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Palin’s answers were cut, causing the candidate to be misrepresented and the public to be mislead.

James Hirsen’s of The Left Coast Report charges ABC / Charlie Gibson, et. al.  with unethical reporting for editing the Paling interview to put her in a bad light.  ”When the Palin interview that aired is compared to the entire interview transcript, there is evidence that ideas and explanations from Palin’s answers were cut, causing the candidate to be misrepresented and the public to be mislead. ”

Hirsen who has been a Hollywood Watchdog and critic for some time says, “(E)diting footage in a way that alters the substance of responses, and/or cuts, deletes and otherwise tampers with media content, which may give a false impression of an interview subject has the potential to stretch, rend and even demolish the boundaries of ethics,”.

ABC and Gibson did not allow the public to view a significant portion of Gibson’s questions and the Alaska governor’s answers. “Good Morning America,” “20/20″ and “Nightline,” all made use of the doctored tapes and none of them commented that the interview had been purposefully edited for content.

 Hirsen also reports just how extensive PDS (Palin Derangemnt Syndrome) is in Tinseltown including:

•  Lindsay Lohan must have been feeling the heat for previously having the most measured Hollywood response to the GOP vice presidential nomination. “I really cannot bite my tongue anymore when it comes to Sarah Palin,” she blogged. “Is our country so divided that the Republicans best hope is a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe?”
• Pop singer Pink told PopEater.com, “This woman hates women…She’s not of this time. The woman terrifies me.”
• In her e.e. cummings style, Rosie O’Donnell blogged on, comparing Palin to her former “View” co-host, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. “sarah p - elisabeth h / identical cousins,” O’Donnell wrote. “women who hunt in high heels / gives one pause.”
• Pamela Anderson said, “I can’t stand her.” And despite the fact that Anderson asked to be quoted, the profanity she uttered is best not repeated.
• While at the Toronto Film Festival, Matt Damon launched into a double diss, hitting Disney and Palin with the following: “It’s like a really bad Disney movie, ‘The Hockey Mom.’” He added that it was “a really terrifying possibility.”
• Damon apparently fell for a phony blog posting that quoted the Alaska governor as supposedly saying, “Dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago.” He worried aloud that he needed to “know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago, that’s an important… I wanna know that, I really do.”
• Gina Gershon dressed up as Palin for a video, which was posted on the Web. “Like so many of you, I went to five colleges,” the actress said while in Palin character. “Barach Obama only went to one.” And what college did Gershon graduate from? Oh, that’s right, she didn’t.