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Campbell Brown’s Puff Piece On Joe Wilson
-- Lorie Byrd
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Or maybe I should have titled this Campbell Brown’s Hit Piece On The White House.
This will be brief because I am still miserable with this cold/bronchitis/strep whatever it is I have, but I really wanted to draw attention to something I saw tonight.
I caught a few minutes of Dateline NBC after turning the channel from 60 Minutes’ Joe Wilson story. I only caught the first few seconds of the 60 Minutes piece, but I can’t imagine that it could have been any more misleading and inaccurate than Campbell Brown’s interview with Wilson. The piece was set up to inform readers that Wilson’ wife’s physical safety and security was put in danger when she was outed in retribution for Joe Wilson daring to tell the truth about the Bush administration’s lies that led us to war. That is not a quote, but it is not far off.
Fitzgerald’s single indictment was not used to show that the special prosecutor had not found evidence of a conspiracy in the White House to go after Valerie Plame, that Libby had resigned and no one else had been prosecuted. Instead, the impression was given that the indictment was proof that what Wilson said was true. There was no mention that the 9/11 commission and the Senate Intelligence committee reports showed Wilson had lied and misrepresented the findings of his Niger trip. Instead, Wilson was allowed to repeat those lies and the only refutation given was described as coming from “critics” of Wilson and it was downplayed. There was no context given of Plame’s name being revealed as an explanation for Wilson being given the assignment in the first place. In fact, in the opening of the piece Campbell Brown declared that Wilson’s experience and contacts made him highly qualified for the mission. There was no reference that one reason White House officials might have mentioned that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA was to refute the claim that the VP had sent Wilson on the mission. The only purpose presented in the piece for Plame’s name being mentioned was retribution. Wilson even said he thought it was to send a message to future critics that if you criticize the war or the White House, that what happened to Joe Wilson’s wife could happen to you.
All of this is my representation of the piece. I am paraphrasing and I took no notes, but without a doubt it was one of the (if not THE) most misleading pieces of propaganda I have ever seen.
Wilson’s book was prominently mentioned and displayed. I suspect that Newsbusters will be on this case.
If you saw the piece and were as outraged as I was, make good use of the media contact list LGF recently posted and let Campbell Brown, and others at NBC, know what you think about it.
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