Right wingnut media lesson: NEWSMAX

[janx]

This is how it's done and how far gone it has gotten. Read this article and try to ascertain who the sources are and who interviewed Pat Leahy. Also, how many right wingnut propaganda machines distilled this information before it got to the clowns at Newsmax? Please

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'Leaky' Leahy Defends Nazi-gate Scandal

Vermont Senator Pat "Leaky" Leahy tried to spin his way out of the Democrats' Nazi-gate scandal yesterday - after Illinois Senator Dick Durbin compared U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to soldiers in Hitler's Third Reich - by saying his colleague was misquoted in the Wall Street Journal.

Asked whether he objected to Durbin's characterization of GI's as "Nazis," Leahy told WVMT Vermont's "Charlie & Ernie" radio show, "First of all, with Sen. Durbin, I'd be very careful about taking quotes off the Wall Street Journal editorial page."

"They are notorious for taking quotes totally out of context," he added, "even making them up."

Durbin's quotes, however, didn't appear in the Wall Street Journal, but were instead first covered by its sister web site, OpinionJournal.com, which obtained the incendiary remarks from actual Senate audio broadcast by radio hosts Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

More at link:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/17/95105.shtml

[shraby]

1. If that's considered a scandal,

How would they characterize the Downing Street Minutes?

[janx]

4. Good point. n/t

[LSK]

2. Cons think newsmax and worldnutdaily are the only real sources of news

Some of them believe those rags totally. These sites are the FOXNEWS/Rush Limbaugh of the internet.

[janx]

3. Oh, I know. But just look at how ridiculous it has gotten.

The web site referenced is in fact part of the Wall St. Journal's editorial operation. And who interviewed Leahy? Where did these quotes come from?