I’m glad Our Girl called him out on it. She’s no mealy-mouthed pushover.
CNN - the Mapes/Rather of cable news...
Me either. If on purpose, take him off the air. If not on purpose, then he is completely incompetent; take him off the air.
CNN likes to Larry King conservatives. I’m surprised they acknowledged anything before the election. They rank right up there with MSNBC in credibility.
Mistake?
Yeah right.
Is this guy a Brit? What monumental understatement.
About as believeable as my ignoring my ex-wife totally for the last twelve years is a mistake.
The problem is that this tool of the left, to say "Ooooops, my bad!", knowing full well that the "mistake" will be quoted endlessly, but the apology will be ignored.
And everyone, including us, will let it drop. Old news.
Sarah just needs to take off her microphone and leave when they try this crap. When she knows someone is misquoting something (or if she even suspects it), she should say “I’m tired of this. I have had to put up with misquotes from Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and now CNN. You guys can play these games if you want, but I’m outta here.”
Not a mistake by the POS’s at CNN. They ran the clip on CNN International non-stop for two days.
He didn't misquote National Review, he lifted a statement out of context, and I am suspicious of his explanation. He first states that some conservatives have been hard on Gov. Palin, immediately following it up with the line in question, as though it verified his point. In fact, that statement was about press coverage; in the NR article York later brings up criticism from conservatives.
I think Griffin cherry-picked York's article and didn't pay attention to what York was really saying.
First of all, it's clear in the original line of questioning that the interviewer is a typical dumbass telejournalist who did no homework and was passed an out-of-context quote by an equally lazy producer who didn't bother to actually read the column. He didn't intend to misquote NR because he had no idea what the article said. It could've said, "Adama says you're a Cylon," and that's what this idiot would have read from his notes on camera.
Second, his apology is as lazy and transparent as his original ambush. Palin did not plow through any attempt to clarify or frame the remark: she did not believe anybody at National Review would write such a thing, and she was right, and Palin gave him the opportunity to retract the quote. At that point he could easily have said, "wait, wait, that's not the full quote." Instead he said, in effect, I don't know who said it but it's genuine.
Third, this isn't an apology, but it's as close to one as we're going to get. At least CNN has admitted something went wrong. Imagine the same spectacle if this little drama had played out on MSNBC: "We knew the quote was taken completely out of context in a way that turned its meaning 180 degress out, and we wanted to see if Palin would catch it. She didn't. What a moron."
Then a runner to that effect would be running for the next several days.
CNN should get an Emmy for Least Stupid Liberal Network.
Looks like Palin turned the “gotcha” tables on them.
Really?? That question was delibrately misleading, and it has taken days for them to fess up!!
Drew Griffin just is sorry that he got caught.
His ‘non-apology’ apology was not a real apology.
There has been a whole lot of botching going on for decades in this world. CNN the Clinton mouth speak for liberalism always blame somebody else for their lies and deception.
Why didn’t they just hold their confession until Nov. 5th?
Wasn’t a mistake..It was a deliberate lie.
He should be fired for malpractice.
HAHAHAHA! She just jumped in there before he could explain the question? Riiiigggghhht. Hardly - he tossed a grenade at her and then waited to see the response. Despicable.
Griffin is pure queer.
A bitch boy voting his anus and letting that orificic love cloud any journalistic integrity he may have ever had.
Anderson....you’re are not qualified to call yourself a Mississippian, boy.
CNN,ABC,NBC...you stinking, rotten, totally irrelevant a-holes. If there is a God in heaven you will be held accountable to him for what you have been doing to this decent woman.
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