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10/1 FoxNews caught red-handed fabricating story, posts apology:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134166,00.html
Go here for the original story:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_26.php#003551
\_ Give them a break. It's hard to distinguish stories that have
been spun as much as Fox News does from total fantasies, I
can see how they could make that mistake.
\_ But this was a front-page story, written by their "star
campaign reporter" Carl Cameron. If a NYTimes reporter had
done this to Bush, his ass would be hanging from a tree and
Fox would be running stories all day about it.
\_ You may have missed the part where the respondent says that
Fox stories are all fantasies.
\_ It is always safe to assume maximum sarcasm in any motd
post.
\_ Fox News does not lie. Only the liberal communist America hating
Dan Rather does that. |
| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134166,00.html com posted an item purporting to contain quotations from Kerry. The item was based on a reporter's partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice. The Kerry campaign on Friday released cutaways of the president's facial expressions seen during Thursday's debate. Spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter told FOX News on Thursday night that they planned to show Bush appearing arrogant, annoyed and aloof at various times. they would rather have that kind of distraction than talk about the facts." among the rules was a ban on news networks' split-screen views of both candidates. But some, including FOX News, ran the split screens anyway. The technique allowed viewers to see the facial expressions of both men, and Kerry definitely showed less emotion than Bush. "Several times it looked to me as if the president was sucking on a lemon," said Washington Post political writer and FOX News political analyst Ceci Connelly. search) said the cutaways that will be shown are true to Bush's form during the debate, adding that Bush looked "clueless." "You looked at a president of the United States tonight that looked annoyed during the entire time of the debate, he looked angry, he couldn't answer the questions as to what's been happening in Iraq," McAuliffe told FOX News. You saw a president tonight -- and that was John Kerry." The debate rules dictate that the temperature had to be 70 degrees -- a plus for Bush, who loves the heat of central Texas. Kerry, who tends to sweat, reportedly wanted the room cooler. Each podium was the same size, which illustrated Kerry's 3-to-4-inch height advantage over the president. Silence and Power Outages While it is not uncommon in press filing centers for reporters to laugh, cheer, groan and audibly react during a presidential debate, there was silence in the press room Thursday night. There is a growing consensus among reporters that Kerry's criticisms got under the president's skin. Bush Twins and Kerry Kids On another note, the daughters of Kerry and Bush apparently have become quite close while stumping for their fathers. When asked what Bush thought Kerry's biggest character flaws were that could prevent him from being elected, the president started off commending the senator for being a "great dad" to daughters Alexandra and Vanessa. daughters have been so kind to my daughters," adding that "it's been hard" for the children of both candidates while their dads have been on the campaign trail. Kerry told Bush he appreciated his comments about his family "enormously," and said he'd followed the progress of the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara. "I've chuckled a few times at some of their comments," Kerry said. Bush laughed, saying, "I'm trying to put a leash on them." Byrd sees the flyer as the "latest in a pattern of distortions from the RNC and the Republican leadership" and points to the situation in Iraq as evidence. The RNC is "spreading this tripe to smear Democrats, and the president ought to demand that the Republican National Committee apologize to the people of West Virginia," Byrd said. "The political hacks behind that blasphemous flyer should be required to re-read the Book of Exodus. There is no free pass from the commandments in an election year." Republicans "must think that spreading nonsense about banning the Bible is a sure-fire way to get votes in an election year. Byrd said truth is "tailored to fit the occasion" this election year, and "nowhere is this more evident than on the subject of Iraq. Whether it be weapons of mass destruction or an imminent threat or mushroom clouds, the reason for the war changes faster than the weather. Election Politics on the Hill Election politics strayed onto the Senate floor again Thursday. took office, his agenda was clear -- find a rationale to get rid of Saddam." Kennedy: "In the Rose Garden in 2002, the president said Iraq is a threat of unique urgency ... and said we cannot wait for the final proof, the mushroom cloud ... Smith: "It seems to me that Senator Kerry is playing a rather false game with the American public ... Then he said he has the ability to change the dynamics on the ground ... The enemies of democracy would feel emboldened to wait it out until our forces leave." Poll Watch A CBS poll of 200 "fence-sitters" found that 44 percent thought Kerry won Thursday night's debate, 26 percent said Bush came out the victor and 30 percent said the two candidates were tied. An ABC News poll found that 45 percent of respondents said Kerry won, 36 percent said Bush did and 17 percent said the two men were tied. Cutter told FOX News that the Kerry camp's internal flash polling showed their candidate's favorability going from 43 to 68 as a result of the debate. As for national polls showing Kerry behind in the race, aides to the Democratic challenger dispute the accuracy of surveys of likely voters, arguing that they fail to account for newly registered voters recruited by groups like MoveOn, Rockers, HipHop and America Coming Together (ACT). According to a Los Angeles Times national poll conducted Sept. Among the 1,100 likely voters surveyed, 3 percent were undecided. Among 1,531 registered voters, Bush had 49 percent support, Kerry had 45 percent and 6 percent were undecided. Kerry has a slight lead over Bush, however, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of 489 likely New Jersey voters, conducted Sept. Kerry got 45 percent in that poll, while Bush got 44 percent and independent candidate Ralph Nader got 1 percent; Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania Bush has a 10-point lead over Kerry among the 704 likely Florida voters surveyed in a CNN/USAToday/Gallup poll. Bush gained four percentage points since an earlier poll was conducted by the same group. That same group surveyed 664 likely voters in Ohio from Sept. In a three-way race with Nader, Bush got 49 percent, Kerry got 47 percent and Nader got 1 percent; Among 654 likely Pennsylvania voters, a CNN/USAToday/Gallup poll found that Bush has 50 percent support, Kerry has 47 percent and 3 percent are unsure. Throw Nader in the mix and Bush's support drops to 49 percent, Kerry's to 46 percent and Nader gets 1 percent support; George Nethercutt, has a new ad out that includes remarks she made after the Sept. countries for decades building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful he has made their life better. On Screen: "Patty Murray on Usama bin Laden" Voice-Over: "He had made lives better?" Nethercutt: "I am George Nethercutt and I approved this message because winning the War on Terror means fighting terrorists, not excusing them." Print Ad: 'That Dog Don't Hunt' Sponsor: National Rifle Association Text: "John Kerry says he supports sportsmen's rights. The ad lists six issues Kerry voted on that appear to be against the right to bear arms, including how the Massachusetts senator voted for an amendment to outlaw most ammunition used by deer hunters, supported a higher tax on firearms and ammunition and his purported 20-year record of voting against sportsmen's rights. The bottom of the ad says: "If John Kerry wins, you lose." On top of the ad is a huge white poodle wearing a Kerry sweater and the tag line "That Dog Don't Hunt." FOX News' Liza Porteus, Corbett Rhiner, Carl Cameron and Julie Asher contributed to this report. com Site Tools Take advantage of services and tools that get you closer to the news. Subscribe to FOX News Alerts, or download our FNC Ringtones, Search Toolbar, Ticker and more. |
| www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_26.php#003551 "Nearly 100,000 fully trained and equipped Iraqi soldiers, police officers, and other security personnel are working today. And that total will rise to 125,000 by the end of this year. The Iraqi government is on track to build a force of over 200,000 security personnel by the end of next year. With the help of the American military, the training of the Iraqi army is almost halfway complete." News Conference with Prime Minister Allawi September 23rd, 2004 "There's 100,000 troops trained: police, guard, special units, border patrol. There's going to be 125,000 trained by the end of this year." But many of these assertions have met with scepticism from key lawmakers, congressional aides and experts, and Pentagon documents, given to lawmakers and obtained by Reuters, paint a more complicated picture. The documents show that of the nearly 90,000 currently in the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training. Another 46,176 are listed as "untrained," and it will be July 2006 before the administration reaches its new goal of a 135,000-strong, fully trained police force. Six Army battalions have had "initial training," while 57 National Guard battalions, 896 soldiers in each, are still being recruited or "awaiting equipment." Just eight Guard battalions have reached "initial (operating) capability," and the Pentagon acknowledged the Guard's performance has been "uneven." Training has yet to begin for the 4,800-man civil intervention force, which will help counter a deadly insurgency. And none of the 18,000 border enforcement guards have received any centralised training to date, despite earlier claims they had, according to Democrats on the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. They estimated that 22,700 Iraqi personnel have received enough basic training to make them "minimally effective at their tasks," in contrast to the 100,000 figure cited by Bush. Has any reporter asked the president or his advisors about this? first post-debate poll, from Newsweek, John Kerry leads President Bush by a margin of 49% to 46%. Put Nader in the mix and Kerry's margin Advertisement drops from 3 to 2 Notably, on the front page of the MSNBC site, the headline reads "Kerry Boost: Poll shows Democrat even with Bush after Debate." Statistically speaking it's probably fair to call that a tie or basically even. The blurb on the Newsweek poll on the right side of the front page of the MSNBC website reads: "A solid majority of viewers surveyed say the challenger outperformed the president in their first face-off, and Bush's lead among registered voters has all but vanished." But the article is about the new Newsweek poll that shows Kerry beating Bush among registered voters. So doesn't that mean Bush's lead has all vanished, rather than "all but vanished." Fox News took a Kerry-bashing Republican group called "Communists for Kerry" and interviewed a 'member' of the group as though it were an actual pro-Kerry group. Sample quote: "Even though he, too, is a capitalist, he supports my socialist values more than President Bush ... The North Koreans are my comrades to a point, and I'm sure they support Comrade Kerry, too." declined to tell the LA Times what if any discipline Cameron faced. Assume for the moment that Cameron's fabricated story wasn't supposed to run on the site. If Cameron sits around writing up phony news stories only for Fox News colleagues which portray Kerry as a swishy fool, can he really credibly cover the campaign as a straight news reporter? Sending a Kerry-bashing parody around to colleagues at Fox News? Or did a tech person or editor at the website get a hold of Cameron's fabrications and post it not realizing it was a fabrication? John King posted a story on the CNN website with fabricated quotes that had the president joking about funneling money to Halliburton or telling a crowd how only saps went to Vietnam, what would the fall-out or consequences be? print) I will spare you any pretense of mock surprise that Fox News is ridiculously biased against the Kerry campaign. But it's one thing to know it and another to get such a blazing and undeniable example of it as a story with fabricated Kerry-bashing Advertisement quotes put together by the Fox News reporter covering the Kerry campaign. On Monday Kurtz discussed a study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs that showed that Fox News coverage of Kerry was overwhelmingly negative. Kurtz got these quotes from Cameron's boss Brit Hume ... Brit Hume, Fox's Washington managing editor, whose "Special Report" was examined by the study, says he's surprised by the anti-Kerry findings. "Our day-in, day-out coverage by Carl Cameron has been extremely fair to Kerry, and the Kerry campaign has recognized this," he says. We thought it was a totally legitimate story and found it an appalling lapse by many of our competitive news organizations that were treating that story like it was cancerous." But even there, Hume says, "we were abundantly fair to John Kerry's side." com posted an item purporting to contain quotations from Kerry. The item was based on a reporters partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice. After questions were asked the offending material was quickly pulled from the site, without explanation. Late this afternoon I spoke to Fox spokesman Paul Schur who told me the following ... So the Fox reporter covering the Kerry campaign puts together this Kerry-bashing parody right out of the RNC playbook with phony quotes intended to peg him as girlish fool and somehow it found its way on the Fox website as a news item. This morning on the Fox News website, Fox was running a post-debate story about Kerry with several apparently fabricated quotes meant to disparage the Democratic candidate. Rallying supporters in Tampa Friday, Kerry played up his performance in Thursday night's debate, in which many observers agreed the Massachusetts senator outperformed the president. With the foreign-policy debate in the history books, Kerry hopes to keep the pressure on and the sense of traction going. Aides say he will step up attacks on the president in the next few days, and pivot somewhat to the domestic agenda, with a focus on women and abortion rights. Kerry still trails in actual horse-race polls, but aides say his performance was strong enough to rally his base and further appeal to voters ready for a change. "I'm metrosexual he's a cowboy," the Democratic candidate said of himself and his opponent. A "metrosexual" is defined as an urbane male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle. I looked around on google and no other reporters seem to have gotten those choice quotes from Senator Kerry. A source on the Kerry campaign told me Kerry certainly didn't say anything remotely like that. After the debate undecided voter Ted Lyons said Kerry sounded like "an idiot" in his response to several questions. Then you look down into the article and see that Ted Lyons is a Republican political consultant. print) "In Samarra, the Iraqi government has tackled the insurgents who once controlled the city." Iyad Allawi Address to Congress September 23rd, 2004 "US and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, trading gunfire with rebel fighters as they pushed toward the city center." That might well be an apt description of the president Advertisement himself. Kerry hit again and again on the fact that the president failed to bag bin Laden in late 2001 and early 2002 in large measure because he started drawing off troops for the coming war in Iraq. He also put the final showdown in the mountains of Tora Bora into the hands of Afghan warlords, or rather their fighters, who had no real interest in taken bin Laden down. To this President Bush's only response was that bin Laden is "isolated." In other words, he's pinned down and doesn't really matter any more. Wasn't the White House telling us just a couple months ago that bin Laden ... |