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Cheap Shot
February 16, 2004
That’s a Stretch, Scott
As Instapundit points out this morning, Scott Lindlaw of the Associated Press tries really, really hard to link Bush's appearance at the Daytona 500 Sunday back to the story about his National Guard service.
Writes Lindlaw:
With his wife, Laura, trailing him, Bush walked the pit, mingling with drivers, shaking hands with fans. He peered into car No. 16, sponsored by the National Guard, and if the car reminded him of the tempest swirling around his own service in the Texas Air National Guard, he didn't show it.
Scott also looks back, with this non sequitur: "The president got a much warmer reception than Bill Clinton did when he visited a NASCAR race as a candidate in September 1992, when the question of his lack of Vietnam-era military service was dogging Clinton."
Evidently if you send Lindlaw to a NASCAR race, instead of journalism you get armchair psychoanalysis and a history lesson. We can't wait to see how he covers the NCAA tournament.
--B.K.
http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000150.asp
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He was wearing earplugs at the Bush rally in Wisconsin! EARPLUGS!
AP REPORTER: Scott Lindlaw?
The Crowd That Didn't Boo Power Line ^ | 9/9/04 | Power Line
Posted on 09/10/2004 4:37:35 AM PDT by Elkiejg
AP REPORTER: Scott Lindlaw?
The Crowd That Didn't Boo Power Line ^ | 9/9/04 | Power Line
Posted on 09/10/2004 4:37:35 AM PDT by Elkiejg
We may be inching closer to the truth about the false Associated Press report claiming that a Republican crowd in West Allis, Wisconsin, booed the announcement that President Clinton had been hospitalized, and "President Bush did nothing to stop them."
We have an inside source who was present at the rally and is familiar with the reporters involved. Our source tells us that Tom Hays, whose byline was on the false AP report, was not at the West Allis rally. He is not one of the AP reporters assigned to cover President Bush, and is believed to have been in New York at the time.
Our source says that the AP reporter behind the story was Scott Lindlaw. Lindlaw is one of the AP reporters who cover the Bush campaign. His anti-Bush prejudices are well-known; our source has heard him say that his "mission" is to see that Bush is not re-elected.
On the day of the West Allis rally, Lindlaw was wearing ear plugs in his ears, as he often does to minimize crowd noise. After Bush's speech, he approached another AP reporter and said that he thought he had heard boos, and asked whether his colleague had heard any. The second AP reporter said that she didn't hear any booing. Nevertheless, Lindlaw apparently sent in a story, which wound up for some unexplained reason under Tom Hays' byline, which said:
Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.
We will add questions about Mr. Lindlaw to those we are directing to the Associated Press.
http://www.620wtmj.com/620programs/charliesykes/weblog.asp
And now Lindlaw has admitted he was the "reporter" responsible for the story.
Glad that's now known far and wide.
Too bad Lindlaw isn't following the Kerry Kamp. He wouldn't need earplugs for the non-existant "crowd noise".
LOL