CNN's Double Standard
As this story states, back in 2002, FOX News Chairman Roger Ailes sent a memo to then President George W. Bush regarding his post-9/11 actions and "CNN anchors threw a fit." Well, now that one of their own occupies the White House, CNN (and of course the rest of the liberal media) see absolutely nothing wrong with a journalist (along with what seems like half of the liberal media establishment actually employed by the Obama administration) giving the president advice on anything.
Not to mention that CNN "a network run until two years ago by Rick Kaplan, who while serving as President of CNN from 1997 through 2000, played golf with President Clinton, and "while an ABC News executive, advised presidential candidate Clinton on how to handle the Gennifer Flowers situation and blocked anti-Clinton stories from getting onto World News Tonight."
Ah, but that doesn't mean anything. It's only when someone from FOX News has something to say or has a conversation with the president is it time to get out the torches and pitchforks.
The information about this Ailes/Bush memo was actually from Bob Woodward's book, Bush at War. The memo to Karl Rove from Ailes went to Bush as a "concerned American expressing my outrage about the attacks on our country. I did not give up my American citizenship to take this job."
"Bob Woodward's characterization of my memo is incorrect. In the days following 9/11, our country came together in nonpartisan support of the president. During that time, I wrote a personal note to a White House staff member..."
Of course, CNN's Arthel Neville, host of Talkback Live, tried to distort and spin the close association between Clinton and Kaplan,
"There's a difference in seeking access to the administration, as opposed to giving unsolicited political advice."
So Kaplan spending one-on-one time with President Clinton and was awarded the privilege of two overnight stays. Ailes sent a memo to an aide. So are we to believe CNN wouldn’t have mentioned Ailes if Woodward had revealed that Ailes stayed overnight at the White House a few months earlier?
Kaplan went on to say, Clinton's gesture "won't affect CNN's coverage of him." *snicker*
Not to mention that CNN "a network run until two years ago by Rick Kaplan, who while serving as President of CNN from 1997 through 2000, played golf with President Clinton, and "while an ABC News executive, advised presidential candidate Clinton on how to handle the Gennifer Flowers situation and blocked anti-Clinton stories from getting onto World News Tonight."
Ah, but that doesn't mean anything. It's only when someone from FOX News has something to say or has a conversation with the president is it time to get out the torches and pitchforks.
The information about this Ailes/Bush memo was actually from Bob Woodward's book, Bush at War. The memo to Karl Rove from Ailes went to Bush as a "concerned American expressing my outrage about the attacks on our country. I did not give up my American citizenship to take this job."
"Bob Woodward's characterization of my memo is incorrect. In the days following 9/11, our country came together in nonpartisan support of the president. During that time, I wrote a personal note to a White House staff member..."
Of course, CNN's Arthel Neville, host of Talkback Live, tried to distort and spin the close association between Clinton and Kaplan,
"There's a difference in seeking access to the administration, as opposed to giving unsolicited political advice."
So Kaplan spending one-on-one time with President Clinton and was awarded the privilege of two overnight stays. Ailes sent a memo to an aide. So are we to believe CNN wouldn’t have mentioned Ailes if Woodward had revealed that Ailes stayed overnight at the White House a few months earlier?
Kaplan went on to say, Clinton's gesture "won't affect CNN's coverage of him." *snicker*
posted by Northern Exposer at 00:26
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