Right Wing Flips Out Over ‘Hidden’ Obama Interview That Was Never ‘Hidden From The Public’
Right Wing Flips Out Over ‘Hidden’ Obama Interview That Was Never ‘Hidden From The Public’
Yesterday, a YouTube user named NakedEmperorNews uploaded an audio clip of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) telling the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board in January 2008 that under his cap and trade plan, “if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” but “it will bankrupt them.” The right-wing blog Newsbusters lactched onto the audio, falsely claiming it had been “been hidden from the public” and “kept under wraps until this time.”
Newsbusters’ report was quickly picked up by the Drudge Report and the conservative blogosphere began crying foul that the “audio was hidden until now because the interview was with the far left San Francisco Chronicle.” In remarks yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused the paper of suppressing the interview:
“Now a couple points on this: One is that here again, why is the audio tape just now surfacing? This interview was given to San Francisco folks many, many months ago. You should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth,” Palin said as shouts of “liberal media!” could be heard from the crowd.
As Fox News reporter Shushannah Walshe notes, the charge that the paper was “withholding the information” is hard to support considering that the audio file has always been available. In a blog post yesterday, senior Chronicle political writer Carla Marinucci points out that the paper “has never, hidden any interview, audio or video, of Obama from its readers”:
The truth: the paper’s January editorial board session with Obama included comments about coal. The entire interview has been in the public domain, available on line to the public — and to the McCain campaign — since early January.
”How can anyone suggest that we hid an interview that we did, immediately put up on the web — and advertised to our readers,” said editorial page editor John Diaz Sunday, regarding his hosting of Obama at the session. ”We promoted it like like hell…and I’m sure the Clinton campaign and the McCain campaign scrubbed it. You can still find the whole 48 minutes and 33 seconds on line.”
Marinucci also called Newsbusters out on its “shoddy” work, adding that they have “been caught in the past simply fabricating news regarding the Chronicle’s coverage.” Marinucci says that Newsbusters has never offered a correction when errors have been pointed out.
One of Newsbusters’ purported missions is to bring “responsibility to the news media.” But failing to admit and correct errors when they are made is far from demonstrating any sort of “responsibility.” In fact, it is irresponsible.
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“The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget.”
“You should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth,” Palin said as shouts of “liberal media!” could be heard from the crowd.”
Ahem… Sarah… medical records… (cough cough)…
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm“Shushannah Walshe”
Should I…?
No, it would be mean to imply she’s not sober…
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 pmDiana9_thousand_identical_posts:
Flagged for being OT and repeatedly posting the same crap in EVERY thread. You related to TimUpchuck?
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pmThe narrative gets more bizarre with each new chapter.
Scary Black Man!
It didn’t work for Hillary. Let’s hope it doesn’t work for McCon/Pullin’.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm“Now a couple points on this: One is that here again, why is the audio tape just now surfacing? This interview was given to San Francisco folks many, many months ago. You should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth,” Palin said as shouts of “liberal media!” could be heard from the crowd.
Oh, Sarah, how often have you deceived the American people? And now you want to point fingers at the “liberal media” and Obama for hiding something out in plain sight.
And as “Never” says, let’s see some medical records, Mrs. Palin.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 pmObama 2008
“Mad McCain” videos: http://tv1.com/playlists/show/11
Ah, yes, the Republican Slime Machine in overdrive, in danger of overheating…
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm“You can’t expect us to read liberal papers to find out about liberals! We only want to find out about liberals from Rush and Drudge!”
The Echo Chamber has no doorknob…
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:30 pmI also read that North Dakota, Wyoming, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and yes…even OHIO may go Blue & vote for Obama this year.
Why have they kept this a secret from McPalin? Who are they trying to subvert by keeping these facts secret?
I’m mad as Hell and I don’t even read!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:33 pmBREAKING NEWS:
Barack’s grandmother, Madeline Dunham, has passed away today after her battle with cancer.
For my part, I will do all I can to see that her dream for her grandson becomes a reality tomorrow.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Obama family.
PEACE
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pmThe sad part is the ranting right will not care about the real story. They just want to foam at the mouth. Luckily they will be able to afford healthcare under President Obama.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pmSpencers Mom: That is indeed sad news. Peace and hope to the Obama family.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pmThere are many tapes by politicians discussing policy behind closed doors that are never made available to the public.
Look Boss The Feign, The Feign!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pmFor my part, I will do all I can to see that her dream for her grandson becomes a reality tomorrow.
May she rest in peace.
Her spirit and energy will now live on forever in everyone and anyone she touched.
And THAT is more powerful than any force in our limited World.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pmspencer’s mom:
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pmI just saw this on cnn and I yelled out an expletive. Couldn’t help myself. Things can seem freaking unfair sometimes.
Has the news shown Scarah’s:
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm1. Witch removal/protection?
2. Anti-Semite preacher?
3. AIP address?
barracks9
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:44 pmMaybe Diana9 can hook up with JimTalby74. Jim invests and Diana solves global poverty with the procedes. Everybody wins…
This is more an indication of desperation on the part of the McCain team than nefarious activity on the part of the Chron.
Remember, this is the team that’s bewailing Obama’s tax policies as “Marxism” and “socialism” just because he plans to restore the tax structure to what it was under Clinton (and I remember those were pretty good economic times).
This is the team that has attacked Obama’s patriotism based upon a few seconds of video of Obama’s pastor — culled from over twenty years of sermons.
This is the team that has labeled Obama a terrorist because he served on a community board (put together by a friend of Ronald Reagan) that also contained other Democrats, Republicans, and a guy who belonged to a violent radical group 40 years ago.
This is the team that has made an issue of Obama not wearing a flag pin, as if this is evidence of treason — and the accusations seem to come most often from people who aren’t wearing flag pins.
It’s just another knee-jerk reaction from the McCain camp, who are all wailing like a prom queen with a hangnail. It no longer matters whether the accusation is true or not (I’m not sure if it ever did). It only matters if they can get somebody to believe that Obama is a treasonous anti-American Marxist secret Muslim terrorist who pals around with violent radicals and racist pastors, and who wants to establish a dictatorship, a socialist state, and destroy the coal industry.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:44 pmYou should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth,” Palin said as shouts of “liberal media!” could be heard from the crowd.
This is just sad. Palin’s supporters simply repeat, like parrots, what they’ve heard FOX and Rush, et. al. tell them. The ignorance, the inability for original thinking and/or analysis is simply incredible to me.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm“Maybe Diana9 can hook up with JimTalby74. Jim invests and Diana solves global poverty with the procedes. Everybody wins…”
I’m guessing they’re playing footsie at adjoining public computer terminals as we speak…
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 pmspencers mom Says
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
BREAKING NEWS:
Barack’s grandmother, Madeline Dunham, has passed away today after her battle with cancer.
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OH NO! I SO wanted her to make it to November 4, and she almost did. But I am grateful that the Obama family were able to see her before she passed on.
At least she died knowing that her grandson would almost certainly be elected President of the United States.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 pmNevar:
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pmOT and a different but related corvid but I just saw my first good size group of crows massing at one of the traditional winter communal roosting locations. I nice sign of the season. Hope you are well and are continuing to enjoy that “sense of wonder”
best-
Just think what the world would be like, if All God’s Neglected Children had someone like Ms.
Dunham to love them, and raise them.
Some Jobs are just as Important as being President.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmEverything the Right comes up with is immediately factually suspect.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pmThanks dbadass.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pmI have my winter flock of Mexican Jays hereabouts now, harriers and rough-leggeds beginning to show up. Very few migrants overall, we are having an unseasonably warm, calm, and delightful fall.
Is this the type of lives these…people have? Like magpies they perennially grab bright, shiny things hoping others will be dazzled? Is there No end to their idiocy? Sorry, rhetorical question, as I endlessly refrain, there is No bottom to that swamp. Stupidity, once again, is proven superior to the Speed Of Light! Why? Because, unlike the speed of light, Stupidity Has No Limits.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 pmImpeach, while There’s Still Time.
Is it just me, or is Sarah Palin sounding more and more like Emily Litella? I keep waiting for her to say “Never mind!” after one of her nonsensical rants based on a false rumor.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pmThere are two things involved here:
1. The audio tape.
2. The SF Chronicle’s text summary.
Both of those were posted in January, and they’ve been available since then AFAIK.
However, the point Newsbusters was making – easy to verify by clicking the link above – is that the text summary didn’t mention the coal comments (for some strange, completely unbelievable reason).
Marinucci is just angry that she got caught.
On a sidenote, those who are parents of pre-teen kids might be interested in knowing that Obama is using them to get votes. See #3 here.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:15 pmObviously, I’m coming to this story late, since the radical Marxist SF Chronicle suppressed the tapes for so long…
could someone catch me up on what heroic measures were required to bust these tapes out from their undisclosed hiding place and reveal them to the world?
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pmAlso hygienically suspect. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoOqysiLFo
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:23 pmImmigration2008DotCom Says:
On a side note: mccain uses busloads of school children to add numbers to his rally’s. This one happens to be true, unlike your fabrication…..what the hell it’s the 3rd…..unlike your lie.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pmuh-oh… RHF is here.
Ixnay on illaryhay-ashingbay.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pmRalph,
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pmThe tapes have been available on-line since January. Check the date stamp.
in what whacked out reality does somebody who doesn’t even DO interviews get to accuse somebody else of hiding an interview??
seriously, this Newt style “More American than YOU” act is really starting to get on my nerves.
see that she knocks it off, won’t you?
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pmwhat’s the difference between a Pit-Bull and Sarah Palin?
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:19 pma Pit-Bull has some SENSE!!!
No, that can’t be. Sarah Palin says that the tapes are just surfacing now. Surely that means that there was a desperate attempt to cover them up which was only foiled by the brave, freedom-loving actions of some Real American™ right?
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pmYeah, it might as well have been locked away in a dark underground vault somewhere, since NOBODY reads the Chronicle.
/rolleyes
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm.
This is one of those “GOTCHA” nose games you play with a six month old, isn’t it?
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November 4th, 2008 at 1:21 amPlease take some time to share this video with your undecided friends on this election eve. Watch this explosive new video on John McCain. It is in the style of Obama attack videos and those of The MouthPiece. It is fast paced and has an excellent soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0c_oI3eb2s
November 4th, 2008 at 1:26 amImmigration2008DotCom Says:
If every single thing he said on the video was in the summary it wouldnt be a summary it would be a TRANSCRIPT. You AND Newsbusters HAVE NO POINT. The video was available no possible definition of the word HIDING could possibly apply. Newsbusters is LYING and you are mindlessly trying to appologize FOR that lying. Rent a clue.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:17 am