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 ...
LOL
course they botched it
the idiot admitted on his interview right at the end that they are biased and do not go after obama and Biden
the only ones who do not know the media are pathetic and have lost all credibility is actually the media
now who doesn’t get it
they didn’t bothch anything. They got caught spewing their propaganda.
This is total BS! When will we learn to start calling these people out!
I think I've noticed a pattern. It seems like they wont respond to criticism until after O'Reily picks it up.
It was a talking point put out by either the Obama campaign or CNN which is really the same thing.
A day earlier I saw another CNN reporter say the same thing in a discussion with an anchor and I knew then they mis-quoted what the NRO article was saying.
LOL!! It’s so hard to avoid the inner planets at that speed...
I did not see this on CNN because I never watch the COmmie News Network..
Has Byron York told CNNObama to go F off yet???
The whole campaign has been like this. I don't think the anger at the blatant and omnipresent media bias is going to fade anytime soon.
So not only is he a devious, manipulative little crapweasel, but apparently a serial liar as well.
Fake but accurate.
Hey CNN remember the “computer glitch?” with the big X on Our
Vice President’s face???
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200511/ai_n21865048
And you want us to believe you now?
yeah, right!
“I don’t think the anger at the blatant and omnipresent media bias is going to fade anytime soon.”
Nope, not for me, either. None of the networks has done a “good” job of covering this spectacle of a campaign. Another poster stated in another thread that they can’t even watch Brit Hume anymore and I agree. All of the network coverage stinks to high heaven.
Griffen is just as stinky after his fauxpology as he was prior to that waste of oxygen.
iT’S A “he”................
Translation "We botched it in that we failed to get away with it".
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