{"id":5043,"date":"2012-05-30T04:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2012-05-30T04:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:44:25","slug":"burned-by-media-editing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5043","title":{"rendered":"Burned by media editing again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birthplace of the president being set by the Constitution, I\u2019d like it also to say that the president has to spend at least three years working in business before becoming president of the United States.\u201d\u00a0 Mitt Romney<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2012\/may\/29\/visit-romney-harps-obamas-3-year-old-las-vegas-com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, that sounds pretty profound, Mitt Romney believes that?\u00a0 I started writing a very critical opinion of that assertion –\u00a0 the “I” in that statement is obviously Romney, right?\u00a0\u00a0 Nope.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/electad.com\/video\/mitt-romney-campaign-event-in-las-vegas-nevada-may-29-2012\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Skip to about 9:45 into the video.\u00a0\u00a0 The Las Vegas Sun chopped off:<\/p>\n

“I was speaking with one of these business owners who owns a couple of restaurants in town [Las Vegas]… and he said… ‘You know, I would like to change the Constitution – I’m not sure I can do it, he said, but I would like to have a provision in the Constitution that [above quote]. ”<\/p>\n

The person who said what is attributed to Romney is a man who runs restaurants in Las Vegas.\u00a0\u00a0 You might assert that Romney repeating that story (which may be true!) suggests that he believes that as well… but it isn’t what he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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