You'll never get me Doug, cackle, cackle, cackle!!
Posted on 02/06/2008 5:07:59 AM PST by doug from upland
HIT PIECE ON "FACT" CHECK DOT ORG
For those who had not seen it, a former TIME MAG journalist (she got canned) named Viveca Novak did a hit piece on HILLARY! UNCENSORED: Banned by the Media.
As you can see by the incendiary headline and sub-headline, there was clearly an agenda. It wasn't a "fact" check; it was an editorial to dismiss the film, dismiss the importance of the lawsuit, and do some damage control. Perhaps Hillary is mildly concerned. After it appeared on "fact" check dot org, it was placed on Newsweek's website. While purporting to be non-partisan, it is clear that the piece was designed to do damage to the film whose unedited 13-minute segment on Google Videos and YouTube has been seen by four million people.
Pursuant to Novak's boss, Brooks Jackson, yesterday I submitted a 12-page response which he promised to place on his website if it was not a rant. It was a reasoned piece and definitely not a rant. I have made contact with someone at Newsweek and am awaiting their promise to allow me to answer.
Now, on to Dave Schippers. Here is what the "non-partisan" Novak told her readers in her hit piece:
Many of the individuals and groups helping Paul have long histories of Clinton-bashing or attacks on other Democrats. David Schippers, for example, who appears on the tape, is the former chief investigative counsel for the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee during the 1998 Clinton impeachment hearings.
That's fair and non-partisan, right? Here is my response to that journalistic equivalent of a drive-by shooting:
Of all the conclusions in the entire piece, perhaps more than any others, this is the most unfair. Dave Schippers is a great American. It is a shame that the above description is the only reference to him. Schippers worked in the Kennedy Justice Department and helped take down the Chicago Mob. He is a lifelong Democrat. And perhaps most importantly, Novak failed to mention that he twice voted for Bill Clinton. No one can dispute that such background information about Schippers is important.
While discussing on the phone what Novak did to him, I suggested to Schippers that it might be appropriate to demand an apology and retraction from Novak. He thought that such might be a good idea. Here is hoping he takes the time to do it.
What Novak did regarding Lucianne Goldberg shows more about her journalist integrity:
Another character from that era who is involved in this story is Lucianne Goldberg.
The response:
Yes, it was on Goldberg’s site that the link on Google Videos was leaked to her readers. But there was no conspiracy here. The rough-cut segment on Google Videos was unpublished and for our internal use and that of journalists. Someone who saw it apparently alerted Goldberg to the URL. She simply put the URL on her website so others could see it. That was her role, and it was done without any direction from those involved with our film, including Paul. It wasn’t sinister at all. I find it curious that some kind of conspiratorial link was created here. As an aside, and since the CLINTON CHRONICLES was mentioned in Novak‘s analysis, a comment is necessary. Many of you came to know that documentary as the “Falwell video.” Did you know that Jerry Falwell had absolutely nothing to do with the production or editing of that documentary? He simply became one of the distributors and generated revenue through distribution. His name was used in an attempt to discredit the film. I will raise the question here. Was an association made with the “Clinton basher“ Goldberg an attempt to taint or diminish the work we have done for HILLARY! UNCENSORED? The readers can make that determination.
On another interesting note, Novak, who admitted that she only reviewed the 13-minute unedited rough-cut segment, actually described Peter Paul as the narrator of the film. That is a mistake that someone supposedly doing a thoughtful piece would not make. It requires a suspension of disbelief.
When(or if) Jackson publishes the response, I will bring it here. If he doesn't, you'll see it anyway, and we will try to find a way to give him some grief on the net and on YouTube.
I’ve been watching for it, good luck!
Hillary cant stay immuned to prosecution forever
Hopefully it will happen before Nov
You'll never get me Doug, cackle, cackle, cackle!!
norm685 is banned or suspended
This is such a lie. I hate these people.
Go Doug Go Get Em.
She will never be prosecuted, but we hope the civil case will finally expose the crime for all to see.
I am amazed at the fraud out there. Can you believe it?
It would have been nice if he had given me an apology. He knows next to nothing about the story, joins a few days ago, and labels this a bogus story about Clinton.
Agree, but I don’t think the mod was in the mood to give him/her/it a second chance.
I'm too disgusted to listen to the news, what happened in WV?
So tell the douche bag to “host” your response
I heard a Hillary sound bite the other day and she said something to the effect that she would not be “Swift Boated”.
Do you think that her comment was prompted by your movie and that she’s setting the stage to counter it?
When I was in Washington a couple weeks ago, they ran the hit piece. I spoke with him on the phone, and he told me he would put my response on factcheck.org as long as it wasn’t a rant. It is absolutlely not a rant. I spent many, many hours dissecting what she said and giving additional background. Waiting.
I don’t know about that, but I know that she is well aware of the film. I have sent her many fax demands to return Peter’s money and Oto’s money and correct her fraudulent FEC reports. She was even invited to attend the screening on Oct. 26 at Harvard — that was her 60th birthday. She didn’t show.
PRICELESS! And not true. There will be a day of reckoning.
Thanks for the ping. BUMP!
I'm with ya, just having fun with Doug!! :)
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