It made me think of the line from "The Insider" where Mike Wallace is blasting Eric Kluster of CBS News:
Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skills to edit me!
It's clear that they don't have the requisite skills to even edit the President.
Watch at least the first couple minutes of this interview, and compare it to the unedited version below. As always, the differences are stark.
My problem with the opening batch of the edited version was that it approached the "Liberalism meme" not as a possible point of view on the election, but as accepted fact. He all but said "Voters rejected your Liberalism out of hand, why can't you accept that fact?"
"Well, gee Steve. Why can you accept that like most reporters, you're a lazy bastard."
Of course, that answer is probably why I'm not the President.
And what's this nonsense?
KROFT: The political landscape has changed. I mean, how do you plan to govern? President Clinton found himself in a very, very similar circumstance. And he reacted by pivoting to the middle, turning to the middle. And was successful at it. Is that what you're gonna do?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I when I . . . .
KROFT: You have to, don't you?
Have to? No, he doesn't "have to". He's probably going to, but since the Voters did not send him that message, he doesn't "have to".
Again, if Unemployment had fallen to 7 or 8%, do you really think the GOP would have had a leg to stand on? Do you think the House would have ever been in danger of flipping?
Here is the whole 70 minute interview. The Transcript is available here.
CBS News' embedding has a history of being unreliable. If the video doesn't work, click here.
