By Steve Rhodes
“First reported in the Washington Examiner, ABC News edited out first lady Michelle Obama’s erroneous claim that Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton was killed when she was shot with an ‘automatic weapon,'” Mediate reports.
“The first lady made this claim in a Tuesday morning appearance on Good Morning America and was quoted in full in ABC News’ online report. The claim was, however, edited out when the interview aired. ABC News responded to the charge on Tuesday saying the cuts were made ‘solely for time.'”
That explanation strains credulity well past the breaking point when you see just how many other places a measly few words (“She was caught in the line of fire because some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need”) could have been edited out to make the interview into whatever window ABC (laughably) claims it had to work with. ABC is clearly lying.
Posted on February 27, 2013