Fox Clips Out CA Victim’s Dad Slamming NRA & ‘Craven Politicians’

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On Saturday, CNN broadcasted a video statement from?Richard Martinez, the father of one of the victims who was killed in the Friday shooting spree of Elliot Rodger at the University of California.

A Fox News Sunday segment discussed the shooting and played a short clip of Richard Martinez’s statement. But here’s something interesting: Fox clipped the video at 1:08, only showing the last?20 seconds of the?one-and-a-half minute-long video. Here is the clip that was released before Fox clipped it:

Why did Fox clip out this part:

?Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven,?irresponsible politicians and?the NRA. They talk about gun rights. What about Chris’s right to live?”

 
It wouldn’t have taken much more air time to show the entire clip, right? Could it be that they were trying to be concise? Not likely. Being concise isn’t their modus operandi. They will go on ad nauseam?about anything that criticizes the left-wing agenda, the president, or other dumbs**t, for example.?Sorry to throw out two Latin phrases in the same paragraph. That will confuse our many of our right-wing friends.

Could it be that they didn’t want to enrage their audience or (more likely) the lobbyists (I’m looking at you, NRA) who control them? They wouldn’t want the ignorant right-wing populous to see anything that might confuse them, after all. That might make them question. That might make them (gasp) THINK.

This isn’t political, or at least it shouldn’t be. OK, it is. Because our “craven politicians” make it so.

The questions that need to be asked are: Why did this disturbed young man with a long history of mental illness have guns? Why did the police not enter his apartment when they went to “check on him”? Had they entered, they’d have found the guns.

And as Christopher Martinez asked, why should this killer’s gun rights trump Christopher Martinez’s?right to live?

I think Fox clipped out those comments because Fox knows their audience. They know their audience doesn’t read or research. They know their audience gets all of its?news from the?irresponsible Fox News network.

Why do you think Fox clipped out those 70 seconds? Am I overreacting?

 


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