Posted on 06/03/2005 2:42:36 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Will Tom Brokaw, the Today show, Chris Matthews and CBS's Early Show offer a correction? As Brit Hume noted Thursday night, the Washington Post corrected a Wednesday article which reported, that on Hardball Tuesday night, Pat Buchanan had called Mark Felt a "traitor." The correction explained: "Buchanan said that Felt had no personal loyalty to President Richard M. Nixon, 'so I don't consider him a traitor in that sense.'" In fact, it was Matthews who first falsely claimed that Buchanan had tagged Felt a "traitor." On Wednesday's Today, Brokaw was appalled by Buchanan's supposed characterization: "I think Pat said yesterday that Mark Felt was a 'traitor.' A traitor to what? The truth?!" On CBS's Early Show the same day, Wyatt Andrews asserted: "Several former aides to President Nixon still argue what Felt did was wrong with one aide, Pat Buchanan, calling Felt a 'traitor.'"
Hume's June 2 "Grapevine" item on FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume: "The Washington Post reported yesterday that after learning that Deep Throat was actually former FBI number-two Mark Felt, quote 'former Nixon speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan labeled Felt a 'traitor' for having worked with reporters on stories that did severe damage to the administration.' What's more, while chatting with readers about it online later in the day, one Washington Post reporter called Buchanan's reaction quote, 'darkly hilarious.' But Buchanan never called Felt a traitor. In fact, in an interview with Chris Matthews, Buchanan said that because Felt had no personal loyalty to Nixon quote, 'I don't consider him a traitor in that sense.' The Post has now issued a correction."
Indeed, the June 2 Post carried this correction on page A2: "A June 1 article on reaction to the confirmation that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was the Watergate source known as 'Deep Throat' incorrectly said that Patrick J. Buchanan called Felt a 'traitor' in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball. Buchanan said that Felt had no personal loyalty to President Richard M. Nixon, 'so I don't consider him a traitor in that sense.'" That's posted at: www.washingtonpost.com
Full story: http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050603.asp#3
The MSM lies.....dog bites man.
:^D
Guess maybe now Lesley Stahl will express gratitude for the presidency of Ronald Reagan since the Gipper pardoned Felt for performing illegal wiretaps unrelated to Watergate.
Diet Coke all over the keyboard....and that's the second time
Yeah I hope this guy likes all the mass deaths in Vietnam he cause by bringing the Nixon administration down over nothing
Rush is right. Watergate was the final hurrah for the MSM, the last time they could join forces with the Democrats to affect history. The MSM is orgasmic at this golden opportunity to relive what they consider their glory days. And...I think it's no coincidence that at this moment, Kerry is making noise about Bush being impeached for lying about WMDs.
Is a "reluctant leaker" someone afflicted with a bashful bladder?
Chris Matthews is thisclose to becoming a full-fledged clown.
The white foam he gets on his lips while ranting is disgusting. The Carter White House was the perfect place for this loon.
Probably because of a history of piss pour aim.
pour=poor ugh!
Felts didn't betray the American public, Nixon did. If my top boss commits a crime, I'm ethically obligated to report it. If my superiors are in cahoots with him, I do what I have to do.
If that make me a traitor, then so be it. I'm a patriotic American.
Speaking of Nazis....someone today said Felt looked liked a Nazi bigwig that got away with something.
Just a little bit pregnant. Reminds me of this old joke: A rich man walks up to a pretty lady, and asks, "Will you go to bed with me for a million dollars?" Immediately, she answers. "Of course." Then the man asks the woman if she will go to bed with him for ten dollars. Indignantly, she responds. "Of course not. What kind of a woman do you think I am?" He answers, "We've already established that. Now we're haggling over the price."
Felt is Jewish.
Pat B said so. Verify it. and if you can..so what. But, ask Hal Turner first.
He was #2 guy.
The Senate was under Democratic control and was not friendly to Nixon. The Justice Dept.? He had places to go. He didn't get the top job which he expected after Hoover, would be my guess and was pay back time. What other classified information did he possibly "leak". Would McCain consider this a break in a Code of Honor? I wonder..........
It was appalling.
The MSM reminds me of the movie "One Flew over the koo koo nest" Bring out the straight jackets.
This is true but it is also true that Watergate was the origin of the cliche that "the coverup is worse than the crime."
Thank you, Dan Rather. If you really gave a fart about ethics, you would know the proper course of action would be to resign in protest. But that would actually cost you something wouldn't it, so it never entered your head.
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