MSM Caught In The Act Of Willfully Distorting Truth

For those of you out there who still think that MSM/traditional media news can be trusted to show the truth of things, then I offer you this:

CBS violates its own Standards and Practice by altering transcript and video of McCain interview

As C&L and many others have reported last night, CBS news had a huge scoop Tuesday night on John McCain, because he falsely claimed that the surge was responsible for the “Sunni Awakening in Anbar.” That is FALSE. The Sunnis changed positions before the surge was ever discussed so—McCain once again makes a major mistake on the one issue his campaign is running on—The Iraq war.

However, CBS probably violated its own rules (Standards and Practice) by altering the video of Katie Couric’s interview with McCain that left out his major blunder on this issue and then broadcast it on our airwaves. CBS should not paste together separate answers from different questions to make it appear like an answer was fluid. It was completely taken out of context. I understand that a fair amount of editing has to be done, but what they did failed to meet the legitimacy test.

Here’s what happened. ON CBS Nightly News, Katie Couric started off the segment with question #3 of her interview from their website version of the McCain interview:

Couric QUESTION #3: Senator McCain, Sen. Obama says, while the increased number of U.S. troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What’s your response to that?

They then edited out his major gaffe on “the surge” and inserted his partial answer to question #1 and then spliced in a partial answer to question # 3 to make it appear to be a consistent response.

(read the whole piece here)

MSM/traditional media accomplices in spreading, disseminating, and manufacturing, lies and propaganda while seeking to hide the truth?

Naaah ...

Never.

And that is why the surge in Iraq is working, has worked, and why the U.S. is succeeding - succeeding - succeeding - in Iraq.

This is also why the MSM is sooooo biased in favor of Barack Obama as well.

(Words fail me - I got nothing more to say here ... you make the call now)