Posted on 02/01/2006 8:01:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
BUSTED!
We have (another) NY Times and MSM fabrication moment!
Southack, in reply 139 in the thread "Alito: Two Nominee Strategies. One Worked." pointed out this made-up quote by the NY Times:
"What that means on television sets where the American people are watching this is, you look good and they look bad. It was the central operating premise."
This is a fabricated "quote" that CANNOT be real: the tense of the supposed "White House" source changes in mid-breathe. IT CAN'T HAVE BEEN SAID THIS WAY.
Does it matter? Sure.
The whole article attacks the White House (Rowe, in other words) by showing how they deliberately manipulated the "image" of Alito to be innocent, mild, and low-key, thus showing how the inept democrats weren't really cruel/mean/lying hypocritical whining dolts.
Second, the sentence leads the article and IS the premise of the whole article (Rowe and the White House "set up" the Alito hearings) that Alito was propped up as sympathetic, and democrat's were setup to the cruel, inane hatred typical of Kennedy/Biden/Shumer.
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Following is the start of the original Free Republic thread: Alito: Two Nominee Strategies. One Worked.
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The New York Times ^ | January 31, 2006 | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Posted on 01/31/2006 12:16:41 AM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 — The week before his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. e-mailed the text of his opening statement to the White House. It included very little about his legal thinking, dwelled at length on his family and opened with a tired and rambling joke about courtroom banter between a lawyer and a judge.
I'm waiting for his excuse: "Oh, we just typed the quotation marks in the wrong place."
Rowe must be behind it.
Of course any "anonymous" source can and most likely often is made up by that leftist rag.
bump.
Alito should sue them. :)
"Any time they are yelling, preaching, lecturing, and you are cool and calm and breathing deep, you are winning," the administration official said the White House team told Judge Alito. "What that means on television sets where the American people are watching this is, you look good and they look bad. It was the central operating premise."
The hearer changes mid-quote. For the first part, Alito was being spoken to in the present tense. The last sentence is directed to the reporter live, thus the switch to the past tense.
Rove, not 'Rowe'.
Need a link to original thread because this one isn't making any sense.
If they say "Fake but accurate", we'll know where Mary Mapes is. Or maybe Baghdad Bob. I get those two mixed up.
LOL! Either "Rowe" or "Alioto" thought it up by himself!
Could be.
Frankly, it's time for there to be "Journalism Police" when something like this comes up.
There should be a balanced (meaning a number of obvious liberals and the same number of obvious conservatives) group that takes stories with questionable quotes, obtains the name of the source from the journalist, and contacts the source to verify that he said what was written. Evetybody would have the same "source protection privilege" granted sources today. This should apply to print, radio/TV, and web media.
If the story or the quote was made up or taken out of context, the media outlet that promulgated it should correct the statement or story on the same page (or broadcast or web page) as soon as possible.
Pretty naive thought, eh? You know, the only people who would be against it are the libs.
There are fact checking groups already, but they can't check everything. The libs check the cons, and vice versa.
Do you remember the MSNBC (I think it was them) that had an article about an "anonymous" republican who was upset that republicans controlled the senate and was scared that democrats wouldn't have a viable canidate in 2008.
Reading it, I was hysterical, it was so blatantly made up.
The quote is cogent, and a perfectly good assessment by the quoted operative.
8<)
Oye Weigh! (As the fat New Yorker might be heard to sigh in frustration... ...)
Original thread, as requested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568460/posts?q=1&&page=1#1
I don't get the outrage? The NYTimes is pond scum of the worst type...but I'm not going to war over a tense change. No way. No how.
Ya made me laugh! :-)
"Any time they are yelling, preaching, lecturing, and you are cool and calm and breathing deep, you are winning," the administration official said the White House team told Judge Alito. "What that means on television sets where the American people are watching this is, you look good and they look bad. It was the central operating premise."
I don't see the problem.
In the first sentence the speaker is relaying what someone else said. In the second & third sentences, he is speaking for himself and explaining the strategy.
Is that Rowe, as in Rove v Wade?
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