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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 05:58 AM Jun 2016

‘Under the Gun’ Director Refuses to Apologize to ‘Radical’ Group

While Katie Couric finally expressed some regret for a deceptive edit in her anti-gun documentary, the director of “Under the Gun” remains defiant.

On Wednesday, Stephanie Soechtig told Variety magazine that “had I known that the NRA would focus on eight seconds of a two-hour film, I might have done things differently. But I made the creative decision and I stand by it.”

Soechtig also revealed her true anti-gun rights agenda when she huffed: “If I wanted to make them [Virginia Citizens Defense League] look bad, I would have focused exclusively on their radical ideology. But I didn’t do that.” Later in the interview, Soechtig added: “It’s interesting that they’re focusing on what’s not in the film instead of what is in the film, because if they focused on what is in the film, it would threaten their livelihood. This is very textbook gun-lobby intimidation tactics, and I won’t be intimidated....There is a small but noisy fringe in this country. They’ve been really loud, and to be honest they’ve been really successful in preventing our legislators from passing any meaningful legislation on this issue.”

On her now infamous “creative decision” to misrepresent the VCDL members’ response, Soechtig explained: “The terror watch list is a real pivotal feature in the film, as is the whole notion of background checks. So this felt like a really crucial time to stop down and allow the audience a moment to let that question sink in.” She added that a documentary “has a different standard than the nightly news has. When you’re making a film like this, the goal is to get people to come to theaters to watch your film. You have to provide a thematic experience for them. I don’t think we misconstrued any of the facts.”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2016/06/02/under-gun-director-refuses-apologize-radical-group
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‘Under the Gun’ Director Refuses to Apologize to ‘Radical’ Group (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2016 OP
She did not make a creative decision for dramatic effect. rtw Jun 2016 #1
If it didn't fit the controllers agenda, they always refuse to believe the truth. ileus Jun 2016 #6
Precisely why her "explanatory" lie is such a STUPID lie! NT pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #23
She is a lying... Puha Ekapi Jun 2016 #2
These people refuse to admit the 2A is an individual right....typical lying scumbag. ileus Jun 2016 #7
So she is dropping the fiction sarisataka Jun 2016 #3
they can't answer simple questions Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #4
re: "they are just scared" discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2016 #5
Might just be that Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #10
I have noticed sarisataka Jun 2016 #11
Indeed so Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #13
I wonder what she considers "radical ideology".....LOL ileus Jun 2016 #8
"Radical Ideology" = Anyone that swerves from the approved narrative DonP Jun 2016 #9
Radical ideology sarisataka Jun 2016 #12
Misrepresentation... beevul Jun 2016 #14
"...it would threaten their livelihood:" Hubris. It's not just for tomatoes. Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #15
Noting your surce, secmo Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #16
Noting your radical ideology, Ellie SecularMotion Jun 2016 #20
Guaranteed health care? Roof over everyone's head? Secure retirement? Great... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #21
Truly radical ideologues ban all dissent where and when they can. beevul Jun 2016 #28
Or try to do in Outdoor Life ... and fail again DonP Jun 2016 #29
Again? beevul Jun 2016 #30
SecMo Puha Ekapi Jun 2016 #17
Go pound sand SecularMotion Jun 2016 #19
Haha! Puha Ekapi Jun 2016 #22
I'm SO jealous Puha Ekapi! pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #24
I do not think Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #26
creative decision mog75 Jun 2016 #18
LOL.. virginia mountainman Jun 2016 #25
Newsbusters , lol Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #27
Kamala is still waiting to hear from you, SecMo. pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #31

rtw

(42 posts)
1. She did not make a creative decision for dramatic effect.
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 07:02 AM
Jun 2016

That would have meant including the answer the group gave to the question. She edited out their entire answer.

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)
2. She is a lying...
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 09:01 AM
Jun 2016

...sack of shit. Plain and simple, she feels justified because gunz. The truth is merely an inconvenience to her obtaining her goal.

sarisataka

(21,000 posts)
3. So she is dropping the fiction
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 09:22 AM
Jun 2016

That this ever was intended to be a "fair and balanced" documentary.

I notice you have not yet responded to my direct question to you about the apparently felonious gun purchases made by the filmmakers. http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172194902#post3
I assume it is simply an oversight at this time.

 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
4. they can't answer simple questions
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 11:15 AM
Jun 2016

He failed to answer mine on that to. I guess they are just scared, lol

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,577 posts)
5. re: "they are just scared"
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 11:29 AM
Jun 2016

No not really. Like a number of MSM outlets they are only interested in the news that fits.

sarisataka

(21,000 posts)
11. I have noticed
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:06 PM
Jun 2016

A trend that people on the control side are much better at asking questions then answering them. More accurately, they demand answers will never giving any in return.

The willingness to point the finger of guilt at millions of gun owners who have never committed a crime while ignoring felonious activities by fellow control advocates simply illustrates the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the movement.

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
14. Misrepresentation...
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 01:11 PM
Jun 2016

Misrepresentation is a primary tool of anti-gunners.

Soechtig also revealed her true anti-gun rights agenda when she huffed: “If I wanted to make them look bad, I would have focused exclusively on their radical ideology. But I didn’t do that.”


If she could have done that, she would have done that. This is a misrepresentation of the facts, just like her 'film' is.
 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
15. "...it would threaten their livelihood:" Hubris. It's not just for tomatoes.
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 01:29 PM
Jun 2016

She really thinks her doctoredmentary will shake the world. Heh. Bad shocks on a washboard road come closer.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
21. Guaranteed health care? Roof over everyone's head? Secure retirement? Great...
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 04:43 PM
Jun 2016

though I could hardly term that ideology "radical."

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
28. Truly radical ideologues ban all dissent where and when they can.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:04 PM
Jun 2016

Kind of like what you guys do in bansalot.

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
30. Again?
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 06:22 PM
Jun 2016
Or try to do in Outdoor Life ... and fail again


Again?

The things I miss, I tell you...The newly returned mouthpiece has disappeared from bansalot again, presumably fuming over the two hides he received in his own group. Wont it be fun when there are actually rules that have to be followed around here, for a change? Maybe we should start a pool of who runs most afoul of them once they are enacted...anyway...

Maybe someone can explain:

Why is it that the pro-lots-more-gun-control people seem to always be the ones that also suffer from micromanagerial style general control issues, themselves?

It seems to me, that the venn diagram would look something like this:





Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)
17. SecMo
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 02:58 PM
Jun 2016

Since you are the one championing this film and its editor, for the sake of reasonableness you should also be willing to discuss and defend HERE in GC&RKBA. Your unwillingness to do so shows that you are nothing more than Spamsalot from Bansalot.

It's chickenshit, and yeah, I'm calling you out.

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)
22. Haha!
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 06:14 PM
Jun 2016

Now why would I want to do that? You are doing such a fine job of it

Funny how it is worthy to post because you *think* it makes pro-rkba look bad, yet you cannot muster up the gumption to defend it. Maybe you can get a job working for Ms. Couric.

That the media is lying in order to try to shape public opinion and you cannot seem to find anything wrong with that is an interesting position for a....Democrat.

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)
24. I'm SO jealous Puha Ekapi!
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 01:55 AM
Jun 2016

Our friend hasn't told me to pound sand, despite the fact that I've repeatedly pointed out his hypocrisy in not confronting Kamala Harris for her failure to do her job!

Maybe one day.........I can dream, can't I?

mog75

(109 posts)
18. creative decision
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 03:06 PM
Jun 2016

How many "creative decisions" does it take to make a "documentary" ???

Or would this be a "creative documentary" ?

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)
25. LOL..
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 04:38 AM
Jun 2016

It appears that the "radical" group totally DESTROYED, and I mean utterly destroyed, Katie Couric's credibility..No need for her to apologize, no one would believe it.

This is what happens when a holier than thou elites get pwned by the "great unwashed"...

Dan Rather got fired for less...

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)
31. Kamala is still waiting to hear from you, SecMo.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 06:39 PM
Jun 2016

"California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a candidate actively campaigning for the Senate seat that is opening up with Barbara Boxer’s retirement, recently made the news when she tried to shame members of Congress for refusing to enact unconstitutional and counterproductive gun-control laws. “They should have closed the chambers of Congress on the House and the Senate side, and said all you members go in there, only you, and spread out the autopsy photographs of and them to look at those photographs. And then vote your conscience,” Harris said at Politicon, a political convention held in Los Angeles.1

Wow! That’s some pretty extreme rhetoric. But is the pot calling the kettle black here? Harris is the highest level law enforcement officer in California, and the head of the Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ is responsible for maintaining criminal records, mental illness records, records of those who have become ineligible to possess firearms, and all of the databases used to perform background checks on gun buyers, to register firearms, and to take firearms away from people who are prohibited from possessing them but who still have firearms registered in their name.

Those records, and the related databases, are a hot mess."

http://213ajq29v6vk19b76q3534cx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Special-Feature-K-Harris.pdf

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