ABC’s Jonathan Karl regrets that he was caught lying about Benghazi

[warrior1]

http://americablog.com/2013/05/abc-jonathan-karl-benghazi-email.html

As you know, ABC’s Jonathan Karl created quite a firestorm this past week by publishing a “breaking” story about the Benghazi controversy that was an utter and complete fabrication.

Karl’s story purported to “prove” that the White House had made partisan hay with the Benghazi talking points in those first few days after the deadly attack on our consultate in Libya. In fact, Karl’s story, we now know, was a lie, fabricated by congressional Republicans who are out to get President Obama, and aided by Karl having intentionally misled ABC’s audience in his reporting on the matter.

I actually felt a little bit bad for ABC’s Jonathan Karl, and thus haven’t been joining in the vocal attacks others have lobbed at him over his fabricated story about the Benghazi emails.

All reporters mess up at some point. And Karl’s mistake was rather monumental, to be sure. Karl not only was lied to by a source, and printed the lie as fact, but he hid the hearsay nature of the lie and pretended that he was quoting White House emails that he had seen himself, when in fact he was quoting a GOP congressional source lying about what was in the White House emails about the Benghazi talking points. Quite a small fact to omit from a breaking new story.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. The question is, Jon, what else have you lied about in your reporting?

[hobbit709]

2. Was it the lying, or the getting caught that he regrets?

[ananda]

13. Exactly.

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[sakabatou]

21. +1

[dlwickham]

27. let me add my +1 to this as well

[Tx4obama]

3. ABC’s Jonathan Karl is an Alumnus of a Conservative Media Training Program

ABC’s Jonathan Karl is an Alumnus of a Conservative Media Training Program

ABC’s senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl, of the now infamous Benghazi email lie, is an alumnus of a conservative media training program Collegiate Network. He stands now accused of making himself vulnerable to being used for political purposes, as he still refuses to apologize for taking the word of a Republican and passing it off as having access to the actual documents.

Fair Org reported:

Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leaning newspapers on college campuses (Extra!, 9-10/91)—such as the Rutgers paper launched by the infamous James O’Keefe (Political Correction, 1/27/10). The network, founded in 1979, is one of several projects of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which seeks to strengthen conservative ideology on college campuses. William F. Buckley was the ISI’s first president, and the current board chair is American Spectator publisher Alfred Regnery. Several leading right-wing pundits came out of Collegiate-affiliated papers, including Ann Coulter, Dinesh D’Souza, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry and Laura Ingraham (Washington Times, 11/28/04).

The Collegiate Network also provides paid internships and fellowships to place its members at corporate media outlets or influential Beltway publications; 2010-11 placements include the Hill, Roll Call, Dallas Morning News and USA Today. The program’s highest-profile alum is Karl, who was a Collegiate fellow at the neoliberal New Republic magazine.

CN has received funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Scaife Family Foundation, The Carthage Foundation, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, and the JM Foundation. But it’s administered by ISI. ISI claims to be non-partisan and tax exempt (cough), but read Reagan’s thanks to ISI for the “troops”, “By the time the Reagan Revolution marched into Washington, I had the troops I needed—thanks in no small measure to the work with American youth ISI had been doing since 1953.”

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/abcs-jonathan-karl-alum-conservative-media-training-program.html

[summer-hazz]

15. NOT TO MENTION

The time, anxiety, trustworthiness, and money it cost the taxpayers to deal with all of
this!


These 4 dead men need to be able to RIP, and let's not forget to mention the toll this must have taken on their families to deal with all this scandal.

It's shameful!!!!

[pennylane100]

4. I strongly disagree with one point Aravosis made.

"All Reporters mess up at some point" This was so much more. This guy lied his ass of to influence a political inquiry and to smear the President of this country. That would be forgivable if he was not a paid employee of a large corporation and was able to use publicly owned airwaves to do it.

The minimum consequence is that he should be fired and an impartial investigation (if there is such a thing) should determine how far up this scandal went. These our airwaves and we should take our right the licensees act in a responsible manner. If they cannot do this we need to yank their licenses.

[Politicalboi]

28. Faux won a lawsuit to lie

They're still here. This asshole deserves jail time and the cost of congress on the taxpayer's dime. And then we can get to the GOP's who knew the e-mails were edited, and yet still continued with this sham. They should be taken out of office ASAP!

[Auntie Bush]

5. Dan Rather was fired from CBS because he reported something inaccurate about Bush

(but it really wasn't false information) So why isn't Jonathan Karl fired for deliberately telling misleading lies? We should all write ABC and demand his firing!

[DallasNE]

20. A Quibble With "inaccurate"

The woman that was the officers typist at the time said she did not type that memo but that it represented his views at that time. The document was a recreation but without the original source it could only be said that it generally represented his views with the degree of accuracy undetermined.

[Major Nikon]

6. At best he was a tool of the right wing

It seems that either he accepted his toolship knowingly and agreeably, or he was too stupid to know when he was being made into a tool. I'm not sure which is worse.

[byeya]

7. His editor is also blameworthy and deserves punishment.

[sheshe2]

8. Karl and the rest of them...

Deserve to be hung out to dry!

[Iliyah]

9. Karl is another liar

journalism is indeed dead with folks like him.

[AlinPA]

10. Is the Jonathon Karl lie being mentioned at all on TV? I have not watched a millisecond of

TV in a week, but have read the papers (Pittsburgh, NYT) and listened to the "news" on radio. Not a word about him. It's the same old blather- President's "scandals, blah, blah, blah..."

[Canuckistanian]

11. Name names, then Mr Karl. Who did you get those doctored emails from?

Remember, Rachel Maddow said that if you have a source feeding you false information, they're not a source. They're now news.

And it's OK to out them and identify them and the way you received the documents.

[Vietnameravet]

12. Has he admitted his "mistake" on ABC news?

[underpants]

14. Karl is a RW mole - readily allowed by the "liberal media"- pointed out here yesterday by Armstead

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2862036

[Marr]

16. If he was simply conveying what he assumed was good information from a "leaker"...

then he's not so much to blame, so long as he names the con-man (or con-men). If he doesn't, then he's a part of it.

[WinkyDink]

19. Since Woodward & Bernstein, journos know to CONFIRM. NO EXCUSES HERE.

[Marr]

22. Hypothetically though, how could you confirm the information leaked to you by a single source?

I'm not saying I think this guy is clean here-- his origins make me suspect that he was promoted to his position specifically to be a conduit for such partisan propaganda-- but hypothetically, taking the specifics of the case out of the equation, how could a journalist verify privileged information they received from a single, trusted source?

[WinkyDink]

24. Easy-peasy: Find one; or do not print.

[kimbutgar]

17. He should resign and go to Fox, now whenever I see this guy I will turn him off now knowing

he is a right wing hack. The guy has lost all creditability as a legitimate news reporter. On top of that he is a liar and once you are a branded a liar you are considered a liar from then on in the truth based reality.

[WinkyDink]

18. "felt a little bit bad for" this TRAITOROUS LIAR?! He's lucky he's living NOW, HERE.

[rhett o rick]

23. Mr. Karl wasnt fooled. He was an knowledgeable participant in sedition.

We are at war and he tried to slander the president of the USofA with the apparent goal of rendering him ineffectual. On second thought it sounds more like treason.

[eppur_se_muova]

25. "ABC’s Jonathan Karl regrets that he was caught"

Much more succinct.

[flamingdem]

26. feel sorry for him?

i say Off With His Head!