John King cites Human Events headline, asks Cheney, "Is the president of the United States trying to brazenly deceive the American people?"
March 15, 2009 12:51 pm ET
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Because we all remember when John King held up a copy of the New Yorker and asked if Bush was brazenly lying to us, right?
Historical revisionism won't work here. All of us here still remember how the media behaved for the last 8 years.
Fairlibrul once again busts a nut over MSNBC. How predictable, maggot. MSNBC is the channel that has two hours/day of left leaning journalism, but the rest of the time they are no different from FAux and you reich-wingers hate them for those two hours. You're weak and obtuse.
When they ripped off Al Gore, the media collectively and falsely insisted that Americans were interested in immediate resolution of the 2000 election. They made Gore look like a spoilsport for contesting the results and all but demanded that Bush be inaugurated. (Sore-Loserman, anyone?) Once the theft was complete, the media generally failed to report on the follow up investigations which indicated that Gore and the American people had been robbed.
The media made up the lies that Al Gore claimed he'd invented the Internet, had discovered Love Canal, and was the basis for a character in Love Story.
The media failed to uncover or report on Bush's actual criminal record of drunk driving convictions and his dereliction of duty while in the National Guard. When these items did come to light, the media ignored them or attacked the whistle blowers.
The media abetted the falsely-named Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which robbed a bona fide war hero of his reputation and likely cheated him of the presidency.
The media enabled the Bush administration's lies about the need to attack Iraq and didn't report the truth no matter how obvious it was.
The media failed to report on the Bush administration's cronyism, corruption and nepotism in Iraq, failings that have led to the theft of billions (maybe trillions), and caused untold thousands of needless deaths.
The media failed to report on the revelation of a covert CIA operative's name by the Bush administration, an action taken out of spite and to intimidate anyone who disagreed with the Bush administration. Worse, members of the media were complicit in the leak, failed to disclose who had done it, and lied to cover up for those who had.
The media has barely covered the Bush administration's failure to punish those responsible for the 9-11 attacks -- WHY is Osama bin Laden still on the loose?
Paying journalists under the table to disseminate Bush administration propaganda, lying about warrantless wiretapping and other surveillance measures, carrying out covert surveillance of American citizens, holding people without charges -- all supported by, not reported by, or barely covered by the mainstream media.
Yes, the media gave Bush and Cheney a pass and failed to hold them to the same scrutiny that they turn on Democrats. Yes the media is suddenly scrutinizing Obama in a way that they never did for Bush. That's the actual reality. But of course, reality has a well known liberal bias...
The biggest part of that was John King's admission that he rarely reads Human Events which is something that should be hung around his neck in perpetuity. Human Events is one trillion times worse than dailykos but you will NEVER catch a journo claiming to regularly read the great orange satan. I think it would be worthwhile for MM to point out some of Human Events contributers
Ann Coulter
Pat Buchanan
Michele Malkin
Eric Erikson
Dick Morris
And many other wingnuts
http://www.humanevents.com/view-all.php?type=columnists
Yet this is a rag that John King, on of the "serious people" at CNN, thinks is worthy of reading. It explains a lot about his approach to journalism I can tell you that.
King just doesn't want to be Rushbo's Butt Boy on his show tomorrow morning
It's more than obvious that King is projecting his own views. He's not trying to get Cheney to hang himself with his own rope. That's absurd. King held up a copy of Human Events, for godsakes. It's clear that he's simply enabling Cheney to criticize Obama.He's giving him a platform to launch smears.
And no, a journalist's job isn't to make the interviewee "jump the shark." That may be Sean Hannity's job, but nobody else with an ounce of shame should be conducting interviews like that.
You think King disagrees with the statement he's trying to get Cheney to make?
Why would you think that???
Wow.
So, let's get into our wayback machine, and see if, say, in early 2003, back when The Nation was telling all of its readers what a liar Cheney was, if CNN ever had one of their hosts hold up a copy of The Nation for Al Gore to look at and ask him if the Bush administration was trying brazenly to lie to the American people.
What an awful man John King is. He is beyond redemption as a journalist.
Again, asking Dick Cheney? Really?
No one could have predicted!