you got to use the word "lerger" too... 8^)
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.”
Too little, too late.
I’m sure NBC is wringing their hands over this nasty letter from the White House.Kinda reminds me of when the Dims were pushing for a reprimand for Klintoon instead of impeachment.When you are a sociopathic rapist with no soul and no conscience,it means nothing.
7 years too late for Bush. But I’m glad Gillespie got some shots in.
“Grampa I have them blocked too, I just don’t want that crap on my TV full stop even if it is my accident My mother in law came to visit down here, she’s a massachusetts no nothing thick dim, doesn’t know what she votes for but just votes for the dims Anyway she asks me for those morning programmes and when I explained that she can’t watch them due to me not getting them , she sulked every morning for the time she was here. she was forced to watch FOX even if I was doing things around the house don’t know why she didn’t feel welcome.”
BOL! Did she cut her stay with you to run home to watch this Rat BS?
Good job!
CNN are nearly as bad
every time I have seen that channel at the doctors , dentist etc it is always making the economy a repeat of the wall street crash
so depressing watching that channel you feel like slitting your wrists
was in the doc’s the other day for my oldest and there was an old couple there
anyway he says to she about how bad things are etc
I said to them yea isn’t it amazing that so many fools would buy a house that they couldn’t afford and then complain that the govt isn’t buying their house for them
look on their faces, you would have thought a eastern diamond back had rolled up her leg
LOL
she moaned she sulked and asked if she could go home, even my wife wanted to see the back of her
My wife asked her at the time who she would vote for
mother in law said hillary
wife says why?
she stutters, she catches her breath and then she says well she was loyal to her man
LOL believe me even my 10 year old son looked at her
I knwo she’s planning revenge for when we go up to visit but it won’t be this year as we are driving out to the west coast from northern florida to see the country this summer
that is providing Obama gets permission off those in pakistan, korea, kenya, brazil, Peru and Madagascar
They might just do that. Right now NBC is busy kissing Obama the Muslim militants ass.
This was beyond media bias. This was totally fraudulent — to edit an interview so that it appears that the interviewee said the opposite of what he actually said.
Karl Rove told Laura I. (hosting tonight’s Factor) that NBC owes the American people an apology.
There is a thread today about old guys having a higher comfort level.
My elderly comfort involves not worrying about spelling ot Typos anymore. :)
I appreciate that. Not attempting to be a Monday morning quarterback, but, the whole “new tone” thing was doomed from the start. I wasn’t the only one saying it 7 1/2 years ago.
>> Add to this the fact that NBC’s parent company is STILL doing business in Iran.
POTUS kicks GE’s ass.
That’s one of my favorite internet pics!
you got to use the word "lerger" too... 8^)
NBC News President Steve "The Dee Bag" Capus
"But...why did you sting me, said the frog to the scorpion."
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