ABC Checks Out (ABC News misleads viewers about the GOP talking points, origin dubious)

PowerLine ^ | 3/23/05

[Cableguy]

Confirming what we reported earlier today, ABC News has admitted that it knows nothing about the origins of the "GOP talking points" memo that it first published. An ABC source writes:

the memo discussed a republican bill and was distributed to repulbican senators. That's what we reported. we are obviously not going to divulge our multiple sources. I appeciate your questions, but believe you are approaching this from the wrong end. We asked numerous sources - all confirmed that senators had received the memo in conjunction with one of the bills on the floor. For three days none of those sources has given us any reason to think there is more to the memo than a particularly naked expression of the politics of Shivo case.

Try to ignore the spelling. ABC first reported the memo as a bombshell that disclosed Republican strategy. Now it says that it the memo "discussed a republican bill" and was "distributed to [some] repulbican senators." Whatever ABC may think of the "politics of the Shivo [sic] case," the network admits that it knows nothing about who authored and distributed the memo.

[Mo1]

It sure is :0)

[Echo Talon]

Ping Lucy Ramirez

[NoCmpromiz]

The cruckst of the Memo

Ummm, wouldn't that be crux?

Sticking cruckst into Webster's produces this:

The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search box to the right.

Suggestions for cruckst:
1. crucks
2. crust
3. crocks
4. cruxes
5. crooks
6. kraut
7. croaks
8. Croat
9. cruet
10. crux

Here's the definition of crux

[CyberAnt]

Geeeeez! I thought it was a cute word - sort of like a composite of crud and crust.

[Bonaparte]

Hey, did you hear old Pete Jennings has sexual relations with barnyard animals? Got lots of memos to prove it. Of course, I've also got a constitutional right to keep my sources secret, cuz I'm a journalist, ie. I scribble for newspapers or run my mouth on TV. Oh yeah, I almost forgot -- Hillary Clinton is actually a trained chimpanzee that had extensive plastic surgery. Got memos and secret sources for that too.

[D-fendr]

Hmm...

From an earlier report:

ABC News identified four errors in the document, each noted with a (sic). The first such error is in the very first word, a misspelling of Terri Schiavo's name.

From ABC's latest comments:

For three days none of those sources has given us any reason to think there is more to the memo than a particularly naked expression of the politics of Shivo case.

[Peach]

We asked numerous sources - all confirmed that senators had received the memo in conjunction with one of the bills on the floor.

And yet didn't we just read the other day that quite a few senators said they'd never seen it?

[Stellar Dendrite]

For those who havent seen this thread [please bump it for me ;)]



""Talking Points" Story Imploding? (Repub "memo") WaPoGate!!!"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369255/posts?q=1&&page=101

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping!

[Sloth]

the memo discussed a republican bill and was distributed to repulbican senators. That's what we reported. we are obviously not going to divulge our multiple sources. I appeciate your questions, but believe you are approaching this from the wrong end. We asked numerous sources - all confirmed that senators had received the memo in conjunction with one of the bills on the floor. For three days none of those sources has given us any reason to think there is more to the memo than a particularly naked expression of the politics of Shivo case.

As I read this, ABC is leaving open the possibility that they wrote & distributed the memo themselves.

[MeekOneGOP]

Try to ignore the spelling. ABC first reported the memo as a bombshell that disclosed Republican strategy. Now it says that it the memo "discussed a republican bill" and was "distributed to [some] repulbican senators." Whatever ABC may think of the "politics of the Shivo [sic] case," the network admits that it knows nothing about who authored and distributed the memo.

Well, then, that makes them LIARS doesn't it?

But who's surprised by this? Certainly not me.

They're trying to keep up with the King of Liars!

The guy that thinks that clintoon's "honest", but who
thinks that Bush is not.

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Media Research Center:
Dan Ra^ther on Bill Clinton:
"I think he’s an honest man."

   O’Reilly: "I want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton’s an honest man?"
    Ra^ther: "Yes, I think he’s an honest man."
    O’Reilly: "Do you, really?"
    Ra^ther: "I do."
    O’Reilly: "Even though he lied to Jim Lehrer’s face about the Lewinsky case?"
    Ra^ther: "Who among us has not lied about something?"
    O’Reilly: "Well, I didn’t lie to anybody’s face on national television. I don’t think you have, have you?"
    Ra^ther: "I don’t think I ever have. I hope I never have. But, look, it’s one thing-"
    O’Reilly, jumping in: "How can you say he’s an honest guy then?"
    Ra^ther: "Well, because I think he is. I think at core he’s an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."
    O’Reilly: "Really?!?"
    Ra^ther: "Yeah, I do."
    O’Reilly: "See, I can’t. I want my government to be honest across-the-board. I don’t want people lying."

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[SE Mom]

Aha! Curiouser and curiouser...

[airborne]

We asked numerous sources - all confirmed that senators had received the memo

No question or concern as to who gave them the memo...

Wow! Just when I thought that the MSM/Dems couldn't get more desparate or stupid, along comes this!

[Stellar Dendrite]

BTTT

[neutrality]

UPDATE: I should have made clear that this email wasn't sent to me, I got it from another blogger who has had extensive communication with ABC on this topic. In the meantime, I have had a very cordial email exchange with Mike Allen, the Washington Post reporter who wrote about the memo. He stands by his story, but declines to furnish evidentiary support for the authenticity of the memo. I think it's only fair to note that the cordiality and professionalism of boh ABC and the Post in responding to questions about this story have been striking

for what it is worth

[airborne]

Rather: "Well, because I think he is. I think at core he’s an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."

I think that pretty much explains the career of Dan Rather.

[altura]

extensive plastic surgery?

Sue the doctor!

[Grampa Dave]

ABC's turn to help destroy itself and the MSM!

"MSM Requiescat in fracta!"

[Grampa Dave]

Actually, Jennings has been having relationships with Helen Thomas for over 3 decades.

[MeekOneGOP]

I think that pretty much explains the career of Dan Rather.

Yep! Say goodnight, Dick! (er, Dan).