Reporting on Giuliani ad attacking Clinton, media don't note he blamed troops for missing weapons |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 4:14 pm |
| Tags: 2008 elections, government elections, hillary clinton, national security foreign policy, rudy giuliani, war in iraq |
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Reporting on Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's recent campaign advertisement criticizing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) stance on the Iraq war, numerous media outlets -- including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, MSNBC, and ABC -- quoted from or aired a segment of the video in which the narrator in the ad says: "[J]ust when our troops need all our support to finish the job, Hillary Clinton is turning her back on them." Yet none of these reports mentioned that Giuliani himself blamed U.S. troops in Iraq for allowing tons of explosives to disappear from a weapons depot at the Al Qaqaa complex south of Baghdad, telling NBC News host Matt Lauer in October 2004: "[N]o matter how you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there." On the September 14 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson aired the entire Giuliani campaign ad, after which [ Full article ] |
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