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.”
Imagine that! The White House fighting back. It’s about time they took the media to task for their lies and distortions but don’t expect any response from the media.
Too damned little, too friggin’ late. Why in the wide, wide world of sports would Dubya or any other administration official agree to sit with these scumbags in the first place? Still grasping those hopes of a “new tone”, I suppose.
GE is the largest manufacturing company.
Granted the other companies are lerger by different metrics.
(I got to use the word metrics)
it was an operation w/Protest Warrior in July of ‘04 as the election was heating up...we hit a home run that day so much so that Rush kept mentioning us during his broadcast that afternoon...
I so wish I could have been a part of that! Encore, Encore!!!
Bump. Skulking dogs snarling after they got their ass kicked, retreating into the night.
FMCDH(BITS)
NBC ought to write “Kiss My Grits” on the Bushies’ letter and return it to them.
Well, there's your first mistake...
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007U. S. Eighth Army headquarters, Korea. –(UP) –The US.Eighth Army imposed full wartime censorship on news coverage of the Korean War ...
Veteran war correspondents agreed the regulations were the most inclusive they had ever received from any army headquarters.
Go, GW!
Whenever I heard ‘unpopular President’ I think they’re still in high school.
My best and true story about NBC happened a few years ago.
When the NBC affliate in Gay Frisco channel 4 tried to extort Dish, the CEO of DISH dropped channel 4 from its lineup in minutes.
We knew nothing about this as we never watched 4/NBC. Our son came home to visit and tried to watch channel 4 and got a reminder that that Dish and cancelled their services months ago.
He laughed at us.
Then, he tried to watch CNN and it was blocked since day one when the Dish installer set up the system as per my request with all CNN stations blocked. He still jokes about the lack of the NBC station and no one noticing that it was gone.
I hope McCain mounts at least some sort of response when they start piling on him.
Being a New Socialist means never having to say you're sorry.
With all the business they’re doing with Iran is there really any question about it?
When multiple warring factions that will eventually turn around and fight you at some time in the future, arm both sides - stand back and watch. Stability in cultures is established when both sides have tired of fighting and just want peace.
Nice. Where the heck has Ed Gillespie been for the last 7.5 years? He should have been coaching the President before every single press conference...
He was running the RNC. ;)
I sent this to Drudge ...I hope others will as well
I think its the kind of story Matt likes
It's a good letter, but Matthews and Oberman are no different than the smacked asses who write the teleprompter lines for the news readers. They're all the same ilk of liberal Democrat. Anyway, NBC News is dying (honestly, does anybody here watch that twaddle? Personally, I haven't watched a network news program in at least a decade) so I think I would refrain from giving them any publicity.
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