Media conservatives misrepresent Moynihan to support Bolton nomination

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Media conservatives misrepresent Moynihan to support Bolton nomination

Supporters of President Bush's nomination of Undersecretary of State John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations have echoed the administration's comparison of Bolton to the late former U.N. ambassador and U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. But comparing Bolton to Moynihan ignores fundamental differences in their views of international law and misrepresents Moynihan's position on the U.N.


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Yet the misleading comparison of Bolton to Moynihan, first made in Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's March 7 announcement of Bolton's nomination, has been regularly repeated by media conservatives ever since:

* .............On the March 12 edition of CNN's The Capital Gang, syndicated columnist and host Robert Novak claimed Bolton is "in the mold of Pat Moynihan," adding that "nobody" believed the U.N. was "a more corrupt institution than Pat Moynihan did."
* On the March 13 edition of Fox News' Fox News Sunday, syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer lauded Bolton's nomination, saying: "You want a guy who's a Pat Moynihan and Jeanne Kirkpatrick model, a guy who speaks on behalf of the United States, who's not co-opted by the U.N., and who will defend our interests and advance our interests."

— J.C.

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1. Hasn't Moinahan's adult child already had to speak up on this?

[KoKo]

2. What's odd to me is that most Americans don't know who Moynahan was!

Why do they keep mentioning him. First for misquoted views on SS and now on UN? I would think they must be desperate to find a Dem quote if they have to go back so far to a Senator that mostly New Yorkers knew about and only people over 45 might even remember what he said in the first place. But, maybe that was it. They wanted to quote a Dem Senator who's deceased and no one remembers what the hell he really said unless you were a history major. :shrug: Probably answered my own question, here. They are desperate if this is what they are doing.