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Are you asking about the cuts in the audio clips or the video clips? Aside from that final shot of Mitt speaking directly to camera, the audio and video are sourced from different places.

The video is taken entirely from different Romney ads available on his YouTube channel.

The audio is taken mainly from different interviews, but also from a couple of speeches and debates. I used the C-SPAN and Fox News online video archives, both of which allow you to search time-indexed transcripts.

I often only made short clips of the source audio and didn’t keep a record of the full context, but I’ve done my best and you can at least say where the cuts are.

- I don’t get that spot…
- folks who don’t really know who I am
- I don’t know what the real reason was
- tell people what I believe
- I served as governor for four years
- Like a mini-skirt he said it was short and revealing [recalling how his father described one of his own campaigns]
- I was very clear
- she was liberal
- but I remember
- I was conservative
- who were conservative as well
- Obviously he knows I’m pro-life
- but I remember
- they’d had no difficulty supporting my dad
- abortion
- and then in the January inauguration time period
- I decided to stay
- of considering a run for national office
- and don’t have an idea why [talking about leadership styles, basically saying that someone told him he was a natural leader who lead without knowing why]
- Everybody I talked to said it’s a bad idea [talking about Staples]
- but I remember
- I love debate
- with debate and disagreement over issues
- and in the case of Obamacare
- say I disagree with this
- let me correct myself
- I supported the concept of the stimulus
- the idea of an individual mandate or individual responsibility
- but I remember
- I oppose the, uh
- it’s quite different than what the President did
- And also with regards to gay marriage, I was very clear. I was opposed…
- I looked at some of his policies and said “Gosh, I have exactly the opposite view today [Talking about Teddy Roosevelt - the edit here was to drop "of my" in place of "of his"]
- One reason of course is that I hope to represent all Americans.
- And I think the American people have concluded as I have.
- the states have differences between them.
- we have differing views about how to express that love
- And I agree with the dissent
- voice for the American people.
- I believe in America.
- I’d like to ask you to join with us: volunteer, donate, or just pass this message along to a friend. Thanks so much.

Hope this more or less answers your question!

I would be interested in knowing where all of these video clips came from.  More specifically, since the editing was so  smooth, I’d like to know exactly what the individual clips were and where the breaks were.  It would help me put things into context and (IMO) it would not take away from the video’s intended purpose.

It’s just option-v, on a Mac.

Ultimately decided that there was more chance of it being seen (and also not being taken down) if I included the disclaimer and posted it from my main account.

So how is pointing it out in parody dishonest?

This kind of thing is along the lines of the GOP’s saturation campaign of ads showing Kerry saying “I was for the war before I was against it”.

And it’s much, much more honest than the ridiculous and  out of context uses of Obama’s “You didn’t build that” line they’re using now that seem designed for complete imbeciles. 

Meanwhile, Romney has signed off on several ads which used out-of-context speech in a way it was not intended, or simply contained untruths, and even after his campaign was notified that the press was aware of the problems, they allowed the ads to continue to run. Examples of this include:

“You didn’t build that.” where Obama was actually referring to infrastructure in a previous sentence, not people’s own small businesses. (Politifact gave it a “false” rating after lots of debates back and forth. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jul/26/mitt-romney/putting-mitt-romneys-attacks-you-didnt-build-truth/)

“Welfare” This ad actually forced a response from Bill Clinton who was furious. In the ad, an announcer claims that Obama has made changes to welfare that make people no longer have to work for welfare. Not only was it untrue, Romney had to know it was untrue before the ad ever aired, because he was one of the several GOP Governors who asked for the changes in welfare that would allow states to experiment with alternate plans. All the plans still required work for welfare. (Politifact gave it a “pants on fire” rating. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/aug/07/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obamas-plan-abandons-tenet/)

Or there was the ad where they used the sound bite, “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” (The very first ad from the Romney campaign.) Obama DID say that, but what he fully said in the speech was,”Sen. McCain’s campaign actually said, and I quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” So, Romney’s ad quoted Obama, quoting McCain, but failed to clarify that it was doing so. (Politifact gave it a “pants on fire” rating. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-obama-said-if-we-keep-talking-abo/)

Romney’s perfectly happy to use another man’s words out of context in an effort to damage him. I think it’s damn well time someone did it to him, and I’m glad that the Obama campaign hasn’t stooped to his level. An independent supporter took the time to do it for them, and did it well.