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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Frogm4n on March 27, 2004, 03:10:09 PM

Title: The Fox Spin in action.
Post by: Frogm4n on March 27, 2004, 03:10:09 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115045,00.html

quote:
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"You've got a real credibility problem," John Lehman, former Navy secretary under President Reagan, told Clarke, calling the witness "an active partisan selling a book."
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WOW he must really have a problem with Clarke! Wait let's see what John Lehman really said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20349-2004Mar24.html

quote:
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LEHMAN: And I hope you're going to tell me, as you apologized to the families for all of us who were involved in national security, that this tremendous difference -- and not just in nuance, but in the stories you choose to tell -- is really the result of your editors and your promoters, rather than your studied judgment, because it is so different from the whole thrust of your testimony to us.

And similarly, when you add to it the inconsistency between what your promoters are putting out and what you yourself said as late as August '05, you've got a real credibility problem.

And because of my real genuine long-term admiration for you, I hope you'll resolve that credibility problem, because I'd hate to see you become totally shoved to one side during a presidential campaign as an active partisan selling a book.

CLARKE: Thank you, John.
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Let the smear campaign begin!

Title: The Fox Spin in action.
Post by: Gunslinger on March 27, 2004, 05:13:06 PM

I dont think it is really a "spin" when they have ACTUAL proof that clark's resignation letter and earlier testimony completly contradicts what he told the 911 commision

Title: The Fox Spin in action.
Post by: capt. apathy on March 27, 2004, 05:23:04 PM

you seem to have missed the point.  he wasn't talking about the facts directly (they have yet to fully come out).

the point was how FOX put a spin on John Lehmans coments.  making it sound like he really had a problem with Clarke, when his actual statement was more like advice to a friend and not an attack.

or at least that is how I took frogm4ns post.

Title: The Fox Spin in action.
Post by: Frogm4n on March 27, 2004, 07:50:17 PM

you must have actually read the articles cpt apathy, because yes that is what is going on. Fox is takeing statements and distorting the meaning of them.

Title: The Fox Spin in action.
Post by: lazs2 on March 27, 2004, 08:01:09 PM

so that would make em different from CNN how?

lazs

Title: The Fox Spin in action.
Post by: Frogm4n on March 27, 2004, 08:12:18 PM

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Originally posted by lazs2
so that would make em different from CNN how?

lazs

you have proof of cnn doing so?