Posted on 08/19/2009 5:53:00 AM PDT by Kieri
That’s why I put (MI) in the title. ;-)
If the SEIU didn't want the community to know they were bussing in these people, why part several blocks away? Why give them "credit" for admitting it once they were caught?
Let me put this through my media lib-speak transmogrifier...
Hmmm...
Here’s the translation now...
“We lied for our friends on the Left, we got caught, our fig-leaf of journalistic objectivity was laying flat on the ground in the face of the strong wind of citizen outrage, so here’s a little obscure correction we hope no one will read. But, it really doesn’t matter. The Left was right anyhow.”
So, we are to believe two reporters failed to notice a caravan of busses in Jackson?
I have issues with suspension of disbelief.
They are grammatically challenged for the same reason that they are liberal. It's because they are not too bright. That's just between "you and I." (sic)
“If the SEIU didn’t want the community to know they were bussing in these people, why part several blocks away?”
They don’t want them anywhere near a camera.
Remember, it’s ALL about Kubuki theater. Once the show is over, the meme is set, and it’s time to move on. Who cares what you see, then. It’s NOT like the national media is going to cover this story....
Speculation, innuendo, and outright misrepresentation is all fine if it’s against republicans.
No one in the msm noticed the busses in PA either when they arrived at the Specter rally.
It is true, and it wasn’t included in the original story, but not because we were trying to slant coverage. The simple truth is it was a difficult fact to nail down
Really?
If there are supporters for a Government take over at a Government rally/dog and pony show, you might be able to ASSUME that they have been bused in..................
More than two reporters failed to notice. I saw TV 53, 6 and 10 down there.
Wait - you were able to notice the TV trucks? You must have x-ray vision, or something.
In post number 12 you can look at my photos and see that my x ray camera works pretty well too.
It says volumes about the media of this country when people like myself are actually shocked when a reporter tells the truth (but of course he then had to put his own “spin” on it)
That particular misuse drives my wife bonkers. And you hear it all the time.
Hey - that is on my old street, about ten blocks from my house!
LOL. Sorry I missed it.
Corner of Ganson and West Ave.
Here’s the comment I posted on that article:
Chris,
Thank you for following up and getting the facts out.
Just one important correction:
It wasn’t just the White House saying the protesters are “organized”, “bused in”, and “astroturf”. Unlike you, your fellow journalists embraced those charges and ran with it the entire first week of town-hall coverage. They hung onto flimsy evidence to tarnish countless self-motivated Americans as partisan hacks.
All the while, they ignored massive evidence of actual “organized” efforts by Democrats and their supporters. Where was the wall-to-wall coverage of a black conservative beaten by union thugs in St. Louis? They also called him the n-word. Can’t remember the last time the media passed on a story like that.
So I wish you had included the “context” in which conservatives were so determined to see this story completed. You did your part. Pat on the back to you. But I wish you’d taken your own profession to task for failing to do what you did.
Here in Indiana, Rep. Mark Sauder said SEIU and ACORN were bused in for his townhalls. They were from Chicago and Detroit.
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