Dailykos TV has a clip up here. You've probably seen it already. And you probably already know that the transcript provided is innacurate and misleading. And yet it remains.
Here is the transcript.
HANNITY: See, can I add one thing? I think we won the debate.
DREIER: We did win the debate.
HANNITY: When you think about the vast majorities that they have in Congress and they had to bribe, backroom deals, corruption, that’s all because the tea party movement, the people — all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)
HANNITY: Guys, thank you for being here.
Here is the real transcript.
HANNITY: See, can I add one thing? I think we won the debate.
DREIER: We did win the debate.
HANNITY: When you think about the vast majorities that they have in Congress and they had to bribe, backroom deals, corruption, that’s all because the tea party movement, the people — all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)[As they say.]
HANNITY: Guys, thank you for being here.
"As they say." That little bit changes the meaning of Hannity's comment. You can read about how on this diary. And here.
It is clearly audible in the video. This has been gone over in recent diaries, yet the misleading transcript still remains.
If I wanted to get edited videos misrepresenting the truth, I'd watch FOX. I don't watch FOX because I prefer the truth to lies and misinformation.
That alone should give any of us pause for concern about misinformation. But there is a more immediate political reason why you should be concerned: spreading misinformation makes this site look gullible and stupid.
[UPDATE}
I didn't hear "so they say."
I heard "as they say."
-- TFinSF. Kudos for the correction. ;)
[UPDATE 2]
From, Bob Johnson
This isn't about "defending Hannity" as so many of the zealots here claim. It's about holding this site to a standard of truth and honesty above what we typically see from the idiots on the other side.
I know a lot of folks enjoyed their self-righteous rants about how Hannity was urging Tea Partiers to act out like Tim McVeigh, but that is just not true, and its makes Daily Kos look stupid when so many are supporting a blatantly obvious untruth.
The folks who bought MinistryOfTruth's bullshit as fact without bothering to consider just how illogical MOT's assertions were reminds us all of just how so many Tea Partiers came to believe -- with all their hearts -- that there were really going to be "death panels."
It's the same dynamic.
The same dynamic that got us into war.
Reminds me of Mark Twain
Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception
-- Mark Twain
Where are those pesky WMD?