Posted on 03/16/2005 2:14:55 AM PST by Stoat
PHILIP BENNETT UPDATE
By Michelle Malkin · March 16, 2005 04:48 AM
Washington Post managing editor Philip Bennett tells Hugh Hewitt the Peoples Daily of China misquoted him--a possibility I acknowledged in the second sentence of my initial post on this topic last week. Bennett says:
The version published in the Peoples Daily includes numerous and important inaccuracies. In many places words and sentences were removed to change the meaning of what I said. In some places words or sentences were invented that I did not say. In one typical example, where I said China is not a democracy the Peoples Daily version quoted me as saying China is not a democracy either by American standards. At the same time, comments critical of China were deleted. Bennett says the interview was tape recorded, and he released a transcript of his comments regarding whether the U.S. should be the leader of the world. Bennett says the transcript shows his words "were rearranged to express a different view" than he had clearly intended. Take a look and judge for yourself: Peoples Daily version:
Bennett says the interview includes "numerous and important inaccuracies," but the small portion of the transcript that he released deals with his response to only one question. It would be helpful to know if he was also misquoted in other instances, such as when he is quoted saying that - the Bush Administration lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, Bennett can quickly and easily set the record straight by releasing the tape and/or a transcript of the entire interview. I just sent him an e-mail asking him to do so. Previous: |
It's a bad day when China Daily and Washington Post are equally (non-)credible.
It's certainly not over yet, by a long shot, but
Eason Jordan could learn a thing or two about handling
a flap like this. Unless he actually did
say the things attributed to him...
This means little other than that the Washington Post and the People's Daily of China share the same standards of accurate reporting.
The only differences I can see between the two "quotes" is that in Bennett's version he uses more weasel words.
Warning: If people are having the same problem I'm having [words running off the screen], a standard copy-paste onto wordpad for the ability to read normally will result in a mess.
He said it then. And then he followed up with a more nuanced version of the same thing. He was not misquoted, and that is from his own mouth. His words, carefully thought out, and with a certain logic as well. We cannot cram American ideals down everyone's throat. No one is trying to do that. He even goes so far to say, in effect, that it is dangerous for us to call ourselves the 'Sole Superpower', because other nations would hate us.
But if you are the tallest guy in the room, it is healthy to realise you need to duck down before bumping into things hanging from the ceiling. If you are incredibly strong, it is good to realise that, rather than to say you 'can't lift that box' when you actually can. There are a lot of strong men who say, "I can't lift that box." So someone else tries and gets hurt. People might be jealous of someone strong, but the muscular wimp is worse.
I think the Chinese paper did a better job of reporting this than the misquotes reported on Kathleen Janoski, Hause, and Cogswell by the Washington Compost.
THE WASHINGTON COMPOST!
I love it!!!!! Good analysis, by the way...
"THE WASHINGTON COMPOST!"
I heard others use it first, particulary the G-Man, G. Gordon Liddy. I think he dubs it out now. Been a while since I heard him, though.
Thank you for the compliment. It was the Washington Compost that declared the "Brown Coverup" Dead, by reporting misquotes of the whistle blowers. Even when the forensics specialists went on radio to dispute the quote, there was never a retraction. Even five years later, Janoski disputed it. In case you are interested....
http://www.newsmax.com/scripts/showinside.pl?a=2001/4/4/115528
http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Ron_Brown.shtml
FReegards....
***** The most obvious blunder the Washington Compost never retracted *****
"Military Officers Challenge Washington Post Story"
By Christopher Ruddy
For the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, January 11, 1998
"Who ranking military officers are denying claims by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology that they agreed with findings that Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died as a result of a plane accident.
"One of the officers, Air Force Maj. Thomas Parsons, for the first time spoke publicly on the matter Saturday. The forensic pathologist joined two other AFIP medical examiners in disputing government claims about Brownj's death after an Air Force jet carrying him and 34 others crashed in Croatia on April 3, 1996." [snip]
I couldn't find this in google OR the Washington Compost archive. But I bought a copy of the Ron Brown Crash video
[you might consider fast forwarding to the last 15 minutes, very tedious up until then]along with a 'special report', where this was quoted from.
Erg typo... Two ranking military officers, not 'who ranking'...
What exactly is the difference between editorializing and helping people understand?
I thought his job was to see to it the facts got reported accurately.
So, let me see - if i understand this correctly, Bennett is claiming that he was "WAPO'ed"!!
(WAPO'ed - to be subjected to the same editorial policy that the Washington Posts employs against GW Bush, Republicans and conservatives)
Not very complex at all Phil Bennett. It's the same battle that has been going on for thousands of years. Life vs. death. Freedom vs. slavery. Truth vs. lie.
The complexity is in your own twisted mind and the mental dis-integration caused by reading the propaganda in the WaPo. The entire experience is like being drawn into a con-game and never being able to question the con man.
Bennett can quickly and easily set the record straight by releasing the tape and/or a transcript of the entire interview. I just sent him an e-mail asking him to do so.
He won't. Truth vs. lie.
Our dear friends the Chi-Coms. END SARCASM!!
She's cute, but can she dribble to her left?
He does make it clear that no country should be leader of the world.
This in answer to the question about whether America should be the leader of the world.
He said it, he meant it.
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