Video Shows ABC Distorted Obama's "Testy Exchange" With Reporter

Horse's Mouth:

Okay, this is really a bad one. Late yesterday, ABC News posted a story called: "Is Bill Clinton getting in Obama's head?" The piece reported that Obama had had a "testy exchange" with New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny on a South Carolina ropeline, after Obama had been asked whether Bill Clinton was getting "in his head." The whole tone of the story implied that Obama had had a very confrontational moment with Zeleny. Here's the key ABC reporting, with the language implying confrontation in bold...

...Did it happen this way? Nope. If the ABC piece initially linked to any video of the moment, I didn't see it -- I'm pretty certain it didn't. Subsequently ABC and Fox News posted video. If you watch it, you can't escape the conclusion that ABC badly mischaracterized what actually happened.

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Comments

[pjs2004]

To say "this is a really bad one" about ABC's supposed mischaracterization is a joke. Look at the story about Bill Clinton saying that he lays into a reporter. It's the same kind of media exaggeration. Why waste space on this site for an article like this?

[independentrepublicrat]

Quote from the AP: [Obama's] campaign manager, David Plouffe, was far more pointed in a written statement that accused the Clinton campaign of "an entire week's worth of false, divisive attacks designed to mislead caucus-goers and discredit the caucus itself."Whatever the hard feelings, Clinton told supporters they would fade by the fall general election campaign. "We will all be united in November," she said, as the crowd chanted "HRC, HRC." [end quote] ----------­----------­----------­----------­----------­----------­----- I have said this time and again. The Clintons and their surrogates believe that they can do anything and that no matter what lies, dirty politics, race-baiting, xenophobia inciting, lying, misreprensenting, amoral campaign they run, that Democrats in general---and Blacks specifically---will have no choice but to support them in November if they are successful in stealing this nomination. I beg to differ. I hope all intelligent Democrats of good conscience will vote for a change in the political party by NOT supporting her if she robs the public of a chance at an honest debate and a substantive choice for president. Don't vote for Billary in the fall under any circumstance; make a stand about your morals and your values as a party. Blacks more than others should always stand up for right because they, since inception, have been the true moral conscience of this nation; FACT!

[tkk]

And the Huffington Post distorted Bill Clinton's remarks to a CNN reporter yesterday.

Barack Obama supporters­=distortio­n.

[in4success]

everything you need to know about hillary clinton:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9L50shyUoQU

[Tellmethetruth]

Its time for Obama and Obama supporters to start focusing on what is happening to others in America and stop the narcistic complaining about contrived "slights" and "offenses" real or imagined about the self-centered Obama.

It's about the American people, stupid!

And, it's the economy stupid!

[semorg]

CNN = Clintons News Network

ABC = Approved Broadcasting by Clintons

CBS = Clintons Broadcasting Services

NBC = News Broadcasting of Clintons

MSNBC = More of the Same News Broadcasting of Clintons

Atleast hufpo is a bit more neutral toward Clintons.

[teahead]

ABCNews is FauxNews wanna-bes.

No wonder TEd Koppel quit.

[Waitaminute]

As i recall, reporters are suppose to be fired for making up stories (lies). If ABC (ASS BACKWARD CUNTS)Doesn't fire him....Wait a minute, what will a cunt do?

What weak ass excuses for jounalism. Look, just hire a bunch of parade shit scuppers instead.

[Waitaminute]

So when will we start massive protests against the MSM. They are the biggest threats against democracy. Think what would have happened if the msm had done (what a free press as opposed to a complicit and paid press)if they had investigated and questioned the 935 lies. Instead of kissing bushit's butt for the last 7 years.

They are the number one cause of nearly all of the problems we have and face.

What would this administration have done without the MSM?

[MartinEdwinAndersen]

CLINTON, ANGER AND A QUESTION OF RAPE (II)

Then there was one of the original Washington Post stories, "Clinton Accuser's Story Aired"
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics... ), that was very sympathetic to Ms. Broaddrick:

"Juanita Broaddrick told her story to a national television audience last night, saying she did not tell authorities 21 years ago of her contention that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her because 'I just don't think anyone would have believed me.'

"In a gripping account punctuated by sobs, the Arkansas woman told "Dateline NBC" that in her Little Rock hotel room, Clinton suddenly 'turned me around and started kissing me, and that was a real shock. I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.'... He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip.... And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.'... He wouldn't listen to me.'

The media seems more interested in covering the presidential "horse race" than looking at hard truths while professional "women's rights activists", whistle softly and look past the individual carnage and the possibilities for a reprise of Oval Office embarrassment.

Martin Edwin Andersen is the 2001 winner of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel's "Public Servant Award" for uncovering, what the the U.S. Department of Justice's Inspector called, "egregious misconduct" and "willful disregard for national security" by senior aides to Attorney General Janet Reno in a major corruption and security scandal at the DOJ.

[MartinEdwinAndersen]

CLINTON, ANGER AND A QUESTION OF RAPE

Bill Clinton likes to say, "You've got to do what you've got to do."

For him, that means lying, race-coding elections and trashing some of the best and brightest of the Democratic Party.

Well, we've got to do what we've got to do.

But we're not going to make any accusations.

We are just going to let Democrats make their own judgment.

We do believe a party of change cannot be a party to corruption and good government starts with personal responsibility, a quality neither of the Clintons can claim.

Here is some reporting from reputable sources that might allow Democrats decide whether we believe what we say we do--including in women's rights--or are, dare I say, "shameless."

Katha Pollitt of the liberal Nation Magazine, an improbable ally of Hillary's "vast rightwing conspiracy" has reported that(http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990322/pollitt ):

"We will never know the truth behind Juanita Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel room in l978. ... her story is credible ... investigations by NBC News and reporting from the Washington Post poked no major holes in it.

"She has as much corroboration as Anita Hill--friends who say she told them about the assault at the time, one of whom says she saw her immediately after with a bruised and swollen lip. ... the best Clinton's defenders can come up with is that rape doesn't fit his 'MO'--as if, after all the backing and filling and prevaricating and outright lying, we know what this man's MO really is."

More recently Christopher Hitchens, also of the independent left, has written
(http://www.slate.com/id/2182065 ):
"In my opinion, Gennifer Flowers was telling the truth; so was Monica Lewinsky, and so was Kathleen Willey, and so, lest we forget, was Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says she was raped by Bill Clinton.... Yet one constantly reads that both Clintons, including the female who helped intensify the slanders against her mistreated sisters, are excellent on women's "issues."

[westreal]

If you are offended by Hillary and Bill's dirty politic attacks on Obama or their outright lying about the issues then please email the Democractic National Committee and let them know.

http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contactissues

IF HILLARY WINS THE NOMINATION AND YOU"D RATHER VOTE REPUBLICAN OR NOT AT ALL in the general election then email the DNC and let them know. We can actually force the DNC to support Obama if they know we will not vote for slick Hillary in November. DO SOMETHING. Let YOUR voices be heard.

[fourex]

ABC News we distort, you hear our lies.

[ALMAL]

I like this guy.
luck of emotions and
lots of anger

[misterbone]

"Hillary did not let her conscience get in the way of defending a canning company against a man who opened a can of pork and beans to discover a rat’s derriere poking up at him. The sight was so nauseating, said the plaintiff, that he could not, among other things, bring himself to kiss his fiancee.

Arguing that the rodent parts had been sterilized in the canning process and “might be considered edible” in certain parts of the world, Hillary somehow managed to convince the jury to award the man only a token amount. Hillary and Bill would often joke about her first legal victory for the Rose Law Firm in what she dubbed “The Rat’s Ass Case.”

Not long after, she took on another case that seemed to contradict much of what she had stood for. In her first criminal case, Hillary defended a three-hundred-pound man charged with assaulting his girlfriend. Prosecutors viewed the case as cut-and-dr­ied—police would testify that the woman had been severely beaten—but were blind-sided during the preliminary hearing when Hillary convinced the judge to drop the charges on a technicality."