Arkansas Blog

Wow, CJR missed the mark by a few (hundred) miles.

The clip of Al is precisely what the campaign spin doctors used to torch Gore and Couric's statement was 100% accurate.

While I have a strong distaste for Couric and CBS, the story (which I actually saw, amazing given how rarely I watch CBS News) was totally accurate even though what the spin doctors did with the clip was not accurate.

Since you are now interested in what the CJR has to say on things, why haven't I seen this blog mention the CJR's take on Obama's "outright lying" to voters?

I can't figure out why the CJR is saying anything...the lies, innuendo, slander and character assassination that has been standard operating procedure for the repug administration has gone unchallenged for almost eight years, why is it so important now? Besides katy is an airhead news reader and not a journalist, what do you expect? And a further besides, the traditional media no longer practices journalism, its cheerleading or entertainment, not news.

that should have been "bad" entertainment

Obama's distortion/misrepresentation/"outright lying" per CJR, is on far firmer ground than the CJR realizes.

McCain's "100-year" statement is in the context of Korea, Japan, Germany etc. which could be reasonably assumed to mean that if Iraq became as peaceful as those countries, he could see/support US troops being there for a century.

McCain's statements during the "withdrawal" debates before the 2006 elections could be reasonably assumed to mean that he would not support reducing the level of US troops in Iraq while they are being shot at, blown up, killed, or if Iraqis are also doing so. (because it would constitute "defeat" and a "loss of face" (pride trumps death and dollars?) and could allow Iraq to become a base for Al Quaeda... as if they need another one in addition to northern Pakistan, Eastern Afghanistan, and Eritrea)

thus by his own words, McCain is for keeping US troops in Iraq regardless of the cost in either money or deaths, for the rest of our lives and our children's lives (and perhaps their children's lives as well) ... what you might call "having it both ways".

Obama's assertion is calculated to conflate the two and expose McCain's intransigent fallacy.

Red,

Probably because you didn't post it! Why not, if it was that good? Or did you find or make up the Obama comment after the Columbia Journalism Review was mentioned???????

Quote from Red's name-link"

"Ever since John McCain said at a town hall meeting in January that he could see U.S. troops staying in Iraq for a hundred years, the Democrats have been trying to use the quote to paint the Arizona senator as dangerous warmonger."

"Questioner: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for fifty years.

McCain: Maybe a hundred. Make it one hundred."

Shouldn't be difficult to do because he is. He advocates war as a method of solving America's problems. If they advocate this now why were they not advocating it in 2003?
With that in mind who is lying about what? In 2003 we heard:
"6 days, 6 weeks, 6 months as the most"

Strange we can still hear about Al Gore's minor quotes some 9 years later but nothing about the implicit lies told by Bushit, and helped along by Mc-Bush-Cain just 5 years ago at the advent of the worst error in an American presidency. Where is Bush-whore Curic on this?
She's deep in the pockets of the military industrial complex which now controls 85% of American media.