Clinton lie spreads, truth struggles to keep up

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This is exactly what I was afraid of — one instance of bad reporting quickly gets picked up by those who don't care about the truth, and a new right-wing meme emerges.

Yesterday, ABC News' Jake Tapper misrepresented a quote by Bill Clinton to suggest that the former president believes "we have to slow down the economy" to address global warming. In fact, Clinton said just the opposite. On Fox News today, when asked about the ABC piece, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer correctly noted that Clinton had been quoted out of context. But while Krauthammer was speaking, Fox ran a chyron falsely claiming that Clinton said we "must slow economy" to "cut greenhouse gas emissions." […]

This morning, Rush Limbaugh peddled the false ABC story, insisting that Clinton "suggested we deliberately hamper our economic standing in the world and cripple our economy for the sake of appeasing an unproven, scientifically flawed theory that has no basis in fact."

It's rare that Krauthammer takes the responsible course, but by appearing on Fox News, where the producers have an obvious political agenda, even when Krauthammer was telling viewers the truth, the network was still managing to mislead its audience.

The network was even more ridiculous last night.

During the January 31 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill echoed a blog post by ABC's Jake Tapper in falsely asserting that former President Bill Clinton said "we need to slow" the economy in order to combat global warming. Hill cropped Clinton's comments to assert that Clinton said: "We just have to slow down our economy and cut our greenhouse gas emissions, because we've got to save the planet for our grandchildren." But Clinton did not say that we "have to slow down our economy" to fight global warming.

Introducing the quote, Hill noted "fears the economy is slowing and a recession could be nearing" and pronounced Clinton's statement "puzzling." After playing the truncated version of Clinton's quote, Hill asked Fox News contributor Charles Payne, "[W]hat would the results of slowing down the economy be?" Hill added: "You know, I was baffled by this, because when it seems Democrats and Republicans have finally united on one thing, and that is that our economy is slowing and we need to kick it into gear, Bill Clinton comes out and says, 'No, we need to slow it.' "

Oh my.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/

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This is exactly what I was afraid of — one instance of bad reporting quickly gets picked up by those who don't care about the truth, and a new right-wing meme emerges.

Yesterday, ABC News' Jake Tapper misrepresented a quote by Bill Clinton to suggest that the former president believes "we have to slow down the economy" to address global warming. In fact, Clinton said just the opposite. On Fox News today, when asked about the ABC piece, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer correctly noted that Clinton had been quoted out of context. But while Krauthammer was speaking, Fox ran a chyron falsely claiming that Clinton said we "must slow economy" to "cut greenhouse gas emissions." […]

This morning, Rush Limbaugh peddled the false ABC story, insisting that Clinton "suggested we deliberately hamper our economic standing in the world and cripple our economy for the sake of appeasing an unproven, scientifically flawed theory that has no basis in fact."

It's rare that Krauthammer takes the responsible course, but by appearing on Fox News, where the producers have an obvious political agenda, even when Krauthammer was telling viewers the truth, the network was still managing to mislead its audience.

The network was even more ridiculous last night.

During the January 31 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill echoed a blog post by ABC's Jake Tapper in falsely asserting that former President Bill Clinton said "we need to slow" the economy in order to combat global warming. Hill cropped Clinton's comments to assert that Clinton said: "We just have to slow down our economy and cut our greenhouse gas emissions, because we've got to save the planet for our grandchildren." But Clinton did not say that we "have to slow down our economy" to fight global warming.

Introducing the quote, Hill noted "fears the economy is slowing and a recession could be nearing" and pronounced Clinton's statement "puzzling." After playing the truncated version of Clinton's quote, Hill asked Fox News contributor Charles Payne, "[W]hat would the results of slowing down the economy be?" Hill added: "You know, I was baffled by this, because when it seems Democrats and Republicans have finally united on one thing, and that is that our economy is slowing and we need to kick it into gear, Bill Clinton comes out and says, 'No, we need to slow it.' "

Oh my.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/

Yeah and watch PMSNBC and you can see the same slant to the far left. Its all a crock. So dont try to say that while Fox is right to center right leaning in their opinion segments and I'll even give you there hard news stories. The others are just as much left leaning as some assert Fox is right leaning.....anyways who cares none of the political machines whether it be right or left in this country give a damn about anything but the aquiring of and retaining power. They're all abunch of crooks.