Posted on 10/24/2008 11:23:24 AM PDT by kddid
Stop the presses — CNN is taking responsibility for falsely stating that National Review magazine called Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin “incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt or all of the above.”
“I think ideology has now overridden any kind of journalistic ethics at all,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told his audience when he learned of the distortion. “And I think that’s the bottom line here.”
An interview with Palin that aired Tuesday on CNN’s The Situation Room touched off the controversy. CNN correspondent Drew Griffin twisted the meaning of a National Review column during a question he posed to Palin about whether her message is reaching the public.
Griffin’s question: “Governor you’ve been mocked in the press. The press had been pretty hard on you, Democrats have been pretty hard on you, but also some conservatives have been pretty hard on you. The National Review had a story saying, ‘I can’t tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt or all of the above.’”
Palin immediately asked, “Who wrote that?”
Griffin stammered, “T-that was in The National Review. I don’t know who wrote that.”
“Who wrote it?” Palin replied, obviously concerned. “I’d like to talk to that person.”
On Thursday, Griffin appeared on two CNN programs, "Newsroom" and "Situation Room," to confess the error.
Said Griffin, “I never really explained the point of the National Review before she finished answering the question. “In no way did I intend to misquote The National Review.”
Griffin also said, “Unfortunately, my question — I botched it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Sure and I have a bridge for sale !
Cases like this remind me of what Goldberg wrote about in his book “Bias”. Most of the MSM’s bias is, I suspect, just what happened here. They truly are “mistakes”, but “mistakes” of blind eagerness to destroy anyone on the right of the political spectrum.
That is, these people are so eager to be the next Woodward and Bernstein that they actually (and honestly) miss key portions of facts and stories. They can then honestly say later, if even caught, that they did make a mistake and had no malice with respect to the mistake.
Which is true. What they don’t admit (to themselves much less others) is that their eagerness to bring such people down MAKES them commit those “honest mistakes”.
Most bullies turn into a quivering mass of goo when a would-be victim fights back.
His lead-in, that she’s been attacked by conservtives as well, belies his phony non-apology that “I never really explained the point of the NR before she finished answering the question.”
Where the hell have you been BO??? It has been this way for 25 years.
"and"??? Pointlessly redundant.
Owl_Eagle
There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy
Damage already done. Front page headline followed 4 days later by a retraction on the bottom of page B8. It is an old Media trick. It is right up there with “my opponent is not a wife beater and I have never called him a wife beater nor has anybody on my staff every called my opponent a wife beater” routine.
The late and unlamented Julia Carson (D) actually used that against her last opponent, a very successful Black businessman, four years ago. Mr. Dickerson had one domestic disturbance charge filed against him by his ex-wife. She even came out and said she had never brought charges against him, she just called the police once when they were going through their divorce. The DNC sent a 4 color mailer to everybody in the District actually calling him a wife beater. Julia of course claimed she had nothing to do with it.
Where’s the correction on the clothes’ story? How long do we wait for the retraction of the “Kill Him” story, the apology from 0bama for continuing the lie in the debate, from all the other reporters for aiding and abetting??
They’re sorry they botched this one, and hoping they can come up with something else to throw at her.
Well, I’ll be dog! A Steve Taylor fan!!!
One of the greatest Christian songwriters (and fairly prophetic at that) of the 70’s and 80’s.
I didn’t know there were any more out there... About the race right now,
Life unwinds like a cheap sweater,
But since I gave up hope, I feel a lot better,
And the truth gets blurred like a wet letter,
But since I gave up hope, I feel a lot better.
and the second chorus:
While the world winds down to a final prayer,
Nothing soothes quicker than complete despair,
I predict by dinner I won’t even care,
Since I gave up hope, I feel a lot better.
The rest of the song applies to, but it’s a bit harder to parse...
Good quote.
Drive by journalism right there! Quotes from an article, and doesn't even bother to check who he was quoting.
Nationalist implies pro-American.
CNN is internationalist, as in internationalist socialist communism.
Oops. Thanks for the correction. The ol’ brain doesn’t work as well as it used to. :-)
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