The relentless and fervent pro-Obama bias at the Los Angeles Times is nothing new. (For starters, we've reported on it here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.) But a front-page article in today's Times (Sun. July 20, 2008) is simply dishonest. The headline reads, "Iraqi president embraces Obama withdrawal plan."
The brute dishonesty is that the Times makes no mention of the fact that a spokesman for the prime minister immediately disputed the story and said comments from Nouri Maliki in a controversial interview in Germany's Der Spiegel magazine "were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately." (See CNN's "Iraqi PM disputes report on withdrawal plan," posted yesterday afternoon (7/19/08). HotAir also reports how Der Spiegel changed a key quote in the interview.)
Yet the Times uncritically claimed that Maliki "praised the Democratic presidential candidate's plan for withdrawing U.S. troops over a 16-month period" and published an article that essentially amounts to Obama campaign literature.
Is the Times in the tank for Obama? Absolutely. Imagine a report that Maliki had praised John McCain's withdrawal plan, but then the report was immediately disputed. Do you think the Times would have uncritically run a front-page story the next day with the title, "Iraqi president embraces McCain withdrawal plan"? No ... bleeping ... way.
—Dave Pierre is the creator of TheMediaReport.com and a contributor to NewsBusters.
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This goes beyond the usual
July 20, 2008 - 16:32 ET by forestThis goes beyond the usual bias. LAT is knowingly spreading misinformation.
They double up on it too. Not only do they omit the clarification by Maliki's office, but they misrepresent the nature of "Obama's plan". Since well over a year ago, his plan was to start pulling out troops immediately. He said the surge would do more harm than good.
Things have changed for the better since then because we followed McCain's plan instead of Obama's plan. As Lieberman said, Obama's trip to Iraq would not now be possible if we had followed his plan. It would be in chaos instead.
LAT is knowingly spreading
July 21, 2008 - 06:24 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsLAT is knowingly spreading misinformation.
That is what the propaganda arm of the DNC is supposed to do.
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I have been furious about
July 20, 2008 - 17:14 ET by bigtimerI have been furious about this intentional BS and the rest of the msm hand in hand with the Obama campaign strategically putting this out there....
Agenda accomplished...
...as usual...
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LAT not alone
July 20, 2008 - 19:13 ET by redherkeyNPR ran with the story this Sunday morning with a unique slant. After it had already been acknowledged by Der Spiegel that there was a translation error, NPR instead said that al Maliki was "backing off of his earlier position" (insinuating that evil Bush/Cheney was probably putting pressure on the Iraqi vassal state).
NPR is a daily reminder that if Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid want to experiment with the fairness doctrine, they should apply it first to media organizations that exist thanks to taxpayer subsidies.