Fox's Griffin falsely claimed Clark "disparag[ed] McCain's military service"
On the August 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report, national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin claimed that retired Gen. Wesley Clark "disparag[ed] [Sen. John] McCain's military service," repeating a falsehood previously advanced by numerous media figures, in reference to Clark's June 29 appearance on CBS' Face the Nation. As Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, Clark did not "disparag[e] McCain's military service" during that CBS News interview.
From the August 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
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GRIFFIN: The military figures chosen to speak included the first woman Army Lieutenant General, Claudia Kennedy. Once a Hillary Clinton supporter, she headed Army intelligence in the '90s but has little experience in Iraq.
SCALES: The speakers came across as a weak assortment of military experts. There was no one retired military who had real military bona fides or who had a connection with the war as it is today.
GRIFFIN: Senator John Kerry talked of the Bush administration now taking Obama's policy and making it their own -- negotiating with Iran, setting a timeline for withdrawing from Iraq. And there was much talk of consensus-building and diplomacy to prevent future wars.
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Barack Obama's approach to foreign affairs does not consist of might making right, but using right to buttress our might.
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GRIFFIN: Absent last night, General Wesley Clark, asked not to speak after disparaging McCain's military service. At the Pentagon, Jennifer Griffin, Fox News.
And adjusting your story about how you gave the names of football players as the names of your fellow soldiers depending on what state you're pandering to also trivializes your service.
I'd also like to know if his POW status is supposed to be something to inspire admiration or pity, honestly. If it's something to be admired, then why is it fine for him to mention it all the time (just as part of his appeal, not even as a shield from criticism) while Gore somehow came off as conceited for talking about his initiative on the internet. Gore's supposed to be humble and never talk about accomplishments, but it's all well and good for McCain to toot his own horn all the time.
Is it just because there's a difference between bravery and intelligence? Why is the former more important than the latter?
SNOOPY
You're closer to the truth than most,only there's much more ,if people would go to the trouble to look his pow record,and comments from fellow pows
"The speakers came across as a weak assortment of military experts. There was no one retired military who had real military bona fides or who had a connection with the war as it is today."
Who's disparaging who's military service again?
DING-DING-DING!
We have a winner.
Right on the nose, pal.
Right.
On.
The.
Nose.
Now now. I wouldn't go quite that far.
I'm sure there's some dipstick somewhere who has opened his mouth in disparagement of McCain's service. But whoever it is doesn't work for Obama, isn't a surrogate for Obama, and has little or nothing to do with the mainstream support Obama has among progressives in this country.
It's like the PUMAs. Yeah, there's a few of 'em. But their numbers are insignificant, and they're just a bunch of d!ckheads anyway. They certainly don't have the pull that the MSM wants us to believe they have.
And, of course, Snoopy's comment (first!) is spot-on.
Anybody catch Hardball last night, when they had the three guests, one of them a PUMA woman (Darragh Murphy?). Bizarre. She stared at the floor while the other looked at the camera, and seemed to be plugging through it like a crack-addled porn rookie thinking about the dime-bag that was waiting.
Maybe she's just shy, not media savvy, to be fair. But she really creeped me out, and crazy Irish-American dames are one of my areas of specialization.
now Col., behave