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.”
It's always easier to taunt the lion from outside the cage.
Perhaps if he or Cheney did that, the rank and file would follow. Right now the Republicans are completely directionless with no real spokesman an no coherent arguments on the issues. They need to crank up the fax and PR machinery and at least make a fight of it this year against the Rats, even if they go down swinging they will have fought the good fight.
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About time.
Less than 30 seconds regarding this on NBC Nightly News just now. Advised viewers “as thy had last night”, the entire interview is available on msnbc.com. No other comment.
Your cartoon says it VERY WELL!!
Calling Viking Kitties. Troll on aisle 9, post 47 and mentioned ff.
Calling Viking Kitties. Troll on aisle 9, post 47 and mentioned ff.
oops. Please excuse the double post.
He should’ve been doing this about 7.5 years ago. In fact, I think the next GOP president should no longer cooperate at all with the MSM who constantly pound with an agenda. Cut them off and make the reason explicitly clear. The staggering bias of the MSM is not a subjective issue. MRC has repeatedly compiled empirical evidence that establishes it beyond any reasonable doubt. It’s WAY past time for the right to fight back, instead of pretending that “being nice” will do the job.
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For those of you that don’t know Murrymom is the resident liberal hack Freepville actually welcomes their posts just so we can be reminded of how much liberals are utterly, and insanely STUPID!
>> other companies are lerger by different metrics. (I got to use the word metrics)
Congratulations!
You also got to use the word “lerger”. Double scrabble. :-)
I can’t take credit for it. Stole it from another FReeper and I can’t even remember who, LOL!
Never seen that toon before. Classic. Thanks for posting that.
Yep! And he needs to continue to say "that since the Democrats gained a Majority the economy has taken an turn for the worse," and that "high gas prices are because of inept Democratic energy policies." And repeat, repeat, repeat, and repeat it every time a microphone is in his face.
Equally when they whine that they want to world to like us again. Those people have some real serious self-esteem issues!
Today (no pun intended) NBC, tomorrow CNN!
While true conservatives are changing direction from the Republican party in droves Republican politicians are rehashing the same liberal talking points given by democrat's...
See post 31 for links to both articles, thanks to R.Red.
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