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 ...
It took them 3 days to even acknowledge this pathetic ambush?
“botched” because they didn’t TOTALLY DESTROY HER????? CNN is VILE...so are all the rest of the MSM.
Oh c’mon. I’m sure CNN is running an all day crawler stating how sorry they are.
At least Griffin admitted it. I didn’t think he was going to.
I agree, and in this half apology she says as much. When she says she never really “explained” the article, it shows that she knew she was misquoting it.
So, she admits to being sleazy and dishonest. Very nice.
It was Palin's fault. After he said his question, he stopped talking, so she stupidly thought he was through asking the question so she answered. Duh.
So Griffin acknowledges he understood the York article, yet let Palin squirm with phony slanders from conservatives?
Yeah. Riiiiiiight.
CYA move. Gotta be nice to the future VP. :)
Hindenberg: Whoopsy.
Columbia: Whoopsy.
Titanic: Whoopsy.
Reichstag Fire: Whoopsy.
Bad news releases on Fridays. Good news releases on Mondays....
Bu--*cough*--ll Sh--*cough cough*--it!!! Then go on the air and publically APOLOGIZE to Gov Palin you turdburgler!
Fear not Ann. They couldn’t destroy Reagan, they won’t destroy Palin. Goodness, again, will trump malice.
Griffin said she interrupted him before he could explain....yeah right, you creep.
In the mid 1980s, Steve Taylor wrote a song called "Meat the Press" in which he said the following:
When the ratings point the camera's eye
They can state the facts while telling a lie
They can silence those who fall from their grace
With a note that says 'We haven't the space'
Now lookie there, the dog's asleep
Whenever WE march or say a peep
A Christian can't get equal time
Unless he's a loonie committing a crime....
Remarkably prescient, that Steve Taylor guy. Stating the facts while telling a lie has gone past an art form and moved into de riguer for the media.
She's so stupid. Did you know she was so stupid, she wanted to look good on the campaign trail? Then she compounded her idiocy by buying clothes for campaign-related reasons from campaign funds.
What an idiot.
LOL!!
Griffin says, “In no way did I intend to misquote The National Review.”
Lies on top of lies! What was his “intent” other than to distort was written?
Kerry’s “botched joke” was passed off as innocent too and we all know he meant what he said. Griffin just claims, “I botched it,” and it is passed off too?
Little wonder I stopped watching and reading the Nationalist media long ago.
That's how the headline should read.
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