Posted on 09/14/2004 7:24:12 PM PDT by Arnold Zephel
AP Reporter in 'Clinton Booed' Flap Stands by Claim By Jeff Gannon Talon News September 13, 2004
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- An Associated Press reporter who filed a story that former President Clinton was 'booed' at a Wisconsin rally when President George W. Bush announced that his predecessor had been hospitalized for heart surgery is standing by his claim. Scott Lindlaw, a White House correspondent who was among the reporters traveling with President Bush during the campaign swing to several battleground states, provided the information for the story that appeared under the byline of Tom Hays.
No other news agency reported any booing and none is audible on network television clips, but the AP sent out the article with the statement, "Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them."
Shortly after the article appeared on the wire, Karen Hughes, an advisor to President Bush, demanded it be corrected. The AP deleted the two sentences from the story and released it with no byline.
Tom Curley, AP president and CEO, was asked by Talon News to explain the circumstances surrounding the correction.
Curley said, "The reporter and a couple others standing with him thought they heard booing. After checking of tapes, they decided it was oohs, not boos."
Curley also confirmed that Hays was not present at the Wisconsin rally, but was in New York at the time of the event. The reference to "booing" came from material provided by Lindlaw. Talon News confronted Lindlaw on Friday about the discrepancy in his reporting of the event.
When asked if he heard booing as he reported, he replied, "I did."
Lindlaw declined to be interviewed but insisted that his reporting was accurate.
Lindlaw said, "What I had to say I put in the wire."
Lindlaw refused to answer any other questions about the report. Lindlaw provided no explanation for making a charge that would create a negative impression of President Bush and his supporters.
Some have criticized Lindlaw's previous work for having an anti-Bush slant. In July, he wrote an article that used detailed quotes from a meeting of Washington, DC conservatives that was "off the record." The original source of the quotes was not Lindlaw, since he was not present at the meeting.
His story, titled "Some Key Conservatives Uneasy About Bush," suggested that because one of the 150 participants in the meeting had expressed misgivings about the Iraq war, conservatives are perhaps turning away from the president. Lindlaw quotes two men from Missouri to support his thesis, one of whom is undecided about which candidate he may vote for.
Copyright © 2004 Talon News -- All rights reserved.
Heard the audio of it. Just another case, in a long string of cases reaching back over the years, of MSM lies...
Know thy enemy
Remember that name
Whoopie Goldberg said a lot of crude and inappropriate things about the President and Vice President... Nobody booed, and John Kerry did nothing to stop her. In fact, he praised her and included her in calling Hollywood performers the Heart and Soul of America.
Now, that's damning and true!
Folks, they are leftists, they hate republicans as "nazis" they don't give a damn about the truth they are not reporters and they are getting worse and worse because republicans, but ultimately Americans, let them get away with it.
We've put Dan Rather on the ropes. Scott Lindlaw doesn't have a prayer. Just keep watching what he does, and keep the heat on. Nobody punks the blogosphere.
They leanred from Clinton.
And why would the AP byline the article with Tom Hays, sitting in New York in his pajamas, when Scott Lindlaw was the actual reporter on the scene?
Inquiring minds want to know what evil lurks in the minds of the AP editors?
They have learned from Clinton.
Must be related to Dan Rather.
Oh this is rich--as Warner Wolf would say--let's go to the tape. Sounds like Scott is a Dan Rather wannabe. Auditioning to be his replacement no doubt.
Ummmmm.
...because they don't?
"What are you going to believe, me or the audio file?" What a POS. I am going to look for him next time the Pres is in town.
Well, you see, the AP hired an "expert" speech analyst to analyze and validate the tape for veracity. But, it turns out, he didn't actually get to hear the tape... the AP reporter just described to him what was on it.
Sounds to me this is the new wave of media reporting: report made-up lies and then stand by them will than turn the reported lies into truth. We can thank CBS for this new kind of reporting.
When asked if he heard booing as he reported, he replied, "I did."
Lindlaw declined to be interviewed but insisted that his reporting was accurate.
Lindlaw said, "What I had to say I put in the wire."
ASS-ociated press should stake this guy to a hearing test - or a sanity test......
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