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White House takes swipe at NBC News
thehill.com ^ | 5/19/2008 | Klaus Marre

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.”


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To: WesA

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.


41 posted on 05/19/2008 1:50:52 PM PDT by saganite
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To: WesA; All

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.


42 posted on 05/19/2008 1:50:52 PM PDT by thelastvirgil
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To: Nervous Tick

GE is the largest manufacturing company.

Granted the other companies are lerger by different metrics.

(I got to use the word metrics)


43 posted on 05/19/2008 1:52:07 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: Diogenesis

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...


44 posted on 05/19/2008 1:54:12 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: God luvs America

I so wish I could have been a part of that! Encore, Encore!!!


45 posted on 05/19/2008 1:54:13 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right!
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To: Steely Tom
Too bad they waited until all their ground troops are dead or have walked off the battlefield in disgust.

Bump. Skulking dogs snarling after they got their ass kicked, retreating into the night.

FMCDH(BITS)

46 posted on 05/19/2008 1:56:59 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: WesA

NBC ought to write “Kiss My Grits” on the Bushies’ letter and return it to them.


47 posted on 05/19/2008 1:58:13 PM PDT by MurryMom
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To: AU72
Let it be a lesson to the next conservative Pres

Well, there's your first mistake...

48 posted on 05/19/2008 2:01:30 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: WesA
NBC's lucky that Truman isn't president.

Full Wartime Censorship Placed on Korean News 1/9/51 Waterloo Daily Courier, front page | January 9, 1951 | UP

THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007
U. 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.


49 posted on 05/19/2008 2:03:53 PM PDT by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years, because Truman first withdrew troops from Korea in 1949.)
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To: AU72

Go, GW!
Whenever I heard ‘unpopular President’ I think they’re still in high school.


50 posted on 05/19/2008 2:04:23 PM PDT by griswold3 (Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: NormsRevenge; abb; Milhous; george76; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BOBTHENAILER; SierraWasp; tubebender

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.


51 posted on 05/19/2008 2:07:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein Obama"Hama's" Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
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To: My Favorite Headache

I hope McCain mounts at least some sort of response when they start piling on him.


52 posted on 05/19/2008 2:08:21 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ( Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.)
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To: MurryMom
NBC ought to write “Kiss My Grits” on the Bushies’ letter and return it to them.

Why???
53 posted on 05/19/2008 2:08:27 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: WesA
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?

Being a New Socialist means never having to say you're sorry.

54 posted on 05/19/2008 2:08:33 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Nervous Tick

With all the business they’re doing with Iran is there really any question about it?


55 posted on 05/19/2008 2:09:20 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: WesA

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.


56 posted on 05/19/2008 2:09:50 PM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: Republican Red

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...


57 posted on 05/19/2008 2:11:07 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: bamahead

He was running the RNC. ;)


58 posted on 05/19/2008 2:14:16 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: WesA

I sent this to Drudge ...I hope others will as well

I think its the kind of story Matt likes


59 posted on 05/19/2008 2:15:34 PM PDT by woofie
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To: WesA
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.”

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.

60 posted on 05/19/2008 2:16:35 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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