Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip

[Omaha Steve]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704050009?f=action20070405


Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:14pm EST



Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip

For much of the past week, CNN and its White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux have offered a steady stream of inaccurate and incomplete coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East and her April 3 meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

Please join Media Matters for America in demanding that CNN and Malveaux stop misinforming viewers about Pelosi's trip and present all the facts. CNN's contact information can be found in our "Take Action!" sidebar on the right.

Since April 2, Malveaux has wrongly and repeatedly claimed that Pelosi had no "standing" and was not acting in an "official capacity," has attacked the trip as "political theater" and a "political stunt," and has parroted the Bush administration's attacks on Pelosi for going to Syria while ignoring the fact that a Republican-led delegation met with Assad on April 1. Most recently, Malveaux asked whether Pelosi's trip was a "big wet kiss to President Al-Assad."

Other CNN personalities have joined in as well. Lou Dobbs devoted an entire segment to "Pelosi's bad trip," while the April 3 edition of Anderson Cooper 360 featured a segment on Pelosi's trip titled "Talking to Terrorists."

After several days of inaccurate, one-sided coverage, it's time to tell CNN enough is enough. It's time to take action.

Use the contact information in our "Take Action!" sidebar to contact CNN, Malveaux, and Dobbs -- and be sure to tell your friends.


Click the link above.

[whistle]

1. Pure propaganda FOX Nazi News style

[calimary]

2. Kick!

If they think you don't care, THEY WON'T, EITHER!!!!

[tularetom]

3. It's a total hack job but I ain't responding

because to do so would be to imply acknowledgement that I actually WATCHED CNN which I never do. I consirder it one step above faux noise and almost as unprofessional. It's become news lite for the dumbed down generation of Amurkins.

[INdemo]

4. I'm convinced that Karl Rove has a direct link to all of these corporate media

stations...(Not kidding) and they better follow his script or they could be replaced...Real journalism doesn't exist anymore...

[Gelliebeans]

5. Done K&R

[job777]

6. Don't watch CNN

but the problem I have with the trip is a possible violation of the Logan Act which prohibits anyone other than the president or someone he designates to conduct foreign policy with other governments. Nancy Pelosi may well have committed a felony based on this statuette. I hope that is not the case.

[Dawgs]

7. What do you watch, Fox News?

Welcome to DU!! I hope you like your stay.

[Sparkly]

8. Are you kidding me?!?

Somebody's gonna dust off an 18th c. "statuette" (lol) that's never been used before to go after Pelosi for "conducting foreign policy?" Where on earth did you get this idea??? Seriously! I want to know! :rofl:

[CTyankee]

9. I think I have a good idea where it comes from.

Methinks we'll be hearing more about the statuette (well, Pelosi IS a female)from the RW soon. I smell a talking point.

[Sparkly]

10. Sure enough...

I heard it referred to on MSNBC this afternoon. Yup, a talking point -- wayyy too far a reach for a normal person, rather than a rightwing cabal, to come up with.

[Unvanguard]

11. No one has ever been prosecuted under the Logan Act

and it's something like 200 years old, and possibly unconstitutional.

[CTyankee]

12. I know, doncha love it? I googled it . How lame is that?

But here is our early warning system. It'll be all over the MSM by tomorrow.

Oh, this is rich. Since no one has ever been convicted (much less prosecuted as you said) of this "offense" what in the world are they thinking about?

IDIOTS!

[Unvanguard]

13. It's yet another way to demonize Pelosi.

Not only is she being soft on America's enemies, but she's a treasonous lawbreaker too!

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