Republicans Post Doctored Version Of State Of The Union, Censor Facts On Climate Change

[demmiblue]

Source: Think Progress

The official website for House Republicans has posted on YouTube a doctored version of President Obama’s State of the Union address which cuts out comments where the President was critical of Republican rhetoric on climate change, ThinkProgress has learned.

In the website’s “enhanced webcast” of the State of the Union speech, President Obama’s comments criticizing Republicans for saying they are “not scientists” when it comes to climate change are erased.

At the 43:25 minute mark, President Obama is supposed to say “I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what — I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.”

Instead, the entire section is skipped. Obama’s comments resume with “The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. We should act like it.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/21/3613732/you-cant-handle-the-truth/

[TexasProgresive]

1. LIARS-LIARS-LIARS

What is it about these people that they can't tell the truth and what is it about those people who can't tell when they are being lied to?

[madokie]

3. What it is about them

if they were truthful there would not be many in either the house or the senate and they know that. Damn sure wouldn't be many Presidents of the gop flavor thats for sure too.

[Mass]

2. Not even well done. You can clearly hear the edit.

[demmiblue]

8. I don't think it was even meant to be well done.

Some have the attention span of a nit, some don't care either way, and some approve of these types of tactics.

Personally, I find it quite disturbing that the SOTU was edited at all (unless stated).

[ErikJ]

4. Wow!

Good catch TP!

[SpankMe]

5. They're fuckers.

This kind of thing really pisses me off. Republicans are mother fuckers.

[herding cats]

6. They just can't handle that inconvenient truth.

Better to just censor it out than have to explain it to their base later.

[TeamPooka]

7. That is pure fear running scared. nt