The Sunday Show Line-Ups: Death Squad Cheney on CNN

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/the-sunday-show-line-ups.php?ref=fp4

Will he admit to death squads operating out of his office?

surely their lips will be attached to his butt. Why in Satan's good name would they have that criminal on?

He doesn't hold any public office, right?

Instantly viral.

What a disgrace they are.

I wonder if he'll bring his touch screen computer board?

On the July 14 edition of CNN's Live Today, host Daryn Kagan and chief national correspondent John King repeated two falsehoods frequently advanced by conservatives to attack former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, who - along with his wife, former CIA-operative Valerie Plame -- filed a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney, White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, and former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby the previous day. First, King falsely claimed that Wilson "did say in one television interview, and ... intimated in some others, that the vice president had sent him to Niger" to investigate reports that Iraq had sought to purchase yellowcake uranium from that country. Later, both King and Kagan claimed that the Senate Intelligence Committee found that Plame "sent" Wilson on the trip to Niger. As Media Matters for America has noted numerous times, Wilson did not claim Cheney sent him to Niger, and the Senate Intelligence Committee report did not officially conclude that Plame was responsible for sending Wilson on the trip.

Falsehood #1: Wilson claimed Cheney sent him to Niger

During his discussion with Kagan, King stated that the matter of "who decided Joe Wilson goes to Niger" was a "thing in contention" and "an open question," and that Wilson "did say in one television interview, and he intimated in some others, that the vice president had sent him to Niger." But as Media Matters has noted, Wilson did not claim that Cheney sent him to Niger. King's assertion appears to echo a Republican National Committee (RNC) talking points memo made public on July 12, 2005, which accused Wilson of falsely claiming "that it was Vice President Cheney who sent him to Niger." To support this accusation, the RNC misrepresented Wilson's July 6, 2003, op-ed in The New York Times, in which he criticized the Bush administration's use of intelligence to suggest that Iraq had sought to purchase yellowcake uranium in Africa. Additionally, the RNC distorted a remark Wilson made in an August 3, 2003, interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Contrary to the allegations advanced by the RNC -- and apparently adopted by King -- Wilson clearly stated in the op-ed that "agency officials" at the CIA had requested he travel to Niger. Further, in the CNN appearance, he stated it was "absolutely true" that Cheney was unaware he went on the trip.

King's remark was first noted by Joshua Micah Marshall on his Talking Points Memo weblog.

Falsehood #2: The Senate Intelligence Committee found that Plame sent Wilson to Niger...........snip



You won't get shit out of King

http://mediamatters.org/items/200607150003