RATHER: "Welcome, comrade Cauley..."
Posted on 05/19/2006 1:18:53 PM PDT by george76
Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt...
A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ...
Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely to further cloud the credibility of her story...
There have also been questions about the timing of the story, which was given huge play on USA Today’s front-pages shortly before the former head of the National Security Agency, General Michael Hayden, was due to face confirmation hearings to be the next CIA director...
With the phone companies demanding a retraction and her own Democratic connections now revealed, the “value” of her unnamed sources seems increasingly dubious.
Could Leslie Cauley may be on her way to becoming a print version of CBS’s disgraced Mary Mapes?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
RATHER: "Welcome, comrade Cauley..."
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before...
First, she's donated the maximum amount legally allowed ($2,000) to Dick Gephardt's campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in the 2004 election cycle.
Second, she's on TV crowing about the her confidential, unnamed sources.
And finally, the USAToday is pushing the "they didn't object" angle as a confirmation of their story. We all remember how well that worked out for CBS's John Roberts.
http://wizbangblog.com/2006/05/19/stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one-before.php
Wow. I had forgotten all about Dick Gephardt.
No surprise. Just more lies by the liberal media. Let's see if they get away with this one. Haven't noticed much coverage in the MSM on USA TODAY's exposed lie; maybe if the MSM doesn't cover it, it didn't happen.
Here's how the editors at USAToday phrased it, "On the night before the story was published, the newspaper described the story in detail to BellSouth, and the company did not challenge the newspaper's account."
We'll that settles it; it must be true.
By: Kevin Aylward
"We make up the news other reporters won't report."
"We make up the news other reporters won't report."
Yeah, USAToday probably called Bellsouth Customer Service and was connected to some flunky in Bangalore.
Millions of people saw the USA Today headline on newstands all over the country. How many people will see NewsBusters?
That's the basic secret of how the MSM gets away it. They are gradually undermining their credibility, and their bottom lines are eroding, but it's a slow process. Meantime they still control the propaganda war.
"Millions of people saw the USA Today headline on newstands all over the country."
Which is precisely what the MSM counts on, they know their readers, the majority simply read a headline and take it as fact, they then feel informed and equipped to talk about it at the water cooler. Does anyone think that this is far more organized and intentional than just a few rogue reporters or journalists slanting the news?
This must in the job description...
"the world's biggest liars, the people with the least morals, and most evil, obnoxious human beings ..."
Hehehehe...
The MSM has had a free ride for the past 30, 40, 50 years. They've never had to fight and have grown fat, dumb and lazy over the years. They're sitting ducks to anyone that wants to f with 'em.
I thought it was only BellSouth? Are the others as well?
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