Posted on 09/04/2004 5:01:21 AM PDT by MaineRepublic
By E & P Staff
Published: September 03, 2004 10:00 PM EST
NEW YORK The Associated Press changed "boos" to "ooohhs" Friday afternoon in reporting on President George Bush's first statement to supporters on the heart ailment that has befallen former President Bill Clinton.
In a dispatch sent to subscribers in early afternoon, the AP reported that when Bush, at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, told the crowd that he wished to send Clinton his "best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery," the audience "of thousands booed. Bush did nothing to stop them."
Pretty damning, except that AP soon changed its story, only after the original appeared on many Web sites.
Several Web sites revealed that AP "retracted" the report "citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd's reaction."
The new version moved on the wire Friday described the same incident this way, after relating Bush's remarks: "The crowd reacted with applause and with some 'ooohs,' apparently surprised by the news that Clinton was ill."
A Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT) report put it this way: "Some in Bush's audience booed when he wished Clinton well...." The AFP wire report declared that after Bush's statement "thousands of boisterous supporters clapped respectfully."
The gays are the principal source of the "PJB's Convention Speech was Hateful and Divisive" crap.
As usual, the Internet is a VERY useful tool for adding one and one--and getting TWO--unlike what the presstitutes would have us believe.
That reaction should tell anyone everything they need to know about AP.
Writing to this guy with his record, is a waste of time.
However, emailing AP and telling them to keep up the good work with stuff like this pos lying article, as we want to see them lose like Kerry will, may have an impact.
I didn't hear about the controversy until 5:30 PM yesterday after a LO-O-O-O-O-NG day at the rally (we had arrived very early to score a front row standing position right in front of the podium and afterwards ran into friends and enjoyed a late Chinese lunch with them on the south side of town. A phone call from a friend while driving alerted me to the controversy, but it sounded like Belling had taken care of it. My knee was just killing me after 5 1/2 hours standing so I crashed on the couch and fell asleep until about 10PM.
I went to my computer and checked Drudge. He was still running the original AP story -- no rectraction. I fired off a note to him about the story and received an immediate reply that they were checking into it further. 10 minutes later, the garbled semi-retraction paragraph was posted -- developing. This morning it is the same, except for the link to the official White House transcript with the word 'applause' written in at the appropriate points.
I know that the timing of the post of the semi-retraction was not due to my note -- I'm sure that hiundres of you had already written. But I don't understand why Drudge hasn't fully exposed this story. Covering for the incompetence of some of his sources????
How would you get this covered ont he Fox show devoted to press issues???
In other words, they take a guess at how much bush-bashing they can get away with, then they backpedal until they reach a tolerable position.
Hmmm. Very mathematical of them-
The technique needs a name; how about the
"Regression Analysis of Maximally Slanted Believability"?
The internet is great at finding these individuals like the lesbo Green jihadist from San Francisco who was escorted from the convention floor.
I got a heads up about this gay connection from an interesting source, a conservative gay. He made the suggestion of doing the Yahoo search (Yahoo search is fast, simple and great) with the reporters name and gay.
Some of these gay reporters have been pushing the gay agenda for over a decade, and of course nothing is said by AP or the rag they are working for about their past record.
I like the term "Islamo-fascist Radicals"
Think twice before you speak to AP. .. check this out...
Or at least have a camcorder or taperecorder handy.
Again, New Media catches Old Media lies.
Was that debunked? I thought her parents admitted it.
His name is Tom Hays. Someone tracked it down on another thread.
Thanks!
Eric Burns.
Emailed him 5 minutes ago. GOOD IDEA!!
Clinton will undergo heart bypass surgery
By Andrew Miga
Saturday, September 4, 2004
NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton faces coronary bypass surgery as soon as today ...
[paragraphs snipped] ... Both Sen. John F. Kerry and President Bush [related, bio] publicly wished Clinton a quick recovery as they launched their fall campaigns. Some in the crowd reportedly booed when Bush offered kind words at a West Allis, Wis., stop.
``He is in our thoughts and prayers,'' said Bush, who The Associated Press said did nothing to stop the booing. ``We send him our best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery.''
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=42753 <-- Hark, the Herald sings
They corrected it... after millions had been LIED TO!!
Yes. The thing that strikes me is, the MSM/LLM still thinks it's the 1970s, and that they can create the news instead of just reporting it (like this nonstory), or that they can bury the news they don't want to come to light (the MSM's reaction to the SBVFT story). They think they still can alter the truth by airbrushing out what they don't like-like when the boos that greeted HR-C at Madison Square in 2001 were edited out (as if the original unedited segments weren't already available online). Between the bloggers, internet news, and talk radio, their power to control the news, if not totally destroyed, has been severely compromised. I have no doubt whatsoever that algore would've been allowed to prevail if it hadn't been for the internet and the outraged activism that it allowed . So why do the MSM reporters not see this? I am forced to fall back on the oldest answer : Maybe reporters and journalists, by and large, aren't very intelligent. Supposedly, they have the second lowest GPAs of any major while in college (the lowest being education majors). Perhaps not-very-bright people with a burning desire to 'make a difference"' (ie, try to slant news in a way that conforms to the PC/leftist crapola they swallowed whole on campus) are what's drawn to journalism-they want to "change society" to conform to the aforementioned PC crapola. They don't-can't-realize that their desire to use reporting as a tool for activism is an insult to the very concept of journalism, which is supposed to be neutral-to let the reader weigh the facts and decide. And they don't realize that their ability to do so ended forever-and over a decade ago! (My apologies to any conservative reporter reading this-and to any liberal journalist (eg Nat Henthoff) who try to report the news in a fair, balanced way.I'm sure there's a couple.)
Drudge is a one-man show and may have taken the weekend off.
And, of course, this does involve a little bit of time to do the research, etc.
Finally, although it's a big story for Milwaukee and a notable story nationally, it's not Chechen, or Kirkutsk, or a hurricane.
I emailed the link to this FR thread to Eric Burns. If he reads the thread, he'll get a flavor for the story. He can do the rest of the research himself.
Good policy. I've done the same in the past, and found some interesting "connections."
Are you saying that one of the pilots on the AA plane that flew into the Pentagon was the partner of this smarmy anti-bush activist?
This is hugh! Series!
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