Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] O'Reilly on Foley affair

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Phillip Kelchen wrote:

> > Mike Miller wrote:
> > So if it is not a mistake, but also not a conspiracy, what is it?

That was Stephen's question.


> If it's not a mistake, then it's intentional. And if it's not a 
> conspiracy, then that pretty much leaves it as it was somebody's idea of 
> a joke to put that in there.

Why would it have to be "a joke?"  It looks more like a manipulative lie 
than a joke.  What I want to know is this -- when O'Reilly was talking 
about Foley, was he clearly stating that Foley is a Republican?  If the 
graphic and O'Reilly were agreeing, that's a bigger problem.


> I personally think that it's very likely an unintentional mistake. 
> Conspiracies among news agencies get hit pretty hard nowdays- just look 
> at what happened to Dan Rather with the document flap.

I don't get that -- what was the "conspiracy among news agencies?"  Do you 
mean within a single news agency?  The CBS document thing was just a lame 
mistake and those people did not seek to deceive us -- in fact, it has 
been noted many times that everything claimed in the fake documents was 
true.  However, Mark Foley is not a Democrat, so that was, in a way, a 
much more serious mistake than Rather's presentation of the fake 
documents.

Mike

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