Media Matters: Jake Tapper goes easy on St. Rudy. surprised?

[Gabi Hayes]

Tapper did not challenge Giuliani's claim that he did not "get the information" about Kerik

http://mediamatters.org/items/200711090013?f=h_latest

here's a shocker: in the continuing effort to polish Giuiliani's 911 halo, Jake Tapper lets him off the hook regarding his misleading characterization of his relationship with his muliptly-indicited, already-confessed-criminal, fellow-fornicating friend

and, did anybody hear/see/read anything about Brian Williams' interview with Giuliani? I heard him say that the entire, unedited transcript is available online, presumable somewhere at NBC

Summary: In an interview with Rudy Giuliani, ABC News' Jake Tapper let Giuliani claim, without challenge, that "he mistake" he made in "appointing police commissioner Department of Corrections chair," "was not getting the information" that Kerik had ties to Interstate Industrial, a company with suspected connections to organized crime. However, in April 2006, Giuliani reportedly "acknowledged" in "testimony to a state grand jury" that "the city investigations commissioner ... had told him that he had been briefed at least once" about Kerik's connections to the company.



During his November 8 interview with Republican presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, ABC News chief political correspondent Jake Tapper did not challenge Giuliani's claim that "he mistake was not getting the information" about the ties his embattled former police commissioner Bernard Kerik had to Interstate Industrial Corp., a company with suspected connections to organized crime. During the interview, Tapper asked Giuliani, "Was it a mistake appointing him police commissioner; Department of Corrections chair?" Giuliani replied, "The mistake was not getting the information," suggesting that he had not been aware of Kerik's relationship with Interstate Industrial. But, according to a November 3 New York Times article, in 2006, Giuliani "acknowledged" in "testimony to a state grand jury" that "the city investigations commissioner, Edward J. Kuriansky, had told him that he had been briefed at least once" about Kerik's connections to the company.

Additionally, according to the Times, Kuriansky also briefed Giuliani's chief of staff and had documentation of both "sessions." The Times previously reported that Giuliani testified "that he had no memory of the briefing, but did not dispute that it had taken place." Tapper did not ask Giuliani about his reported acknowledgment that Kuriansky has said that he briefed him on Kerik's connections to Interstate Industrial.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. if the media don't go after this one SOON, you'll know the fix is already very heavily in.

This story isn't new...the bit about Rudy 'forgetting' his testimony to a GRAND JURY about his prior knowledge of Kerik's ties to "Interstate Industrial Corp., a company with suspected connections to organized crime"

there's lots of good stuff in here, including already reported material regarding Giuliani's GRAND JURY testimony that "the city investigations commissioner, Edward J. Kuriansky, had told him that he had been briefed at least once" about Kerik's involvement with IIC, and that Giuliani
''testified 'that he had no memory of the briefing, but did not dispute that it had taken place.' ''

but, as I've said over and over, I think this story will end up where Harken Oil, SEC, Funeralgate, TANG, etc., did a few years ago

I sincerely hope I'm wrong

but give me one reason to believe the M$M will treat this, or any other Rudy stories, any differently than they did all the Bush Campaign-sinkers of three and seven years ago

just ask Wayne Barrett

[Gabi Hayes]

2. OK...another tack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9S7o9Bju4k

[Gabi Hayes]

3. Tucker Carlson introduces the country to Master Linus van Pelt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIE_YQmZbJI

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4. if you read the comments following the OP link, you'll see that number 3 has

a MOST excellent suggestion for jogging RG's ''selective memory''

[Gabi Hayes]

5. last chance before this sinks: Tapper was on Howard Kurtz today

and completely ignored this section of his interview, choosing, instead, to assert that RG's handling of the Kerik situation serves only to make him "seem candid" in the eyes of potential voters!

he really said that

he THEN said how BAD it looked to his wife, "a democratic woman" that Hillary had that question planted. he didn't realize how bad it was, at first, but his wifey wife's response wised him up

so which story was more important to him?

pretty obvious, and it's pretty obvious how the M$M is going to handle stories this cycle: just how they did it in 2000 and 2004