Posted on 02/01/2006 8:01:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
BUSTED!
We have (another) NY Times and MSM fabrication moment!
Southack, in reply 139 in the thread "Alito: Two Nominee Strategies. One Worked." pointed out this made-up quote by the NY Times:
"What that means on television sets where the American people are watching this is, you look good and they look bad. It was the central operating premise."
This is a fabricated "quote" that CANNOT be real: the tense of the supposed "White House" source changes in mid-breathe. IT CAN'T HAVE BEEN SAID THIS WAY.
Does it matter? Sure.
The whole article attacks the White House (Rowe, in other words) by showing how they deliberately manipulated the "image" of Alito to be innocent, mild, and low-key, thus showing how the inept democrats weren't really cruel/mean/lying hypocritical whining dolts.
Second, the sentence leads the article and IS the premise of the whole article (Rowe and the White House "set up" the Alito hearings) that Alito was propped up as sympathetic, and democrat's were setup to the cruel, inane hatred typical of Kennedy/Biden/Shumer.
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Following is the start of the original Free Republic thread: Alito: Two Nominee Strategies. One Worked.
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The New York Times ^ | January 31, 2006 | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Posted on 01/31/2006 12:16:41 AM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 — The week before his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. e-mailed the text of his opening statement to the White House. It included very little about his legal thinking, dwelled at length on his family and opened with a tired and rambling joke about courtroom banter between a lawyer and a judge.
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At the end of the article, it quotes the "source" as saying that everyone wound up "feeling sorry for [Alito]."
I don't remember anyone feeling sorry for Alito at the time. Everyone seemed to be very impressed with his erudition and smarts and how he was running rings around the Democrats intellectually. Orin Hatch said that he thought Alito was even better than Roberts. Commentators were saying that the Democrats couldn't lay a finger on him.
This reporter is trying to sell a story about that evil, cunning Karl Rove and how he tricked the Democrats.
Don't make me blow snot man!!
Didn't notice it, no. I normally do not read MSNBC for anything more than general news. For Political news I usually read the CSM or watch Fox News or The Naked News, easier on the eyes and makes he news go down nice. Just Kidding.
My husband testified twice in court in two seperate cases, both times he was given the same advice by prosecutor about not getting rattled, staying calm- letting the opposing attorney be the one to "look bad" if he was yelling, preaching or lecturing. So to me this sounds like standard advice and to Judge Alito, I am sure it was not even necessary to tell him that. It was just done as a reminder type thing. I don't consider that a "set-up" just SOP. Did I miss something?
I know you are questioning the form of the story, but I question the content just as much as the form.
Tammy - sorry, I'm not following you. I'm questioning neither the form nor the content of the story; others are.
Paul
I'm sorry, I know others were concentrating on the quotations being wrong, I just wanted to point out the whole premise of the article was silly. I may have replied to you in error.
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