The Most Trusted Name in News Can't Tell Sitting from Standing

Tuesday's edition of the Bush Legacy Project Television Show involved a visit by a suddenly softballing Candy Crowley to the White House for a CNN interview with the President-Reject. I was in JFK airport, trying like hell to get back down to New Orleans, when a segment of the interview played on the airport's TV. The text beneath the picture said: "President Bush sits down with Candy Crowley." The video running above the text was of a segment of the interview in which both Crowley and Bush were clearly standing.

I chose to believe the text.

Comments

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

Who ya gonna believe Harry, CorporateMedia or your own lying eyes?

[TexasDem0]

The Bush War on Reality will be yet another dismal failure.

[luziannagirl]

Well, come on Harry, we know what she meant.

We've all become quite adept at translating. Without thinking twice about it, we can convert into English not only Mindless Media Bubble-Babble, but Orwellian, Bizzarro, and Moronic.

Ever wonder what life would be like if there was no Free Press?

Now we know.

[raker]

I avoid TV news, but when I do watch Brian Williams I'm appalled at the sentences he utters that mean nothing. Literally, nothing. News-speak seems to be cobbled together like Mad-Libs out of cliches that fit news story conventions, regardless of context. The words sound sensible because they have the correct rhythm, and because we hear the same tropes every time we turn on the news we stop noticing that the words say nothing. So, we're told people are sitting down when they are actually standing up. We get segues like "to add insult to injury..." when there is neither insult nor injury, but somehow the music of the sentence works. I have to do a better job avoiding TV news.

[Ouroboros]

Children's News Network.

Blitzer at the end of every show: "And what new things did we learn today?"

Wolf Blitzer is a test tube baby.

[unite4change]

Obama should always take his case to the American people directly, via internet, and to hell with our corporate media. When Obama has a news conference, he should never call on the familiar faces from Faux News, CNN or MSNBC since they only to want to create the news by injecting their opinions instead of reporting the news. The media is failing America with all of this unwanted drama.

[saintswriter]

I haven't seen nor heard from Candy Crowley since President-elect Obama's first press conference right after the election when she tried to trick him into divulging his "top secret" meeting with W, and he politely told her he'd "skp" that question.

[democracy7]

CNN has failed the American People and so is relegated to the same level as faux noise. Why is no one asking the hard questions of the Bush regime?

[edwcorey]

Because they're complicit. The Bush regime is as close to fascism as the country has come in the modern era. When the religionists, journalists, businesspeople and politicians align, it is, by definition, Fascism. And that is Bush's legacy.

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

Because the same people that own the media own huge chunks of the military/industrial complex, and to protect Bush/Repub­licans/Cor­porateDems is to protect their own profits.

[kellygrrrl]

CNN has become as "trusted" and "fair" as Fox -- they all remind me of RabidJunkies

[Seescout]

CNN is the most trusted name in news, Fox is fair and balanced and I'm the queen of Rumania.

[bascombe]

candy has been a shill for some time. what's with the suddenly softballing thing.

[twelve-b-20]

I found that "suddenly softballing" comment odd also. She's been soft on w since she began covering him. can hardly wait to miss her upcoming and highly trumpeted interview with the sultan of swagger.

[Fremon]

It is a trade for getting the interview in order to promote and to air a piece rather than getting real information or holding their feet to the fire. It is all a big con game and one has to get at the truth by analysis of all information. Remember, the truth is what they can make you believe.

[Annette truth teller08]

******Tuesday's edition of the Bush Legacy Project Television Show involved a visit by a suddenly softballing Candy Crowley to the White House for a CNN interview with the President-­Reject.***­****

RFLMAO!!!!!!

[breakingpoint]

I don't believe what I see or read on TV any more, but I have to tell you the funniest thing I saw today was,
How to Become a Real Estate Millionaire, by Peter Schiff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzw2Xhz4MKk

[kellygrrrl]

funniest thing I saw was Tweety taking down the Neo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/16/chris-matthews-eviscerate_n_151597.html

[breakingpoint]

Cheney should be arrested - deputize me and I'll do it.

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

ROTFLMAO, then getting up & cleaning the tea from my monitor.

[LMPE]

Is that any worse than the newspaper article (mentioned on HuffPo) that mistakenly calls Barack Obama "Burka Abeam"?

[kellygrrrl]

"mistakenly"?????