Thread to track ABC, NBC, CBS Evening News treatment of Swift Boat lies

[Karmadillo]

CBS is leading with resignation of Ginsburg and Cleland's visit to Trembling Boy's ranch.

[ikojo]

1. NBC called Cleland a surrogate for the Kerry campaign

and led off the story saying the Kerry campaign took the Swift Boat ad controversy to the Bush ranch in Texas. Throughout the story they continued to associate Cleland with the Kerry campaign.

PIGS!

[geek tragedy]

4. Well, Cleland is associated with the Kerry campaign.

And a mighty goddamn big credit to the campaign he is.

We don't mind people knowing that Kerry took the fight to Bush. He's standing up to the boy prince bully.

[David Zephyr]

10. And Proudly So.

Kerry is upfront about his activity. Not a coward like Bush.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. Cleland is a surogate and a DAMN PROUD one at that!

[Karmadillo]

2. CBS' turned in a fairly good report.

There was an obligatory reference to Kerry attorneys involved with 527s, but all in all the impression was of a bad day for Bush. They allowed a direct quote from Cleland as he tried to deliver the letter and then a reference to the Bush campaign picking up on the attacks on Kerry's criticism of the Vietnam War after his return to the US.

[Cush]

3. now on ABC

Ginsberg lead an effort to get rid of all 527's back in April

[DemOperative]

5. I think this blew up in their faces just right

Nice construction job ; sometimes I wonder about Mary Beth's henchmen but they always close hard just when it looks hopeless.

[David Dunham]

6. We have to keep fighting hard like this.

[lancdem]

12. I have no doubt Kerry plans to

[cheshire]

8. lying liar and their lies

Bret Hume just said Kerry said in his book that He heard about MLK's murder while in Nam then said Kerry was lying because of the date. I heard Kerry was there and came back or something like that. These guys on the news are slimy too.

[A_Possum]

13. In which book is he supposed to have said this?

And what did he actually say.

King was assassinated April 4, 1968. At that time, Kerry was aboard the USS Gridley, which was in the Gulf of Tonkin during much of that tour.

[skip fox]

9. Please help develop reference source for us on SBVT. Prototype at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x69684

Please use "Reply" in that thread with any new links to substantive SBV stories.

[Algorem]

11. I believe PBS News Hour made no mention of Cleland.

[senseandsensibility]

16. That is so disappointing!

Are they sinking even lower than cable? There lurch to the right has been striking in recent years, but to not even mention Max is extreme.
And people think NPR is liberal!

[Chili]

14. it wasn't Martin Luther King...

...it was Robert Kennedy. I think. If I remember this correctly (from that CNN special on Kerry) that he landed (or disembarked) in LA the day after RFK was assassinated... and that it was devastating to him. I only remember because it seems it came on the heels of discussing how much Kerry admired JFK.

If Brit Hume said that, he needs to get his lies straight.

[Chili]

15. it was RFK, not MLK...

...here's a quote from WorkingForChange (http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16981)

Kerry's political narrative starts on June 5, 1968 -- the night Bobby Kennedy was assassinated: John Kerry is on board the USS Gridley, returning home from Vietnam. He carries with him a dog-eared copy of RFK's political manifesto "To Seek a Newer World." During the last month, Kerry has been using the ship's radio to follow Kennedy's remarkable campaign run. But when he tunes in to hear the results of the California primary, the crackling radio delivers the horrifying news that Bobby has been gunned down -- news that rocks Kerry to his core. "It was strange," he says, "coming home from a place of violence to a place of violence... a violence that shook our very sense of the order of things."

Apparently Brit Hume was so eager to try to diminish Kerry that he's incapable of getting his facts straight.