Being ‘Gore’-d
So after a little fact checking Jake Tapper discovers that Hillary Clinton’s hospital story is basically true but she tells it badly. She fails to make it clear that there were multiple hospitals involved, and the hospital that did all the screaming to the New York Times wasn’t the hospital that denied the pregnant woman medical attention because she was poor.
The hospital that did all the kvetching had to violate patient privacy to make the complaint about Mrs. Clinton, but that’s OK because they were bad mouthing Hillary.
Too bad the New York Times has never heard of fact checking.
In case anyone has missed it – I don’t like Clinton or Obama. I like the mainstream media reporting even less. The Soviet media didn’t pretend to be fair and balanced.
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Reading Pravda on the Potomac (WaPost) or Ivestia on the Hudson(NYT) is a surreal experience in the best of time. But never more surreal in today’s day and age. It’s a shame that I have to read them in much the same way that Sovoks had to read Pravda and Ivestia — i.e., reading between the lines to find little grains of truth that the reporter snuck past editorial censorship. The only difference is that the Party ran the Soviet Union, while the Corporation runs the United States. Same greedy assholes with dachas on the waterfront and Swiss bank accounts, just a different philosophy they use to justify their assholery…
– Badtux the Sovok Penguin
Great post title. I remember right after sElection 2000, when told by some of my right-wing acquaintances to “just get over it,” I told them that our respective attitudes were a matter of whose Gore was axed.
I hate to say it, but that’s a couple of times recently that ABC News has done some useful fact-checking. Those reporters are just asking to be fired.
I was on mailing lists during the 2000 election and it was just absurd. I think it was the “Love Canal” lie that really ticked my off, because it was based on a conversation Gore had with students at a middle school in the Buffalo area. The kids noticed the media lied about what was said, and had a video tape they made that proved it, but they got brushed off by the reporter who filed the story when their teacher contacted the news organization.
They don’t care about informing people, only conforming to what their corporate owners want on the air.
This country has too many similarities to the Soviets under Stalin, which I take personally because I spent a significant chunk of my youth in less than wonderful conditions and places keeping watch on the Soviets. I don’t need to see the worse bits imported into this country. The Soviets at least had universal health care and pensions to pay people for being lied to.
i can’t find the link now, but it looked legitimate at the time… hillary says she tried to verify the story before telling it, but the hospital[s?] in question wouldn’t confirm or deny anything, citing patient privacy.
As we learned in the 2000 election, the media doesn’t care if it’s true once they’ve decided to ‘Gore’ you. Anything you say is a lie from that point.