Time to email CNN again...Kyra Phillips: "Smear Campaign"

[AnnInLa]

from www.mediamatters.org

CNN's Kyra Phillips: "definitely a major smear campaign going on" against Rove

CNN anchor Kyra Philips responded to a call by Democratic senators for President Bush to fire White House senior adviser Karl Rove for his alleged role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame by saying: "definitely a major smear campaign going on."

Phillips made her comment on the July 12 edition of CNN's Live From ..., following footage of Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) calling for Rove to be fired:

KERRY: Is the value of day-to-day politics, and the value of political advice, and the value of his position greater than the national security of our country, and the protection of the identity of people, as well as their own word and their own policy? The White House's credibility is at issue here. I believe very clearly Karl Rove ought to be fired.

CLINTON: I'm nodding.

BOB FRANKEN (national correspondent): And just a nod from the president, but no answer, Kyra, when he was asked about Karl Rove today at a photo op. Kyra?

PHILIPS: Bob, definitely a major smear campaign going on. I mean, what's the chances of hearing from Karl Rove? Could he speak? Could he come forward? A lot of people said that could just clear the air if he just came forward and gave the facts.

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[LiberalinNC]

1. Rove is the master of smear campaigns!

Payback is hell!!!

[Booster]

2. I emailed CNN earlier asking them to ask Kyra if she thought Rove

tried to smear Valerie and Joseph Wilson when he outed her as an agent so he could discredit Mr. Wilson and his report. WTF was that if not smearing?

[ProgressiveFool]

3. CNN cleaned the transcript, too

As reported in another thread...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/12/lol.05.html

[applegrove]

4. Anderson Cooper took apart the whole GOP "Smear" propaganda.

Hopefully the rest of CNN will follow.

[joemurphy]

5. Yeah, What's stopping Rove from just coming forward and

clearing the air? Answer: Nothing but the prospect of a possible perjury charge.

[livinginphotographs]

6. I just found this gem.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/16/lt.11.html

Asking if a injured Iraqi boy understands "Operation Iraqi Freedom and its meaning."

AL-NAJADA: Actually, today he was in good condition after the operation and started speaking with a journalist and answering all their questions. The thing which he was -- they asking about -- the journalists, especially the broadcasting, what the message he wants to reflect from the war. He said, first of all, thank you for the attention they're giving to him, but he hopes nobody from the children in the war they will suffer like what he suffer.

PHILLIPS: Does he understand why...

AL-NAJADA: Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning? Does he understand it?

AL-NAJADA: Actually, we don't discuss this issue with him because he is -- the burn cases, and the type of injury, he's in very bad psychological trauma. We would like to pass this stage and then we can discuss this issue. But we discussed this issue with his uncle, and the message we get from his family, they said they are living far away from the American troops -- from the military of Saddam of Fedayeen by five kilometers, and they don't know how they hit them by the missiles.

"We don't discuss this issue with him..." Yeah, no shit.

That damn librul media. I hadn't heard of this bubblehead before, but now she definitely makes me even happier that I don't have cable.