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September 9, 2008
CNN Puts Agenda Before Facts On Palin Reporting
Topics: Political News and commentariesCNN, not known to ever let facts get in the way of the truth or failing to distort the truth in order to report "news" that fits their liberal progressive agenda, has been at it again by reporting rumors and innuendos that have no factual basis, whatsoever: CNN Contradicts FactCheck.org and Their Own Reporting on Palin:
For two straight days, CNN repeated liberal rumors about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's political record - rumors that had already been debunked by their own correspondents, as well as the respected FactCheck.org, a group led by former CNN reporter Brooks Jackson.Continue reading ...During Monday evening's Election Center program, CNN's senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin claimed that Palin "wants to ban all abortions," despite a September 2 report by his own network which included a quote from the Alaska governor that she is "pro-life... [w]ith the exception of a doctor's determination that the mother's life would end if the pregnancy continued." Toobin also claimed that Palin "wants to treat -- to have creationism taught in public schools." This isn't the entire story. A FactCheck.org report released on Monday, which aimed to refute "dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain's running mate," clarified that Palin "supports teaching creationism alongside evolution, though she has not actively pursued such a policy as governor."
Less than ten hours later, during Tuesday's American Morning, correspondent Jessica Yellin, in a report purporting to give the "facts" about Palin's fiscal record at the beginning of the 6 am hour of the program, stated that "Palin has used her line-item veto to cut funds for special interest programs called earmarks, but Democrats criticize her for slashing programs, even for people with disabilities, a group she's vowed to defend." Yellin, like Toobin, didn't tell the whole story. The same FactCheck.org report began by stating that Palin "did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three year." The report cited CNN's Soledad O'Brien's use of the supposed 62 percent figure on September 4 as an example of how far these "dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages" had gone.
The FactCheck.org report, titled "Sliming Palin," included transcript of O'Brien citing the 62 percent figure to McCain campaign spokesperson Nicolle Wallace. During the interview segment, O'Brien went further than merely citing the figure. She pressed Wallace on the matter, and went so far to ask if Palin would "completely contradict what she did as governor when it comes to special needs?"
Posted by Abdul at September 9, 2008 3:34 PM
It should come as no surprise. What else can you expect from CNN - Communist News Network - when after all, it has become all but the surrogate "Propaganda Machine" of the Obama Campaign?
What is really sad and ironic, is that both, the families of Rick Sanchez and Soledad O'Brien were forced to flee Fidel's and murderous Che's "Communist Cuban Paradise" and emigrate to the US, and now they pander to the Che-flag-wielding, Castro-loving "Michael Moores", leftist, commie supporters of Obama!
Posted by: Althor at September 9, 2008 4:30 PM
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