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The change to the official transcript drew objections from the stenographers who are charged with documenting the president’s remarks for posterity, the Associated Press reported, citing two government officials and an internal email obtained by the news agency.
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The White House released a transcript of Biden’s remarks Tuesday night that added an apostrophe to Biden’s quote, which made it read “supporter’s” instead of “supporters.”
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The AP said the two-person stenography team on duty the evening of Biden’s call – a “typer” and “proofer” – said any edit to the transcript would have to be approved by their supervisor, the head of stenographers’ office.
The supervisor, in the email, said the press office’s handling of the matter amounted to “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices,” the AP said.
“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives – is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”
The change to the official transcript drew objections from the stenographers who are charged with documenting the president’s remarks for posterity, the Associated Press reported, citing two government officials and an internal email obtained by the news agency.
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The White House released a transcript of Biden’s remarks Tuesday night that added an apostrophe to Biden’s quote, which made it read “supporter’s” instead of “supporters.”
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The AP said the two-person stenography team on duty the evening of Biden’s call – a “typer” and “proofer” – said any edit to the transcript would have to be approved by their supervisor, the head of stenographers’ office.
The supervisor, in the email, said the press office’s handling of the matter amounted to “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices,” the AP said.
“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives – is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”
You're voting for a guy who has committed treason. Somehow a transcript edit by someone who isn't running is a non-issue.
Matt - you're so damn predictable. I had added after the quoted portion as my own commentary "But as Matt would say, WHO CARES? At least he's not a treasonous rapist fascist."
I deleted that line before posting.
So just so we're clear here, in the entire world of political discussion, in your mind, one side gets a free pass when the other side is worse? Isn't that the ultimate what-about-ism? You know, the very thing so many leftists in this forum USED to complain about?
bmw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:55 am
Matt - you're so damn predictable. I had added after the quoted portion as my own commentary "But as Matt would say, WHO CARES? At least he's not a treasonous rapist fascist."
I deleted that line before posting.
So just so we're clear here, in the entire world of political discussion, in your mind, one side gets a free pass when the other side is worse? Isn't that the ultimate what-about-ism? You know, the very thing so many leftists in this forum USED to complain about?
bmw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:55 am
Matt - you're so damn predictable. I had added after the quoted portion as my own commentary "But as Matt would say, WHO CARES? At least he's not a treasonous rapist fascist."
I deleted that line before posting.
So just so we're clear here, in the entire world of political discussion, in your mind, one side gets a free pass when the other side is worse? Isn't that the ultimate what-about-ism? You know, the very thing so many leftists in this forum USED to complain about?
bmw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:04 am
I'm not going to play the what-about-ism game here. Is it acceptable for the White House office to tamper with an official transcript?
If it adds the context that he intended then yes. Can you hear an apostrophe?
bmw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:04 am
I'm not going to play the what-about-ism game here. Is it acceptable for the White House office to tamper with an official transcript?
If it adds the context that he intended then yes. Can you hear an apostrophe?
So you're ok with breaching the protocol. Got it.
If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently.
bmw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:04 am
I'm not going to play the what-about-ism game here. Is it acceptable for the White House office to tamper with an official transcript?
If it adds the context that he intended then yes. Can you hear an apostrophe?
So you're ok with breaching the protocol. Got it.
If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently.
You are in no position to say a single word about anything in the same state as he word protocol. That’s not whataboutism. It’s a fucking fact. You support someone who wipes his ass with protocol.
bmw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:50 am
Just say you're ok with it, and we can move on. No need to be hyper-defensive about it.
I just did dude. And that’s not hyper defensive. Your side can call entire parts of the country garbage. Can threaten to round up and deport entire groups of people legal or not. Can talk about indemnifying the police so they can behave however they want with no consequences. Can talk about rounding up their “enemies” in multiple facets of daily life. Can talk about shooting Liz Cheney in the face with a firing squad. Can withhold aid based on who the people voted for. Can lie and demean and use all manner of vile names and words. Can attack the goddamn US CAPITOL in a way Islamic terrorists could only dream of… And there are few if any repercussions. My side adds a motherfucking apostrophe and you’d think they dropped a nuclear bomb on Tawas City. The double standard from yourself and all of the other MAGA snowflakes is nauseating. You people have the gall.. the audacity to sit there and talk about decorum and protocol when you’ve spent 9 years obliterating the other 241 years worth of it. It’s absolute bullshit of an order possibly not seen before in human history. When your candidate and party are blown into the Stone Age on Tuesday I don’t want to hear it. Because trust me… we are talking landslide bigly.
Whataboutism or not... after almost a decade of hearing and feeling effects from Trump and his disciples almost daily how people like me are either enemies, radical, terrorists, groomers, anti-freedom, vermin, socialists/communists, and being laughed at for concern of violence and words leading to it, I'm supposed to be a good little centrist and condemn Biden for his comments? Screw that. Even though Biden didn't tweet it, it sounds like a "mean tweet" and I thought we're not supposed to condemn someone for mean tweets.
bmw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:29 am
So you're ok with breaching the protocol. Got it.
You love following protocols? How about your orange-faced deity?
"There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. “You’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it."
There's some real "following protocol" right there for ya!
Dropping knowledge on forum MAGAts (where DID they all go??). Unapologetically intellectually superior.
