Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Several of the blogs I visit are reporting an ‘edit’ of the mis-quote alert Gov. Palin gave Gibson in their interview. Also, I went over to our friendly youtube to look for the west coast version of the exchange with the edit … didn’t see it up yet. But I’ll tell you what … P.D.S. is strong and very ugly on the left.

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Kathryn Jean Lopez - (NRO)

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Hi Kathryn,

Just caught the Palin interview on the West Coast. Some observations:

1) Gibson was acting like he was giving her a pop quiz.

2) The exchange about the “holy war”. I’ve read transcripts somewhere that contain this:
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a) GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?

b) PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

c) GIBSON: Exact words
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The version that I saw on the West Coast does NOT have (b) and (c) above. Also, they showed a YouTube clip with the longer, more complete version of her statement. Did all the complaining about how he quoted her out of context make them edit the version shown on the West Coast, to make it more fair? Did anybody see (b) and (c) above on the East Coast?

Ace Of Spades notes:

Either way, it’s ABCNews editing out Palin’s correct objection that those aren’t her “exact words,” and Gibson’s cocksure insistence they are indeed her “exact words.”He confirms: Nope, edited out of the East Coast feed too.

So this means that ABCNews covered up its error on both coasts, and deleted Palin’s statement that they’d erred for the whole country.

ABCNews knew of this error since the first transcript was released at 4 ET. Not only did they get numerous objections, but I’m guessing it’s very likely that Palin’s people informed them of the error, too.

Actually, Dollardites, if you re-watch the clip Pat posted in videos, the exchange is there …