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Quote Mine	comment	Suppose Bob, a famous critic, says that Tropers: The Movie "had the potential to be a great work of art in different hands, but the lead actor is a drug addict and the director had no idea what he was doing." In the commercial, however, we hear that Bob has called the movie "[...] a great work of art[.]" The commercial has just quote mined. It's a dirty, rotten, low-down trick, one of The Oldest Ones in the Book, and is a subtrope of Blatant Lies and Weasel Words. Features commonly in sloppy rhetoric and propaganda pieces. Unfortunately, this usually works with an ill-informed audience, as the speaker can usually expect that they will not check the source for the quotes. Frequently used as part of an ad hominem fallacious argument. The act of quote mining is also referred to as 'quoting out of context' or 'contextomy'. When this technique is practiced on audio to make a deceptive soundbite (as in confessional interviews on reality shows, or comments that are then used as voiceovers), it's called a "Frankenbite" — probably because in particularly bad cases, one can actually hear where two audio clips were spliced together. In some circumstances, this can be acceptable, provided the audience knows it's been edited and the meaning has been preserved. Compare Manipulative Editing, Recorded Spliced Conversation, and Voice Clip Song. Very likely to lead to Beam Me Up, Scotty!. Despite the similarity in sound, has nothing to do with Enemy Mine. Sister Trope to Twisting the Words, when they did say the actual quote in question but a crucial nuance or meaning was misrepresented. Sub-Trope of Lying by Omission, which also does not require the omitted details to be around quotes.
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Quote Mine / int_10861ce9	comment	Nat Smurfling does this to Selwyn during his fight with his wife Tallulah in The Smurfs episode "Memory Melons" to record a simple "I love you" message for Tallulah in Selwyn's own words. Ironically, the quote mined message was the original message Selwyn intended to say to his wife all along.
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Quote Mine / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: One episode has Finn and Jake discovering pre-recorded tapes left by their father. By the end of the episode, they found all the tapes, and Jake starts doing some Manipulative Editing.
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Quote Mine / int_12300cc3	comment	Used dramatically in Watchmen. Each issue ends with some kind of relevant quote to the events of the issue. #11 ends with a quote from the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem Ozymandias: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" This sounds grandiose on its own, but in the context of the poem, it was ironic, as the speaker sees these words inscribed on the base of a ruined statue in the middle of a barren desert. Considering that the issue deals with the plans of Adrian Veidt, who named himself Ozymandias, trying to create an everlasting world peace...
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Quote Mine / int_12482def	comment	In You've Got Mail, Joe Fox represents a chain of bookstores, whose newest location is right next to the small indie shop owned by Kathleen Kelly. Both are interviewed by the local TV news, but Fox's interview is edited down to the seemingly-standoffish line "I sell cheap books. Sue me." Fox, watching the broadcast, is not amused, and reads off a long list of all the positive things he said about his store. In that same TV news segment, Kelly repeats a sarcastic quip made by Fox in a previous discussion, but she strips out the sarcasm. Her stilted delivery suggests she's uncomfortable doing this, so it's easy for the audience to forgive her.
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Quote Mine / int_1463a028	comment	Done in-universe in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. On an in-universe version of To Catch a Predator, a man comes into the room with the teenaged girl and tries immediately to convince her that this is not what she wants to do, and that any creep could show up and have his way with her. He tells her to get out of her skanky clothes and put something decent on; when the episode aired, this was edited down to him simply demanding sex from her and telling her to strip, and his life was ruined though he was never formally charged.
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Quote Mine / int_1a166c3b	comment	The website for Nintendo Switch Sports quotes IGN as saying the game "recaptures the party game magic of Wii Sports." The full quote is a bit more critical: "Nintendo Switch Sports successfully recaptures the party game magic of Wii Sports, but quickly falls victim to a lack of depth that holds it back from achieving greatness."
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Quote Mine / int_1e1b50e2	comment	Political philosopher Thomas Hobbes does this in Leviathan when making his case for an all-mighty sovereign by quoting 1 Samuel 8: 11-17note And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.. He leaves out the next verse, which says: "And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day." This last verse makes it very clear that Samuel was listing what a king would do in an attempt to dissuade the Israelites from getting one.
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Quote Mine / int_1e511d6f	comment	Parodied in a segment on America's Funniest Home Videos. It showed clips of stage performances while Tom Bergeron "read" reviews of them and the Quote Mined version appeared on screen. The final review was so bad it was reduced to "The Happy Musical is... A show!"
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Quote Mine / int_222f3468	comment	Conan: There's a recurring bit where Alex Trebek's voice on Jeopardy! is spliced to make him sound completely insane. The show has a recurring bit of Dr. Phil "voicing" its Punxsutawney Dr. Phil character.
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Quote Mine / int_22d87fc9	comment	That '70s Show: In the episode "Eric's Birthday", when Laurie is asking Eric to borrow his car, and Kelso hears it as she was coming onto him. The thing is, Kelso's "interpretation" is practically a YouTube Poop, it's so mangled. In the episode "Jackie Bags Hyde", when Jackie wants a date with Hyde:
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Quote Mine / int_2407cefe	comment	A staple of YouTube Poop is to take innocuous sources, such as a video game cutscene or children's cartoon, and remix the dialogue judiciously for the lulz. Often called "sentence mixing" by the fandom.
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Quote Mine / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: Flag in Exile has this exchange between Honor and a misogynist reactionary Grayson minister who crashes a party at her Steading.
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Quote Mine / int_2588eeb0	comment	The show has a recurring bit of Dr. Phil "voicing" its Punxsutawney Dr. Phil character.
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Quote Mine / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: There was an episode where Marge writes a book, at one point the publishers phone different authors to get quotes for the cover. Tom Clancy's Repeating So the Audience Can Hear is his downfall: In the season 6 episode "Homer Badman", Homer was accused of sexual harassment and went on a talk show to give his side of the story. The interview that aired cut up his comments to make it sound like he was admitting guilt... then apparently starts taking his anger out on the host. It was done in an incredibly obvious and poor fashion as well, with really obvious jumps and things changing in the background — and people still bought it. Those things included a very prominent clock which jumps around between hours, despite the whole interview taking minutes, and the "taking his anger out on the host" is a freeze frame of Homer with a confused look on his face. Then at the end, when the show has to broadcast a correction, they show it so fast it was almost a Blipvert. "Critics say this book is 'definitely' dot-dot-dot 'useful!'" —Marge Simpson, on a self-help book.
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Quote Mine / int_263d5756	comment	In Live Free or Die Hard, the villains' terror-inducing public message is entirely built out of quotes from presidents ranging from Dwight D. Eisenhower to then President George W. Bush. One of the hackers responsible for the message quips that he tried to find more Nixon.
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Quote Mine / int_26514916	comment	In Paddington 2, the Browns lure Phoenix using a recording they made of carefully selected material from a taped conversation with his agent.
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Quote Mine / int_267cbfa	comment	Dominic Deegan features a Trickster elementalist who literally rearranges quotes from characters by catching "words on the wind" in a bottle in order to have them say something completely different from what they'd meant. It doesn't work on Luna since she's skilled enough at magic to realize that the words were rearranged.
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Quote Mine / int_26faa01e	comment	Used in Spice World to discredit the girls. During an interview, one of them answers a question with "Is the Pope Catholic?", as in "Yes, of course." A tabloid quotes the response, conveniently leaving out the context that it was a rhetorical question. Since "Is the Pope Catholic?" is a very common rhetorical question, it's hard to imagine many people falling for that trick in Real Life.
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Quote Mine / int_2da3936e	comment	The TV documentary Clash of the Dinosaurs. The incident in question was concerning a battle between the dromaeosaur Deinonychus and the sauropod Sauroposeidon, as well as twisting consultant Matt Wedel's words to make him say the old, disproven belief that sauropods had two brains, when he explicitly stated that the theory he claimed in the show was false. This stirred an absolute outrage among Wedel and his fellow palentologists on the blog SV-POW, of which Wedel wrote this about the subject. This also destroyed any credibility the production company (Dangerous Ltd) might have had. It also left them at the mercy of dinosaur fanatics, paleontologists and practically everybody who likes dinosaurs.
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Quote Mine / int_3127e38	comment	Used in The Newsroom when they cover the death of Trayvon Martin- Maggie makes the same cut that NBC did (as described in the Real Life section below). She claims that it didn't occur to her that removing the question about what race Trayvon was would have such an effect on the tone of the story and gets in quite a lot of trouble.
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Quote Mine / int_34e71667	comment	Brass Eye has Nicholas Parsons reading a poem purportedly by anthropologist Desmond Morris about the plight of an elephant in an East German zoo (note that it was filmed in 1997, long after Germany had reunified) that's got its trunk stuck up its backside. The footage is strategically and very obviously edited — watch here (the relevant bit starts at 3:17):
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Quote Mine / int_34f93608	comment	As DJ Earworm mentions in his book Audio Mashup Construction Kit: ExtremeTech, it's possible to take a song lyric and recontextualize it entirely in a mashup, sometimes reversing its meaning, something he does in several of his own mashups. In "United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)", he takes the line "With a big smile on my face / And it never feels out of place" from "Gives You Hell" and incorporates it to the overall positive message of the mashup, but in the original song it's an expression of schadenfreude. "Price Tag" is a Capitalism Is Bad song, but Earworm uses the "cha-ching cha-ching" line celebrating money in "Party On The Floor". "See You Again" is a tribute song to the late Paul Walker, but in "United State of Pop 2015 (50 Shades of Pop)" the lyrics from both Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth are mixed in with the rest of the song, which is about love and sex. It also recontextualizes lyrics from Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" to fit in with the theme, when the former is a self-parody song about how she's portrayed as a "psycho girlfriend" in the media, and the latter is a diss track to Katy Perry. In "United State of Pop 2019 (Run Away)", by removing the "we'd always" from "we'd always go into it blindly", Earworm transforms the melancholic lyric from "Lose You To Love me" to make it sound like it's encouraging you to do it, fitting with the "escape" theme of mashup. "United State of Pop 2020 (Something to Believe In)" takes the line "give him something to believe in" from "WAP" and makes it sound profound, even naming the mashup after it. In the original song, it's about oral sex.
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Quote Mine / int_35bceb50	comment	A (usually) unintentional example, but people often quote Polonius' line from Hamlet "Brevity is the soul of wit", and assume it's meant as advice to the reader/viewer for how to tell jokes (typically such people have never read/seen the play and just know about the famous line). While it is good advice in many situations (as people may get bored if you take way too long to get to the punchline, for one) the character in question is anything but brief or witty, and delivers the line right before going on a long, rambling monologue. In other words, it was meant as a bit of Hypocritical Humor, not actual advice for telling jokes. It doesnâ€™t have anything to do with telling jokes at all, because in those days â€œwitâ€� meant â€œintelligenceâ€�, not â€œsense of humorâ€�. This makes the Hypocritical Humor even more obvious, as Polonius is a buffoon.
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Quote Mine / int_3626dc6d	comment	From the Nikita episode "One Way", an example of someone recognizing the Quote Mine (from The Qur'an, specifically) and supplying the next line, which destroys the Quote Miner's point:
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Quote Mine / int_36b8cefc	comment	Parodied in 1066 and All That, with a spoof quote that simply reads "This slim volume..." - implying that the rest of the quote was entirely negative.
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Quote Mine / int_3adfb1ba	comment	In one episode of House of Mouse, Mortimer suggests that the winner of a volleyball game will be the one to ask Minnie out. Mickey makes the mistake of replying "So, what, we should treat Minnie like she's some sort of trophy?!" Mortimer then relays this sentence back to Minnie later, while of course leaving out that it was rhetorical. Mickey is so flustered by Mortimer revealing this that he can only stammer in response. (On the other hand, Mortimer DID manage to tempt Mickey into the volleyball game, but it was still Mortimer's idea in the first place.)
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Quote Mine / int_3cd90f30	comment	Happens to GOB in Arrested Development when he is accused of killing an old man who went missing. He tells the reporters who accost him, "Don't edit this for your broadcast so it looks like I'm screaming, 'I killed Earl Milford!'" Needless to say, those last four words were all the reporters needed.
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Quote Mine / int_3f10d191	comment	The The Jackbox Party Pack 4 game "Survive the Internet" is all about taking others' words out of context. In each round, all the players answer a question, then other players' take their responses and put them in a context where that response would be embarrassing, defaming, or otherwise inappropriate, then all the players vote on the funniest response.
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Quote Mine / int_3f4a104b	comment	Scott Adams pointed this out in a Dilbert book, where he had an example of a press release complaining about the media, and how it would be reported by the media: Luckily, it works both ways:
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Quote Mine / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked: The article "5 Despicable Things People Do for Good Online Reviews" lists this practice under #2: "Ads Take Critic Quotes Out of Context to Make Them Seem Positive". In this article by Jason Pargin: "Hitler was right" and "Hitler...was saving the world".
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Quote Mine / int_3fba475a	comment	Radio Active: In one episode, Roger is extolling the virtues of Mr Noseworthy over the radio. "Technical difficulties" (in the form of deliberate vandalism) renders his statement that, "In his field, competence knows no equal!" as "In...competence knows no equal."
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Quote Mine / int_4062c538	comment	In The Day of the Locust, failed vaudeville clown Harry Greener keeps multiple copies of a mildly positive New York Times review of a performance he gave that ends with the observation, "My first thought was that some producer should put Mr. Greener into a big revue against a background of beautiful girls and glittering curtains. But my second was that this would be a mistake. I am afraid that Mr. Greener, like certain humble field plants which die when transferred to richer soil, had better be left to bloom in vaudeville against a background of ventriloquists and lady bicycle riders." Harry tells the book's protagonist, Tod Hackett, that he took out an advertisement in Variety that reduced this quote to "... some producer should put Mr. Greener into a big revue..."
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Quote Mine / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files novel Changes, Harry uses this to pull a fast one on the Erlking when he accidentally intrudes in his halls. Being one of The Fair Folk, however, the Erlking is less annoyed and more amused at Harry being so quick-witted.
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Quote Mine / int_4b790c7a	comment	In Iron Man 2, during the Senate subcommittee hearing, Senator Stern deliberately has Colonel Rhodes quote a section of his report on the Iron Man armor out of context. Rhodes points out exactly what he's doing before consenting to read the passage, then continues on to the rest of the statement that disagrees with Stern's point over the senator trying to cut him off.
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Quote Mine / int_4be3aedd	comment	An episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had an accidental version. Bulk is filming a video for a class project, but Skull's inept editing results in "That's Mrs. Appleby. She can't wait to teach her favorite student" becoming "That Mrs. Appleby can't teach." Since it's a video, you can see the jumps, but the class still has a good laugh.
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Quote Mine / int_4d4b75f6	comment	In Used Cars the competition makes an obvious edit in the protagonist's ad saying they had "...style of cars" to "a mile of cars" and used it in court, suing for false advertising; the protagonists then had to scramble to assemble 5,280 feet of cars on the lot.
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Quote Mine / int_4d8e5ec	comment	The Daily Show does this quite frequently, usually in the form of interrupting a speaker to make a joke and then not revisiting the clip. The Daily Show has lampshaded this and will often play the second part of a clip that directly contradicts the first part. At least, it will now.
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Quote Mine / int_4dcdc70f	comment	Infamously bad shooter Daikatana featured a quote from PC Zone on an ad, reading "Absolutely brilliant" — these two words were taken from a preview which appeared years before the actual game (PC Zone actually gave the game 53% and a very negative review).
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Quote Mine / int_4dd85f39	comment	Religulous by Bill Maher was caught out in a similar manner to Expelled: The interview with scientist Francis Collins was heavily edited to misconstrue Dr. Collins' arguments. Maher quotes John Adams as saying "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." In reality, Adams meant the exact opposite, as the context (from an 1817 letter to Thomas Jefferson) shows:
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Quote Mine / int_4fd6a2e6	comment	Under Heaven: Using lines from various poems is an expected part of the national Civil Service exams. Also, several conversations in the book involve the participants using quotes to prove points, or bolster their arguments.
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Quote Mine / int_519b5595	comment	Anatomy of Hell says on its poster that it was deemed "provocative" for its graphic sexual sequences, but leaves out any indication of whether the reviewer thought the provocation was a good thing.
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Quote Mine / int_5320ab5e	comment	In the early Columbo installment "Ransom for a Dead Man", a woman murders her husband and disguises it as a kidnapping. To create the impression of her husband being alive and in the custody of the imaginary kidnappers, she plays a cleverly edited recording of him over the phone.
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Quote Mine / int_53a73ca0	comment	In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Duchess of Mandalore", a recording from the deceased Minister Jerec, a Mandalorian representative, is presented in the Senate as a call for aid from the Republic to help Mandalore, which would violate the planet's oath of neutrality in the Clone War and give the local terrorist group, Death Watch, a pretense to bring the planet back to its old ways (and then join the Separatists). Duchess Satine knows something is off with the recording based on what she knows of his character, but can't prove it immediately due to his death. When she gets her hands on the original recording and has it presented through Padme (due to Satine being falsely accused of murdering her informant, Davu Golec), it is shown that Jerec was trying to make a case for why Mandalore doesn't need Republic intervention to deal with Death Watch. If one looks at both recordings carefully, you can tell where it was quote-mined (and the recording was apparently edited carefully to avoid showing splices in audio).
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Quote Mine / int_546876cb	comment	Sonic Boom: In "Eggman: The Video Game", Eggman attempts to break into the video game market and decides a strong motion-capture fight between Sonic and Shadow will give him the data he needs to make it pop. But since Shadow was still sore with Eggman costing him his last fight with Sonic, Eggman instead records himself asking a few questions to Sonic and then edits them together to make it look like Sonic is insulting Shadow. It's very poorly done, but Shadow falls for it anyway.
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Quote Mine / int_549bc5da	comment	Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne did the same, plastering a line from a preview on the box and every ad for the game. The writer of said preview called them on this a few months after release, pointing out that actual reviews of the actual finished game had plenty of glowing quotes that could have been used in its place, while also noting he'd said similar nice things in previews for games that turned out to be completely terrible, like Daikatana.
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Quote Mine / int_585e50f5	comment	In JFK, footage of an interview is used to depict Kennedy as ready to withdraw from Vietnam. The clip ends before the President tells Walter Cronkite that "I don't agree with those who say we should withdraw."
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Quote Mine / int_5921531a	comment	Ikutsuki of Persona 3 does this to a recording left behind by Eiichiro Takeba, Yukari's father. His original recording was a warning that the Arcana Shadows should not be destroyed. By editing the recording, Ikutsuki is able to manipulate SEES into destroying the Shadows, which ultimately brings forth The Fall.
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Quote Mine / int_5c208620	comment	Superman: The Animated Series: Angela Chen does this to Jimmy Olsen during "Superman's Pal." The poor kid suspects nothing, but the next morning the manipulated 'interview' finds its way onto TV.
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Quote Mine / int_5c9b7531	comment	Advertisements for Collateral quote a review as saying the film is "a knockout." The actual review says the film declines in quality toward the end, but says "the first two thirds is a knockout."
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Quote Mine / int_5d6fc0d1	comment	Zondag Met Lubach: Played for laughs in a sketch where Lubach did a "time travel interview" with former Dutch attorney Bram Moskowicz, who was a major public figure before he was met with a rapid string of misfortunes in recent years, including being disbarred. The interview is carefully edited to make it seem like Moskowicz is responding to being informed of his own future failures, which gets plenty of Lampshade Hanging.
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Quote Mine / int_5eb99c57	comment	In October-November 2013, she quote mined Alex Trebek for his "audition tape" for the lead role in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Quote Mine / int_5f7aea6d	comment	In C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, the Confederates use some carefully selected quotes from The Bible, such as Ephesians 6:5, to support their practices of slavery and racism. Depressingly Truth in Television during the actual Antebellum period.
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Quote Mine / int_60e46d26	comment	In a MAD Magazine article lampooning Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, one of the "rave reviews" for the play is "It was g ... oo ... d," implying they literally couldn't find a single good word in the review to properly quote mine it.
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Quote Mine / int_60f02ddb	comment	In an episode of American Dad!, Steve and Hayley try to break up a couple because they have crushes on the people involved. In order to do this, they call up the girl with a phone telephone survey, then use Stan's CIA equipment to edit the audio, then call the boy and play a fake message that makes it sound like his girlfriend is meeting another guy in the park.
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Quote Mine / int_64b9cf6b	comment	In "Invitation to the Snooties" on PB&J Otter, the Snootie poodle kids pull this off to great effect to trick their father into letting them have something they want for their birthday party.
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Quote Mine / int_67c02f03	comment	In the World War book series aliens begin invading Earth right in the middle of World War II. One of the first things the aliens (who call themselves The Race, but are usually nicknamed "Lizards" by humans) do is free areas of Poland, including Jewish ghettoes, from the control of Nazi Germany. At first the Polish Jews are more than willing to work with and collaborate with the Race, with one viewpoint character becoming the mouthpiece of a Race broadcast where he, among other things, tells a world that isn't willing to listen to the truth about the Final Solution and how the Race saved the Jews from the Nazis. The Race insistence on conquering the whole world, however, starts to sour him on the Race, and when the Race nukes Washington D.C., he goes on his radio program and denounces them and the use of the bomb, even though he expects to probably be stopped mid-stream or killed by the Race for it. He's surprised when his handlers from the Race don't seem to care and let him leave afterward without a word, only to find out later that the broadcast wasn't live, and they used quote mining and altering the tapes to make him sound like a fanatical backer of the Race who cheered on the use of atomic weapons against Washington.
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Quote Mine / int_6900c94f	comment	Kane & Lynch did this with their ads, getting quotes from previews and presenting them as review quotes.
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Quote Mine / int_6e299f95	comment	In a very early Lois Lane story, a source in a scandal Perry White is investigating offers a prepared statement to Lois, and asks her to witness it by reading it out loud while he records it. But Lois realizes that he's recording only certain words, turning the statement into Lois saying that she saw Perry take bribes. She stops before he can get anything useful, and then takes out the source and several goons with a mop, a bucket, and a candy gun.
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Quote Mine / int_6ecd1807	comment	In Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Harriet talks about how the Bible says homosexuality is a sin. She goes on to point out that the Bible also says that we are not to judge. Guess which part of the quote gets printed. Kind of an example itself; the Bible says everyone is a sinner, and "judge not" is a commonly-mined quote itself; see the Real Life folder.
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Quote Mine / int_6ef03be6	comment	Blatantly parodied in My Gym Partner's a Monkey when Jake joins the school newspaper group. He then proceeds to persuade Adam to say some very embarassing things (" What? No, I'm not in love with her! I'm pretty sure she's crazy!"). Adam finds out about this and simply stops talking to Jake. Not one to be deterred, Jake simply starts making things up., and the student body believe him. So, to get revenge and hopefully stop this stupidity, Adam joins the school newspaper and starts making up incredibly embarrassing stories about Jake...which actually turn out to be true. The entire student body then start asking why he'd do such a mean thing to his friend Jake.
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Quote Mine / int_7035327	comment	Mrs. America: Phyllis takes segments from feminist leaders' recorded speeches out of context, then puts them into a tape circulated to make them all look bad.
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Quote Mine / int_704d43b3	comment	Christians who quote the "eye for an eye" doctrine laid out in Exodus 20:22 are either conveniently forgetting or never learned the part of the Gospel of Matthew (specifically Matthew 5:38-40) where Jesus explicitly repudiated that passage (the "turn the other cheek" remark). See also "Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord" (as in, not yours) in Deuteronomy 32:35 and Romans 12:19, and also Proverbs 20:22, which lays it out quite clearly: In other words, not so much repudiated as saying, "It isn't for you to exact yourself, but a judge. And you may be better off waiting for The Judge, i.e., God." Also, the repayment of an eye is not itself an eye, but the value of an eye.
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Quote Mine / int_721e57f2	comment	In The Pilgrim's Regress, Mr. Sensible likes to drop quotes (often in different languages) into his conversations. Vertue calls him on taking at least one quote out of context; the author he attributed it to had actually brought up that point of view to find fault with it. Mr. Sensible just tells him that this is a gentlemens' social visit, not a classroom.
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Quote Mine / int_72ccaa5b	comment	Henchgirl: Parodies this trope with A Super Family: A Memoir being reviewed as, "A...near-perfect example of...what...to do...when writing...a...book...Great" - BB Bowl, The AV Clob.
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Quote Mine / int_7357234c	comment	In Beyond Good & Evil, the government's propaganda machine removes the "not exactly" from Pey'j's "Yeah, well, you guys are not exactly what I'd call as fast as a speedin' bullet" for a radio broadcast.
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Quote Mine / int_7460586f	comment	In the Archer episode "Viscous Coupling", the title character tries a complicated Quote Mining ploy to win back his old girlfriend, Katya. Her boyfriend, Barry, is stuck on a space station; she asks Archer (a famed spy) to save him. To break them up, Archer enlists his scientist friend Dr. Krieger and records his and Barry's conversations about rocketing back home. He manipulates them to sound like admissions of infidelity: Notably, while Katya cries at this "revelation", she is faking. She used Archer's affection to make him save Barry note which Archer wouldn't have done otherwise; Barry is dead-set on killing him and he knows that, and mocks the attempt at Quote Mining as "pathetic".
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Quote Mine / int_755cbdcf	comment	Precocious: Ursula accidentally does this to herself here due to a case of Is This Thing Still On?.
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Quote Mine / int_765f9dcc	comment	Happens to Bette in The L Word. When ambushed by Faye Buckley about a controversial exhibit at her museum, Bette defends it, but her words are later mined to make it sound like an admission that she and the exhibit are perverted.
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Quote Mine / int_77184a72	comment	In an episode of Victorious, some Hollywood guys setup a "Jersey Shore" type show with the Hollywood Arts Kids. When they edit two different conversations that Tori and Beck have with others to make it appear that they are having an affair, Jade isn't too happy. The producers freely admit the deception saying they're doing it for ratings.
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Quote Mine / int_77f68788	comment	xXx: State of the Union: Secretary Of Defense General Deckert has the President at gunpoint as part of the former's plan to overthrow the U.S. Government. The President asks why Deckert is doing this, to which he responds by quoting Thomas Jefferson selectively and gets called out on it by the President. Which, given the context of the rebel speaking to the leader he's overthrowing, should not be as devastating a retort as it's played as. Shooting himself in the foot really, unless Deckert genuinely thinks of himself as the tyrant in that situation.
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Quote Mine / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: The magic mirror in "Mirror Gem" is only able to play back what it's witnessed, so it cuts together recordings to communicate. At first it simply pulls entire quotes and replays them in different contexts, but as Steven spends more time with it, it starts to splice together several people's words to make unique sentences.
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Quote Mine / int_784d9e32	comment	The Wiiviewer suspects that the "...8 out of 10" quote from Play magazine that appears on the front cover of the Nintendo Wii game Furu Furu Park is this, given the overall quality of the game.
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Quote Mine / int_7950b30f	comment	Stephen Colbert is often accused of doing similar things in his interviews. He once lampshaded this by inviting a reporter to interview him and making easily editable statements like "There are people who say THE TROOPS ARE STUPID!... I am not one of those people." "President Obama is VERY SCARY TO WHITE house PEOPLE... who are hoping for a Republican victory."
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Quote Mine / int_7a06c9da	comment	This happens in The Chipmunk Adventure when Alvin needs to explain the absence of himself and his brothers during an around-the-world balloon race to their nanny Ms. Miller. He records Dave during a phone call, and then quote mines to convince the nanny (via another phone call) that Dave wants the kids to join him on his business trip. They nearly get caught when the tape gets stuck and Ms. Miller hears Dave slurring the words "Mooooooss Moooollurrr" and accuses Dave of being drunk.
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Quote Mine / int_7bcb0f80	comment	J. Robert Oppenheimer is often quoted saying, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds," quoting the Bhagavad Gita, as if to indicate that he felt the Manhattan Project were a mistake. In context, he makes it clear that the quote was in reference to doing your duty, even if it was unpleasant (this is more or less the whole point of the Gita; it's Krishna's quasi-pep talk to Arjuna in the Mahabharata, explaining that everyone has a role in the order of the Universe, and sometimes that role is the unpleasant business of killing loads of people for the good of everyone else). Actually, he was one of very few scientists who didn't think it was a mistake. When asked about deploying the bomb, a small council including Oppenheimer and Fermi asserted that it was required while the majority of the scientists disagreed. Those scientists weren't on that council.
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Quote Mine / int_7c60fb0f	comment	An issue of Simpsons Comics has Bart sneak into Lisa's room to steal and/or destroy various items. He comes upon her diary, reading "This morning, Mom whipped some eggs. Dad slept late. We mocked Bart for leaving the dog in the basement all night." Using white-out and some alterations with his pen, Bart changes this to "This morning, Mom whipped Dad. Later, we locked Bart in the basement all night." He then submits the altered diary to a literary magazine competition in order to humiliate his sister — but the work is hailed as a masterpiece, and Lisa is offered a book deal!
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Quote Mine / int_7d1eede5	comment	In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the paparazzi take advantage of Smith's naivetÃ© and goad him into making quotes and poses that they print out of context to make him look like a ridiculous rube. He is extremely upset by this.
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Quote Mine / int_7d4d63ef	comment	Casino. Sam Rothstein runs his casino via a front man as he doesn't have a casino license. A journalist keeps probing him on the issue until he admits he is the boss "on a day to day basis". The headlines have a picture of Rothstein saying, "I'M THE BOSS" and a corrupt politician he's alienated uses this to have an investigation launched.
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Quote Mine / int_7e41486c	comment	Parodied in some of the marketing and covers for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The posters/covers proudly display the quote "Best movie ever made" attributed to Ricky Bobby. Ricky is the protagonist of Talladega Nights, the quote comes from inside the movie itself, and the compliment was actually directed at Highlander.
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Quote Mine / int_7f8a38b6	comment	During the height of Mobile Suit Gundam Wingâ€™s popularity in America, the Yaoi Fangirl crowd gleefully quote-mined an interview where director Masashi Ikeda said he didn't write a romance between the show's male and female leads Heero and Relena, citing it as proof that Heero was gay. However, this completely ignores everything else Ikeda said, including that he thought the overarching plot was more important than any romance, admitting that he can't write romance and calling it a personal fault, and saying that he could definitely see Heero and Relena getting together after the war had ended.
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Quote Mine / int_7fca5560	comment	In episode 5 of Sengoku Collection, the documentary filmmaker Morse does this after interviewing Bokuden and others, turning public opinion against the various samurai girls.
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Quote Mine / int_819e6eac	comment	USA Today's review of the Eragon movie described it as "a pleasant enough fantastical adventure, but it does feel naggingly derivative." A commercial for the movie cropped the testimonial, rendering it "A FANTASTICAL ADVENTURE!"note The book is also guilty of bearing a quote-mined review from the New York Times. The reviewer is cited as calling it "an authentic work of great talent", but those are the final words of her piece, the remainder of which focused on all its demerits.
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Quote Mine / int_820a1867	comment	The second season of The Black Tapes opens with paranormal skeptic Dr. Richard Strand accusing host Alex Regan of misrepresenting him in this way, citing her leaving out revisions he made to an initial statement or omitting everything he said to try and explain a specific case. Alex justifies her decisions as judgement calls made to keep views balanced and leaving out instances of Strand being too didactic by either leaving too much room for coincidence or having "logical explanations" she felt were just as far-fetched as any paranormal theory would be.
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Quote Mine / int_820b48b3	comment	Bowling for Columbine, probably his most egregious example, did this quite blatantly with Charlton Heston. Observant viewers noticed that his clothes changed during a single speech. They also cut his post-Columbine speech at the line "we're already here", making his point (that NRA members were part of the emergency personnel at the tragedy) sound more like a smarmy mockery of his anti-gun opponents.
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Quote Mine / int_82a29abe	comment	He also got quote mined for his review of G-Force where he called the film "non-stop, wall-to wall madcap action." G-Force proudly presented this on their posters, ignoring that he was criticizing that aspect of the movie, not praising it, and that he actually gave the film 2 1/2 stars (mediocre).
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Quote Mine / int_82c5dce1	comment	Psalm 14:1 says "The fool has said in his heart 'There is no God'". You often find it used in anti-atheist comments. Problem: the other half of the verse is "They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." The word translated as "fool" means someone with no morals, not that people are idiots for not believing in Godâ€¦ which, granted, is just as condemnatory as the mined version. However, while the rest of the psalm is an "O tempora! O mores!" complaint about how bad things were at the time, just two verses later is the line "Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?", then pointing to the fact that they're killing faithful Hebrews and not worshipping God as evidence of folly. Shockingly, the Bible considers not believing in God foolish after all. For that matter, people will sometimes respond to creationist quote-mining (see below) by facetiously truncating this even further to, â€œThere is no God,â€� thereby demonstrating the fallacy of quote mining to people who may not understand what is wrong with it, since obviously the Bible isnâ€™t ever arguing that God does not exist.
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Quote Mine / int_846a0b73	comment	The One to Make It Stay: After both heroes have their memories erased by Oblivio, Chat Noir decides to make a Love Confession to Ladybug, believing that she's already dating someone else and wanting to get his feelings off his chest while he's got the chance while also making clear that he doesn't expect her to reciprocate, just wanting her to be happy. Unfortunately, this gets witnessed by Alya, who edits their conversation to make it appear the two hooked up and posted it on her blog. This encourages Chat Noir to ramp up his harassment of Ladybug, along with alerting Hawkmoth to the tension between the two.
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Quote Mine / int_858624ba	comment	Will & Grace: Grace makes a guest appearance on Jack's talkshow and says "I don't like gay men who don't like themselves", only for the editors to cut her off after "gay men" making her look ragingly homophobic. The entire gay community turn on her and she demands Jack let her guest again to explain herself.
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Quote Mine / int_867f1f26	comment	In House of Gold, a video of Danny confessing his love for Drew is edited so that he instead declares that he's moved on from Drew.
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Quote Mine / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: While it was known straight away that the projected message from Agatha's device in Sturmhalten was somehow altered by Tarvek before his proper Heelâ€“Face Turn it took years for the real original message to be revealed.
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Quote Mine / int_885e1bec	comment	Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality has an unintentional one. While visiting his parents' grave, Harry sees the motto "The last enemy to be conquered is death" on the stone. Unaware that it's a quote from the Bible, he takes it completely literally.
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Quote Mine / int_8b6eb3c0	comment	A Hsu and Chan comic explained that the title characters do this when their games are rated poorly. "Even the bad reviews are wordy enough that we can at least cut-and-paste together a decent blurb."
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Quote Mine / int_8d80b1f7	comment	The BBC show Radio Active, a parody of commercial radio stations, did in one episode take the viewer on a tour "backstage" to visit writers, editors and producers. The editor decided to play first an unedited sound clip of a politician's passionate anti-racism speech, and then an edited one, so that the audience could hear "how the editing helps it."
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Quote Mine / int_8d81bb26	comment	Happens to Gibbs in the NCIS episode "Model Behavior" to make it look like he's cutting an interview short because a reporter asked a potentially compromising question regarding an incident at a marine base. In reality, it was because the reporter spilled Gibbs' coffee.
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Quote Mine / int_8d85c101	comment	The Joe Schmo Show generally avoided this as they wanted to present the Schmoes in a flattering, but still honest light. However, in Joe Schmo 2, they couldn't resist this with a line of Amanda Naughton's in the season finale: "I want money. I want lots of money," used in the promo. The full line, heard in context in the episode itself, was "I want money. I want lots of money. I'd love to live a very rich life, but not at the expense of somebody."
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Quote Mine / int_8d98042f	comment	The Game Grumps joked about this a few times, remarking that if they pissed off their editor Barry he'd cut their audio together into something embarrassing. Of course, both times they've made this joke Barry instead turned their quotes into something totally innocuous: in Super Mario Sunshine he cuts together a little speech about ducks while in Super Mario 3D World he makes the Grumps say "I super-love Barry". A variant occurred once when Jon tried to say "I need Barry to add something" but got interrupted at "I need Barry—." Barry's text at the bottom replied "I need you too, Jon."
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Quote Mine / int_90c73dda	comment	In the Animorphs fanfic Ghost in the Shell, while protesting for ex-hosts to be given the same rights as other prisoners of war, Tom is approached by CNSB reporters who ask him what he feels about voluntaries. He says that they aren't all worth prosecuting and certainly don't deserve to be murdered, and society should focus on rebuilding instead of witch-hunting. A few hours later, the news shows a cut-down version of that interview with the claim that Tom was a voluntary Controller all along, because why else would he be concerned about voluntaries being punished?
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Quote Mine / int_92b530e0	comment	Gabriel Knight uses tape-splicing to achieve this in The Beast Within, using his recording of his questions with Herr Doktor Klingmann to convince zookeeper Tomas to allow Gabriel to see the zoo wolves up close.
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Quote Mine / int_953c0c56	comment	Demonstrated on Frontline. An expert is asked about the possibility of someone surviving for weeks in the desert. He says "No way, it's impossible", before going on to explain why the woman in question could be an exception. The reporters edit this out.
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Quote Mine / int_95caf5b8	comment	In The Fountainhead Roark is interviewed by a tabloid newspaper about his controversial Temple of the Human Spirit. His exact words are "I canâ€™t tell anyone anything about my building. If I prepared a hash of words to stuff into other peopleâ€™s brains, it would be an insult to them and to me... I want to ask every man who is interested in this to go and see the building, to look at it and then to use the words of his own mind, if he cares to speak." This gets reported as "Mr. Roark, who seems to be a publicity hound, received reporters with an air of swaggering insolence and stated that the public mind was hash. He did not choose to talk, but he seemed well aware of the advertising angles in the situation. All he cared about, he explained, was to have his building seen by as many people as possible."
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Quote Mine / int_9888e7c2	comment	In Dan Vs. "Elise's Parents", Dan uses a hidden tape recorder to record a conversation with Elise's father, Don, about his cupcake business. He then edits it to make it sound like Don's in the mafia so that the police will get involved, freeing up Chris for the renaissance fair.
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Quote Mine / int_993e9962	comment	The infamous celebrity cameos in Jem and the Holograms (2015) are this, with them being real world clips taken out of context to make them seem as if they are talking about the band in-universe. The most egregious of this is with Chris Pratt, whose footage is taken from an interview where he tells a humorous anecdote about how he would "date" his sister's Jem dolls as a child. Within the context of the movie, this instead seems to imply that he was in a relationship with an underage Jem.
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Quote Mine / int_99f8c7fb	comment	Comedian Michael McIntyre admitted on Have I Got News for You that he used to advertise his act as having received four stars, neglecting to clarify that that was the sum total of stars from all his reviews.
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Quote Mine / int_9e876c22	comment	Joe Queenan's review of Good Omens included the line "Good Omens is a direct descendant of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a vastly overpraised book or radio program or industry or something that became quite popular in Britain a decade ago when it became apparent that Margaret Thatcher would be in office for some time and that laughs were going to be hard to come by." Despite the reviewer clearly intending it as a negative comparison, the publishers couldn't wait to put "a direct descendant of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on the cover of the next edition. And, like them or loathe them, it is a fair comparison, so it's one of the less dishonest examples of the trope.
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Quote Mine / int_9ec61fa1	comment	In NewsRadio episode "The Real Deal", Bill McNeal attempts to score an interview with Jerry Seinfeld, who is dining by himself at a restaurant, only to fail spectacularly by pestering him. He resorts to taking the tape recording of their hostile exchange out of context, deliberately misrepresenting Jerry as an egotist.
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Quote Mine / int_a309575c	comment	Done cleverly in Jonathan Creek, where a villain gets another villain to read out what's supposedly an account of an old legend, but is set up so when he tapes it and removes sections, it edits together to sound like a phone message—allowing the first villain to fake the second villain supposedly phoning someone after he has been murdered.
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Quote Mine / int_a491e981	comment	Weight of the World: Lampshaded in The Charlatan of Choice. After being "interviewed" by Charon, America realizes the reporter might manipulate and splice his words together to make it seem like Ironwood is a Stalker with a Crush, then play the results at the sham trial.
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Quote Mine / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In Turn 19 of Code Geass R2, Schneizel pulls this on Lelouch with the latter's Sarcastic Confession to Suzaku of deliberately geassing Euphie to kill the Japanese. When using the recorded conversation as part of a case against Lelouch as Zero to the Black Knights, Schneizel cherry-picks the most incriminating words, leaving out the rest of the conversation including Suzaku noting that Lelouch had been lying. This, with the help of some more cursory evidence presented by Villetta with the support of their own Ohgi, leads them to jump straight to the conclusion that Lelouch can't be trusted and must be put down immediately. Which isn't a bad conclusion, but they probably could have been a bit more patient. In fact, the movie version changes it a bit so that they are, and want to hear the truth out of Zero first, while Schneizel's men are the ones who try firing on him anyway. Ohgi is even the one who attempts to call them out on this because they don't have their answers yet.
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Quote Mine / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: Psalm 14:1 says "The fool has said in his heart 'There is no God'". You often find it used in anti-atheist comments. Problem: the other half of the verse is "They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." The word translated as "fool" means someone with no morals, not that people are idiots for not believing in Godâ€¦ which, granted, is just as condemnatory as the mined version. However, while the rest of the psalm is an "O tempora! O mores!" complaint about how bad things were at the time, just two verses later is the line "Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?", then pointing to the fact that they're killing faithful Hebrews and not worshipping God as evidence of folly. Shockingly, the Bible considers not believing in God foolish after all. For that matter, people will sometimes respond to creationist quote-mining (see below) by facetiously truncating this even further to, â€œThere is no God,â€� thereby demonstrating the fallacy of quote mining to people who may not understand what is wrong with it, since obviously the Bible isnâ€™t ever arguing that God does not exist. Matthew 7:1-3. What people quote: "Judge not, lest ye be judged." What they mean: Stop telling me how to live my life based on your views. Full quote: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" Two original meanings: 1) The standards you judge others by are the standards that will be applied to you. 2) Don't be a hypocrite. Christians who quote the "eye for an eye" doctrine laid out in Exodus 20:22 are either conveniently forgetting or never learned the part of the Gospel of Matthew (specifically Matthew 5:38-40) where Jesus explicitly repudiated that passage (the "turn the other cheek" remark). See also "Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord" (as in, not yours) in Deuteronomy 32:35 and Romans 12:19, and also Proverbs 20:22, which lays it out quite clearly: In other words, not so much repudiated as saying, "It isn't for you to exact yourself, but a judge. And you may be better off waiting for The Judge, i.e., God." Also, the repayment of an eye is not itself an eye, but the value of an eye. For an "in-universe" example, Satan quotes passages from Scripture out of context during his temptation of Jesus. Jesus doesn't fall for it, and responds with other quotes that prove Satan wrong. One famous (mis)quote from the Bible is "Money is the root of all evil". The actual quote, from 1 Timothy 6:10 reads "For the love of money is the root of all evil; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows". So, the Bible isn't saying money in and of itself is wicked. It's greed that is evil, because it causes people to do evil things. Matthew 24:6 says, â€œYou will hear of wars and rumors of wars,â€� causing every crank in history to believe that every armed conflict in history proves the end of the world is imminent, despite the rest of the verse continuing â€œbut see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.â€� In other words, the verse is making exactly the opposite point, that the world isnâ€™t ending just because men act the same way they have been throughout history.
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Quote Mine / int_a609791a	comment	The second live-action Scooby-Doo movie, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, makes use of this. A news reporter (secretly the main villain) takes Fred's comments and remarks out of context to defame the gang. For context...
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Quote Mine / int_a62dae97	comment	Likewise, many verses of The Qur'an are often taken out of context or truncated. A good example is 5:32: "Whoever slays a soul, it is as though he slew all men; and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men" is often brought to demonstrate how wrong the terrorists are. However, the full quotation is "For this reason [the murder of Abel] did We prescribe to the children of Israel that whoever slays a soul, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it is as though he slew all men; and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men; and certainly Our messengers came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them certainly act extravagantly in the land." Not only is killing allowed as punishment for murder but also for those who commit "mischief in the land". And for the extremists, all misbelievers are committing mischief. They're also going by the older meaning of "mischief", which is far less light-hearted than what is meant today.
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Quote Mine / int_aca7b22d	comment	In an ad for The Amazing World of Gumball, the title character splices together footage of his friends and peers to make it seem as if they are praising him:
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Quote Mine / int_ad283518	comment	In a letter to Private Eye remonstrating with their caustic review of The Steep Approach to Garbadale, Iain Banks predicted that his publisher will take Bookworm's phrase "Quite entertaining, but full of undifferentiated dialogue, and looking as though it was cobbled together in about three weeks", remove 2/3 of it, and slap "Quite entertaining - Private Eye" on the paperback cover. They didn't.
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Quote Mine / int_af7aead4	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver On 8/21/2022, produces a segment of "And Now This..." showcasing Fox News host Tucker Carlson "Being Right about Stuff." This involves mining his lines and segments of his either stating talking points against his views but omitting his real views, or a condemnation of another program without the context of whom it is about and so implies it could be about his own program.
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Quote Mine / int_b18dcec0	comment	A puzzle in Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1997) involves doing this using Thomas Edison's wax cylinder. The player has to gather parts for the new light bulb prototype, and one of them is a spool of thread. Guess which part of the following phone conversation you have to quote-mine...
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Quote Mine / int_b3f687d1	comment	One FoxTrot strip had Jason recording Paige talking on the phone: "Mr. Vivona says we have to cut three newspaper articles out for social studies every day this week, and the only pair of scissors I have is like totally dull." He then gets on the computer and edits it so she's saying "I cut social studies every day this week. Mr. Vivona is totally dull."
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Quote Mine / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night has one infamous example, though the "mine" part comes from the audience rather than in-universe. Thanks to fans taking a line out of context, Shirou's entire character is now defined by the line "People die if they are killed". You essentially have to play the game yourself to realize he's not just making a Captain Obvious statement for no reason, but that the infamous line is followed up by him noting that dying when you're killed is "the way things should be".
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Quote Mine / int_ba211c5d	comment	The 2022 Funny Girl revival tweeted out a quote from their Time Out review saying, "The crowd goes wild." The review does say this... but only to establish the hype for the show before explaining why the lead isn't actually a good fit, ultimately rating the revival a 2/5. The opening paragraph is as follows:
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Quote Mine / int_bee3998d	comment	The Sonic fan-animation Nazo Unleashed uses this in a very interesting way. Nazo is the only character in the series who has newly recorded dialogue; every other character has dialogue made up of voice clips from various Sonic games, carefully edited to make it sound professional. This is one of the secrets behind the series' popularity.
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Quote Mine / int_c407f569	comment	A promotional poster for Legend (2015) managed to do this with a star rating: The poster depicts its stars, Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy, standing in front of positive ratings for the movie...but apparently they couldn't quite find enough four- or five-star ratings to make the effect symmetrical enough, so they slipped in a two-star review from The Guardian by positioning it in such a way that it looked like 4 or 5 stars partially blocked by the two Hardys in the foreground. The reviewer remarked, "Incredible way of making my two-star review seem like I didn't hate the film."
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Quote Mine / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Mysterious Mare Do Well", Spike does this when he's writing Rainbow Dash's "autobiography":
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Quote Mine / int_c593876f	comment	An episode of That's So Raven has Raven and Chelsea on a game show, where the producer pits the friends against each other by pulling this trick and editing the videos they had made about each other. For example, Raven said about Chelsea: "Chelsea is such a good friend, I would never want to lose her. And that's coming from the heart." It was edited down to "Chelsea is such a lose...er. And that's coming from the heart."
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Quote Mine / int_ca92edf1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops and its sequels use a form of this at the start of each level. The Title In at the start of each level in the first includes much more than it would in, say, Modern Warfare, stating why the player is where he is, who else is with him, the exact time of day, and whatnot. Then, once the full text has appeared, a line crosses through everything except the date, player character's name, and location as is shown in other games. From the first mission, for instance: Black Ops 3 uses a variant, where each mission starts out over a black screen with small scrolling text at the bottom from a post-mission write-up. As the text is scrolled through and repeated, random words within it are highlighted and copied over to the corner of the screen for a rather descriptive title-in Ã la the first Black Ops... and then, like it, everything but the name of the level, who you're with, the location, and the date are erased:
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Quote Mine / int_cda078d3	comment	The Bugsnax "Snakkolades" trailer features, among other more sincere accolades, a quote from The Onion's AV Club saying "Looks like [...] honestly [...] one of the [...] best games for the PS5.". The full version of the quote?
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Quote Mine / int_cf69b21e	comment	In the final episode of Beast Wars, Megatron mocks Optimus Primal's attempts to stop him by quoting the Covenant of Primus, which stated that "the hero would not prevail". Optimus reminds Megatron of the rest of the quote, "...nor would he surrender!"
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Quote Mine / int_d26055c1	comment	Medal of Honor: Airborne has a variation to supply the names for the missions. Each already has one name, usually in Operation: [Blank] format as in the real battles in question, but they also have a second name that comes from a quote displayed to the player before gameplay begins. For instance, mission 1, Operation Husky, starts with a quote from Benjamin Franklin imagining the idea of paratroopers, wondering who could possibly be prepared to defend their country in such a way that "...10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief". The mission itself, as such, is titled "Infinite Mischief".
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Quote Mine / int_d68df17d	comment	On the day of a massive public-sector strike, Jeremy Clarkson was booked on BBC's The One Show in which he made comments that he would execute strikers...as part of a joke about the BBC's legally-required neutrality. Clarkson himself was pretty neutral on the strikes. Of course, everyone latched onto the joke acting as if, for once, he were being serious. Apart from Number 10, which issued a statement saying: "Those who have made the regrettable decision to strike may be assured: Executions are not government policy."
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Quote Mine / int_d6a2059f	comment	In his scathing review of The Last Boy Scout, said: "Perhaps propelled by the determination of its star, Bruce Willis, to erase the box-office curse of Hudson Hawk, this film panders with such determination to the base instincts of the action crowd that it will, I am sure, be an enormous hit." Guess which three words the posters loudly declared Ebert saying? (Although he did it give a three-star "Good" rating.)
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Quote Mine / int_d702dd9d	comment	See an actual scientist or historian on Ancient Aliens? Odds are that they're responding to a neutral question ("Did people once believe gods lived in the sky?") and that's cut in to make it look like it's providing additional support to what the Insane Troll Logic theory of the week is that episode. If they say something sounding like it's explicit support for the premise, odds are that the interview was cut off just before the interviewee said something essentially like "...and some people say that, but it is, of course, bullshit."
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Quote Mine / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: After Isaac Hayes left the show, there was an episode titled "The Return of Chef" in which Chef is brainwashed by the "Super Adventure Club" and becomes a crazy, boy-hungry pedophile. Chef's dialog in the episode is entirely stitched together from Hayes' past recordings, but while he was brainwashed it was intentionally done in a clumsy, stilted manner to show that something was wrong with him. After the boys manage to free Chef from the mind control his dialog is still edited clips, but the quality is much better. This was in reference to the Church of Scientology quitting "for" Hayes, since up to that point he'd never complained about the show's content.
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Quote Mine / int_e241baf5	comment	The callers on True Capitalist do this with the host's own voice. This leads to much lulz, and Ghost getting incredibly angry over the embarrassing things they've made him say. It's not just re-edited audio, though; he has, indeed, said some very mineable quotes without any editing.
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Quote Mine / int_e3c37ed7	comment	The pilot of Even Stevens had Louis being an unwitting victim of this, made to look like he was saying awful things about his sister Ren by Larry Beale, her opponent in a school election.
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Quote Mine / int_e5ae92df	comment	Byron Hall and someone identifying himself only as "Burnout" counter-reviewed Jason Sartin and Darren MacLennan's infamous review of F.A.T.A.L.; it was rather hilarious and sad. Sad because it would appear that Hall and Burnout's myriad counts of quote mining appear to have been from genuinely understanding the remarks being mined the way they ended up mining them. They also appear to think that reviewing while still being entertaining is somehow unprofessional, so we have the rather hilarious image of a guy who created a game with rules about rape (any rules about rape, if you're reading this, Hall) trying to take the moral high ground over a couple guys who listed hitting yourself in the scrotum with a tack hammer as an activity preferable to playing FATAL.
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Quote Mine / int_ea9e0181	comment	The creationist documentary Expelled features interviews from a number of scientists and critics of intelligent design, who later publicly accused the film of quote-mining them. Michael Shermer claims that he accused interviewer Ben Stein of fishing for certain responses during the interview itself.note They also accuse the producers of misleading them into what sort of film they were being interviewed for, being told that it was a documentary about science and religion named Crossroads rather than being a straight-out creationist hit piece. Richard Dawkins made a parody video in response to Expelled where he did this to his own clips, as well as cutting Stein so that he is arguing that there is unfair bias against the "stork theory" of childbirth. They also used the quote mine of Darwin from The Descent of Man described in the Real Life section.
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Quote Mine / int_eb9f8f23	comment	In one Wunschpunsch episode the spell of the week made everyone hate everyone. The only way to break it was to make someone say "I love you". To achieve that, the two main characters found the love interest of one of them. The Raven asked her "What do you think of me?" while the Cat hid somewhere with a tape recorder. She answered with a rain of insults, Cat quickly paused and unpaused the recording so that it, when played back, finally said the needed words.
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Quote Mine / int_ec80dae4	comment	Yahtzee occasionally spoofs this by giving a long list of reasons he dislikes something and ending it with a quasi-positive statement, while displaying only the last few words on the screen, as if it were an endorsement. For example, while he says, "...if you've got a love of repetitive tactical combat that borders on the fetishistic, and you really badly need to know what happens next to faceless characterless protagonist of the ongoing storyline then I heartily recommend Perseus Mandate" shows only the last five words on the screen.
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Quote Mine / int_ec85c0a6	comment	A Super Bowl commercial featured Gwen Stefani "a few years ago" on the phone with Adam Levine, remarking that she's ready to date again. She tells him, "I'm sick of LA guys. I want someone completely different. Maybe from another country. And someone... cultured and sensitive who is not threatened by a strong, confident woman." Due to their bad network, however, Adam hears, "I want someone completely... country....uncultured and...threatened by a strong, confident woman." So he sets her up with Blake Shelton, Gwen's real-life fiance at the time of the commercial.
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Quote Mine / int_f1414a2b	comment	The marketing for Terminator 3 mined Ebert's review — "'Terminator' is made in the spirit of these slick new action thrillers, and abandons its own tradition to provide wall-to-wall action in what is essentially one long chase and fight, punctuated by comic, campy or simplistic dialogue" — for the blurb, "Wall-to-wall action!" Ebert remarked wryly, "You have to admit 'wall-to-wall action' does accurately describe the film. So does my closing sentence: '...dumbed down for the multiplex hordes.'"
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Quote Mine / int_f31d7d98	comment	Discussed by Foxxy Love on Drawn Together—due to the nature of the reality show-within-a-show, the editors are able to use white flash transitions to skip between scenes and make people sound like they're agreeing to things they aren't. When Foxxy complains about it in a confessional, the scene flashes rapidly to make it sound like she says "My—taint—is—made—of—bacon". Only for her to right after state that her taint actually is made of bacon.
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Quote Mine / int_f385471d	comment	Parodied on the website for McPixel, where many review quotes are either in a foreign language, or mined until they're nothing but complete nonsense.
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Quote Mine / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Artemis Fowl does this in the second book. He mines a recorded conversation with his mother for quotes that he then combines into an entirely different message to fool his school principal.
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Quote Mine / int_f53fe2fa	comment	In the Mission: Impossible episode "The Elixir", the team edits a videotape of a dictator suspending free elections into an announcement of her immediate retirement instead.
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Quote Mine / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: A Dumbass DJ duo at KACL inflict a series of pranks on Frasier that culminates in them cutting together quotes from his show with some stock groaning to make it sound like Frasier and Roz are having sex in the studio. Roz is furious and ready to barge into the booth to fight them but Frasier insists she let him confront them verbally first.
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Quote Mine / int_f74b5f80	comment	The episode "The Illusion of Truth" in Babylon 5 featured a news report which did this, along with a whole bunch of other ghastly "journalistic" tricks, to cast the titular station in a very bad light (this happened after the newly authoritarian Earth government took over the news channel in question and turned it into an overt propaganda outlet). Although given that the B5 staff knew this was probably going to happen, you'd think they would have refrained from giving the reporters ammunition like "no force in the universe can stop us" to work with. Sheridan claimed that they gave them little to work with, but he must not have been paying as much attention to his words as he thought. Sometimes they give them nothing and it's still abused. In another clip, alien Ambassador Londo is complaining to Sheridan about the climate control in his quarters while Sheridan smiles and nods. Londo concludes with "This is highly inappropriate, Captain." The news report narrates over everything but the last sentence with a bit about how Sheridan is now taking orders from aliens. And cuts off just midway through Sheridan's highly insulting (to Londo) rebuff. In another case, simply removing all audio and replacing it with a voiceover works. So a scene of Lennier, a Minbari, showing the reporter where the station's (mainly Human) homeless live and telling him about the social plans that Sheridan tries to use to help them, while Dr. Franklin rushes past helping a heart attack victim, turns into one in which the aliens are dominant over the Humans, and anyone who objects is sedated and taken away by Dr. Franklin to be experimented on. Plus, the fact that Delenn previously made herself a Human-Minbari hybrid is obvious evidence that they are hoping to make other hybrids using genetic alteration.
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Quote Mine / int_ff8630c9	comment	Fahrenheit 9/11 had another example when Moore excerpted a speech by National Security Advisor National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in regards to Iraq and 9/11. In actuality, Rice said "Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that led people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York." Rice's speech stated that Hussein was not directly involved in the terror attacks but rather incited anti-American hatred that inspired terrorism. However, Moore only showed the first sentence while omitting the rest of the speech to imply that Rice claimed that Saddam is involved in the attacks.
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