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A little debunking before Christmas never hurt anyone.
by MattBellamy on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:14:58 PM PDT
Though he had to know the press would conflate the two parts of the answer. And honestly, even as a diehard Obama supporter, I can only gag at the thought of Arnold anywhere near his administration.
"This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected." - Barack Obama (3.18.08)
by lapis on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:17:05 PM PDT
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of distortion.
To conflate the two, a reporter would have to purposely mislead his/her audience. That's what Miller clearly did. I know reporters sometimes twist words, but this clearly goes beyond that.
by MattBellamy on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:28:36 PM PDT
You know I don't agree with him on much, but what Schwarzenegger is doing I think on climate change in California is very important and significant.
How anybody could genuinely read this as anything but "Schwarzenegger is good on one single issue, despite the fact that in general he's not a politician I care for--"... it's got to be a disingenuous interpretation.
by renaissance grrrl on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:13:19 PM PDT
that they're genuine when they
... read this as anything but "Schwarzenegger is good on one single issue, despite the fact that in general he's not a politician I care for--"... it's got to be a disingenuous interpretation.
It's like that phony smear Taylor Marsh got started against Oprah as a union-buster.
by chicago jeff on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:18:09 PM PDT
It was just Hillary people?
"Wanker of the day: Obama likes Arnold for Cabinet"
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by Nulwee on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 02:09:09 PM PDT
i'm sure senator obama will readjust readily his delivery to such attempts of trolling for ambush ammo. i guess talking candidly with the press will have to become talking cautiously to it if this crap becames normal.
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home." John Stuart Mill
by kuvasz on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 03:46:40 PM PDT
because I saw the segment and he was asked would you use Republicans and he never said yes or no. He only answered about his confidence.
I am so sick of these blatant lies.
By the way ABC never sent me a transcript and I also asked that they remove or edit Miller's latest hit piece.
Grandpa is mean and he smells funny.
by MadAsHellMaddie on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:20:34 PM PDT
and one of the first things she would do is send George H. W. Bush on a "victory tour;" and Obama gets criticized?
While Mrs. Clinton has pointed to her husband as an emissary, it has been unclear for some time which Republicans she had in mind. But in South Carolina today, speaking to a group of black ministers, Mrs. Clinton dropped a name publicly that she has hinted at privately before. "I won’t even wait until I’m inaugurated, but as soon as I’m elected I’m going to be asking distinguished Americans of both parties — people like Colin Powell, for example, and others — who can represent our country well, including someone I know very well," Mrs. Clinton said, according to a Fox News Web report. "Because I want to send a message heard across the world. The era of cowboy diplomacy is over."
While Mrs. Clinton has pointed to her husband as an emissary, it has been unclear for some time which Republicans she had in mind. But in South Carolina today, speaking to a group of black ministers, Mrs. Clinton dropped a name publicly that she has hinted at privately before.
"I won’t even wait until I’m inaugurated, but as soon as I’m elected I’m going to be asking distinguished Americans of both parties — people like Colin Powell, for example, and others — who can represent our country well, including someone I know very well," Mrs. Clinton said, according to a Fox News Web report. "Because I want to send a message heard across the world. The era of cowboy diplomacy is over."
Source: NYTimes
by leonard145b on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:56:47 PM PDT
UK politics here on the other side of the pond!
Another day, another devalued Dollar. -6.00, -6.21
by funluvn1 on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:41:40 PM PDT
What do you mean that doesn't automatically translate into me being in his cabinet?
Obama/McCaskill vs. McCain/Jindal? Call it a funny feeling.
by ShadowSD on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:50:23 PM PDT
An apology is owed.
You, sir, are a like a Hitler burrito, wrapped in a Mao fajita, with low-sodium Stalin sauce.| Strategy08.
by turneresq on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:12:09 PM PDT
as the original faux-outrage.
by chicago jeff on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:19:56 PM PDT
Typical. And pathetic.
by turneresq on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:34:21 PM PDT
...took this story, naively swallowed it whole, and ran with it.
Like Firedoglake.
Then, after 165 posts of readers making hay over a false and misleading report, the site puts a tiny footnote under the story to indicate that it was basically bunko.
No updates to the story title. No story rewrites. No followup posts.
Just your typical Wash Post style A23 burial. Or kinda like the Times defense of Joe Klein ("we'll issue a correction online, boys, let's keep the print archive clean!").
You learn a lot about who to trust in a primary season. I'll be tidying up my blogfeeds when all this is said and done.
'Fie upon the Congress' - Sen Bob Byrd
by Maxwell on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 02:00:01 PM PDT
I knew there was more to it. Jeez, the guy said he respected a handful of Republicans. Did that mean he meant they'd ALL be in his cabinet. And how come the headlines were all about Arnie and not Hagel or Lugar. Frankly, these stories all too often get jumped on even here without much real digging until the emails have been forwarded around the globe.
by Joe Willy on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 02:15:17 PM PDT
Many bloggers are naive.
White woman over 50 for OBAMA!! (Endorsed 6/07)
by nolalily on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 02:22:51 PM PDT
they can get away with? They just type up anything and think no one will ever check or question their baloney. How one can go from 'these are the Repubs I respect and for this specific reason' to 'Obama plans to have all these Repubs in his cabinet' is very perplexing. Many leap to conclusions with no basis in fact-----in the traditional media and right here on our very own internets. It's a stupid thing to try---too many fact-checkers----people who still think the truth is important.
by dotster on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 02:18:25 PM PDT
wide narrow
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