]

10. This actually works against Bush*.

Say the warning about possible attacks wasn't specific - it didn't say anything about New York City, per se. Well, Bush* could try to squirm out of this one saying "I said we hadn't heard about an attack on New York City". The part they edited out is crucial to him squirming out of it that way.

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11. buycitgo, I believe I heard him say NYC on the Nightline clip -

I don't have cable, didn't see any of the hearings or bush's sudden, media manipulating "briefing" - only read about the events of the day here. Nightline was my first tv exposure to the lying fraud all day.

When I saw that clip on Nightline, I could swear I heard him say "New York City." I remember my immediate response was that that answer was carefully crafted so he legally, perhaps, wasn't technically lying, while not dispelling the accusations that he had been warned. It was slimy word-play of the type he used in the run up to invading Iraq. That's the very first thing I thought. He's trying to create an impression there was no warning by wording his well-rehearsed answer to deny something very specific and finite. Was he warned that a major US city would be attacked on 9*11? Was he warned that NYC would be attacked in early Sept? He's not denying that.

The thing is tho, I wouldn't have had that immediate impression had he not said "New York City" - that was what sent of bells for me.

I'm not saying what you saw wasn't edited the way you said it was. Maybe I got a different version. Does it air later in Chicago than it does on the east coast?

I dunno, but I'm 99.9% sure I heard the complete quote, with NYC.

[TruthIsAll]

13. He did say NYC on Nightline. Definitely. No edit.

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[RedSock]

14. the ol' clintonian answer

hey we thought they would attack on september 12, so ...

like condi's bullshit: "if we had known that flight 11 out of logan would be hijacked at 8:13 am on september 11 and flown over city x in new york state at a 37 degree angle to the equator towards the wtc blah blah blah, then we would have done everything we could have to stop it ..."