Posted on 06/08/2007 12:06:35 PM PDT by kristinn
While we all are familiar with media bias, sometimes the audacity of the media's mendacity needs to be highlighted. Such is the case with The Washington Post's video report of Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential fundraiser in Washington, D.C. this week.
The Post's Washington Sketch columnist Dana Milbank worked with WashingtonPost.com's video unit to file a three minute report from the scene of Clinton's fundraiser held at an open air parking lot in downtown Washington, D.C. last Wednesday evening
The video begins with a tight shot of a group of women holding Hillary for president signs and screaming out their support of Clinton. The front view of the women switches to a shot directly behind them showing that they were exhorting the fundraiser attendees as they entered the parking lot.
The women had gathered there to act as a physical and aural buffer to a group of protesters who had formed a line at the entrance. The protesters, members of the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, were holding signs that featured pictures of Hillary Clinton with international criminals who had donated to the Clintons when she was First Lady. The protesters were also loudly informing the attendees about the criminals whose company they were joining as Clinton donors.
It was only after the protesters had shown up that the Clinton campaign set up the buffer to shield the attendees from the truth. The Clintonistas would start their cheerleading whenever the protesters started to speak about Hillary's ties to international criminal donors and reminded them of other Clinton scandals.
The international criminals photographed with Hillary Clinton included drug smuggler Jorge Cabrera, Macau crime lord Ng Lapseng, bag man for the communist Chinese government Johhny Chung and convicted felon Peter Paul, who is suing the Clintons over a fundraiser he held for them in 2000.
The Washington Post and Dana Milbank carefully chose the footage they used in the report to exclude any sight or sound of the protesters, even though the Clinton campaign was concerned enough to enact a counter-measure against them.
The Post reported the sights and sounds of the Clintonista front, but deliberately 'sketched' out the protesters behind them.
How do I know this? I was one of the protesters. But you wouldn't know this if you rely on The Post to report the truth.
Mr. Trooprally's photo of the Clintonista buffer:
The Washington Post video report with Dana Milbank can be looked at by clicking here. The carefully edited footage is at the beginning of the report.
The Post also didn't report on the presence of Code Pink, which tried and failed to gain entrance to the fundraiser. However, the Pinkos arrived after The Post cameraman had filmed the activities outside the fundraiser and had gone back inside.
D.C. Chapter mega ping.
OUTSTANDING! FR’s finest shining truth on America’s worst! Thanks kristinn.
Our pleasure!
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that Dana Mindblank and the Washington ComPost are carrying water for Shrillary.
I note in the picture that it appears that a campaign operative appears to be arranging the line.
The Post doesn’t just report the news, it ‘sketches’ it, too.
Heck, if they had tried to take videos of the FR group, hillary’s goons probably would have knocked the cameramen down and taken their tapes.
That’s what they did when the networks tried to take pictures of bystanders booing her in the 2000 Gay/Lesbian St. Patrick Day’s Parade, while she was running for the senate.
Not that the networks probably would have shown that footage anyway. They never complained about having their cameramen knocked to the ground.
I remember that incident well. The media also didn't care when they got trampled in the Elian raid.
Can’t get it to load on my dial-up...
I see a familiar sign on the far left of the picture. Is that the kind of thing that was removed?
Can you post a picture?
I can’t get a screen grab from the Post video. Sorry.
Well the link doesn’t work on my fios connection either, so I don’t think it’s your dialup.
Thanks for trying...
It sounds like a definite attempt to ERASE you!
That means you are doing a VERY good job.
Well, what I also should have said is thanks, and congratulations.
The MSM may cover up for her, but the word still gets out. I expect that will be true of this latest failure of the news media to report fairly.
Please extend my heartfelt thanks to all the DC stalwart!
The NEA and the Liberals that have indoctrinated our "yewt's" have been re-writing books and preaching revisionist history throughout the past 40 years, and with Hillary, socialists will accelerate the wiping out of anything resembling a democratic society.....
It’s a new low. Thanks for the ping.
Continued prayers for many more brilliant ways to overcome the her unroyal lowness’ hideous tactics.
May you and the D.C. FREEPERS begin to get more and more favorable press than this creature from the pit of Marx’s angst.
May Shrillery have nightmares about Kristinn and all the D.C. FREEPERS nightly. May her sleep meds be ineffective.
May she grind her teeth to powder in anxiety all night long.
May she decompensate into a full psychotic state on CNN repeatedly at the mere thought of FREEPERS.
May she lie blatently and obviously every sound bite.
May she become obviously more overtly to symbolize evil worse than McBeth . . . and that BWitch in 101 Dalmatians.
May she fall out of public view ASAP.
By sliding their camera (i.e., relative to where trooprally had his camera) to the left and down and waiting for the left-most Hillary campaign worker to lift her sign (covering BufordP's Hell To Pay sign), FReepers were no longer in the scene.
The Post gets to choose what to include, but showing the Hillary workers put there specifically to shield the crowd from FReepers without showing the FReepers, is hardly fair.
Still it's not as bad as their reporting an erroneous name for Buford last month, photo editing his McCain sign, and, most ominously, lying about the Border Patrol Agents killing illegal aliens.
Good job!
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