The State (SC) joins other media in misreporting Clyburn comments

Published: August 3, 2007, 6:47 pm

Tags: the washington post, national security foreign policy, war in iraq

An August 3 article in the South Carolina newspaper The State began by declaring that "U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., has been sharply criticized this week by Republicans for saying that a positive progress report from the war in Iraq could divide congressional Democrats on a timetable for withdrawal." In fact, Clyburn was responding to a question from Washington Post reporter Dan Balz about how congressional Democrats would react if Gen. David Petraeus recommends against withdrawing U.S. forces in his September report -- not simply to a "positive progress report from the war in Iraq." The article, by Aaron Gould Sheinin, also omitted a key part of Clyburn's original comments in which he said that "[n]one of us want to see a bad result in Iraq." The article suggested that Clyburn said that only in response to Republicans' criticisms. In fact, Clyburn said that Democrats want to see progress in Iraq both in his original comments and reportedly when asked to respond to

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