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Just a preview of what we need to be vigilant for as the general election campaign heats up, and testimony to how vigilance coupled with video-sharing Web sites can hold the MSM to account for their cheerleading of the Left.

My colleague Rich Noyes has an entry tonight at NewsBusters about how CNN selectively edited footage of Sen. Barack Obama's recent Memorial Day speech. Video is available there as well as at EyeBlast.tv.

Here's an excerpt:

Conservative bloggers and talk radio hosts have noticed the rash of gaffes — some goofy, some more serious — emanating from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama lately, but the mainstream media’s coverage of Obama’s bouts with foot-in-mouth disease has been sparse, to say the least. In the case of one of Obama’s more recent gaffes, however, a CNN reporter did Obama the favor of editing the gaffe right out of his story.

On Monday, Obama weirdly talked about honoring the nation’s “unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience today.” In a report on Tuesday night’s CNN’s Election Center, correspondent Joe Johns used that Obama soundbite in a piece on the candidate’s “polling problem on patriotism” — but snipped out the part where Obama seemed to be seeing ghosts: