Palin and CNN

[The Big Dog]

Byron York at NRO online weighs in... now I only have to wonder whether the CNN "reporter" was playing at being a provocateur hoping to get a rise or was just being a spiteful pissant liar?

Either way, I think we can safely say that the bias was once again on display for all to see who care to look.

Palin and CNN

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Byron York
The Corner

A bit more on CNN's "quote" from National Review in its story on Sarah Palin. In the CNN interview with Palin, aired today, reporter Drew Griffin said to Palin:

GRIFFIN: Governor, you've been mocked in the press, the press has been pretty hard on you, the Democrats have been pretty hard on you, but also some conservatives have been pretty hard on you as well. The National Review had a story saying that, you know, I can't tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt or all of the above.

PALIN: Who wrote that one?

GRIFFIN: That was in the National Review. I don't have the author.

PALIN: I'd like to talk to that person.

GRIFFIN: But they were talking about the fact that your experience as governor is not getting out. Do you feel trapped in this campaign, that your message is not getting out, and if so who do you blame?

Actually, no one wrote the "quote" that Griffin read to Palin. But I began a recent magazine piece (unfortunately not available on the web, but hopefully coming soon) on Palin this way:

Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it's sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above. Palin, the governor of Alaska, has faced more criticism than any vice-presidential candidate since 1988, when Democrats and the press tore into Dan Quayle. In fact, Palin may have it even worse than Quayle, since she's taking flak not only from Democrats and the press but from some conservative opinion leaders as well.

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So my question to Griffin, and perhaps to his producer, is: Do you think you accurately portrayed the story you cited in National Review?[/quote]

[The Big Dog]

More crickets from the left here I see. CNN has still not retracted or corrected themselves on this obviously partisan ambush.

Wonder why that is?

[saunterelle]

It seems like Drew Griffin had read York's article and got confused about the fact that York was citing something he had read in another magazine. I agree that CNN should issue a statement confirming if this is indeed the case.

[The New Guy]

Oct 23, 2008 14:09:59 GMT -5 saunterelle said:

I agree that CNN should issue a statement confirming if this is indeed the case.

shocking! i'd give you a +1 but i've already smited you earlier.

[The Big Dog]

What York was doing was calling out the mainstream media, like CNN, for it's obvious bias in their coverage. And then, conveniently and stupidly, Drew Griffin makes York's point for him.

See the thread I opened on Kirsten Powers (a Democrat supporting Barack) taking the media to task for it's shoddy coverage of Joe Biden... the Dan Quayle for a new generation, for more shocking revelations.