CNN Ambushes Palin With Out-Of-Context Quote

October 23, 2008 Albert Milliron politics 0

See Video then read the article. CNN is not this stupid, incompetent, corrupt, is it? I thought CNN did a pretty good job on the Presidential campaigns. This one was way outside of their usual good Job. CNN has not returned calls from the McCain campaign asking for an explanation. Fox News O’Reilly Factor led with this story and had the writer of the article in the National Review on with him. He related to the Fox Audience that anyone who read the article would see that the text was out of the context.

During an interview with Palin, CNN pulled out a quote from National Review columnist Byron York that seemed to have York calling Palin stupid, among other things.

But the thing is that the words CNN attributed to National Review were taken out of context .

Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above. Palin, the governor of Alaska, has faced more criticism than any vice-presidential candidate since 1988, when Democrats and the press tore into Dan Quayle. In fact, Palin may have it even worse than Quayle, since she’s taking flak not only from Democrats and the press but from some conservative opinion leaders as well….

Yes, there are legitimate concerns about Palin’s lack of experience. Who wouldn’t, at the very least, wish that she had more time in the governor’s office on her résumé? But a look at Palin’s 20 months in power, along with interviews with people who worked with her, shows her to be a serious executive, a governor who picked important things to do and got them done — and who didn’t just stumble into an 80 percent job-approval rating.

That’s probably one of the worst media ambush/hatchet jobs I’ve ever seen.

Source: sayanythingblog.com via politisite