(NaturalNews) The only people who watch the agenda-driven mainstream
media these days are those who want to be duped. It sure isn't because
such outlets are truly unbiased purveyors of truth.
Take MSNBC,
for example, which recently doctored footage of public testimony in
Hartford, Conn., provided by a father whose child was murdered at Sandy
Hook Elementary School, to push the network's vehement anti-Second
Amendment agenda.
On his program, Martin Bashir claimed that gun
rights supporters heckled Neil Heslin, the father of Jesse Lewis, during
an emotional plea he made asking why anyone would need an
"assault-style weapon" like the one used to kill his son.
Heslin,
who was visibly shaken when talking about the physical damage done to
his son when shot by psychotropic, drug-crazed Adam Lanza, 20, spoke for
about 15 minutes, but his testimony was selectively edited to
deliberately portray gun rights supporters as inconsiderate louts by
showing about six seconds where these "hecklers" said things like, "the
Second Amendment shall not be infringed."
Using victims to attack gun rights advocates
What the network conveniently - and no doubt purposely - chose not
to show the audience was that Heslin, who says he favors a ban on
military look-alike weapons and magazines of more than 10 rounds, asked
the audience directly, "I ask if there's anyone in this room who can
give me one reason, or challenge this question: Why anybody in this room
needs to have an - one of these assault-style weapons or military
weapons or high capacity clips?"
Some in the audience were merely
answering Heslin after he followed up on silence by stating, "Not one
person can answer that question."
Other MSNBC hosts, including Lawrence O'Donnell, as well as some blogs, advanced the "heckling" hoax as something other than a legitimate response to a direct question.
What the loathsome network also
did not show was Heslin acknowledging the response from those few in
the audience, adding, "I respect their opinion, but I wish they'd
respect mine and give it a little bit of thought."
This is not the first time NBC has shamed itself with politically motivated and selective editing.
Similar
tainting has been seen in the portrayal of the Trayvon Martin shooting
in Florida, for which George Zimmerman has been charged with second
degree murder but which he claims was self-defense.
Zimmerman has filed suit against NBC Universal for the network's role in editing a 9-1-1 call of the incident, which he says was done to "portray him as a racist."
Pattern of deceitful behavior
"NBC
saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity
to increase ratings, and so set about to create the myth that George
Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain... Because of NBC's
deceptive and exploitative manipulations, the public wrongly believes
that Zimmerman 'use(d) a racial epithet' while describing Martin during
the call to the dispatcher on that fateful night," says the suit.
"There
is now a clear pattern of deception at NBC News. It is the most
egregious violation of journalistic ethics. First they edited the
Trayvon Martin 911 call to fabricate a racist motive. Then Andrea
Mitchell tried to invent a fake 'supermarket scanner moment' for Mitt
Romney. Now MSNBC is
deceptively editing footage of Sandy Hook testimony in order to smear
gun rights advocates," says Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a media watchdog group.
"This
is not how a legitimate, professional news organization operates.
MSNBC's relentless anti-gun advocacy is bad enough, but this is
downright dishonest," he added. "Time and time again NBC News has
demonstrated why the American people can't trust a single thing they
say."
Like other family members of the Sandy Hook victims, Neil Heslin is being used by a politically motivated media to portray him as a victim of those who dare to support one of the Constitution's most fundamental amendments.
Sources:
http://www.infowars.com
http://www.mrc.org
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50634545#.URVHPvK55OJ
http://mrctv.org
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