Posted on 05/19/2008 1:11:05 PM PDT by WesA
The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.
At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel's parliament earlier this week.
Specifically, White House counselor Ed Gillespie laments that the network edited the interview in a way that “is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that [Bush] agreed with [correspondent Richard Engel's] characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it.
“This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the President’s responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts,” said Gillespie in the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus.
Gillespie used the opportunity to also inquire whether NBC News still believes that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. In November 2006, the network decided to label the infighting in the country a “civil war.”
“I noticed that around September of 2007, your network quietly stopped referring to conditions in Iraq as a ‘civil war,’ ” Gillespie wrote. “Is it still NBC News’s carefully deliberated opinion that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war? If not, will the network publicly declare that the civil war has ended, or that it was wrong to declare it in the first place?”
Gillespie also hit NBC News on its reporting on the state of the economy.
“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Gillespie concluded. “I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network’s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.”
I was just going to post this; glad you already had.
I just sent an email to Mr. Williams requesting he read the email in full on his show tonight, with an open and sincere apology to the President and all viewers for lieing to them! HA (as Matthews might say).
I saw this article on Drudge, went over to the MSNBC web site to see if they had bothered to post the email...to my dismay they had not. Was I surprised? Not in the least.
NBC - Nothing But Crap.
Glad that “new tone” plan worked out.
Let that be a lesson to him.
Don’t grant interviews to NBC.
General Electric hates Bush.
The General Electric board wants a socialist revolution.
General Electric wants the USA to be Europesn.
General Electric is our enemy.
With the Knesset speech and now calling out NBC, Bush may have decided ‘screw them’ I’m going to finish this year out the right way.
The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush.....
The white house is not aware of media bias?....Earth to white house!
I hope W and Cheney engages. It would be good if they gave friendly interviews reviewing the decisions of their admin.
Obambi is pushing the myth that W’s war on terror policies have been a disaster when in fact they’re coming to fruition.
I’ll have you know that’s me holding that higher sign in the background...and I’m not lying....
>> General Electric is our enemy.
Is that sarcasm? Seriously. I can’t tell.
7 1/2 years too late.
Let's hope so. He's great when he's pi$$ed.
With any luck, maybe we'll see some action against Iran, too. Doubtful, but possible ...
Let it be a lesson to the next conservative President, hopefully in my lifetime, that making nice doesn’t work.
I would have supported this type of challenge of the media from January 20th, 2001 on. The media declared war on Bush from day one, so why not?
I would have cut access to any network that pulled this type of activity and didn’t address it honestly in a timely fashion.
The President has a lot of power at his disposal, and he shouldn’t let the media get away with this type of stuff. (And I use the term ‘stuff’ quite loosely here.)
It is fascinating to watch how anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and anti-truth NBC has become over the last 10 + years. They hold zero credibility with me and they don’t even try to hide their bias. They wear it on their sleeve now like some badge honor of the left.
I bet they sent the Anthrax letter to themselves.
Bush should have been fighting from Day One! Won’t these bedwetters be so unhappy when they’re no longer airing fake news after Obuma becomes president?
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