Why in the Hell is Judy Woodriff apologizing for a comment . . .

frankly_fedup2

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Tue Mar-01-05 04:39 PM
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Why in the Hell is Judy Woodriff apologizing for a comment . . .

that Bob Novak made regarding Gov. Dean by misquoting him and then Crossfire comes on and there sits Robert Novac???

Are they never wrong? Do they never have to apologize? Are they ever responsible for anything?

This country is screwed and we let them do it. I'm so mad right now but I just do not know what to do with this anger.

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Career Prole

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Tue Mar-01-05 04:45 PM
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1. Television...window...backyard....

But not if it'll land on a liberal. :evilgrin:

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Warpy

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Tue Mar-01-05 05:00 PM
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5. nah, keep it around for watching the few decent films

out there, like Supersize Me, F911, and a few out of Europe.

When it dies, THEN throw it in the yard and plant petunias in it.

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otohara

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Tue Mar-01-05 04:46 PM
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2. Well, Our EMails Worked

Edited on Tue Mar-01-05 04:47 PM by otohara

I was sent an e-mail from http://mediamatters.org/ - explaining what Novak said - I sent e-mail to Lying Criminal himself, Capital Gang and CNN.

Media Matters makes it easy to do.

To answer your question, Novak is a pig and Woodward is his bitch for putting that pathetic apology out there for him.

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otohara

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Tue Mar-01-05 04:50 PM
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3. This Just In From Salon.com

God, truth, Howard Dean and Robert Novak

Mix Howard Dean and Social Security, and you get a potent political brew that Robert Novak can't pass up. He can't quite get it right, either.

Dean spoke at Cornell University last week, and the Cornell Daily Sun was there. The Daily Sun, Cornell's student newspaper, quoted Dean as saying that Bush's plan for private investment accounts "has much more to do with the enormous amount of money that corporate Wall Street poured into the President of the United States' campaign than senior citizens." The paper then paraphrased Dean as saying that, if nothing at all is done to reform Social Security in the next 30 years -- a kind of neglect Dean said he would not support -- then Social Security benefits would be reduced to 80 percent of their current levels.

This is where Mr. Novak comes in. With Bush's Social Security plan on something close to life support, Novak latched on to Dean's words -- or at least an upside-down version of them -- as a sign that someone, somewhere is with the president on this. As Media Matters reports, Novak used his "Crossfire" spot to proclaim: "The Democratic line that this isn't a problem -- Howard Dean gave a speech at Cornell on Thursday of this week in which he said that 80 percent -- over the years, 80 percent of the Social Security benefits will be lost. There is a problem. So, Howard sometimes tells the truth. He doesn't get the exact line."
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

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Career Prole

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Tue Mar-01-05 05:41 PM
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7. Ho! Nice try, Novakula!

So which caved first, old-timer...your hearing or your mind?
Sorta remembered an "eighty" in there and just filled in around it with pure fancy, or what?

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Gogi

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Tue Mar-01-05 04:58 PM
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4. Judy, Judy, Judy.

Don't you understand, the person who made the mistake must issue the apology no one else can do it for them.

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madfloridian

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Tue Mar-01-05 05:18 PM
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6. Missed it, what did she say?

I think we should keep after Novak to apologize. Outrageous.

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comsymp

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Tue Mar-01-05 05:45 PM
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8. Great- did she also

mention who outed Valerie Plame?

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frankly_fedup2

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Tue Mar-01-05 10:14 PM
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9. I have three guesses and the first two do not count. This country . . .

has no law as far as the Republican Party is concerned. There is their doctrine, and then the rest of us have to follow the real laws.

I've learned that it doesn't help to write the shows. The best plan would be to contact their sponsers. However, you really need a lot of people writing, and faxing gets the most attention. Rarely do emailing any of them do anything.

Maybe Dean threatened a lawsuit without the apology? Now that would be new, huh? Plus, it would be playing their game back on them.

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kaitykaity

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Wed Mar-02-05 03:17 AM
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10. Woofwoof apologized?

Huh. Amazing. She's such a Bush whore you can see
her knee pads most days.

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kaitykaity

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Wed Mar-02-05 03:24 AM
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11. From Transcript.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/01/ip.01.html

And, finally, this note about yesterday's program. CNN's Robert Novak reported an item about Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and said that when Governor Dean spoke to students at Cornell University last week, Dean remarked that in 30 years Social Security would lose 80 percent of its benefits. Bob Novak misquoted Governor Dean, it turns out. Bob tells us that he intended to report that Governor Dean said that in 30 years, if nothing changed, Social Security would be reduced to 80 percent of its current benefits. We apologize for the mistake and we're happy to set the record straight.

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