Media echoed Bush-Cheney '04's "global test" attack ad

[dennis4868]

Media echoed Bush-Cheney '04's "global test" attack ad

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410040002

Republicans have attempted to spin the first presidential debate in favor of President George W. Bush by distorting a statement Senator John Kerry made during that debate. Mainstream journalists have gone along with the spin, quoting Bush's mischaracterization of Kerry's debate remark without refutation.

Here's what Kerry said:

No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America.

But if and when you do it, Jim , you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.

But following the debate, President George W. Bush distorted Kerry's "global test" remark to claim that Kerry "would give foreign governments veto power over our national security decisions." The Bush-Cheney '04 campaign launched a new advertisement called "Global Test," which claims that Kerry would "seek permission from foreign governments before protecting America. As Kerry's statement made clear, he was not advocating giving other countries "veto power" over U.S. military decisions; rather, Kerry said he would preemptively act to protect the U.S., while stressing that we must demonstrate the necessity of doing so.

Many in the press failed to note the distinction between the Bush campaign's mischaracterization of Kerry's remarks and what Kerry actually said.

more here....http://mediamatters.org/items/200410040002

[trotsky]

1. Hmph.

Many in the press failed to note the distinction between the Bush campaign's mischaracterization of Kerry's remarks and what Kerry actually said.

Yeah, so what else is new?

[dennis4868]

2. it's not only press....

many surrogates of Kerry do not fully explain what Kerry actually said...

[sangh0]

5. I like the way you didn't explain what Kerry actually said

while pointing out that many Kerry "surrogates" don't explain what Kerry actually said.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Kerry wants a ROUND test; bush wants a SQUARE one.

As the primary definition of 'global' in the dictionary is "spherical; round", Kerry must be arguing for a ROUND TEST.

As bush disagrees with that, he must want a SQUARE TEST.

Or it could be Kerry was referring to the third definition in the dictionary; "part of a whole", as in ALL AMERICANS. Like when he says;

"that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people..."

Oh wait. That would require freeping rightwingnuts to have some amount of education or *gasp* a dictionary!

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I LIKE the global test remark.

It's global test vs isolationism. Bush definitely considers the global test as a capitalist when he supports outsourcing. Outsourcing is definitely not helping middle Americans. But he's outsourcing to stay competitive with other countries, or so he claims. Why is he being a hypocrite now?