CBS Crawford supplies GOP with falsehoods about Kagan, GOP will use those falsehoods

[babylonsister]

Gotta love 'the media'. :eyes:


CBS Crawford supplies GOP with falsehoods about Kagan and then reports that GOP will use those falsehoods

June 28, 2010 12:25 pm ET by Adam Shah

CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reported on this morning's edition of CBS' The Early Show that Senate Republicans will attack Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as a "liberal activist" based on memos she wrote while clerking for Justice Thurgood Marshall. But Crawford's predicted GOP attack on the Marshall memos largely echoed falsehoods and distortions that Crawford herself promulgated.

We've noted that, on June 3, Jan Crawford distorted Kagan's memos to Marshall to suggest that she is outside the mainstream of legal thought on abortion, guns, and gay rights. The day after her initial report aired, Crawford wrote a post about Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, calling the memos "troubling." And conservatives have since echoed her reporting.

However, none of Crawford's reporting was accurate, even down to Crawford's suggestion that the Marshall memos had just become available and that they necessarily represented Kagan's own views.

Furthermore, legal expert Eugene Volokh has definitively debunked the idea that Kagan's memos were controversial. Volokh said that the memos "show her doing what she was supposed to do."

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006280015

[Ikonoklast]

1. No drama? No problem! We can manufacture some right up here for you!

All this bullshit is for ratings, ratings, ratings.


Boring hearing? No ratings.

Whipped-up fabricated media drama?


Ratings.

[Blue Owl]

2. There they go again...

Damn that anti-conservative, librul' media.

[spanone]

3. NO politician can take on the media....ru$h limbaugh is a fine example

the media owns the ultimate bully pulpit 24/7