Josh Marshall: Brown Framed?

[cali]

Brown Framed?
Josh Marshall | January 14, 2010, 12:10PM

Sheesh, what has the world come to if you can't trust the Boston Globe?

Over the last day or so, we've been reporting how Mass GOP senate candidate Scott Brown said he was unfamiliar with the "Tea Party Movement", notwithstanding their campaigning for him and now lots of photos and video of his addressing Tea Party events.

But it seems like the original report in the Boston Globe was just wrong, or at least way overwritten.

The Brown campaign has now provided us with the audio of the exchange the report was based on. And as is often the case, there's a lot of crosstalk and incomplete sentences. But I think the clear reading of Brown's statement is not that he's "unfamiliar" with the Tea Party movement or hasn't heard of it but that he didn't accept or wasn't buying the reporter's characterization of it.

The audio is clear that Brown did not want to get into a discussion of Tea Partiers or his relationship or connection to the movement. But he wasn't saying he'd never heard of or wasn't familiar with the Tea Party movement.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/01/brown_framed.php

[joeybee12]

1. Of course the Brown campaign handed over ALL the audio...every

conversation he might have had with the Globe. Yeah, right.

[gateley]

2. The media selects what it wants to highlight -- for both parties. nt

[MUAD_DIB]

4. A quandry for Brown. He can either admit he has the taint of

the T-Baggers on him in blue Massachusetts, or he can disavow any knowledge of them; showing that he is a being disingenuous.

[JuniperLea]

3. "but that he didn't accept or wasn't buying the reporter's characterization of it"

I guess it depends on what his definition of "it" is.

[DainBramaged]

5. Another stupid vanilla thread wthout substance by an idiot.

[cali]

6. bwahahahaha. you are so pitiful.

but it is fun to laugh at you.

:rofl:

[DainBramaged]

7. You are a sad excuse for a human being.

So sad your life revolves around the internet............


how's living in the basement?

[cali]

8. lol. look who's talking

and sorry, I don't live in anyone's basement. hell, my little house doesn't even have a basement. and there's much more to my life than the internet.

[DainBramaged]

9. I think your life IS the internet. But I have a life, so another time dimmy.

[silverweb]

10. Highlighting a major difference between "them" & "us" --

-- willingness to rectify an error and refute a lie when presented with objective evidence.

I commend Josh Marshall and TPM for the correction, and only wish more would do the same instead of repeating and repeating lies in the effort to make them accepted as "truth."