Transcript in Couric “Message” About Fraudulent Film Was Edited Too

By Bob Owens

I just got off the phone with Philip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL). The VCDL is the group apparently libeled via fraudulent editing in Katie Couric’s Under the Gun, a rabidly anti-gun film.

The film’s director, Stephanie Soechtig, was caught replacing a detailed, more than four-minute answer by three VCDL members to an obvious gun control question with eight seconds of VCDL members during a break taken during more than two hours of filming. The obvious intent of such an edit was to fraudulently make it appear that Couric’s question had stumped the group of gun rights supporters. In reality, the audio tape Van Cleave made of the exchange showed that the VCDL offered a multi-layered, well-reasoned response.

A bemused Van Cleave noted that in Couric’s recently published, semi-hidden apology on the Under the Gun web site (the cryptically linked “Message from Katie”), the transcript offered by Couric cut out the full VCDL response yet again.