The White House produces plenty of its own progressive propaganda, but senior adviser Valerie Jarrett earlier this month encouraged Americans to tune in to a free screening of Katie Couric’s “powerful” anti-gun documentary, “Under the Gun.”
Tune in tonight at 8:00pm to watch the powerful film @UnderTheGunDoc for free on https://t.co/WLxg8dQLSp @katiecouric
— Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) May 15, 2016
Jarrett’s recommendation of course came more than a week before Stephen Gutowski published his piece in the Free Beacon demonstrating how Couric and the film’s director deliberately edited in footage of a gun-rights group sitting in silence, apparently stumped by one of Couric’s questions.
The film’s director, Stephanie Soechtig, apologized for the deceptive editing but claimed that it was done in order to give the audience a pause so they could fully consider Couric’s important question without being distracted. No, seriously, she said that.
Got a statement from director Stephanie Soechtig regarding allegations of deceptive editing on Katie Couric gun doc. 1
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) May 25, 2016
Soechtig: “There are a wide range of views expressed in the film. My intention was to provide a pause for the viewer….2
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) May 25, 2016
…to have a moment to consider this important question before presenting the facts on Americans' opinions on background checks." 3
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) May 25, 2016
"I never intended to make anyone look bad and I apologize if anyone felt that way.”
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) May 25, 2016
Couric concurs.
And statement from Katie Couric of "Under the Gun": "I support Stephanie's statement and am very proud of the film."
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) May 25, 2016
Literally unbelievable.
Audiotape: Katie Couric gun documentary falsely depicts gun owners as 'idiots': https://t.co/HcBAWgREwp
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) May 25, 2016
President Obama’s top adviser, who with Vice President Joe “Buy a Shotgun” Biden just hosted a 50-state summit on gun control measures, including “improved” background checks, very likely kicked off that meeting with Couric’s blatantly deceptive documentary fresh in her mind.
Mission accomplished, Katie.
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