Tuesday, August 02, 2011

MORE CONSERVATIVE DISHONESTY

Conservatives edited a clip of a WH press briefing to make it appear that NBC correspondent Nora O'Donnell referred to herself as part of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party:
It was a question asked repeatedly during today’s White House press briefing, but some conservatives are lashing out at CBS’ Norah O’Donnell for asking Press Secretary Jay Carney how the Democrats benefit, if at all, from the final debt deal. The controversy began with a post from Commentary Magazine entitled “CBS’s O’Donnell to Carney: ‘We Got Nothing,’” which was technically a correct quote, except Commentary omitted some key words preceding that statement: “You have Democrats saying…”
According to Mediate, John Podhoretz was the first to help spread this smear and it was also picked up by Breitbart and The Other McCain.

So far, the latter two have not offered a correction or retraction.

1 comment:

iolite said...

The Conservatives, in the main, don't want it. They are willing, under pressure, to seek the people's opinion on the matter.