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20070220 Huffington Post Eat the Press is fuming over Hume

Huffington Post Eat the Press is fuming over Hume

Brit Hume, John Murtha, And The Broken Telephone Of A Smear

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/02/20/brit-hume-john-murtha-a_e_41646.html

Rachel Sklar | Posted Tuesday February 20, 2007 at 05:09 PM

Rachel Sklar, writing for “Eat the Press” on the Huffington Post takes issue with Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume’s remarks over Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) “slow-bleed” initiative to pulling our troops out of Iraq.

Hold on - - it is actually an interesting read – and should be read, in order to get other points of view and for a balanced analysis of the issues.

It begins:

Brit Hume provoked a strong reaction yesterday with his comments on Fox News calling Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) an "absolute fountain" of "naiveté" and saying he was "long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world."

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… The distance between Murtha's actual interview to WaPo's version of it to Brit Hume's little soliloquy is far indeed &madash; a classic case of media broken telephone where carelessness in rendering and representation twists both word and intent, providing ample opportunity for further mischaracterizations, false conclusions, and out-and-out smears. WaPo — we're lookin' at you.

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Now that I've taken the time to parse through Murtha's comments and WaPo's rendering of them, I'm definitely alarmed. But it ain't by Murtha.

Murtha Touts New Way To Stop Troop 'Surge' In Iraq [CNSNews.com]
Congressman Jack Murtha Briefs MoveCongress.org [MoveCongress.org]