Posted on 09/06/2004 6:34:37 AM PDT by mrustow
Sure thing.
Thanks for the link.
You have a link for that? Because when I hit the original link at the Boston Globe, I got a dead Web page.
Audience boos as Bush offers best wishes for Clinton's recovery <-- See it.
Pray for W and Our Troops
You're right, of course. And you can forget about sending letters of complaint to the New York Times; they won't publish them. But they do publish the most venal, lying, little screeds from readers.
Audience boos as Bush offers best wishes for Clinton's recovery <-- See it."
And so it is -- unbelievable! Thanks for the link!
The false story was immediately caught and reported to conservative talk radio shows and blogs. Less than one hour after the story first went out on the wire, under the byline of AP reporter Tom Hays, it was retracted, corrected, and the original link killed. The new title was "Bush offers best wishes for Clinton's recovery." There was no mention of the changes; however, the later version without the "boos" run by the New York Times-owned Boston Globe still carried the title "audience boos as bush offers best wishes for clintons recovery" in its URL.
ha! It sure DOES!:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/09/03/ audience_boos_as_bush_offers_best_wishes_for_clintons_recovery?mode=PF
I'm sure they'll be more careful in the future in naming their URLs.
Audience boos as Bush offers best wishes for Clinton's recovery <-- WCBS, New York
http://www.wnem.com/global/story.asp?s=2257936&ClientType=Printable <-- Another
Clinton to Undergo Bypass Surgery After Chest Pains <-- Sept 4, see last paragraph
deseretnews.com - Sept 4 <-- See last para
Both President Bush and his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, wished the former president well during campaign appearances. Some in Bush's audience booed when he wished Clinton well, while those in Kerry's cheered.
Bush Sends Best Wishes To Clinton <-- Another
Many in Bush's audience booed when Clinton's name was mentioned. The president made no comment on that and continued with his rally speech.
It is scary to think of how many years we depended on the AP to give us the news. How many other times were we duped? Countless most likely, but now they have been outed.
I saw the referenced broadcast before I saw what this LIAR turned it into. I heard no boos - only applause. I listened to it again after I read his version of it - still no boos - only applause. News outlets who continue to accept his by-lines should be shunned.
Wow! Fantastic work! I just hit each link, and copied and pasted the story and the URL, noting the time in my file name, when I saved them. Thanks so much.
bump!
This story has been picked up by Michigan News:
http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_4994.shtml
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2004/0904/090604-ap-boos.htm
Excellent!
http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_4994.shtml
Great! It's getting out all over.
Bumpbackatcha!
We just had someone start a thread because CNN is actively encouraging signup for news alerts on Kerry. After going ballistic and encouraging others to boycott CNN and their advertisers, it turns out that the article was about Kerry. On a similar article about Bush, they had the same signup for alerts on stories about Bush.
While you're right about some hysterical posters around here, you and logic (and morality, too) parted ways in the above post. It sounds like you'r saying that the guy is either: 1. Somehow shellshocked by FReeper charges of media bias; or 2. Because of hysteria among some on the right, leftwing media hysteria is ok.
The guy didn't make an error; he lied. The crowd didn't boo, it applauded. And the name of the URL was "crowd boos..." The whole point of the story was the lie; all the rest was window-dressing. And AP didn't correct the story, they hid it, as if it had never existed. A "corrected" story would at the very least be marked "revised." This one wasn't. And AP didn't notify all of its outlets that the story was wrong, or make a public acknowledgement of error. It is stonewalling, and many outlets are still carrying the fraudulent story.
According to your logic, so many people are breaking the law, that it would be unfair for cops to single out a minority of lawbreakers for arrest.
Excellent, but it's not just Hays. Since the URL itself said "crowd boos," I think there was at least one editor in on this.
Funny you should state this, because it is what I already do. I became disenchanted with AP on a couple of stories that were obvious distortions of the actual events in order to make political points.
I recall that one of them was about the law school shooting where students with guns stopped the shooter. The AP editor acknowledged that he knew that the students had guns, but did not include it in the story. He said that he was horrified that the students had guns.
Arrogant Perfidy?
I believe that we have been lied to on a regular basis for four decades or more.
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