CNN Distorts Palin Comments From Its OWN Interview With Her

Publius' Forum ^ | 11/14/07 | Warner Todd Huston

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What is it about CNN that they have to distort things that Governor Sarah Palin has said in interviews? This time, CNN even distorted what she said in an interview one of its own correspondents conducted. On CNN's Political Ticker Blog on November 11, CNN had this absurd headline:Palin in Obama's administration? And followed that up with a paragraph that materially misstated what she told their own commentator, Wolf Blitzer.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Wednesday she would be honored to help out President-elect Barack Obama in his new administration, even if he did hang around with an "unrepentant domestic terrorist."

Yet, the several paragraphs that follow shows that the header and the into paragraph twist what it is she really said. If one were to read just the headline and that first paragraph of the Political Ticker entry, one would get a very distorted view of what the governor said.

First to address the misleading and snarky headline. Governor Palin did NOT say she wanted to become a member of Barack Obama's administration. All she said was that she'd be happy to "assist and support" the new president. This is the same thing that any governor would and should say about a newly elected president.

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And only the American people can stop them.

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I think it would be great to have Palin be the next popular conservative TV personality on fox or maybe abc. That would give her a fantastic platform for building a Reagan like movement for “choose any year” she wants to run for president.

I don’t think they’ve entirely succeeded, but the media has “Quayled” Sarah with a large swath of the population. They’re working on Obama’s reelection campaign even as we speak. It’s sickening.