I have a hypothesis about why it's so easy to make anyone in government (or anyone on TV really) look stupid by compiling sound bites: The human mind was not built to endure the 24 hour news cycle. You expose anyone to cameras/radio/journalists for 24 hours a day and eventually they are going to say something you can use to make them look stupid. I believe this is most likely because none of us are as smart as we think we are. Everyone thinks things that someone else would find stupid a lot more than we'd like to admit. Now, with that said, some people/organizations are more prone to stupidity (or being evil) than others...
Jon Stewart treats the subject in this clip.
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