Sometimes I forget that the world is full of people who take things out of context. And it is a tragic statement when one of ABC's senior national correspondent is filling the world with this much (false, poorly reported) garbage. Here's a great post from David Roberts of Grist:
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So Jake Tapper -- the very model of the modern gossip-obsessed campaign reporter -- goes to see a Bill Clinton speech and returns to write a blog post: "Bill: 'We Just Have to Slow Down Our Economy' to Fight Global Warming."
Ha! Finally the dirty liberals admit it! They want to destroy the economy!
The post ended up on Drudge, from whence it made the usual rounds of the dingbatosphere.
Only Tapper was full of sh**.
As the Clinton campaign rushed to point out, Tapper yanked the quote out of context -- a context in which Bill Clinton was making exactly the opposite point. Here's what Clinton said:
The only way we can do this is if we get back in the world's fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work. So Tapper egregiously misrepresented Bill Clinton's point, making it into the opposite of what he said. (Incidentally, this is a point Clinton's made many, many times before.) You couldn't ask for more clear evidence of journalistic malpractice. |
Edited by stins - Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:07:34 GMT
