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NPR's Rehm falsely claims Pelosi "call[ed] health care critics un-American," equates Pelosi statement with Palin's "death panel" falsehood

August 13, 2009 1:31 pm ET

From the August 12 edition of NPR's The Diane Rehm Show:

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Previously:

Politico again distorts Pelosi, Hoyer remarks on disruptive tactics

Fox News personalities advance Palin's "death panel" claim

NBC's Thompson says "death panel" claim is "misinformation"

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    • Author by pilotshark (August 13, 2009 1:36 pm ET)
         
      Now even NPR is starting to be polluted with this bovine scatology

      Shaking my head I am not sure i have ever hear her on NPR but i know they have a few that seems to spread disinfomation.

      come on NPR your suppose to be the beacon of intergty in broadcasting.
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    • Author by shaggles (August 13, 2009 2:06 pm ET)
         
      Et tu NPR? (Who am I kidding? NPR has been doing this for a while.)
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    • Author by borealis (August 14, 2009 3:51 pm ET)
         
      On her show today, August 14, Rehm corrected her statement and reported that when Pelosi and Hoyer used the term "un-American" they were referring to preventing others from talking.
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      • Author by hongdb (August 15, 2009 8:16 am ET)
           
        Thanks, borealis--that is exactly true. And she wasted zero time in doing so after correction.

        @ shaggles: I agree: one need only search my comments on NPR to confirm my disgust with its post-Bob-Edwards craven turn to the "middle" (read: mindless right)--from Liasson's and Williams's FOXy ignorance and bile, to Roberts's vomitous brainless convemtional wisdom to Inskeep's time-to-interview-a-GOP-kneepads, NPR's growth in ratings has been paid for with a bottomless drop in integrity. Diane Rehm, however, is (a) WAMU, not NPR; and (2) one of the most honest, whip-smart hosts we have in the US.
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    • Author by hongdb (August 15, 2009 9:05 am ET)
         
      Pot, meet kettle: MM, for an organization so quick to blame others for failures to retract false info, 23 hours (post-Rehm-self-correction) is an awful long time to leave this dirty little smear up. Wouldn't you say? Give 'em hell when they deserve it, yeah--but for crying out loud, man-up yourselves and follow your own advice.
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