CBS hit piece on Obama partially debunked.

[mckeown1128]

Politico had an update about the CBS piece claiming that Obama had someone wheel out a disabled girl named Camille.


UPDATE: An Obama aide tells me that, in fact, the girl in the CBS piece was taken out by her caretaker, on her mother's instructions, before the event, and that the Obama campaign had nothing to with taking her away.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/


Now, I can't wait for the Clinton folks to show up and say that Obama is lying and that they really did force a disabled person out the door and into a van against the mothers wishes mere moments after a photo with Obama. Really...do(did) you guys really think they would do something like that?

[existentialist]

1. Isn't the state of the political debates and coverage

just pathetic?

[Barack_America]

2. Thanks for providing us with the late breaking news on VANGATE!

This whole story is fucking pathetic.

[niceypoo]

3. Welcome to primary season

If it was about Hillary would it be a "hit piece"? Just wondering?

[Endangered Specie]

7. it would probably be "riveting documentary"

:eyes:

[FrenchieCat]

4. I clicked on that story and said to myself........

and while folks are dying in Iraq, our economy is in a tailspin, this is the best they could come up with?....hell, I could barely figured what had happened. Sounded as important as folks seeing an ant crawling on the ledge of the bathtub!

Gawd! DU is going to the dogs! :(

[ClericJohnPreston]

8. Tsk, tsk

Unintended irony, I'm sure.

[KennedyGuy]

10. spoken by one who helped push it there

[LittleClarkie]

14. I dunno. I'd say Frenchie is one of the more positive ones

really.

[maddiejoan]

5. Question

Why are you even involving "Clinton folks" in this?

[tandem5]

6. I suppose I'm partially relieved. nt

[mtnsnake]

9. hahaha, Politico partially debunks CBS. That's precious. What is this? Horseshoes?

[robbedvoter]

11. Clenis did it! ALWAYS!

[MADem]

12. You need to use the PERMALINK if you want people to find that item.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Dept_of_stage_management.html

Ben Smith, of "POLITICO" (which is owned by far-rightwing Albritton Communications) to the rescue!!! ER, sorta....he screwed him on the one hand, and bailed him out on the other:

Dept. of stage management

Obama's roundtables in South Carolina today are getting him a bit of flack.

From Newsday:

The Barack Obama campaign organized an "economic roundtable" of South Carolinians, scheduled with the Illinois senator for 11:30 a.m. today. But nearly an hour and a half before the event — at 9:36 a.m. — the campaign e-mailed to reporters a text of what the participants "said."

"At the Columbia roundtable, Donna McGreevy, a mother of two grown sons, said her family was feeling pinched on all sides by the weakening economy," the e-mail read. “When it comes to the economy, I have firsthand knowledge and experience in just about every area where we are seeing problems."

CBS's Dean Reynolds, meanwhile, reports that a handicapped kid was abruptly wheeled away after a photo op, somewhat to her mother's surprise.

UPDATE: An Obama aide tells me that, in fact, the girl in the CBS piece was taken out by her caretaker, on her mother's instructions, before the event, and that the Obama campaign had nothing to with taking her away.





That's the full article. So, the closet Republican (cough) "reporter" giveth (the CAREGIVER took away the kid) and the Closet Republican "reporter" taketh away...the stage managed event was indeed stage managed....

[madrchsod]

13. i knew that story left out the facts

hell even i spotted that!