The DNC has edited out the red state / blue state lines from the 2004 keynote speech video on their website and on YouTube. This entire portion is missing:
The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red
states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for
Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God
in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our
libraries in the red states.
We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we’ve got some gay
friends in the red states.
(APPLAUSE)
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots
who supported the war in Iraq.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and
stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
The full transcript is here. Why would they do this?
