Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:19 pm
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) took apart Fox News for editing video and leaving out key comments while trying to smear Hillary Clinton during an interview on Fox News Sunday.
Video:
https://youtu.be/lRBzsQaVydQ
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Transcript via Fox News Sunday:
WALLACE: No, no, he didn’t say that, but that’s not even what I’m talking about.
What he said was there was not enough grounds to prosecute her. He did say she had been extremely careless and negligent, but specifically what he said was what she told the American people over the past year was wrong.
And this is — let’s play what he said on July 7th to Congress.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. TREY GOWDY, R-S.C., CHAIR, BENGHAZI COMMITTEE: Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails either sent or received. Was that true?
JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: That’s not true.
GOWDY: Secretary Clinton said, “I did not e-mail classified significant to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material.” Was that true?
COMEY: There was classified material e-mail.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Congressman, Comey directly contradicted what Clinton had been telling the American people for a year.
BECERRA: But, Chris, what you don’t also show is that Director Comey said that she had no knowledge of some of those so-called classified e-mail because they were not either not marked or they were not classified at the time or incorrectly marked. So, he did come out and said — you don’t show that, but he did come out and say she did not know.
WALLACE: They were marked and more importantly, he said that there was classified material that she had e-mailed.
BECERRA: But she did not know it. Otherwise, if there had been the intention to send classified e-mails, then FBI would have pursued this much further. So I think you’re trying to make more of this than there is.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: She didn’t say I didn’t intend to send classified material.
BECERRA: No.
WALLACE: She said that isn’t what she told the American people. She said there was no classified material.
BECERRA: Chris, she has made it clear that looking back at this, she would have done it differently, that she did make some mistake, but she never intended to send classified information over e-mails, and the FBI investigation confirms that. And so, what we may want to make more of it, the fact has said we should move on and get to real important matters of the country.
It is not a coincidence that the media, especially Fox News and conservative-leaning outlets, became obsessed again with Hillary Clinton’s emails after a wave of polls showed Donald Trump tanking as the Republican nominee. A favorite trick of Fox News is the deceptive video edit, and nowhere has the right been guilty of more deceptive editing and parsing that FBI Director’s comments about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Rep. Becerra called Fox News Sunday for leaving out critical details.
Fox News Sunday, and the Fox News network are both trying to blow the email story out of proportion because the only hope they have of getting a Republican president elected in November is to drag Hillary Clinton’s numbers down through a relentlessly negative and largely untrue media campaign.
Democrats aren’t going to sit back and allow conservative media and their corporate lackeys to spin a false equivalency smear campaign to help Donald Trump.
The Trump has derailed, and no amount of deceptive video editing is going to convince a majority of voters that Donald Trump is qualified to be president.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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