Schumer Floor Speech Slandering U.S. Troops Ignored by Old Media

NewsBusters ^ | September 10, 2007 | Tom Blumer |

[george76]

Bloggers have caught a politician saying one thing in a speech, while carrying a very different rendering of a critical passage at a supposed "transcript" of that speech.

The difference is significant.

The transcript whitewashes a slander on the performance of US troops in Iraq delivered by a United States senator.

Specifically, New York's Charles Schumer gave a made a speech on the floor of the Senate last week ascribing the turnaround in the Anbar province in Iraq to the locals, and discrediting the notion that American troops could have had anything to do with it.

[Yardstick]

What’s written in the red box isn’t what he said. The written version has “...the lack of protection for these tribes”, which is fairly passive. In the spoken version Schumer explicitly calls out the troops as having failed to protect the Sunnis.

[george76]

thanks