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Well I had determined that I was going to quit my Obama bashing and hope that the media would do a better job now that Obama's true colors had started to emerge.
I should have known better; This morning on the
Chris Mathews show, Mathews tried to spin the
"For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country" statement by using the
corrected speech that Obama campaign put out to try to correct the record on what she had been saying on the stump.
The first time I heard this spin - this lie - was by Bill Schneider of CNN: When an outraged Lou Dobbs interviewed him regarding her statements, Bill Schneider kept correcting Dobbs that she said "really" proud meaning that she was always proud but now she was
really proud.
She had given the original version of the speech several times before it came to her campaign's attention that people were feeling outraged by the statement and it might hurt the campaign when it was re-played as it was then sure to be. They then made the calculated decision to put out a new version of the speech rather than dropping the statement altogether, adding the word "really" to distort what she had orignally stated.
They had to do that since to just stop making the speech would not solve their problem since the statement was already out there on video. So they did the next best thing; Put out a video with the modified speech and hope it would be copied as much as the former and thereby mitigate the damage done. So they started making the modified speech to spin that argument.
And now Chris Mathews who is an Obama cheerleader like everyone else over at MSNBC, actually corrected his guest this morning who referred to that now infamous statement, saying that
"she said 'really proud' " .
So I looked for a clip of the original speech and found this video which I was glad someone made, which shows how she changed the speech that day. After her modification, she stopped giving the speech altogether.
We know what she meant just like we know
now, what her Pastor Wright meant. Neither, love this country or respect it.
YouTube - Michelle Obama "Proud" vs "Really Proud" SPIN ALERT