CBS Edits Bill Clinton’s Admission Regarding Hillary’s Fainting Spells

Upon being called out for the obvious attempt to conceal Clinton’s comment from viewers, CBS defended the edit by saying that it was cut for time purposes and pointed out that it included it in a later airing. As reasonable as this explanation sounds, it still doesn’t explain why out of all the material they could have cut from the original airing, they chose this bombshell of a quote:

“’Well if it is, it’s a mystery to me and all of her doctors,’ he said, ‘because frequently—well not frequently, rarely—but on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing happened to her when she got severely dehydrated.’

The bolded section is of course a pretty embarrassing slip-up: Clinton was about to say that Hillary ‘frequently’ faints or collapses, before correcting himself to say it rarely happened.

But when the segment aired Monday night, the bolded section was edited out, cutting to a reverse shot of Rose nodding to cover up the jump:

‘Well if it is, it’s a mystery to me and all of her doctors. Rarely—but on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing happened to her when she got severely dehydrated.’”

Source: Mediaite

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