Russert misleadingly cropped Obama comment to claim he wasn't "firmly wedded against the war"

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200711110004?f=h_latest

Summary: Interviewing Barack Obama on Meet the Press, Tim Russert read a quote he attributed to Obama to suggest that he has "not been a leader against the {Iraq} war": "In July of 2004, Barack Obama: 'I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. ... What would I have done? I don't know,' in terms of how you would have voted on the war." Russert did not quote the very next sentence of Obama's statement, which was, "What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made" for authorizing the war.

[EFerrari]

1. These guys are just more blatant every day.

Media Matters does a great job.

[Atman]

2. Why shouldn't they keep pushing the envelope of lies?

No one (read: US) ever stops them, or even attempts to. We don't march on NBC, we don't take to the streets we don't do shit. In the meantime, college kids form Brittney support groups. We get the democracy we deserve. I no longer even feel we deserve one. We've let it slip through our fingers without a fight.

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[EFerrari]

3. Speaking of media, LINKTV is running a great speech by John Pilger

today right after DemocracyNow! It will likely run two more times today. Pilger is terrific on this topic.

[yardwork]

4. Russert is a complete ass.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Obama supporters outraged

Finally you are seeing what it is to have the press misrepresent your candidate in everything they do...Hillary has been the target for 20 years. And she has survived. Let's see what Obama and his supporters are made of for them to get over the lies and manufactured crap.