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Extensive Criticism of Clinton Edited out of Green Party Nominee’s Answer
During PBS Interview, by Dave Urbanski 8/26/16
When Green Party nominee Jill Stein
sat down with Judy Woodruff on “PBS News Hour” for an interview Tuesday,
Woodruff asked this question:
You’ve made it clear that you think
both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would be terrible presidents for the
country. So are you saying you think literally that Hillary Clinton is every
bit as bad for the country as Donald Trump?
Stein gave an answer that spanned 1
minute and 9 seconds but only 21 seconds of her answer made it into PBS’
final version of the interview.
It’s possible that Stein’s answer
was cut for time. But what was cut was extensive criticism of Clinton — and not
in one big dialogue chunk, as you might expect if there were a time crunch.
Here’s the bulk of what was cut from
Stein’s answer — 43 seconds out of 69 seconds of air time:
Because Hillary Clinton and now her
transition director Ken Salazar … they’re big proponents of the Trans Pacific
Partnership, which is basically NAFTA on steroids. And most observers believe
that it will send our jobs overseas, as well as undermine American sovereignty
by bringing in these international tribunals that get to pass judgment on our
laws, on our public health protections, on our worker protections. So we can’t
count on saving our jobs, saving our lives — one in three Americans now cannot
afford health care under Obamacare — or saving the planet, because Hillary has
been a big proponent of fracking, as is Ken Salazar, her transition
director.
After that first edit ended, PBS
resumed with Stein’s answer only to excise an additional 5 seconds. Here’s
what hit the cutting-room floor this time: “Americans have not only the right
to vote but a right to know who we can vote for.”
You can watch the unedited version
of Stein’s answer on a PBS livestreamed Facebook clip, beginning after the 6:40 mark. But on the PBS website and on PBS’ YouTube clip, all you’ll get is the edited answer.
Here’s that edited, 21-second answer
from PBS News Hour’s YouTube page. It begins just after the 7:28 mark below: And
just below is a video that restored the cut portions of Stein’s answer.
The narrator noted: I’m glad PBS
livestreamed the full interview on Facebook, but Facebook interviews do not
show up in Internet searches. So if anybody searched for the interview, they’d
end up watching the censored version. So not only did PBS’ TV and YouTube
viewers not actually hear what Jill had to say, even worse they were left with
the impression that they actually did.
This
story has been updated.
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