Wow...Wolf Blitzer admits that he screwed up and cites Media Matters

[Halliburton]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512150015

:wow:

[Damn Hippie]

1. Pig fly! N/T

[rodeodance]

2. "But lo and behold, one website, Media Matters for America,"--oh Wolfie

you are such a smuch!!!


On December 15, during a discussion with Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and American Cause president Bay Buchanan, Blitzer referenced his discussion with Begala and said, "lo and behold, one website, Media Matters for America, points out there is a direct quote from the vice president to Gloria Borger saying, 'I know this. In Prague, in April of this year, as well as earlier. And that information has been made public.' " Blitzer added: "Paul Begala was right, I was wrong."

As Media Matters previously noted, the claim that Atta met with Iraqi intelligence operatives in Prague has long since been discredited by a variety of intelligence officials and newspaper accounts. Moreover, the 9-11 Commission concluded in 2004 that no such meeting had taken place.

From the December 15 broadcast of CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer:

BLITZER: Yesterday, Paul Begala was standing where you were. He pointed out correctly that the vice president, Dick Cheney, did allege that there was a meeting in Prague between the CIA -- between Mohammed Atta, the ring leader of 9/11, and somebody from the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. I suggested, "Well, I don't know if the vice president said it as hard and fast as you're saying, Paul Begala." But lo and behold, one website, Media Matters for America, points out there is a direct quote from the vice president to Gloria Borger saying, "I know this. In Prague, in April of this year, as well as earlier. And that information has been made public." Paul Begala was right, I was wrong.

—R.M.

[missouri dem 2]

3. Media Matters is begining to make a difference. The whore media

is starting to be held accountable.