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Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 64 days ago http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/05/16/cnn-lets-clintonista-denou
| Twenty-four hours after CNN started giving covering fire for Barack Obama in response to President Bush’s "appeasement" remark , the network has now aided the Democratic spin machine in attacking John McCain as a hypocrite with regards to Hamas, based on a 2006 video clip provided by Clinton adviser James Rubin. In the excerpt, the Arizona Senator appeared to be endorsing negiotiations with the terror group. But CNN conducted its own interview of McCain at the same time, January 28, 2006, in which he insisted that Hamas "renounce this commitment to the extinction of the state of Israel. Then we can do business again." So CNN is trusting Rubin as the authority on what McCain’s stance was two years ago, instead of their own archival video [see video clip below] UPDATE, 6:30PM ET: National Review's The Corner has a post up indicating that the full Rubin-McCain interview from 2006 also seriously undercuts Rubin's claims of hypocrisy. CNN substitute co-host Kyra Phillips, in a segment that included a "breaking news" graphic, interviewed Rubin, who himself conducted an interview of the Arizona Senator in 2006 for Sky News. Rubin used a clip from this interview (which is being hosted on the liberal "Huffington Post" website ) to charge that McCain has performed "the ultimate flip-flop in American politics," that the senator once wanted to deal with Hamas without preconditions, and has now taken the opposite position. The int ... |
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