Posted on 07/27/2008 2:19:46 AM PDT by paudio
CNN was forced to apologize Thursday after it aired an interview on American Morning with a University of Southern California student whom it identified as Eric Pearlmutter, a College Republican, who said that there was little enthusiastic support for Sen. John McCain's candidacy on campus. Following the broadcast Ben Myers, president of the USC College Republicans, shot back saying that he had never met or seen Pearlmutter at a College Republican meeting and that Pearlmutter is not even a member. "As far as I know, he could be a Democrat," Myers told the Los Angeles Times. On Thursday night a CNN spokeswoman sent an email message to the newspaper confirming that it had "inadvertently" identified Pearlmutter as a member of USC College Republicans and that the network had invited Myers to appear on American Morning. Myers responded that "to claim that [McCain's] support is weak among young Republicans is just pure liberal media propaganda."
The MSM doesn’t even bother coming up with new dirty tricks. They keep recycling the same old ones again and again.
I wonder how many of these dirty tricks go undetected?
Remember when CNN was relevant? Nope, me neither.
Fewer than used to happen before the internet. Free Republic allows us to exchange information much more quickly than the MSM can react.
Transcript:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/25/cnn-admits-error-usc-college-republicans-story
They probably think, "Well, out of the 100 fabricated stories we make, even if half of them caught, the rest will make to the news."
Compared to Obama, though, McCain is Lincoln, Teddy, Ike, Reagan and Goldwater rolled into one!
like many others, I’ve said this will be my first vote for a Democrat, preferable over a Communist
My 20 year old says McCain has plenty of support on his campus and among his friends. Granted he’s in a Business School working on his master’s so his friends may be older than the average student, and business graduate students do tend to be more conservative.
However, that 19 year old called into Rush and had gone from an Obama supporter to a McCain supporter. That made me think that what he’s seeing on his campus may not be an isolated situation.
Good Lord.
Other then the duplicate post nazi’s I don’t care if it was already posted. First I’ve seen it. The duplicate post nazi’s need to get a life so the rest of us can take just enjoy the site.
His name ***might*** really be ***Eric Perlmutter-Gumbiner***
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/usc_in_the_news/detail.php?id=425
CNN: USC undergraduate Eric Perlmutter-Gumbiner was quoted about John McCain’s challenge in appealing to young voters. The roaring enthusiasm that follows Obama is missing among youthful conservatives, Perlmutter-Gumbiner said. “We try to get people out to our college Republican meetings, but ... we can’t seem to draw the same kind of vocal support,” he said. Perlmutter-Gumbiner said he cringed when McCain admitted to not using e-mail.
Google cache shows Eric Perlmutter-Gumbiner HAD been shown as a “Facebook friend” of Uzair Faruqui, but Perlmutter is not currently shown on Faruqui’s public page
At least CNN didn’t try to claim the interview was fake but accurate. That ploy didn’t work so well for Dan Rather (thanks to FR!).
These Smarmypant Skippy reporterettes at CNN don’t think we are going to check the accuracy of every propaganda piece they do until the General? What are they, Nuts?
Answered my own question.
Amen and ditto!
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