Ron Paul on Piers Morgan Friday night for FULL HOUR

[KingNothing]

which, in context, was endearing. why post this?

And probably true. It isn't wild. It isn't sad. It shows they have a strong relationship built on things that matter and that they actually, after all these years, still love each other. Not to get all teen girl on everyone, because I hate sappy crap and anything that has to do with emotions, but it absolutely was endearing and cute.

 

[mac_hine]

Yes, Piers is doing that, but they are also editing the conversation. They are very good at seamless editing of dialog, but any time there is a 'sentence break' and then they switch the camera, it's quite possible that dialog hit the cutting room floor. This easiest to achieve by cutting Ron's answer short at the end of a sentence and cutting to Piers asking the next question. There are several places where the editing seemed particularly egregious. 60 Minutes style shows do this sort of editing all the time. In fact, shows have been busted for refilming questions asked slightly differently for effect (for example, asking a question aggressively to get an aggressive answer, then editing in the question asked politely so the interviewee looks crazy).

And then, yes, Piers is interrupting him on top of this.

That said, I really enjoyed the interview.

+rep

Well said. That sums up my viewing experience entirely.

 

[mac_hine]

That is a perfect example of an actual edit, I noticed that one too. They eliminated his definition for M&R, if not more. Who knows what else.

They really should release unedited footage of election interviews, in my opinion. Would be the honest thing to do, at least.

When they do shit like this I literally feel like I'm living in the novel 1984.

If a viewer missed the M&R edit, he/she might think RP is rambling incoherently. It's Orwellian journalism at its finest.

 

[parkway3000]

awesome interview, Paul had so many good points, when he gave the analogy of criminals robbing banks compared to the government redistributing money!!!!!!!!!

 

[ord33]

I didn't get to see this interview (but will watch the rerun here in a couple minutes). From what I can gather from this thread the interview seemed very unfair to Ron Paul in a lot of aspects. I remember watching Piers interview Newt Gingrich for an hour on his show. It was pretty much all softballs and he didn't cut him off. To me it sounds like he treated Newt a lot better than Ron Paul. If the Piers/Newt interview is online somewhere take a look and you'll know what I mean.

 

[dawnbt]

Ron has the best chance to beat Obama because he can win not only Independents, but there are many liberals who voted for Obama who are looking at Ron. He HAS to do interviews on liberal minded shows and stations just as much as FOX. The libs aren't watching FOX and they need to hear the message too.

 

[Gurv720]

It was difficult to follow Dr. Paul when Piers interrupted him over and over again. I'm starting to believe this guy is worse than Bill O'reilly when it comes to interrupting people rudely.

 

[sailingaway]

Ron has the best chance to beat Obama because he can win not only Independents, but there are many liberals who voted for Obama who are looking at Ron. He HAS to do interviews on liberal minded shows and stations just as much as FOX. The libs aren't watching FOX and they need to hear the message too.

Yeah but it is PARTICULARLY important on those shows that Ron specify that his budget plan doesn't cuts social security or medicare.

 

[jcarcinogen]

I thought it was a decent interview. It was interesting hearing about Paul's personal life, since it's not often asked.

Stop being so negative.

In a free society people have different opinions. You shouldn't tell people how to feel. Its conventional wisdom to be optimistic but a happy sheep is also easier to lead to the slaughterhouse.

 

[olsonly]

I thought it was a good interview. Yes he kept cutting him off but I think there were very good answers given.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Best line of the night was, "Why not send British young men into a preemptive war? Why must it be a given that it should be American blood?"