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Originally posted by Xugumad
Sure, that's the reason. It's also a falsification of a public record. If you're the White House office, and you release a transcript of a speech the President gave, don't you think you ought to release the actual text he spoke? This sanitization of the truth is - to me - absolutely baffling, and the actual reason why I posted the above. His error is excusable, falsifying public records isn't. To use hyperbole, what if a given government politician made a speech in which he accidentally misspoke and blamed Jews for the ills of the world, only for the 'official' record of that speech to be 'corrected'?
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IIRC, standard procedure is that the "transcript", in the case of a prepared speech, is produced and released to the media just _before_ the speech is made.
(edit is that I added the last 'and')