Thread: Why Did MSNBC Edit Hillary’s CFR Speech?

I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future

Why Did MSNBC Edit Hillary’s CFR Speech?

By Warner Todd Huston
Thursday, July 23, 2009

On July 15, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared before the Council on Foreign Relations, the much maligned organization often at the center of many global conspiracy theories.

We won’t talk about the merits of the CFR itself, here, but what made me curious is the treatment that MSNBC gave the Clinton speech. It appears that MSNBC edited out Clinton’s opening statement thanking the CFR for having her. When reading what she said at the outset of the speech one might become suspicious that MSNBC was trying to provide cover for the Secretary of State whose comments opened her up to the tongue wagging of conspiracy buffs.

Here is how Hillary began her remarks (my bold):

“Thank you very much, Richard, and I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.â€

Please, don't even watch MSNBC.... I'm boycotting all the government owned and controlled news stations.... Don't give them any advertising dollars !!!!! They are losers and liars and the Tokyo Roses of the world...