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State Dept. 'Apologizes' to FOX for 'Completely Mauled' Transcript Of Reporter's Questions
The Daily Beast @thedailybeastState Department Fires Back at Fox http://thebea.st/TzsM8t #cheatsheet
____ Now that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is out of the hospital, the State Department is fighting back against those who questioned the legitimacy of her health scare-- in particular Fox News correspondent Justin Fishel. In a letter directed at Fishel, State Department spokesperson Philippe Reines sarcastically apologized for including Fishel’s expressed doubts about Clinton’s condition in a press briefing last week. “Because after what we and her doctors explained over the weekend regarding her health, you couldn’t possibly have been insinuating the ulterior motive that the question implies. No way. No credible journalist would do that without any basis whatsoever,” Reines wrote .So far, Fishel hasn't responded. Let the feuding begin.
read at WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/01/02/fox-news-producer-was-scolded-by-state-department/?print=1
Justin –
We owe you an apology. And I’m adding Bryan so he’s aware of how badly we erred. I’m almost embarrassed to even admit this – but somehow your question at today’s Daily Press Briefing was somehow completely mauled and transcribed in the release below this way:
“Toria, can you expand on why Secretary Clinton can’t testify on Thursday about this? It seems that she has not been available to testify on the Benghazi situation on some very key dates, including the Sunday after 9/11 and now this Thursday.”
I just called them and read them the riot act for putting such misleading, accusatory, and absolutely asinine words in your mouth. Because after what we and her doctors explained over the weekend regarding her health, you couldn’t possibly have been insinuating the ulterior motives that question implies. No way. No credible journalist would do that without any basis whatsoever. But even more so, I really went to bat for you with folks here and told them that while I know the media can often be incredibly self-involved, there is no way you, an informed reporter, would equate one’s testifying before the United States Congress – made up of duly elected Senators and Representatives empowered by Article I of our Constitution – with going on tv. I don’t know Chris Wallace all that well, but I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t place his television show on par with one of the three branches of our government. And therefore, saying that this has happened on multiple ‘key dates’ is simply a blatant lie and grossly misleading to the public.
Anyway, our sincere apologies. If you send us what you really said, I’ll make sure it’s properly reflected.
Best,
Philippe
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If you watch the video at the WaPo link, the Fixed News reporter, in following up with several more equally-accusatory questions, seemed to want to make it clear to everyone in the room that his network was the champion 
of conspiracy theories.
Wow . . . THAT'S going to leave a mark - a mighty big one!
I would hate to be on the recieving end of that wit! 
Fox folks ain't. It will be greeted with a shrug as they prepare the next bag of lies and conspiracy fantasy.
(And i feel so glad that State stomped on the Fox mofos, I won't even mention "except after 'c'"
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(Oh, damn!)
