Coming up: Blitzer says CNN "has investigated" the smears against Obama.

[Lex]

Leslie 'Wolf' Blitzer teases the upcoming story by asking incredulously, "Have people been trying to smear Senator Obama with rumors about his past?"

Well, yes, of course they have. But CNN "has investigated" it, and is actually going to set the record straight? (I'm dubious.)

The Corporate Media, such as CNN, usually just lets one side (the freeper wingnut side) scream lies while the Dem side is reduced to saying "That's just not true. Let's look at the facts."

What's up with CNN trying to get to the bottom of the smears? I'm hopeful, but as I said, dubious.




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[Ninja Jordan]

1. Like your Edwards logo.

[Eurobabe]

2. Probably more half-baked BS

over-easy, approved by the GOP. Wolfie is taking a serious look at schools in Indonesia.

Barack Obama attended a school in Indonesia when he was 6 or 8 years old. I doubt whether Al Qaeda condoned fundamentalism even existed back then. Gimme a break.

:mad:

[PCIntern]

3. IF:

You...cangetpastthecadence....thatisto...say.......Wolf'scadence...youmightbeabletofigureout...what he's get...ting...........at.

[lancdem]

4. "Have people been trying to smear Obama?"

Well, duh. :eyes:

[Radical Activist]

29. "Is CNN full of crap?"

well, duh :)

[sam sarrha]

5. when pigs fly.. and i mean when Dubya flees the noose to paraguay..

[liberal N proud]

6. Keeping the story alive

Just in case someone hasn't heard the dirt, the will repeated hourly for days

[Catherine Vincent]

7. It will be about the school he attended in Indonesia.

They just showed a clip.

[gatorboy]

8. Wasn't it Wolfie's show that got the Osama smear campaing going?

..ahem..I mean Obama....

[jaysunb]

9. First you hint at it

then you investigate it to see if " some people " are trying to smear him.
All the time, you're keeping the lie going by giving it "fair and balanced" reporting.
Swiftboating taken to another level.

What a crock of shit. :evilfrown:

[Clinton_Co_Regulator]

26. I agree with you

They get to have their cake and rub your face in it too.

Reminds me of tweety and the puke face Mailkin... "some people are saying John Kerry shot himself"

[tularetom]

10. I can't watch Leslie but I'll betcha he claims

the "people" trying to smear Obama work for HR Clinton. This is a RW item thats been floating around for a couple days.

[originalpckelly]

12. Actually, I just watched it, he said Insight Mag the reichwing rag...

claimed Clinton said it, but it's unprovable. They seemed to be hinting at the reichwingers as the source of this.

[Connie_Corleone]

15. CNN debunked the whole story.

They really did a good job. They even visited the school Obama went to and said it's nothing like the radical muslim schools that the smear says it is.

[AtomicKitten]

20. wow - that is a surprise

a pleasant one at that

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. What did he say? I JUST missed the guy in Indonesia at the school in a wealthy neighborhood.

What was said?

[kskiska]

14. It was just an ordinary school

with Islamic, Buddhists, and Christian kids who wore school uniforms and played outside.

[Lex]

18. I mainly heard the first part with Howie Kurtz where he said

that a right-wing rag had made it up, blamed it on Hillary Clinton, and then Fox News repeated it ad naseum.

I'm shocked.

Usually they repeat right-wing drivel and give it equal status as 'the truth' as if facts have a side.

[carpe diem]

13. i just watched the report and if they make this kind of effort...

with all the smears that'll be coming at the Democrats the next 2 years, the Republic may yet be saved!

[Connie_Corleone]

17. I was shocked. CNN did a really good job of debunking the smear.

[cynatnite]

16. Two back to back reports completely debunking this bogus crap

The first was about the rumor itself which was totally unsubstantiated. It tore down the bit that it came from Hillary's camp.

The second went to the actual school itself and the headmaster wasn't happy about this kind of reflection on his school. They have muslims, christians, and buddhists. They teach tolerance and that religion is not a focus of education.

It's actually an upscale school in a wealthier part of the city.

[enigmatic]

19. They did a great job

I was pleasantly shocked..

[sandnsea]

21. One rebuttal isn't enough

It's when they let people go on the air and repeat the smear and conveniently forget the truth they reported a week or month before. That's how they're complicit.

[spanone]

22. Sent a reporter to Africa. Wolf said they did what News Depts. are supposed to do.

Investigate. I sprayed my Dr. Pepper all over the tv. He said it with a straight face. Funniest fucking thing I've heard in years.

Infotainment.

[Lex]

25. Leslie Wolf Blitzer seemed as incredulous as I was.

Wolf: "We actually have a reporter on the ground in Indonesia? And we are going to investigate whether this rumor is true or just a smear?"

In his voice there was a certain :wtf:



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[Bluebear]

23. "We'll investigate the smears that WE propogated." nt

[Vinca]

24. Hell has frozen over - they did a great job of debunking. nt

[burythehatchet]

27. And now, of course, Fox will be held accountable for

its hit-job. Right?

[walldude]

32. Yeah well they already claim it was because of their sources

it's their way of "taking responsibility". Gee, didn't the same thing happen to Dan Rather? Didn't Fox demand an apology from Rather?

[BuyingThyme]

28. What the hell?

They used the phrase RIGHT-WING ECHO CHAMBER. And SMEAR.

I don't understand what's going on.

[Radical Activist]

30. "I'm not going to bring up the fact that Kennedy is a Catholic" - Nixon

"Investigating" the smears is another way to spread them far and wide. Pathetic.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

31. Over a year of this crap to go. Imagine their investigative budget..

..after all is said and done?

If they keep it going, CNN will spend like $2 billion on sending their journalists to debunk right-wing slanders before the 2008 election.

[Sugarcoated]

33. No

When Gore and Kerry ignored the smears based on that premise it stuck. It's a good thing that CNN is debunking untruths, especially when they point out that FOX 'reported' it and in the next breath stated, 'we at CNN, journalists, we are supposed to check facts before we report stories'. It was a nice yet classy dig at those FOX low-roaders.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

34. No question!

My point was, let's not depend on CNN to dig up the truth on all the smears that are about to drown the Democratic candidates.