CNN Distorts Palin Comments From Its OWN Interview With Her


What is it about CNN that they have to distort things that Governor Sarah Palin has said in interviews? This time, CNN even distorted what she said in an interview one of its own correspondents conducted. On CNN’s Political Ticker Blog on November 11, CNN had this absurd headline:Palin in Obama’s administration? And followed that up with a paragraph that materially misstated what she told their own commentator, Wolf Blitzer.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Wednesday she would be honored to help out President-elect Barack Obama in his new administration, even if he did hang around with an “unrepentant domestic terrorist.”

Yet, the several paragraphs that follow shows that the header and the into paragraph twist what it is she really said. If one were to read just the headline and that first paragraph of the Political Ticker entry, one would get a very distorted view of what the governor said.

First to address the misleading and snarky headline. Governor Palin did NOT say she wanted to become a member of Barack Obama’s administration. All she said was that she’d be happy to “assist and support” the new president. This is the same thing that any governor would and should say about a newly elected president.

“It would be my honor,” Palin told Blitzer, “to assist and support our new president and the new administration.”

“And I speak for other Republicans and Republican governors, also,” said Palin, whom Sen. John McCain tapped as his running mate in August. “They would be willing also to seize this opportunity that we have to progress this nation together, in a united front.”

Notice she did not say she wanted to become, expected to become, or even could become someone “in Obama’s administration.”

See CNN video clip.

Next the second snarky distortion. When CNN writes that Palin would be “in Obama’s administration,” and then they follow that with “even if he did hang around with an ‘unrepentant domestic terrorist,’” they make it seem as if Palin is agreeing to join Obama’s administration even though she thinks his associates are terrorists. This makes Palin out to be one of two things. One, a liar during the campaign that the terrorist thing was a real issue, or two, an opportunist that will do anything now to get power despite what she said during the campaign. Unfortunately for CNN, neither is the case.

The Political Ticker report cynically tries to cast Palin as both at the same time, though.

But asked moments later about some of the tough rhetoric she hurled from the stump, she said she was “still concerned” about Obama’s ties to former Weather Underground member-turned-Chicago college professor William Ayers.

Notice the “but moments later” spin as if they have caught Palin in something contradictory? Palin explains that it still bothers her because, despite Obama’s election, Ayers is still “an unrepentant domestic terrorist who had campaigned to blow up, to destroy our Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol.” These are facts, not conjecture.

Still, Palin is sensible enough to know that Obama was elected despite his many, many unsavory close associates.

“That’s an association that still bothers me, and I think it’s fair to still talk about it,” she continued. “However the campaign is over. That chapter is closed. Now is the time to move on and make sure all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation.”

There is nothing contradictory with an American Governor saying they will work with a new president despite that they didn’t support that president during the campaign. It IS our system, after all. Is CNN suggesting that governors shouldn’t?

No, this is just another example of CNN distorting what Sarah Palin said in order to make her look as bad as they possibly can… even if they have to lie to do it.

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You still expect objective "journalism" from CNN ?

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 9:25AM EST (link)

DOG BITES MAN

PrestoPundit Friday, November 14th at 10:03AM EST (link)

This is the game, isn’t it.

Wish everyone could spot this.

It so obvious, perhaps they all do.

 

Wolf Blitzer?

sirreal53 Friday, November 14th at 10:10AM EST (link)

OMG. he’s just dreadful! One of the most unhinged, biased left wing news people out there. He’s fully discredited everywhere but CNN

 

Gov. Rick Perry

Scope (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 10:19AM EST (link)

I wouldn’t expect anything different than distorted reporting from CNN. Worse than that was the treatment of Gov. Palin by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The video is out everywhere showing him having a hissy fit that Palin was getting so much attention. Just because he is the head of the Repub. Governors Assoc. by default (longest serving TX Governor and it was what he thinks was his turn) he wanted the spotlight on him. He obviously has a future presidential run in mind. I understand he also ran out after the meeting and was one that talked to the Reporters, and not nicely about Palin. Was it him that reported that those Gov’s. in attendance were not thrilled with Palin. I’s call that hostile.

This is all coming from the Gov. who supported and pushed for the Trans Texas Corridor, which would have been leased to a Mexican corporation. He also refused to give any information to his states’s population concerning the paperwork done in preparation for this disaster.

It’s pretty bad when you read liberal bloggers laughing at the fact that there is such infighting going on within the Republican party which will ensure a liberal pres. and Congress forever.

Governor Perry- there’s a reason you have a 38% approval rating, and a 33% disapproval rating. Even after the Obama million man march on the Alaska, Gov. Palin still has a 68% approval rating. I suspect after your antics at the Governors meeting your approval ratings will match those of the 110th Congress.

 

We need to adjust our game...

radar9597 (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 10:24AM EST (link)

We all know that the media is in the tank for the left….no surprise. If we expect that to change than we are going to be sorely dissapointed. It is up to us to figure out ways to combat this….Hit them where it hurts….contact their sponsers and voice our concerns…..Will it be easy…H*LL NO, but than again what worth doing ever is??? I say we pick one media outlet at a time and target them…I am all in on this….whatever I can do to help someone let me know…

 

CNN = Corrosive News Network

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 11:46AM EST (link)

No one believes CNN anymore.

CNN’s news are really lies.

 

Are all journalists morons? Read about it here!

GT350 Friday, November 14th at 11:54AM EST (link)

When a news article has a provocative headline posed in the form of a question, the answer is always “No”.

Just going thru today’s MSM headlines:

CNN “Palin in Obama’s Administration?” – No.
CNN “Could Bush’s intelligence team stay?” – No.
ABC “Could Sen Clinton become the next Sec of State” – No.

That rule of thumb has served me well. It has saved me from wasting time reading stupid articles.

I call it "ENVY"!

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 12:29PM EST (link)

One of the deadly sins.

 
 

Our team has forgotten rule #1 about politics: The Base

phxg (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 1:10PM EST (link)

We just witnessed the absolute power Gov Palin has in energizing the republican base and that is why the left slanders her at every turn.

America is still a center-right nation, regardless of how the last vote turned out. We have not run a presidential election with a true conservative, with true conservative platform since 1984. The media knows this, and the media is going to do everything they can to disrupt Gov. Palin from becoming a national candidate.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle

 

Saw her on Larry King Live...

Xasteius (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 1:54PM EST (link)

when asked if she thought that she hurt the McCain ticket, she nailed him with a very polite ‘the media needs to objectively report the news if it has integrity.’

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

Have you ever listened to..

fwt2008 Friday, November 14th at 1:56PM EST (link)

Keith Olberman [SP?]
or Chris Mathews?
f

 
 

Journalism is Dead

tkfarrow Friday, November 14th at 2:46PM EST (link)

That about sums it up.

www.politicsandpunditry.com

 

I'm still convinced that.............

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 7:54PM EST (link)

……….The only reason they got as close as they did was because of Governor Palin as the VP.

I’m guessing she was good for about half the ticket’s number, maybe even 55%.

 

Just Because the Governor is Being Mistreated by the Media

Joe Cor (Diary) Friday, November 14th at 10:09PM EST (link)

and former McCain staffers, doesn’t mean we should not be looking objectively at her performance in these recent media interviews. It has been lackluster, to say the least. She is still repeating the lame rhetoric from the campaign, talking about McCain being a “Maverick,” and taking on “special interests.” This was eye-rolling stuff during the campaign, but at least then I could attribute it to her handlers in the McCain campaign. But it’s over, and she’s still going back to this stuff. It indicates she either believes it, which is deeply disturbing, or that she doesn’t have the political imagination to move beyond it, which is also deeply disturbing.

When asks for specifics about what Republicans should be doing now, she had nothing to say, but simply said governors should be working on governing. That was not a confidence building moment for me.

She also is going back to the “New Tone” playbook, talking about “reaching out” and “common ground.” That is not how you regain the majority, by showing how much you like the other side. You gain it by showing where your differences are, why you disagree with the other side, and working to defeat them when they are wrong. We need specifics on policy, not more talk on “common ground.” It is still important to educate the American people on the disturbing radicalism of Barak Obama, not to paper it over with warm, fuzzy statements about the need to unite behind him.

I was a Sarah Palin fan, a big one, after her RNC speech. I remained one during the campaign. But if her recent interviews are a real indication of Sarah Palin freed from the constraints of the McCain campaign, I’m very concerned.

If Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP, why does she confine her rhetoric to what was used in its disastrous recent past?

you got a good one

gekster (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 10:15PM EST (link)

But I prefer Communist News Network.

When Karl Rove said in a speech that after 9-11, conservatives wanted to kick terrorist butt, and liberals wanted to arrest them and hold for trials.

Wolfblitzed stated that he said, Reblicans wanted war and Democrats wanted trials.

Also, didn’t they have a spot where they showed an Islamofacist sniper shooting an american Marine in Iraq just to get “The other side of the story?”

Why are they still in buisness?
Are there that many idiots out there?

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

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