Posted on 12/10/2008 2:46:08 PM PST by CedarDave
KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama’in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.
The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date.
We will need people to continue to grab these videos and news reports! Cleaning up OB seems on the top of the docket now and for the future!
Now? Now started January 1981.
Your post #174—Great synopsis of Obie’s rise to power. It’s strange he knew all kinds of crooked, weird and evil people on his way to the top, yet never knew any of them were such...
Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...
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Got my ‘V’ (Guy Fawkes) mask ready, folks! ;)
Barry: This isn’t the Blagojevich I knew.
There must be printed versions also.
Politics | Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00:02 am PST
Barack Obama has denied ever discussing his Senate seat replacement with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
But that was apparently not true. A November 8th article at the KHQA website reports:
QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.
Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it.
(Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.)
UPDATE at 12/10/08 11:17:50 am:
Another KHQA article on the meeting, from November 5th: Who will fill Obama’s senate seat?
CHICAGO, ILL. — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.
That’s one of Obama’s first priorities today.
He’s meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.
UPDATE at 12/10/08 11:48:08 am:
And at the Illinois Government News Network, an announcement that the meeting took place and the Senate seat was discussed, with the headline:
Governor Blagojevich Congratulates President-elect Obama and Discusses U.S. Senate Seat
UPDATE at 12/10/08 12:21:23 pm:
Curiouser and curiouser. KHQA has taken down both of their articles about the meeting, with no explanation.
UPDATE at 12/10/08 2:30:04 pm:
KHQA has now issued “a clarification:”
The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date.
However, there’s still no explanation for why they reported on November 8th that the meeting had taken place.
-PJ
Hmmmmm....the stories just keep changing! Osama must have
some clout to get people to hush up like they have in regard
to this story!
I’m watching their 10 pm broadcast now. No mention of the scrubbed web page so far...
Next to disappear are the Governor’s visitor logs and his scheduling books. Gee, sounds like Obama’s Illinois legislature records (where are they), and Hillary’s knowledge about how the FBI files got into largely non-accessible room in the Clinton White House.
“Records? We don’t have no stinkin’ records.”
ObamieWanTon- “You don’t want to see any records.”
I may have been born in November, but it wasn't this November, and while I probably fell off the turnip truck, it was back in the 1940s, not recently.
More likely we'll be in the reeducation camps, or pining for the fiords.
Guiliani!
My, my. How quickly the facts have changed.
Are you kidding me? All of a sudden everyone’s looking like children caught stealing.
These were two very brief paragraphs on the site of a local TV station mentioning a meeting between Obama and Blago on the day after the election. The simpering sycophants of the major media were glued to Obama that day, recording and swooning over his every move. None of them, major or minor, reported an actual or scheduled meeting with Blago -- and at that point the Senate appointment wasn't a major issue, so there was nothing to hide, and no reason for a grand conspiracy or coverup of a clandestine meeting.
The comparison to the Palin coverage was meant to demonstrate how irresponsible the media has become in reporting rumor as fact.
"Verifying the info with the source" means calling the source -- the TV station, and asking the reporter to verify what he/she wrote . It doesn't mean simply posting a link to a story about a meeting that isn't backed up by any other news source. Logic dictates that if an obscure news source reported a meeting that none of the dozens of other larger and well-known sources reported, then there's a high probability that the outlier report is false.
Once again, there are five phone calls by Blago on November 5 described on the 78-page list of charges filed by Fitzgerald, and nowhere is a meeting between Blago and Obama, or any surrogate of Obama, mentioned. At that point, he didn't know (although he should have guessed) that he was being recorded, so there wouldn't be any reason not to brag about the fact, or report the results to his cronies.
All of the above should lead a reasonable person to conclude that there's no nefarious reason for yanking the reports, but simply embarrassment on the part of the station, once the link to the error was broadcast all over the net. The reporter screwed up, and no one caught it before now, because it wasn't important until now.
Perhaps a reference to the airbrushed photos in the Soviet Union would be even more apt.
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