CNN headline: "Dems Indicted; Clinton, Kerry Targeted"

[Rose Siding]

They're really on a roll today :grr:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com.nyud.net:8090/images/mehlmanindict.jpg

via TPM

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This is a headline currently running on the Netscape section of the CNN website. And as you'll see, it runs the blazing and rather unexpected headline: "Dems Indicted; Clinton, Kerry Targeted."

Needless to say, no Democrats have been indicted. The headline is for an AP story in which RNC honcho Ken Mehlman 'indicts' the Democrats for having no message.

Who's the headline writer? Yet more of the long steady decline of CNN.

[LSparkle]

1. and Mehlman needs a feed bag ...

sorry but whenever I look at that guy, I think of the "Mr. Ed" theme ...

[adigal]

17. Mehlman needs Jeffy Gannon

He misses his trysts with Gannon and Rove. Which I don't have any issue with, except for the complete and total hypocrisy.

[barbaraann]

2. Indicted for not having a slogan. Wow.

Just stunning.

[Cobalt Violet]

4. Lock 'em up and throw away the key.

:rofl: :nuke:

[onehandle]

3. Technically correct.

And the GOP is technically corrupt.

[riona]

5. well ken

i think the country is finally beginning to see what the gop's real message is

[Merlot]

6. The only way they could get "Democrats" and "indicted" together

in a headline? Really pathetic repub tactic. LIke that will make the public forget abramoff, delay, et al.

Think this was on Netscape this am, and they took it down.

We should mail CNN and tell this this is partisan and pathetic.

[Career Prole]

7. We have a slogan, Mehlman, and JK coined it.

"These Guys Are the Most Crooked, Lying Group I've Ever Seen"

...so go squat on a fireplug.

[politicasista]

8. That was a memorable quote during the campaign

I wish they would have let him hammer that home.

[Career Prole]

9. They should run it back out there again since the repukes

are now divided into three camps...
Indicted, Unindicted Co-conspirators, and "Laying Low And Hoping My Name Doesn't Surface In An Investigation"

[Warren DeMontague]

10. You have GOTTA be kidding.

Folks, welcome to the fourth reich.

[goreo8]

11. Bah Ha Ha Ha

That's all they have? The RNC's talking point is the Dems have no message, so indict them?
The Rethugs are in big trouble!

[Lefty48197]

12. Welcome to the tabloid world, CNN.

You've now joined the National Enquirer, Star, the Wall St. Journal and all of the other lying sleazy rags. You should be ashamed of yourselves, pretending to be journalists, when you publish sh*t like this. You insult me. FU CNN.

[spanone]

13. National Enquirer mentality rules our newsrooms. It's pathetic.

Not to mention dangerous.

[fishwax]

14. I just saw that on my startup page

unbelievable. :grr:

[Webster Green]

15. The page is still up too...

In case anyone wants a screenshot:

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/us.jsp?feature=newz_0306gop_chairman&floc=NW_3-T

[Richard Steele]

16. I don't want to get my hopes up, but they really seem DESPERATE lately.

Stupid stunts like this headline are NOT
the actions of people who feel confident and secure.
They seem to finally be acting as if they are in real trouble.

I hope they are truly as worried as they seem!

[monobrau]

18. I was thinking of subscribing to CNN Pipeline

And wasn't sure I wanted to hand over any cash to these creeps. I just made up my mind.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. You've gotta be SHITTING me. You mean "indicted" = Mehlman talking shit

about you, in CNNspeak now? Cheezus.

[OzarkDem]

20. Breaking! CNN indicted for prostitution

With all the rats leaving the sinking GOP ship, CNN realizes at last that there is no turning back. Having completely whored themselves beyond redemption, they have completely given up all pretense of professional journalism and are now overtly doing the bidding of their corporate sugar daddies.

[Disturbed]

23. Mehlman is shameless.

After saying that he didn't know Abramoff emails surface that prove that he was chummy with that rat. He still goes on Tv spouting BS. No shame. that should be the slogan for the RW. No shame.

[Cha]

21. And what's melhman's message?

"That the Dems have no message"?

Fucking Loser!

[stepnw1f]

22. CNN Gets RICOed

ooops.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. I don't know what editor is writing the snippets on CNN

but just now I heard them describe the fact that Democrats are meeting at several places in the U.S. (while the Republicans are all in one place today) as "Democrats are all over the map" (i.e. disorganized).

Right after that, a CNN talking head was describing several Democrats running for office while the headline read "Democrats On The Run" (i.e. running scared).

These double-entendre ways of telling the news are loaded with subconscious messages that favor one side over another. This is no longer just news.

[bunkerbuster1]

25. in 1994--Six weeks before the election.

Don't forget to repeat that. Six weeks before the election, is when the Gooper "Contract with America" was unveiled.

Funny, nobody was bitching about how they had "no message" in the months leading up to that stupid manifesto. Indeed, about all the Goopers running for Congress were doing was--remember?--bashing Clinton.

But no, we mustn't bash a suck-ass, incompetent, unpopular President ourselves! that wouldn't be sporting. Or something like that.