“The conservative media is winning now. They’re winning. They’re damaging the president of the United States and there’s other stuff comin’ down the pike.”
~Bill O’Reilly

And here’s the proof.

I’ve used a web service called Splicd to highlight these five seconds of the original two minute piece from Inside Edition. In this clip, you will see/hear a glitch in the video. This glitch causes the narrator to say, “Doctors say what happened to Desire should [glitch] discourage people from getting a flu shot.”

Now listen to this longer clip so you can hear the glitch in context. It’s obvious that the doctors say that even though this happened to the young woman, people should not be discouraged from getting the flu shot. But considering how that clip is edited, it’s not exactly clear what they mean unless you happen to catch it.

Some people may argue that this glitch is just the nature of internet video clips, and I’d have to admit there is that possibility. But if you watch the entire video, there is only one moment in the whole two-minute segment where there are any problems with the video. And it just happened to be the one moment when they give the only piece of information that the public could actually use.

So, aside from the fact that the piece was clearly a call to emotion and had presented zero evidence that the flu vaccine caused her problem, the video was obviously edited to distort the truth about the flu vaccine. What’s the problem with some obscure video having an almost unnoticeable edit? Well, besides the fact that “almost unnoticeable” edits are a staple of subliminal marketing, the video is far from obscure. The specific clip I’ve referenced in this article has had over 165,000 views since it was posted a week ago, and now there are duplicates of the video including the propagandized edit all over YouTube. Here’s one. Here’s another. And another. And another. And this one with VaccinationEducation.com plastered over it. It has been viewed over a million times and there’s no telling how many times people will view it without knowing the truth.

What does this mean? It means that someone took the original Inside Edition article, chopped out the word “not”, and provided physical copies for people to upload. There are dozens (hundreds?) of people actively spreading an obvious propaganda virus that was edited by an anonymous person and injected into the veins of the internet. Please share this information with everyone. Fight the propaganda!

Q: Isn’t the issue of the National debt just a wedge issue like abortions for the Republican propaganda machine?

A: Our entire economic system is built and reliant upon debt. Without it, the system would collapse. Our debt can never be resolved, so it’s easy to use it as a political tool. And since the Republicans are masters at political manipulation, they’ll use anything they can to drive a wedge between Americans, no matter the cost.

Unsubstantiated bullshit like this is what led us into a disastrous war and only further contributes to the decline of our once-great nation. It is an insult to the intelligence of the American voter because it takes advantage of the fact that a vast majority of us won’t take the time to find out the truth. People hear Palin say Obama has ties to terrorism and people gobble that crap up. She is deliberately lying to her potential constituents because she knows it’s easier than the truth. Why doesn’t this piss Republicans off? We are supposed to trust our leaders because they have our best interests in mind, and yet it seems like the only thing McCain and Palin want to do is win the election. They could care less about what we want as long as they get their way. And in case you’ve been asleep the past eight years, the Republican party will say/do anything is order to get what it wants.

I just wish incidents like this would motivate all those decent Republicans to reclaim their party from people like Palin, Cheney, and Guiliani.