Earlier today, KingOneEye wrote a diary about Rachel Maddow's take down of Sean Hannity's "special" on "liberal bias" in the media.
For instance, he played a clip of Katie Couric saying "Good morning. The Gipper was an airhead." Hannity left that sentence fragment hanging with the implication that it was Couric expressing her own opinion. Had he played the clip for a few seconds longer, his audience would have heard her say "The Gipper was an airhead. That's one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that's drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today." She went on to say that the book's conclusions were "startling" and that the author still thought Reagan was "a great president." But Hannity chose to misrepresent a tiny slice of the comment in order to advance his phony premise.
On the same topic, Anderson Cooper last night showed how Hannity had edited a clip of him talking about Joe Wilson, and thereby added Hannity to his "ridiculist".
Clearly this is one in a continuing series of examples of Sean Hannity and Fox News being dishonest in order to attack anyone who is not on "their side".
But as I type these words, a rec list diary quotes from Ezra Klien in the title. And the quote is incomplete, and the editing changes the interpretation of the quote.
The title is "Ezra Klein calls Obama a moderate Republican". The actual quote from Klein is
President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s.
The title of Klein's piece, which he probably did not write, reflects the abbreviated version.
So I am editing my "follow" list, since if I want to see a Democratic politician attacked by carefully editing what others say about him or her, I can tune into Fox News and watch The Pretties. It's not what I come to the Great Orange Satan for. It is not honest; it is not speaking truth to power; it is not expressing legitimate concerns.
It's just a cheap shot.
Update:
Some have suggested that the diarist didn't really call Obama a "moderate Republican" without the qualification. This is the penultimate line of the diary:
Do you think Klein is right in calling the President a moderate Republican?
No implication or acknowledgment that Klein did not say that.
Update #2:
Here's how Taeggard Goddard of Political Wire handled the exact same article:
Obama as moderate republican
I guess he must be a conservadem sell-out, too.