More proof of media bias - NBC this time!

Tom Brokaw interviewed both President Bush and John Kerry (catching them on the campaign trail) for an NBC Dateline piece that aired tonight.

The actual interview of Kerry took place, I believe on 10/28.

Seeing the promotion for the Dateline piece several days ago, and knowing MSNBC's habit of archiving all or part of interview transcripts and posting them on their site early, I went to the site last week to see what was said in the interview and what to expect Sunday (tonight).

This is where it gets interesting. They had almost the whole interview up on the MSNBC site and one question and answer struck me:



Then, tonight, I watched Dateline and when Brokaw got to that question in the Kerry interview, Kerry simply answered:



Having read the original question and answer days ago, I was of course waiting for the rest of the answer. Nothing.

Going to tonight's transcript of the interview on their website, it does indeed leave out the part where he says "...because my record is not public. So I don't know where you're getting that from."

As most who read any of the threads on this forum are aware, Kerry's refusal to release his records has caused some discussion.

It's not lost on me that NBC and Brokaw perhaps in particular knows this is somewhat a bone of contention among the voting public and purposely edited out Kerry's words reminding us of his refusal to release these records.

What's odd is their sloppy work.

The original transcript (unabridged answer) is still up on MSNBC - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6354942/

...and so is the transcript where they've edited out the incriminating words - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363856/

I can think of no other reason for such careful editing. Kerry's complete answer would have taken perhaps 1.5 seconds longer than the edited version, so it wasn't in the interest of time.

I'm more than a bit disgusted, but realize emailing or snail-mailing any type of protest would fall on deaf ears. They have their agenda and it's obvious.

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