More denying... More lying... More looking the other way...
media matters, as always, keeps an eagle eye on how our traditional media gives bush a free pass time after time after time...
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[T]elevision news has virtually ignored Bush's April 2004 statement that "any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires ... a court order." That's a clear, concise statement -- as clear and concise as you'll hear from this president, anyway -- and it is unambiguously false, as we now know from Bush's own acknowledgements that he has authorized warrantless domestic spying.
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This week, newly disclosed videotape of a briefing in which President Bush was told, the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, that the possibility that the levees might not hold back stormwater was "a very, very grave concern." The newly disclosed videotapes and transcripts of Katrina briefings attended by Bush -- along with former FEMA head Michael D. Brown's statement that he had warned Bush that the levees could be breached -- clearly show that Bush's post-storm comment on ABC's Good Morning America, when he defended his poor response to Katrina by saying "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees," was a lie. People did anticipate the breach -- and they warned Bush about the possibility. He knew this at the time, and he lied. His lie was clear, concise, and videotaped.
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Yet news organizations virtually ignored Bush's Good Morning America lie.
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The news organizations that did address Bush's Good Morning America lie tended to uncritically accept the administration's spin about the comment.
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What can possibly explain the decision by news organizations to ignore and apologize for such obvious Bush lies about such important matters? Is this simply another example of Bush benefiting from the soft bigotry of low expectations -- he's lied so often about so many issues of such great importance, nobody expects anything else out of him any more? Do journalists give Bush a pass for lying when not doing so would prove really, really inconvenient?
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posted by profmarcus at
3/04/2006
