Scarborough retracts false claim about lefty groups' disclosure. Will Rove, other righties do same?

[flpoljunkie]

From Greg Sargent's Plumline...

Scarborough retracts false claim about lefty groups' disclosure. Will Rove and other righties do same?

I suppose this is par for the course. But perhaps it should be part of the discussion that right wing commentators who claim lefty groups and unions are running ads funded by anonymous donors -- just as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other righty groups are doing -- are just flat out lying.

This lie is so easily debunked that Joe Scarborough actually retracted it today on Morning Joe after making the claim and getting corrected. Will Karl Rove and Fox News and others spreading this falsehood or letting it go unchecked do the same?

Scarborough, during a discussion this morning of the Obama-and-Dem-versus-Chamber dust-up, called on President Obama to demand disclosure from unions and MoveOn, claiming "blatant hypocrisy."

But the comparison is totally bogus. Under Federal law, unions disclose far more about their funding than other political groups do, and it just so happens that MoveOn's ads are funded by a Federal political committee that has to comply with the same disclosure requirements that candidate and party committees do.

To his credit, Scarborough corrected his false claim after a MoveOn official contacted him to complain. He acknowledged that MoveOn is a "Federal PAC," admitting: "I shoot from the hip."

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/scarborough_retracts_false_cla.html

[zipplewrath]

1. Through his teeth

"He acknowledged that MoveOn is a "Federal PAC," admitting: "I shoot from the hip."

When did that become synomous with "lying through my teeth"?

[verges]

2. If it were a malicious lie, he wouldn't have

retracted it. He simply reorted what he was told before he did the research to confirm or deny. The same as the rest of the media do. At least he had the decency to retract it when he was shown to be wrong.

[butterfly77]

3. To his credit my ass..

I was watching and screaming at the television at that point then Scar went off camera for a while and came back with a different story. ASSHOLE!

[mstinamotorcity]

4. Scarbourough is just mad at

MoveOn because of Mark Malitos (forgive spelling). He has been pissed ever since he tweeted about the "dead intern". He hates progressive websites that out him Mark works for Daily Kos but any progressive that knows about Joe was under attack he even mentioned ThinkProgress.

[ProSense]

5. Setting the disclosure record straight

SETTING THE DISCLOSURE RECORD STRAIGHT....

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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough made the claim this morning, but to his credit, retracted it on the air. Karl Rove and other Fox News personalities have made the same argument, and wouldn't you know it, they've been reluctant to correct their mistake.

Greg Sargent sets the record straight today, noting that those drawing the parallel are "just flat out lying."

Under Federal law, unions disclose far more about their funding than other political groups do, and it just so happens that MoveOn's ads are funded by a Federal political committee that has to comply with the same disclosure requirements that candidate and party committees do.

Rove specifically claimed on the air that the National Resources Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress, and MoveOn are engaged in the midterms, but "do not report their donors."

But the claim about MoveOn is wrong, and none of the other groups he mentioned are running campaign ads at all.

Either Rove has no idea what he's talking about -- which is unlikely, given that he helped create and fund some secretive campaign operations this year -- or he's shamelessly lying on national television.

Greg added that the Fox News host made no effort to challenge Rove's falsehoods, and unlike Scarborough, there's been no retraction. "(I)t would be nice if someone on Fox or wherever else at least tried to hold these folks to even a minimum standard of accuracy or honesty," Greg concluded.

It would, indeed.

[tanyev]

6. Hold Fox to a minimum standard of accuracy or honesty???

But then they wouldn't be upholding their mission to keep Republicans in power.

[Supersedeas]

7. Did he retract the claim on air??

[flpoljunkie]

8. According to Greg Sargent, he did.

This lie is so easily debunked that Joe Scarborough actually retracted it today on Morning Joe after making the claim and getting corrected. Will Karl Rove and Fox News and others spreading this falsehood or letting it go unchecked do the same?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/scarborough_retracts_false_cla.html