The Video Slate Doesn't Want You to See
With J$P Video!
Those fair and balanced folk over at Slate.com have helpfully put together a video montage. Its purpose: to compare how MSNBC and Fox reacted to Michelle Obama's speech. Watch it carefully, and see if you can tell what's missing:
Does it strike one as passing strange that Slate somehow managed to avoid any footage of Juan Williams, who was not only the first member of the panel to be called on, but also the one who spoke the most, and the most eloquently? Does it seem odd that Fox's latest high-visibility hire, Howard Wolfson, also ended up on Slate's cutting room floor?
As a public service, J$P brings you the footage that Slate spiked. Note also how carefully Slate edited around the favorable comments of Fred Barnes and Chris Wallace. (They pretty much reversed the meaning of what Wallace said by skipping his first words and then including a comment not about the speech but the night as a whole):
Did the creators of Slate's montage have an agenda? We report, you decide. fox news s ms mo
