White House Pissed Off - Sends NBC A “Fuck You” Note
Just off the top of my head…I’m not sure if I have ever heard of the White House doing this before, under any administration….have they? I mean, sending personally autographed promo glossies?
The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.
At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel’s parliament earlier this week.
Specifically, White House counselor Ed Gillespie laments that the network edited the interview in a way that “is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that [Bush] agreed with [correspondent Richard Engel’s] characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it.
“This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the President’s responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts,” said Gillespie in the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus.
Gillespie used the opportunity to also inquire whether NBC News still believes that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. In November 2006, the network decided to label the infighting in the country a “civil war.”
“I noticed that around September of 2007, your network quietly stopped referring to conditions in Iraq as a ‘civil war,’ ” Gillespie wrote. “Is it still NBC News’s carefully deliberated opinion that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war? If not, will the network publicly declare that the civil war has ended, or that it was wrong to declare it in the first place?”
Gillespie also hit NBC News on its reporting on the state of the economy.
“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Gillespie concluded. “I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network’s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.”
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I swear I hope GWB pushes the button on Iran on the last day of his presidency.
THAT’S a fuck-you to all his critics.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pmI hope he does it Nov. 5.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pmIts about damn time they fire back when something like this happens. too bad they waited about 7 1/2 years too long
May 19th, 2008 at 2:28 pmI hope Bush declares martial law in Berkley Nov. 5th and follows that with the arrest, kangaroo court conviction and military style execution of Michael Moore and Markkkos Zuniga on the White House lawn finding them guilty of treason.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pmeliminate GE from selling anything to the govt,, problem solved, they will move olberman off MSLSD fast.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:41 pmNBC, ABC, CBS all so close to the same one sided bull shit reporters network. I hope President Bush remembers this at his next news conference when NBC is reresented. Don’t call on them, just let them sit like a school kid in the corner of class…
May 19th, 2008 at 2:50 pmHell dubya, where the hell ya been—-party’s almost over pard.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:51 pmBut then again, everybody’s a tough guy at closing time.
Go getem W… Rip their nuts off….
May 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pmW wasted a lot of his second term. He should have been doing this all along. Fuck trying to appease the domestic and foreign enemies of this country. They need to be crushed, not coddled.
May 19th, 2008 at 3:36 pmThats right Kurt, 7 1/2 years too late.
May 19th, 2008 at 3:47 pmNever too little too late
May 19th, 2008 at 4:41 pmWell, I guess we finally have SOMETHING to thank the Clintons for …
Recall months back the phone calls and letters to MSNBC about negative Clinton ‘things’ Matthews and Shuster said on air that they had to on-air fall on their swords for …
However, don’t expect Pres. Bush WILL get such a consideration …
Curious to know (because I will not watch) what Matthews and Olbywad had to say about this.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:17 pmi’d like to see President Bush pull the trigger on iran tomorrow. the sooner we start cutting the heads off that beast, the quicker Iraq and Afghanistan will settle down and the faster our troops can complete the mission and come home. God’s speed, and keep them safe.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:22 pmWho heard and what about President Bush telling Israel to kick Hizbollah’s grungy arse over in Lebanon? Olmert is said to have declined the offer of support and will let the Hizzies continue to wreck havoc. ????????????????????????
May 19th, 2008 at 6:56 pmOlmert is maybe doomed by the corruption investigation, but in the meantime Hez will indeed continue to wreak havoc. Israel would do Lebanon a huge favor if it wreaked vengeance on Hez. Before it wrecks the country.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:13 pmPresident Bush can only carry out acts of war for 90 days without an official declaration from the Congress. October 22nd is 90 days before he leaves office. So it is then or slightly after that he can do what needs to be done.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:34 amDamascus and the Bakaa Valley is where the pukes live and train! Hey W, send then a glossy and an ICBM
Oh I forgot about the 5 foot tall boy in iran–send him a couple of dozen while your at it!! their all pukes 
May 20th, 2008 at 10:48 amNothing But Crap (NBC)and the rest of the media swine have hidden in their hotel at the Al-Hamra here in Baghdad since day one. Richard Engle is an arrogant little man who is incapable of finding a mirror he doesn’t like. That other NBC POS, Jim Maceda, almost cost me my life several years ago do to his arrogance and breach of security protocal - all in the name of getting a good story. Do what you guys and gals do best when you are here: Sit by the pool, smoke your hash and get hammered day in and day out, screw each others brains out, while you send your Iraqis out to get the story for you so you can then bend it the way you want it. Between you and members of the State Department, I am not clear with is worse. Either way, both of you have disgraced America in the eyes of the world because of your often, openely stated agenda - made in person to me MANY times - to bring the President down.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:45 amYou and your vendeta against anything good about America has single handedly destroyed our country’s reputation and standing in the world. YES - you, not the military, you. To keep sitting around the pool conjuring up ways to slam the President is disgusting. You will never know the sting of battle. The only sting you will know in this garden paradise is that of a case of the clap you got from one of the Iraqi hookers you slept with several days before. But, who knows, every once in a while shit goes off target when it falls from the sky.
For the rest of you reading this rant, listen up. Here is a brief, but current SITREP:
Basra - Won
Baquba -Won
Sadar City - In progress, will win
Mosul - Winning. Tangos going down by the bushel.
An Bar - Won, pacified and DAMN happy.
Iraqi people: LOVE Americans (no, not the media or State Department pricks) They love America for what we ONCE stood for - freedom to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and build yourself a good life. They are doing it all across the country without your help. There is NOT one place in this country I can’t go today and find an Iraqi that is damn glad we are here. Why? Because the US and Iraqi military AND the Iraqi people are winning the fight against the bad guys. The Iraqi people have had enough of the bullshit and fighting. It is a team effort.
Bottom-line: America has brought in its best, its military, who, after learning from the mistakes made in The Nam and the early days of the State Department fuck ups lead by Bremmer, understands how to operate in this environment.
As for the media puff prices and two-timing wives acting as reporters in this country - FUCK YOU for destroying America’s reputation. You and the State Department have done your job well and for that you MUST be held accountable and someday you will be as the facts are starting to emerge about the WMD that was, and still is, here. The facts about Saddam’s connections to AQ going back to 1993, etc. What, nothing to say?
Out.