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Lautenberg Video Goes Viral Then Gets Corrected Or Pulled

By Art Gallagher

When John Shoonejongen of Gannett’s Captial Quickies listened to the video of Senator Frank Lautenberg’s  remarks in Belmar on Wednesday he heard the senator say “we need to eliminate the waste,” not, “we need to eliminate the rich.”

By the time Shoonejongen got second and third opinons and talked to the Asbury Park Press reporter who was at the Belmar event and told him  “Lautenberg definately said waste,” the video had gone viral.  In addition to MMM, Save Jersey, Real Clear Politics and FoxNews.com had picked it up.

Shoonejongen posted on Captial Quickies that the type, “We need to eliminate the rich,” was inaccurate and that Lautenberg said, “we need to eliminate the waste.”  Throughout the electronic media, websites started issuing corrections and pulling the video.  It’s my turn.

Upon a second listening, Lautenberg said “we need to eliminate the waste, we got to eliminate the fraudulent practice.  I didn’t listen closely enough the first time.

MMM has pulled the video and the post it appeared in.  We’re not doing so to hide our mistake which we freely admit to, but to prevent a future reader from going directly to the post through search and thereby not seeing this correction.

Charles Measley, the Rumson GOP Committeeman, Bayshore Tea Party activist and MMM advertiser who shot and edited the video told MMM, “I heard him (Lautenberg) say rich and that was consistent with the context of his remarks, but I’m not 100% sure now that I got it right.”

Lautenberg’s communications director Caley Gray said, “It is very clear that the Senator said waste.  Do you really think he would say ‘eliminate the rich?’  It is pathetic that someone tried to mislead the public over something so obvious.”

MMM apologises to Senator Lautenberg.

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Posted: August 19th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Frank Lautenberg | Tags: | 11 Comments »

11 Comments on “Lautenberg Video Goes Viral Then Gets Corrected Or Pulled”

  1. Ralph said at 5:39 pm on August 19th, 2011:

    Art glad you apologized but disgusting for whomever took and edited this video to purposely mislead the public. Not shocked that RedState and Fox News would end up pushing it everywhere.

    http://www.politickernj.com/back_room/what-did-lautenberg-say

  2. ArtGallagher said at 5:45 pm on August 19th, 2011:

    Thanks Ralph.

    I don’t believe Charles intended to “purposely mislead the public.”

    I know Charles and I believe him when he says that’s what he heard.

    I do think that Charles should pull the video at this point.

  3. Politicalpony said at 8:28 pm on August 19th, 2011:

    If I may add some humor to this? If he said “rich” then we could eliminate him. He is the 10th wealthiest Senator currently in congress. Now if he said waste, we could get rid of him and Menendez all at the same time.What he said or didn’t say at this point doesn’t matter. It’s his actions and or lack thereof that gives rise to his failure to honor his oath to the constitution. He ous aft this point nothing more than a unconstitutionally selected official that should have never been brought out of retirement. Lets not forget the long line of abuses and corruption that brought him back to the table of greed. Neither party are Saints, but the Progressive Democrats make the Republicans look like a new puppy at Christmas. Am I still allowed to say CHRISTMAS? Maybe I should ask Frank for permission. Maybe he’ll tell me the Progressives version of the “Wall of seperation between church and state”.

  4. Charles M said at 10:07 pm on August 19th, 2011:

    @Ralph
    I don’t tell or make someone think anything. I said what I heard. You have to use your own judgment and make your own decision.

  5. TR said at 11:01 am on August 20th, 2011:

    Sounds to me like you are being conned Art. I think there is a big coverup going on here. It is not hard to believe he said it.

    Eliminating the rich is perfectly consistant with the current views of the Democratic party. I don’t mean eliminate them by executing them or anything like that but by redistributing there wealth.

    They are constantly complaining about too few people controlling too much wealth. Problem is once they redistribute the wealth of the rich next comes the middle class. If they can take the hard earned money of someone worth a billion dollars nothing stops them from deciding a net worth of $500,000.00 is too much.

    Its not like the historical precedence for this scenario does not exist.

    As far as Lousenberg being rich remember this

    “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal then others.”

  6. Charles M said at 1:40 pm on August 20th, 2011:

    @TR Lautenbergs people are trying to do “damage control”

     But if you play the video back a few times in a row you can tell it’s not “rich” but he’s trying to say “waste” but he doesn’t pronounce the t, and that makes it’s sound like ways or wish. and rich rimes with wish.

    Saying rich  was consistent with the context of his remarks. If he said it or not his voting record show it. More so he is not going after those that have wealth, but those who want to become wealthy. By going after there income.

  7. Ralph said at 1:49 pm on August 20th, 2011:

    There is no damage control Charles – as an immature young kid, you decided to completely make up what the Senator said, you can argue about consistency or anything else but at the end of the day Lautenberg did NOT say that and you choose to keep it on your website and lie and slander about him when he simply didn’t say what you accuse him of saying, you represent everything that is wrong with politics.

  8. Sun Devil To Be said at 7:19 pm on August 20th, 2011:

    Art, apologizing to Lautenberg was the right thing to do. I am proud of you.

    Incidentally, I am in Arizona this week. It is paradise out here, a whole different world. Let’s hope I can convince the old lady to stay out here.

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