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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]]. Features commonly in sloppy rhetoric and propaganda pieces. Unfortunately, this usually works with [[Viewers are Morons|an ill-informed audience]], as the speaker can usually expect that they [[Did Not Do the Research|will not check the source]] for the quotes. Frequently used as part of an ''ad hominem'' fallacious argument.
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 "[[Franken
Compare/Contrast [[Quote Swear Unquote]] (fiddling with quotes, but not passing them off as accurate). Also compare [[Manipulative Editing]]. Very likely to lead to [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]. Despite the similarity in sound, has nothing to do with [[Enemy Mine]].
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* ''[[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''.
** [[The Colbert Report|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."
* In ''[[Studio 60
** Kind of an example itself; the Bible says ''everyone'' is a sinner.
* An episode of ''[[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).
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* Happens to GOB in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' when he is accused of killing an old man who went missing. He tells the media, "Don't edit this statement to make it sound like I killed him!" Needless to say, those last three words were all the reporters needed.
* ''[[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 [[
{{quote|'''Eric:''' Aren't you a little cold?
'''Laurie:''' No, in fact I'm hot. Besides, it's not like I'm completely naked under this.
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** ''[[The Daily Show]]'' and ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' are also frequently accused of using the technique themselves - Bill O'Reilly complained that one clip of him apparently contradicting himself had "eight out-of-context edits" within a few seconds. Whether the edits actually changed the meaning of what he was saying is debatable.
*** The war in Iraq: [http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=113635&title=Headlines---Rambling-Man Three years, one speech].
* A staple of [[
** The callers on [[True Capitalist|Ghost's online radio show that claims to be about Capitalism]] do this ''with his own voice''. This leads to much lulz, and the host getting incredibly angry over the embarassing things they've made him say...
{{quote|"...and I hate to keep beating - my grandmother - here... *punch punch punch*"}}
* Byron Hall and someone identifying himself only as "Burnout" counter-reviewed Jason Sartin and Darren MacLennan's infamous review of [[FATAL]]; 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 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.
** Of course, the net result is that someone who bothered to make a [[Beyond the Impossible|over-the]]-over-the-top gross parody "game", the only imaginable purpose of which is blatant trolling of [[Yaoi Fangirl]]s (who else would ''try'' to play anything with all those rules?) not only blatantly trolled a couple of "offended!" reviewers whose attention constantly wanders toward male genitals - which is just continuing to shoot fish in the barrel - but trolled their followers into claiming that [[Hollywood
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY Obama Admits He Is A Muslim]. The whole thing.
* [[Dirty Potter]]. NSFW
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