Olbermann: CBS a Victim, FNC the Villain for Running Swift Ads

MRC ^ | Tuesday January 11, 2005 | Brent Baker,Brad Wilmouth

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On ABC's World News Tonight, Brian Ross : "The investigation says, while Rather played a small role in the original report, he played a large role in trying to defend the indefensible, often blaming the right wing."

Richard Thornburgh: "He mischaracterized the source, referred to him as 'unimpeachable,' when it's well-known in the background of this particular source was a lot of bias and a lot of reason to pause."

Richard Thornburgh, former Attorney General: "We did find, however, an insensitivity to appearances, so most of the sources for this story had a strong anti-President Bush agenda of their own."

Lisa Myers stressed on the January 10 NBC Nightly News: "The panel also said producer Mary Mapes' contact with the Kerry campaign about the story was inappropriate and created an appearance of political bias."

Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post: "It's going to take a while for the network to get over a high-profile blunder."

"CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves says Rather will not be disciplined in light of his previous decision to leave the anchor chair this March."

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[Brilliant]

Can anyone say "nutcase"?

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[Conservative Canuck]

This guy doesn't know the difference between paid advertising time and editorial/reporting in the name of the news organization. Sheesh. Nuance isn't the word for it. It's outright distortion of the truth.

[Howlin]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out Olbermann's dog in this hunt.

[OPS4]

CBS, ABC, NBC, are going down in flames, and the voice of the monitors of Neros court are singing while the idiots of the family, (like Obermann)play the violins.

OPs4 God BLess America!

[exnavychick]

LOL, Keith. What's the difference, here? Let me explain:

The Swift Boat ads were just that, ads! The were produced and developed by private citizens, NOT journalists working for a network. They weren't attempting to masquerade their ad as a "hard news story".

What a maroon.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Yep...the MSM and their hangers on will talk about how nothing was done improperly, while the blogosphere and those who know where the better news coverage will fry CBS...and it's hurting them already.

First CBS...then which domino falls next?

[CyberAnt]

How would Olbermann know there was distortion or untruth in the SwiftBoat ads ..?? Evidently, Keith was watching FNC and saw them .. or propably more correctly, he's just being his usual ULTRA LEFT-WING BIASED NEWS READER.

[Darkwolf377]

Uh, the difference, Olberforehead, is Williams was fired from his columnist gig. The difference, Keith No-Audience, is that Rather is the public spokesman for a major TV network and not just a single syndicated journalist. The difference, smasher of dolls in prime time, is Rather tried to sink a sitting president with lies and he got off without punishment.

Tell that to your audience and you might have a molecule of journalistic credibility. Step one: Get an audience.

[blackie]

Double "nutcase" ~ Bump!

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60 Minutes Has Pounded on Bush All Year

[BenLurkin]

In my opinion he is a very confused person mentally.

As to the reason for his mental confusion of which I opine, I don't know and I won't speculate.

I will predict that his television career may hit thin ice sooner than anyone expects -- but again, that is just my opinion.

[AZ_Cowboy]

Tinfoil Keith strikes again! I think that, without realizing it of course, Olbermann has become the epitome of how liberal the media really is. He even posesses the usual tone-deafness to his own biases. No doubt he actually is dumb enough to buy into the argument that we in the "right-wing media" (also known as people with brains) set up Rather for this one.

Simple intiution is enough to refute the lib argument here. Even without the report, it was obvious that grave wrongdoing had been committed at CBS. If the Rather crew had a prayer of restoring their credibility (or at least the perception thereof), they would have done it. As it stands, Rather scrammed town before the Sheriff rode in. If he was righteous as Olbermann and the fellow tinfoilers claim he is, one would think he'd stay and fight.

[TomGuy]

Olbermann has what? 3 regular viewers?

I think I've watched maybe 2 minutes of him and that was all of his smarmyness I could take.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Ticonderoga34]

I see that Keith Olbermann received the Democratic talking points as did Chris Matthews.

Chris Matthews was on Imus this morning blaming Roger Alies and FOX News for the Rathergate fiasco. It looks like Olbermann is using the same argument.

I won't even offer a counter argument because I don't understand the logic at all. FOX News made CBS use forged documents? Not much of an argument but I guess it's the only argument that the liberals have.

[NorCalRepub]

Olbermann is getting more and more bold in his left leading agenda......he has recently been attacking Fox news like it is a personal vendetta. I used of kind of like him cause he is funny, but after the swift boat thing I think he has been totally brainwashed.....I still channel surf all the stations just to see what these nutcases are saying. It is like he is jealous or hateful or.....god, you got me