History Main / QuoteMine

* ''Fanfic/WeightOfTheWorld'': {{Lampshaded}} in ''The Charlatan of Choice''. After being "interviewed" by Charon, America realizes the reporter might manipulate and splice his words together to make it seem like Ironwood is a StalkerWithACrush, then play the results at the [[KangarooCourt sham trial]].

* PlayedWith in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' when Bruce Wayne jams the Penguin's microphone while he's giving his mayoral candidacy speech and then plays a tape of him saying, "Hey, just relax! I'll take care of the squealing, wretched, pinhead puppets of Gotham!" and then "You gotta admit, I played this stinking city like a harp from Hell!" As the crowd starts to become angry, the Penguin insists "I didn't say that" - which ''is'' MetaphoricallyTrue. He didn't say it ''live'', at that ''very moment'', so Wayne's implication that he was saying those words in front of all those people (and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity obviously,]] he ''wouldn't'' have) ''was'' deceptive. But he ''had'' said those things the night before, when no one except Batman could hear them...[[VillainBall not anticipating that Batman would record them for posterity.]] So it's an EngineeredPublicConfession: taken out of context, but not a {{Frameup}} either.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'''s first ClipShow episode "Phineas's Birthday Clip-o-Rama," Isabella uses her computer's video editor and repurposes a bunch of scenes with [[ObliviousToLove Phineas]] in them to make it look like he's declaring his love for her.

** "Abolition of the family!" is a line from the ''Communist Manifesto'' that is often quoted out of context as proof of an anti-family agenda, whereas it's actually a paraphrase of his critics. He and Engels go on to say they are against the family as an economic relationship for private gain, not that they want to take everybody's kids away (except for a little thing we now call "public education").

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' episode "Duchess of Mandalore", a recording from a deceased Mandalorian representative is presented in the Senate as a call for aid from the Republic to help Mandalore, which would violate the planet's oath of neutrality in the war and give the local terrorist group, Death Watch, a pretense to bring the planet back to its [[ProudWarriorRace old ways]] (and then join the Separatists). Duchess Satine knows something is off with the recording based on what she knows of the representative's character, but can't prove it immediately due to his death. When she gets her hands on the original recording and has it presented through Padme (due to Satine being falsely accused of murdering her informant), it is shown that the representative was trying to make a case for why Mandalore ''doesn't'' need Republic intervention to deal with Death Watch. If one [[RewatchBonus looks at both recordings carefully]], you can tell where it was quote-mined (and the recording was apparently edited carefully to avoid showing splices in audio).

* Done with an InUniverse [[AsTheGoodBookSays religious text]] in the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novel ''Duty Calls''. A [[spoiler:rogue Ordo Hereticus inquisitor]] shrugs off shooting desperate civilians who tried use his shuttle to escape a [[BugWar Tyranid attack]] with the line "The path of duty is often a stony one." Cain is apparently quite fond of that text, recognizes the Quote Mine for what it is, and is furious about it underneath the pleasant poker face he needs to keep up. Amberley Vail's footnote reveals that the latter half of the sentence changes the meaning completely, to mean essentially the opposite:

* ''Series/{{Conan}}'' features a recurring bit where Creator/AlexTrebek's voice on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' is spliced to make him sound [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msunDlqD818 completely insane]].
** The show also does this to Series/DrPhil with its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADyk3gtdmkM Punxsutawney Dr. Phil]] character.
* On the September 12, 2012, installment of her self-titled talk show, Ellen [=DeGeneres=] quote-mined both President Obama and his then-opponent, Mitt Romney, to make nice political ads against the other. [[http://www.ellentv.com/2012/09/12/nice-political-ads/ Seen here.]] So President Obama ended up saying, among other things, "Governor Romney ... drove my grandma to work." And Candidate Romney said, among other things, "President Obama ... won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII."
** In October-November 2013, she quote mined Alex Trebek for his "audition tape" for the lead role in film of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.

* Done in-universe in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. On an in-universe version of ''To Catch a Predator'', a man comes into the room with the teenaged girl and tries immediately to convince her that this is ''not'' what she wants to do, and that any creep could show up and have his way with her. He tells her to get out of her skankly clothes and put something decent on; when the episode aired, this was edited down to him simply demanding sex from her and telling her to strip, and his life was ruined though he was never formally charged.

* During the 2012 US presidential election, President UsefulNotes/BarackObama was quoted as saying "If you've got a business, you didn't build that!", and the Republican party quickly latched onto it as an attack against American individualism, making "We built it!" their 2012 national convention's catchphrase. The line was actually part of a larger speech in which Obama explained why wealthy citizens should pay higher taxes.
-->'''Obama:''' There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn't, look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own...if you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

* Radio/TrueCapitalistRadio THRIVES on this. It's the MO of most trolls to take anything and everything Ghost says and "splice" it out of context.

** The callers on [[Radio/TrueCapitalist 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 embarrassing things they've made him say. It's not just re-edited audio, though; he has, indeed, said some very mineable quotes without any editing.
-->"[[AccidentalInnuendo I always walk around here in Texas... uh, with my strap on...]]"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGEuIdzD0xE Mitt Romney advocates children in half]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMHANUJD5NQ Obama comments on the sad state of Youtube Poops.]]

** "See You Again" is a tribute song to the late Creator/PaulWalker, but in "United State of Pop 2015 (50 Shades of Pop)" the lyrics from both Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Put are mixed in with the rest of the song, which is about love and sex. It also recontextualizes lyrics from Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" to fit in with the theme, when the former is a self-parody song about how she's portrayed as a "psycho girlfriend" in the media, and the latter is a diss track to Katy Perry.

* The ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_20266_5-despicable-things-people-do-good-online-reviews_p2.html 5 Despicable Things People Do for Good Online Reviews]]" lists this practice under #2.
** In [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-humanity-desperately-wants-monsters-to-be-real/ this article]] by David Wong: "Hitler was right" and "Hitler...was saving the world".