Okay, I know there are far better things happening on this board right now than a rehash of my own interest in Ron Paul. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to mention something that happened last week.

Fox News aired a segment of video from the CPAC Straw Poll, which Ron Paul won handily, coming in with 30 percent of the vote. (Mitt Romney came in second with 23 percent.)

In the segment that Fox aired, when the winner of the poll was announced, there is a lot of audible booing and jeering mixed in with some cheers.

But . . . that's not what happened.

In reality, at CPAC 2011, Ron Paul's win was greeted with loud, boisterous cheers.

It turns out, Fox News played video from the previous year's convention, and represented it as though it were this year's convention.

One YouTuber noticed this & made a video documenting it, and the result was that Fox News apologized, calling it a "mistake."

Whatever your feelings about Ron Paul, what do you think about this kind of subtle manipulation? Knowing that laugh tracks do work, in spite of the fact that we are aware of them, what do you make of this?

Here's the YouTube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwo0Iyrh1Zk

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