Sarah Palin is taking delight in a $12 million defamation lawsuit targeting her 2008 interrogator Katie Couric, accused of making a Virginia gun rights group look foolish.
The members are shown as silent and looking away.
“In reality, the lawsuit says that unedited footage shows that members immediately began explaining their position on background checks and to rebut the premise of Couric’s question,” Variety said. “The suit says that the members spent six minutes responding to Couric’s question.”
In 2008, Palin looked foolish in unedited footage of her answering a Couric question about what newspapers and magazines the vice-presidential candidate had regularly read.
(Palin eventually replied: “Um, all of ’em, any of ’em that, um, have, have been in front of me over all these years.”)
But Couric is expressing regret about the edit:
As Executive Producer of “Under the Gun,” a documentary film that explores the epidemic of gun violence, I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL). My question to the VCDL regarding the ability of convicted felons and those on the terror watch list to legally obtain a gun, was followed by an extended pause, making the participants appear to be speechless.
When I screened an early version of the film with the director, Stephanie Soechtig, I questioned her and the editor about the pause and was told that a “beat” was added for, as she described it, “dramatic effect,” to give the audience a moment to consider the question. When VCDL members recently pointed out that they had in fact immediately answered this question, I went back and reviewed it and agree that those eight seconds do not accurately represent their response.
VCDL members have a right for their answers to be shared and so we have posted a transcript of their responses here.
I regret that those eight seconds were misleading and that I did not raise my initial concerns more vigorously.
I hope we can continue to have an important conversation about reducing gun deaths in America, a goal I believe we can all agree on.
Before the Couric mea culpa, Palin tweeted her glee.
Shooting back against Katie Couric's deceptive presentations in a gun documentary is good news.
It's a shame it… https://t.co/xIx9xffOMb
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) September 13, 2016
Palin wasn’t alone targeting Couric.
Good. Sue the hell out of stupid lib @katiecouric for lying to the American people about guns. https://t.co/CcXp0ri4KH
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) September 13, 2016
Backfire: Gun rights group made to look clueless in Katie Couric's anti-gun doc files defamation suit https://t.co/1Ojgn7m3eG
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 13, 2016
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