CBS's John Roberts actually ANALYZES the flip-flop charge

[jpgray]

http://www.dailyhowler.com/

Roberts then spent about four hundred words evaluating this central Bush claim. To watch his brief report, just click here.

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ROBERTS (9/7/04): But is it a flip-flop? Kerry has consistently said holding Saddam accountable was and remains the right thing to do. And he’s been just as consistent in his opposition to the way President Bush went to war.

KERRY (videotape): It's not I would have done just one thing differently in Iraq; I would have done everything differently in Iraq.

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Obviously, you can’t analyze that topic in the time Roberts gave it. But have you seen any big newspaper give this matter the attention it deserves? We haven’t seen that happen. And we’ve rarely seen major news orgs report something else Roberts said:

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ROBERTS (continuing directly): Kerry's other big flip-flop, according to the president: Funding for the troops in Iraq.

BUSH (videotape): He said, “Well, I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”

ROBERTS: True, Kerry once voted for the $87 billion, on condition it be paid for by rescinding a portion of the president's tax cuts. When that provision failed, and seeing no new plan in the bill to win the peace, he turned thumbs down in protest.

And something you won't hear President Bush mention on the campaign trail is that he threatened to veto a version of that bill because he didn't like it. So the big problem for John Kerry, say some analysts, is not his record; it's allowing the Bush campaign to control the message. John Roberts, CBS News, Columbia, Missouri.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. WOW this is the first time this actually

breaks into the mainstream news... what is going on here with CBS?

Not taht I do not like this folks, in fact this is great

[aquart]

4. Didn't like being fined for Janet's breast?

Instead of keeping them in line, it ticked them off?

[lasttrip]

11. maybe they realized they can get over 50%

of the viewing public by presenting the facts.

[Beetwasher]

12. CBS=Viacom=Howard Stern

n/t

[Cush]

2. CBS is the only network worth watching

I saw that report when it aired

[Cocoa]

3. good for him

very rare that this is done. I think John Harwood of the WSJ did it on Charlie Rose too. :toast:

[codegreen]

5. last line says it all

"So the big problem for John Kerry, say some analysts, is not his record; it's allowing the Bush campaign to control the message."

oh, and we're losing. just thought i'd point that out.

[wryter2000]

6. I caught that

CBS is doing good work.

[zulchzulu]

7. Edward R. Murrow is starting to smile

[A_Possum]

8. GO CBS!!

Thank God we have one news organization left.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. Edward R. Murrow is working his magic on CBS.

He's giving them their spine back. It was somewhere because CBS is not a Repug Whore Machine. They just needed a reason to find it and they did!

[SidDithers]

10. Way to go JD!

John "JD" Roberts got his start in Toronto as the co-host of a weekly music review called The New Music. His co-host was Jeanne Beker, who some might know from Fashion Televison.



He lost most of that full head of hair - the nice grey stuff you see in his bio pics now isn't real. (Well, maybe it is real, but it's not his)

Sid