CNN 'edits' Pelosi's remarks.

Presto! CNN Edits Pelosi's Quote To Make Her Say Dem Congress "Hasn't Done Anything"
November 9, 2007 -- 6:59 PM EST // //
I'm not sure anyone could outdo this one in terms of, shall we say, "creative" editing of quotes.

CNN ran a report this afternoon with the headline: "Record Anger At Congress." The network quoted Nancy Pelosi agreeing with this thesis, saying:

"I know that Congress has low approval ratings. I don't approve of Congress because we haven't done anything."

Woah -- Pelosi, the Dem leader of the House, says of the Dem Congress that "we haven't done anything?"

Well...take a look:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/11/presto_cnn_edit.php

Just plain malicious. No other word describes this by CNN.

The first veto override, in the minds of current Dem strategists, has shaken loose the executive total stranglehold and restored, however limited, the power of a bipartisan Congress. Admittedly, there should have been a string of such victories, the beginning of moves that might even go as far as impeachment- which they hoped by their success would be fortuitously unnecessary. So it was a success, grimly limited and slow, one year after the 2006 election. Given its nature, it is unlikely to release any floodgates, any guarantee that the overall strategy is succeeding. The victory however might be good or bad. Bad if it simply affirms and hardens the leadership resolve to take this building block path to 2008 and lame the duck, good if it gets them impatient for more and anxious to bypass the slow, cautious path.

They listen to the spinners the same way. Smile that they try to brand this leadership a failure and restrained by the lack of popular support allowed by the corporate media. This odd mix seems to guarantee the Dem leadership will more rigidly stick to this legislative assault, these chess moves for which they simply won't be allowed an appreciative audience- necessary supportive audience to make it work.

if there were some sort of outrage at such as that?

Rudy can still get mileage out of Biden's plagiarized speech 20-something years ago; we can all go berserk flagellating Moveon over making a pun, but when it comes to flat-out lying in the news - and that is what this is - not just editing - they changed what she said by omitting part - nobody gives a shit.

I'm not an Edwards supporter or basher, but it pissed me off to see the two lunkheads on CNN this morning repeating over and over that Edwards was booed at the Mellencamp concert. Yes, you could hear boos, but you could also hear (and see) lots of people cheering. All the while, the shills on CNN kept talking over what Edwards was saying, emphasizing how many boos he was receiving and how everyone just wanted to hear a concert not politics. They even had the nerve to speak over what Edwards was saying and then complain that you couldn't hear what he was saying.

Makes me glad I don't watch that corporatist propaganda machine.

Here's a candidate for president of the United States and these jaspers think whatever they have to say is more valuable that what the candidate has to say.
Can you imagine tweety or potato head even remotely being superior to Edwards, or any democratic candidate, for that matter?

I find that hubris stunning. Of course, I haven't seen them do that to a republican, since Nixon.
Maybe it's just me...

And not just to dems. Anybody's fair game, it seems.

Now go here:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form6a.html?2

and complain!!!

It does no good to catch them at it, if they don't know they've been CAUGHT

I bet she was.

But "fairness" ain't a Republican value, apparently.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/01/hill.democrats/

Speaking at a new conference Thursday, Pelosi said Congress' failure to bring an end to the Iraq war was the reason for the low approval ratings.

"I don't approve of Congress because we haven't done anything -- we haven't been effective in ending the war in Iraq," she said, "and if you asked me in a phone call, as ardent a Democrat as I am, I would disapprove of Congress as well."

to United States of Soviets Remembered U S S R. Our Traditional Media is nothing more than Propaganda.

They were JEALOUS of the kind of totalitarian power the Kremlin had.

Now that the Soviet Union is no longer a competitor, they've embraced those repressive tactics they used to condemn.

In our country, there is a slight twist because we have Corporations that tell the gov't what to do. So I guess we're oppressed in a fascist manner instead of in a 'communist' fashion.

Since the '20s and '30s, the American Right has definitely wanted Fascism to corner "the market."

:evilfrown: