ABC's Terry Moran Calls Fox News "A Friendly Channel" To The White House

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ABC's Terry Moran Calls Fox News "A Friendly Channel" To The White House


http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser


In this afternoon's White House press briefing, ABC News correspondent Terry Moran called Fox News "a friendly channel" to the Bush administration, and asked if "Fox News and other Republican surrogates" are getting information from Karl Rove. According to FishBowlDC's Garrett Graff, Moran posed these questions to WH press secretary Scott McClellan:

[Triana]

1. Moran did pose those questions...

...and got the "can't talk because it's under investigation" mantra.

[MrSlayer]

2. As if ABC has acquitted themselves with any honor the past few years.

It's a little late for the media to start finding their guts but hopefully not too late.

[marmar]

3. Wow...

some members of the White House press corps grew cajones this week!

:hide:

[Zen Democrat]

4. A surrogate is more than just friendly. A surrogate is a stand-in.

[ailsagirl]

6. Hey, Zen!! We bump into each other again!! :=D

[ailsagirl]

5. I heard that when I was watching the grilling... with a mixture of

joy and disbelief!!! Reading the words doesn't do the phrase justice-- it's really worth going back and listening again.

[zinndependence]

7. damn....I missed it!

[ailsagirl]

12. It's still floating around, I'm sure...

I'll try to find it.

It was in the first grilling session-- that would be Monday's side show...

Unless Moran said it on subsequent days as well???

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

8. i'm pretty sure it was edited out of the WH transcript

i looked the other day when i was posting at my board and it wasn't there but i heard him say it.

[onehandle]

10. Nope. It's there

And duly recorded in the History of this Administration:

Q All right, you say you won't discuss it, but the Republican National Committee and others working, obviously, on behalf of the White House, they put out this Wilson-Rove research and talking points, distributed to Republican surrogates, which include things like, Karl Rove discouraged a reporter from writing a false story. And then other Republican surrogates are getting information such as, Cooper -- the Time reporter -- called Rove on the pretense of discussing welfare reform. Bill Kristol on Fox News, a friendly news channel to you, said that the conversation lasted for two minutes and it was just at the end that Rove discussed this. So someone is providing this information. Are you, behind the scenes, directing a response to this story?

MR. McCLELLAN: You can talk to the RNC about what they put out. I'll let them speak to that. What I know is that the President directed the White House to cooperate fully with the investigation. And as part of cooperating fully with that investigation, that means supporting the efforts by the investigators to come to a successful conclusion, and that means not commenting on it from this podium.

Q Well, if --

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I understand your question.

Q Well, Fox News and other Republican surrogates are essentially saying that the conversation lasted for two minutes and that the subject was ostensibly welfare reform. They're getting that information from here, from Karl Rove.

MR. McCLELLAN: And again, you're asking questions that are related to news reports about an ongoing, continuing investigation. And you've had my response on that.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050712-4.html

[cynatnite]

9. And notice scotty did not dispute it :) n/t

[RummyTheDummy]

11. Oh this is getting pleasantly NASTY

Just watched Scotty's press briefing today. Wouldn't want to be him. I realize some don't like it, but I think we're seeing some residual effects from locking up Miller. The press corps is fighting mad and well, they're actually starting to act a little bit like journalists rather than lap dogs, once again. They still have a long way to go, though.

[Bleacher Creature]

13. I don't know what to make of Terry Moran

These are just EXCELLENT comments on his part. But hasn't he also been a bit of a kiss ass to the BFEE lately??

[DeepModem Mom]

14. Amazing -- kick.