by Yoni Hersch and Israel Hayom Staff
White House video of meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande contains audio gap at moment Hollande uses phrase "Islamist terrorism" • White House later posts updated video with complete audio.
The front page of the New
York Post, focusing on the White House's omission of the French
president's use of the phrase "Islamist terrorism"
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Technical failure or censorship?
Since entering office in 2009, U.S. President
Barack Obama has habitually avoided linking Islam with terrorism. And
last Thursday, when French President Francois Hollande used the phrase
"Islamist terrorism" during a meeting with Obama in Washington, an
official White House video of the meeting contained an audio gap at the
moment Hollande said the phrase.
The audio gap was first reported by the Media Research Center watchdog group.
A White House official told the New York Post: "Nothing
was edited out. A technical issue with the audio during the recording of
President Hollande's remarks led to a brief drop in the audio recording
of the English interpretation. As soon as this was brought to our
attention, we posted an updated video online with the complete audio,
which is consistent with the written transcript."
Yoni Hersch and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=32831
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