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Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip
For much of the past week, CNN and its White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux have offered a steady stream of inaccurate and incomplete coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East and her April 3 meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
Please join Media Matters for America in demanding that CNN and Malveaux stop misinforming viewers about Pelosi's trip and present all the facts. CNN's contact information can be found in our "Take Action!" sidebar on the right.
Since April 2, Malveaux has wrongly and repeatedly claimed that Pelosi had no "standing" and was not acting in an "official capacity," has attacked the trip as "political theater" and a "political stunt," and has parroted the Bush administration's attacks on Pelosi for going to Syria while ignoring the fact that a Republican-led delegation met with Assad on April 1. Most recently, Malveaux asked whether Pelosi's trip was a "big wet kiss to President Al-Assad."
Other CNN personalities have joined in as well. Lou Dobbs devoted an entire segment to "Pelosi's bad trip," while the April 3 edition of Anderson Cooper 360 featured a segment on Pelosi's trip titled "Talking to Terrorists."
After several days of inaccurate, one-sided coverage, it's time to tell CNN enough is enough. It's time to take action.
Use the contact information in our "Take Action!" sidebar to contact CNN, Malveaux, and Dobbs — and be sure to tell your friends.
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I hate the media.
one?
maybe not :)
Now I going to CNN. :)
Thanks! Great Post! Zed!
YES!
Release the hounds!
Right, multi-tasking emailing….
Jane!
I’m on it.
(fingers typing)
It’s always a good idea to contact the advertisers too.
Doesn’t surprise me, coming from Conservative News Network.
Phoenix Woman @ 5
What size?
done
At least our Speaker is doing something. Taking political risks and perhaps being a states-person. Quite unfortunately, I cannot say the same for Hillary Clinton.
ooooh, I love ACTION TIME at fdl!
Don’t forget to point out that not only have tons of Republican Congressmen been visiting Iraq recently (including during Pelosi’s trip), one GOP Congressman — Ohio’s David Hobson — traveled with Pelosi to Iraq!
Karen @ 9
DING DING DING!
And let CNN know that you’re doing this.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 13
There is a great video on Truthdig with Scott Ritter, explaining quite nicely why HRC is full of shit on her explanation about the war.
TeddySanFran @
14
I always do what Duncan says.
tbsa @
10
aka Faux Noise Lite
TeddySanFran @
14
I’ll change into my Suit of Action…
Jane Hamsher @
18
So what’s Kos now, chopped liver?
Or is this like Soviet Russia, where we’re just supposed to pretend he never existed?
Blog kremlinology is so hard to keep up with.
Re: CNN slam of Pelosi (and the IOKIYAR equivalent), here’s a good piece just up from Greenwald on Newt’s free-wheeling 1997 trip to China carrying his anti-administration message…
http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..ich_china/
MSNBC just announced Gates will be calling up Guard units. When is this madness going to stop!? Are members of this administration MAD? The Congress has to stop funding NOW and start impeachment procedings! They are doing nothing more than providing IED fodder. The American people don’t want us there and the Iraqi people don’t want us there. Bush is the only one and this intellectual midget is too stupid to realize it!
Not to mention, as Digby points out today, (it was Digby wasn’t it?) – Denny Hastert was traveling to Central America in the ’90’s and telling governments to IGNORE the Clinton administration and come straight to Congress with their needs!
Sheesh.
I don’t have CNN, and don’t miss it, but I’ll join the fun.
BTW, a poster somewhere else said CNN was firing Soledad O’Brien. Vaguely remember her from a big-3 network, don’t I? Seem to recall she wasn’t bad, but that may have been pre-Bushworld.
Phoenix Woman @
15
Picture of Darrel Issa here
Nellieh:
“The American people don’t want us there and the Iraqi people don’t want us there. Bush is the only one and this intellectual midget is too stupid to realize it!”
Even Bush isn’t too stupid to realize it – he just doesn’t care. He and Cheney are taking “the long view” – they identify with historical figures who were reviled in their time but “vindicated by history.”
95% of the people could demand leaving Iraq and it wouldn’t bother him a bit.
That’s why the only remedy is impeachment.
nellieh @ 23
Absofuckinglutely, 7 American soldiers have been killed in the last 2 days, and yet another helicopter was shot down today.
Pelosi’s trip isn’t the only topic MALveaux has goopered about this week. On Monday, when asking Carvelle about Ried’s plan to cut occupation funding if chimp vetoes the dems funding/exit strategy, she said something on the order of: “i don’t think any democrat will back this, i mean, who is going to back that losing strategy?” (not a direct quote but all too close)
Here a copy of my comment…
You are showing a very slanted bias in your reporters commentary. Madame Speaker has done more to show the Middle East and the rest of the world that America is serious about rebuilding fences and showing that diplomacy is far more effective than threatening to throw our very tired, very broken military at anyone who doesn’t follow the demands of this completely discredited administration.
Perhaps if you could just present all the facts, we will make up our minds.
Thank-you
I just saw the crooks and liars screen shots. Is CNN turning into Fox News? Lou Dobbs goes on and on about “communist China” and “anti-American Chavez” and Nancy Pelosi. Now this Malveaux beeyatch.
May CNN be deluged with the emails of patriots like ourselves!
done!
Paula Zahn is going to have something about Jack Murtha, Oh Malveaux is on right now. This is bs
Please be careful when you contact CNN. Make sure that they know that they are Hurting the American interests.
According to a Lebanese blogger that I have contacted. The feeling in Lebanon is that Pelosi the American emissary going to Syria to sell Lebanon up the river in exchange for help with Iraq. CNN is supporting this view.
That better NOT be the position that Pelosi is taking.
Somehow I have the feeling that leaders in the Middle East place far more store in what our Speaker tells them than what the Secretary of State tries to feed them.
malveaux vs. murtha on cnn now…
I’m on hold on cnn right now….
Few things surpass the thrill of an FDL call to action! I love this place!
Go Murtha
just who is paying these people?!?
After talking to cnn, I get the impression they have received quite a few calls on the subject.
O.K. There are way too many choices on the CNN menu for contact. Which road do we travel?
Bush, blah, blah…pure evil.
Murtha: I don’t know who he’s listening to..how can he measure progress….he’s already extending troops, and sending more..he’s blaming Congress for his policy. If he vetoes, he’s vetoeing VA, and troop training, etc….
126,000 contractors who we don’t even know who they are…no accountability…some being paid more than the Sec. Def. Public demanding accountability.
S: Bush making long-term plan to stay…cites WWII, now we’re reaping the benefits…
M: WWII was against states, this is against tribes. Not getting better, getting worse…
S: Why not give Pres. clean bill so Petraeus can have tangible results.
M: No, because they’ve been saying this all along. Petraeus has to say that. Public wants us out. It is hurting the troops.
We are caught in civil war. Can’t win militarily. Must be Diplomatic effort.
I already did that the other day after I saw a clip of Malveaux’s interview with John Bolton. I said she was either disingenuous or stupid and that, if this is what passes for reporting on CNN, they might as well merge with Fox. I said that not only had she interviewed one of the worst possible people to get an honest assessment of her trip, but she had failed to point out that Republican congressmen were also visiting Syria, amongst other things I can’t remember. Probably time to do it again. Maybe a daily thing. The only thing good on CNN is currently Cafferty. He bit Malveaux the other day when she asked a stupid question…he responded “Doesn’t it register?” The implication was that she’s dumb, dumb, dumb! Guess you had to be there.
I told them if Suzanne, Cooper & Dobbs don’t like Pelosi why not put them on a missing white girl story. I find it very annoying how they continue to dwell on the Bush talking point wrt terror. I’m so scarred, wooooooo, boogy, boogy man terrorists. Get real CNN.
Wait: This is Malvaise is situation room right?
link guesting for the man with the manliest name on tv according to Jesus’ General.
Jane:
I am more than willing to do this. But, the “link” got me to a point where I had to go 5 layers deep to comment — an then only on a specific piece where the outlines were sketchy. The search costs to comment are too high given that anything that smacks of an FDL attack would get ignored big time. (Maybe that’s what they want!)
Awesome Nancy Pelosi, with some photos of other ladies wearing hijab. Will we hear outraged wingnuts criticizing these ladies for their respect of local culture? I think not…
If dealing with CNN’s comment form is too aggravating (and it’s too aggravating for me!), then why not use the fax number given above?
I have fax software which makes this super-easy. And we also have a printer which scans a page, then sends a fax. For those of you with such software, or a similar kind of printer, don’t overlook the less annoying option of sending a fax!
P.S. — One of the things I find aggravating about the CNN form is that they want too damned much information about me first.
Mrs. K8 @ circa 47
You are always the island of calm on the sea of aggrevation. Thank you. (And it’s good to “see” you again.)
TeddySanFran @ 46
I can’t believe she’s being criticized for respecting the culture that she’s visiting. I grew up Catholic, and always wore a little chaplet, while my mother had a collection of beautiful lace veils which I dreamed about being old enough to wear.
tejanarusa @ 24
It was Digby. Earlier today I mentioned this and ascribed it to Greenwald but it was as you say Digby who cites the following
CNN – a Confederacy of Numb Nuts.
Called and emailed. Malveaux has had me pissed since that question on November 8th.
We have so many good Democratic leaders in our party. I want Gore, Murtha, Pelosi, Edwards, Clark, Kucinich and a few others.
I am with Cafferty, I blame it on the communist wheat gluten. /snark
Maybe it’s been her twin sister Suzette all along…
demkat620 @ 53
what question?
Olbermann and tea with me soon.
Lou Dobbs referring to China as communist again today.
Eureka Springs @ 55
What a great line, I like it.
sonate @ 49
Hey there, sonate! Good to see you too. A big fat virtual hug going out to you.
Am getting ready to go to Flagstaff tomorrow — my sister (the *other* one — not the “often annoying” one) and her husband are going to meet us there tomorrow — they’re taking a break from their casino vacation in Laughlin NV. Flagstaff was the closest thing to “meeting in the middle.” They tried to lure us to Laughlin with free comp hotel rooms for 2 nights, but traveling that far by car is hard on me physically — and we HATE casinos. It was bad enough having to stay in one in Atlantic City, but that was for the sake of the Atlantic Ocean, visible from the hotel room and immediately accessible. Laughlin doesn’t have that redeeming feature.
So that’s how I am, how are YOU???
Karen @
9
Yes! PING their advertisers and calling in to express outrage that they would support this story REALLY works. And if you get bored, go ping Coulter’s advertisers if she got any back. Multiple screens and browsers helps a lot…and while typing…
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..t-colombia
Here’s one you won’t see on FOX…
Don’t miss this quote below
In 1997, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) led a delegation to Colombia at a time when U.S. officials were trying to attach human rights conditions to U.S. security assistance programs. Hastert specifically encouraged Colombian military officials to “bypass” President Clinton and “communicate directly
with Congress.”
Oklahoma kiddo @ 58
me too OKK
lolo @
60
I’ve heard of the Wu Tang Clan, but now the Gluten Fang?
twolf1 @ 56
Ah, the evil twin theory!
What the heck were their nicknames when growing up? “Hey Suzy” wouldn’t work to differentiate them. “Hey Zett!!” “Hey Zann!!”
Eli @
11
Bloodhound size.
lolo @ 63
;0)
WTF, they gave them clean clothes. I wonder if they kept the uniforms. That is just so rude, oh I am ranting about CNN. I think it was really nice to give them suits. Bush is so plucked I bet.
twolf1 @ 56
That seems so unhealthy, identical twins named Suzanne and Suzette?
It’s got horror film potential!
tbsa @ 59
I start throwing things at the teevee if he mistakenly shows up on the screen — hearing him and his handmaiden (can’t remember her name) refer to “America’s enemy, Hugo Chavez” makes it too likely I will demolish the idiot box.
Argonaut @ 52
CNN – Comedic Non News
Again I can only suggest my way of taking cable news. Treat it like your own episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Listen for a few seconds, hit the mute, and make rude comments, repeat as necessary.
KO is on fire over Pelosi.
It felt good to write that letter to CNN. I so often feel angry, but as though there is nothing I can do about it. I like the ACTION.
Thanks, Jane.
Mrs. K8 @
65
they’re lucky it wasn’t triplets…
Shallowveau: has been and will always be a bush stenographer: and most of the advertisers like it that way
Cheney calls the Speaker’s trip to the Middle East “bad behavior” on the Speakers part. I am livid. Of course I fully realize that’s the reaction Cheney likes from someone of my political sway.
Lou Dobbs gets to me because he really does understand the corporatist agenda (nice way of saying fascism) of the Bush administration…and he hates it and the effect it has on American workers.
The trouble is, he argues this with really jingoistic, lowest common denominator arguments.
twolf1 @ 74
Suzling, Suzettina, Suzalista, Suzinna, Suzluste, Suzine, Suzone
and besides AOL(sol) owns CNN and they’ve been screwing the public since the toobes went commercial. talk to your representatives about bringing back the fairness doctrine and keeping the tooobs from corporate control.
emailed CNN, asked ‘em if Malveaux is on the RNC payroll…
Maybe their diabolical goal this week is to make us nostalgic for the Blitzer.
Sure thing Jane, I’ll contact them tomorrow.
I got mixed up and posted the email address above on the previous thread. Guess they won’t know what the heck I’m talking about. Oh well.
Brel1 @ 84
My guess is that there’s so much to be pissed off at CNN over, that it will be viewed as a general public service announcement, no matter WHAT the thread.
:-)
In keeping with Cheney family values and the birth of a grandson some possible names for the boy.
1. Sue
2. Mary
3. Halle Burton
4. Edith Bush or perhaps Edith Dick
5. Satan
I’m going to have to wait until tomorrow to write them; I’m still angry from listening to Malveaux yesterday.
She was like a dog with a bone. I wondered where she’d been when it was our officials who needed close, dogged questioning? Before over 3000 of our soldiers were killed and over 20,000 wounded? Coulda used her ‘journalistic skillz’ then.
Today… I changed my mind. I now think impeachment hearings need to get underway.
CD @ 22
And let’s not forget Dana Rohrabacher traveling to Qatar
to wine and dine the Taliban.
Face it folks. We have a “state run” media that rivals the old Pravda. Call it the Wapo, the Nyt or the LA Times. And I put the rest in there too. Get used to it. If you want to contact someone, you should probably start contacting sponsors. A few million less customers and they might start to get it. The press is useless and deserves to go under. But the government will keep it alive, just to tell us how we should be thinking about what this current gang of thugs in Washington is pulling on us. Personally, unless something is done, it is going to go into the streets soon. Not a pleasant thought…or a pleasant reality.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 88
Yup. And I’m beginning to think it’s inevitable. Little Boots is going to get even more stubborn and irrational as time goes by.
Email sent. It might not have been cordial enough to suit some, but I’m tired of being fucked with limp you know what.
Tell me again, why, Ms. Pelosi, is impeachment off the table?
OK mission accomplished. Email transmitted.
This is what I sent to the Situation Room:
kiddo- What made you change your mind and what the heck took you so long?
This is exactly why I no longer watch CNN. C-SPAN and MSNBC is always more accurate.
Mrs. K8 @ 70
I actually googled the cnn transcript section, and found that Lou Dobbs has said “Communist China” over 350 times. He has referred to Chavez as “Anti-American Chavez” somethinig like 19 times. Dobbs is really a terrible gas bag.
E-mail sent to CNN: CNN is helping the White House push toward armed intervention. The Country doesn’t agree. Why is CNN on the wrong side?
cando @ 96
That’s exactly what one of us should write to CNN.
cynic @ 92
I asked this of Elizabeth de la Vega when she was on FDL Book Salon. She mentioned that since Pelosi would be president if Bush and Cheney were both impeached, it might appear that she was pushing it forward for her own benefit. There needs to be a mandate from the American people before it’s back on the table. That was the sense I got from Elizabeth, and with all of the investigations going on now, I hope that mandate comes soon.
I’m cross posting the article on my blog. Pelosi is going to be in Connecticut at the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in two weeks, and this is a good time to educate the local media about this situation.
Done.
Just SLIGHTLY off topic, given the macro clusterfuck this Administration has been:
Please send this to people who “don’t care” that much about politics, because even this they’ll understand.
CNN is going to get a lot of e-mails today.
http://jonorato42.wordpress.co…..to-put-it/
Dems are afraid of impeachment: afraid the thugs will spin it as farce and compare it to the Clinton impeachment (regardless of how hypacritcal, it makes them seem, they don’t care) and therefore get the public to vote rethug next term. I say dam the torpedos…. impeach away!!!
Is telling them I thought I had the faux news channel on by mistake rude?
Televisions aren’t meant for news anymore.
Eureka Springs @ 95
A preponderance of evidence of criminal and Constitutional wrong doing; the ’super majority’ thing, and… plus, (some say) I’m not too swift. ;0)
done, Jane!
(bold mine)
Ok– the WH didn’t know this? They must have the stupidest people on the planet working for them! Loyal and numbingly dumb– but then again, there are many of our own who are guilty of war crimes, so maybe it’s no biggie to them; so the answer to the last question in the 3rd paragraph would be “YES” acc. to the WH.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200…..general_dc
nellieh @ 23
tbsa @ 27
Can I tell you something that will REALLY make you mad? This war is being managed from an acceptable-casualty point of view. 7 American casualties in the last 48 hours (3.5/day) represents an excursion to (or just beyond) the high-end acceptable limit. The average daily casualty count is somewhere around 2.75 for the entire war. Public outrage level occurs when accidents happen and you get 8 or 10 dead in one day (helo down, etc.). If I had to place a bet, I’d place the magic number, the do-not-exceed number, at 3 per day.
You might say it’s obvious, or you might say it’s quackery. But the bottom line is that 2.75 dead per day, averaged monthly, over 48 months of war is a virtual statistical impossibility.
the perfect war, if you will, from a public acceptance point of view.
Hey, there is nothing to stop us from using this contact info to tell CNN that they just plain suck, is there?
Sent an e-mail, but I do feel somewhat guilty since I stopped watching CNN in the mid 90’s.
Cheney, with his ‘bad behavior’ remarks directed toward the Speaker, is over the top.
and will someone please: tell the idiots still using “family values” as a difference between ideologies to stop. What? because you’re librul means you hate families? That’s insane
What I sent to CNN:……(I know I know I am not always great with my grammar and typos, cognitive disorder and old age and drugs, and…)
Thank you for covering the Speakers trip to the middle east. I am confused however, about the remarks of Suzanne Malveuax. Why is she linking her to the terrorist? She wants to talk about peace. Why is she throwing her efforts on its head? Is it because she is a woman or a democratic Speaker? Is CNN for war now? Is Suzanne Malveaux a GOP operative? I am an Independent swing voter I don’t want to see partisan propaganda when I watch the news.
sincerely,
lds
WOW thanks Jane, I feel better.
OK, here’s what I sent’em:
There. I feel better now.
Bob in HI
I had to laugh when I saw that CNN still has their slogan of “The Must Trusted Name In News.” I think CNN and their slogan have hit oxymoron territory.
Yesterday afternoon I happened to catch this idiot filling in for Blitzer around 4:30 going on and on about the Pelosi trip. I waited for her to mention the repubs there as well to no avail. She started in on Clinton and I was spitting nails and went to look up CNN’s phone #. I couldn’t find a link, even on google. Now I see that the info’s posted I will be calling. I wrote to Josh Marshall at TPM to see if he would re-address this issue because I knew FDL and all the rest of the good blogs would be all over it. It’s so infurating that they allow this shit. Phone calls people, fuck that e-mail. They need to hear our voices. From what I gathered on Atrios’ blog this was an action alert via Media Matters. Call now.
Gunga Djinn @ 108
Instead of e-mailing CNN, I contacted a couple of CNN advertisers.
I figure that editors will feel they’re being unfairly attacked while the accountants and executives will bristle at the potential loss of ad revenue.
Is Cheney attempting to goad the Speaker into something?
They were probably getting some tips on torture.
Casualties in Iraq are 2.39 per day.
;(
more likely exchanging tips, lolo.
John O:
Wow.
Hey, since this clown doesn’t keep track of his money and loves to give it to whoever asks for it, why don’t we all bombard him with requests for money for legitimate reasons. He says he doesn’t remember, but he generally just gives it if it is asked for. That’s cool. We ought to send this to the Belgian State Department too BTW.
john o at 102
nice website, i spent some time in there.
The NeoCons who exercise a major influence over American foreign policy have decided that we should treat all Arabs and Muslims as enemies of the American people. They believe that anybody who is considered an enemy of Israel should be considered an enemy of the American people. NeoCon hostility to Nancy Pelosi, expressed throught CNN and other news networks, is perfectly understandable.
lolo@119,
You too funny!
By the way, who does advertise on CNN during Malveau, Dobbs, and Cooper? I’ll spend elsewhere.
Cheney – Worst person in the Woooorrrlllddd!
Hee hee. Mike Allen makes third place on KO’s Worst Person in the World for repeating bull**** Republican talking points about that war on terror phrase.
I really liked Keith’s emphasis on the word ‘DICK’ when announcing tonight’s WPITW
OT: But, being a concerned pet and livestock owner, today’s extended pet food contamination company Sunshine cited by the FDA seems to lead to AFB International which leads to Ensign-Bickford Industries. Don’t know if it means anything or not. Why don’t they just come out and tell the public what is happening? It seems as though the FDA is reluctant to reveal the larger picture. Just sayin’. I’ll be expecting black helicopters momentarily…
Here’s what I wrote:
Anchor keeps saying, a la White House spin, that Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Syria is a stunt, or theater. I wonder if she thinks the same about the Republicans in Syria. I hope she is not getting talking points from the usual suspects. It makes the show unwatchable, incomprehensible. I tuned out.
I know that actually talking to your opponents is rather out of vogue lately, but I believe the Speaker is doing so because the current White House is crippled in its ablity to do so. It is in the interest of this country that we not only talk to our friends, but to our enemies – and when there is a vacuum in this endeavor, someone will step in to fill it. That is not theater, or a stunt like McCain’s recent open market stunt – Pelosi is exhibiting leadership, so the anchor is in error to refer to it as a stunt.
Happy Easter.
Mrs. K8 @
61
Ah! Flagstaff! I lived there for 17 years! In fact, about 2/3rds of my worldly goods still sit there in a storage locker awaiting my annual visit to retrieve something. I still have dozens of friends there. . . .
Bob in HI
LS @
129
Because if the FDA knew or told what was going on, then folks might actually attempt to hold the bushbots accountable for how they’ve managed to screw up another gov’t agency. Damn, there’s that accountable word again.
WaterTiger has Frogs and Firecrackers upstairs
dakine01 @
132
If you check into the companies, you find contracts with the Pentagon…one of them makes explosive stuff….puts tin foil hat on, but I guess they just thought it was prudent to invest in animal food…grins sheepishly…
Connecticut Bob @ 101
Right on, Bob! We need the local grassroots.
http://www.ensign-bickfordcomp…..ions.html#
http://www.nutrition.co.th/feed_detail.htm
Doesn’t Malveaux mean “Bad Water” in French?
rwcole @
120
O.K., close enough. But my point, my hypothesis is that it’s being managed to maintain a publicly acceptable level (a relatively easy task, if you consider it). To me, that’s a very disturbing scenario. Identifying & maintaining a casualty rate regardless of larger strategies & goals.
radlib1 @ 138
or…bad veal…
LS @ 134
From what I’ve heard, everything seems to point a batch of wheat gluten contaminted by melamine which was used in the fertilizer in China. If so, I blame the FDA and the American manufacturers more than I blame that Chinese company to tell the truth. Instead of trying to get more bang for their buck, the manufacturers could only have done a little research to find out what people in Asia have know for a long time about the state of agriculture in Chi**. BTW. Hill’s and other products were shipped & recalled in Hong Kong. The same products are also sold in Taiwan and G** knows how many other countries.
radlib1 @ 138
I think it means carrying water for the GOP in French.
It seems to me that ideology is in second place for many of the wingnuts. For them, it is all about the money. I suggest we first make a list of the sponsors of CNN, and then contact the sponsors. The sponsors may be more responsive than CNN. Tell the sponsors we will boycot their product(s) unless they can ensure that CNN provides accurate news. If the sponsor drops CNN then we will buy their products heavily. This assumes the sponsor does not back Fox.
Organic George @ 110
No guilt necessary.
Just the fact that CNN is poisoning the minds of OTHER citizens by speaking out-and-out falsehoods, means that YOU TOO are affected by what they’re up to.
wphurley @ 118
But be sure to let CNN know that you have done so!
To CNN:
Called and left a message but i couldn’t help using the term ‘lickspittle.’ it was just too much…..
wphurley @ 117
Is there any place that lists advertisers?
Since I don’t watch cable, (don’t have it), I don’t know who might be worth writing.
IS it safe to assume the biggies like P&G, the auto companies, cereal makers? And of course, like all the cable channels, there must be some infomercials, right?
FDL friends: having worked for a few corporate behemoths (you can boo and hiss later) I can tell you that a well written letter can do wonders. I’m talking about the sponsors. One letter equals 500 unwritten ones and that’s the kind of math that makes them shit their corporate britches. Tell them you have always bought their crap products but since you saw their ads on CNN you are starting to re-think your brand loyalty.
Believe me, their corporate balls shrivel when they read that kind of stuff. It does work.
This was my letter. I couldn’t get started so I sort of took a couple previous posted in the comments and added my own spin to them.
I really think we need to tactically support NBC. I know that NBC is far from perfect, but Keith Olberman is doing yeoman’s work, including on the Pelosi story and is keeping Gonzales et al in play night after night, and Chris Matthews is on target about 2/3 of the time and was quite scathing on the Fox appointment as ambassador to Belgium. Mattjews also mocked the criticism of the Pelosi trip. If you watch Scarborough closely he keeps framing the storyline as “what a disaster for my beloved Republican party, which is screwing up so badly and making the American people hate it” and letting Pat Buchanan rant and rave seems a small price to pay for the nonstop highlighting of Administration incompetence on his show.
So I think we should congratulate Keith and his advertisers from time to time and support NBC’s continual jabs and ridicule of Fox.
Malveaux had a almost romantic little smile when she mentioned how cozy she is with Steve Schmidt.
MALVEAUX: “Obviously, John McCain did not do as well as he wanted or as he needed to. He is revamping his team, bringing in Steve Schmidt, one person who was with the Schwarzenegger campaign. I know him very well.”
Transcript
Trying hard to follow the precepts outlined by TRex not too long ago, I sent our pals at CNN this missive:
Suzanne Malveaux describes Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria as “political theatre” and a “stunt” (April 3). I have not heard her describe a similar earlier trip to Syria by Republicans Frank Wolf and Robert Aderholt in such pejorative terms. Either the Republicans are also engaging in political theatre, or Ms. Pelosi is not. Call it whatever you like, but no one will take you seriously if you call it differently for the two parties.
erh — done — tick.
i logged my call to cnn
right after dinner tonight. . .
check. roger.
and out.
I know I’m probably the last person on the planet not to “get” computer/blog lingo. Like all those cool capital letters H/T, LOL,WTF [figured that one out ’cause it fits my M/O].
I don’t understand the “right sidebar click” for the Pelosi-as -irrelevant- not- like -the Republicans tour.
My ignorance means I actually have to stand alone in my criticism of major networks because I have to go into their inner websites as opposed to adding my voice to the masses.
Help!!! I’m sorry I’m computer illiterate. However, I am socially bright and organizing an anti-war rally in our town.
o, look…it’s the head of John the Baptist in a mosque! I think I’ll pray now. Useful idiot. How brave.
S. Warmouth, fear not, there are a lot of us computer-illiterate Luddites still out there. My 17-inch iMac sat on a pedestal on my desk like a beautiful piece of sculpture for over a year until my therapist at the time took me into his own apartment and showed me how to use it without getting some sort of Big Brother “Internet Access Denied” message that freaked me out.
He unleashed a cyber-warrior — just in time for the 2004 election. I haven’t stopped since, although I still don’t know shit about how this stuff actually works.
Don’t miss the big picture. This is orchestrated from the White House. They are trying to Swift Boat Pelosi. Straight and simple. I don’t think it’s going to work. She’s got too much presence and is not catering to low-informtion types in order to get elected President.
Why contact Malveux? Is she really responsible for the editorial content of her stories? This concerted attack on Pelosi is an executive decision. With the Post, we know it comes from Hiatt. But I’m not so acquainted with the tv newzbiz — does anyone know who, specifically, is responsible for this line at CNN?
Actually, Knut at #158 takes this further:
“Don’t miss the big picture. This is orchestrated from the White House. They are trying to Swift Boat Pelosi.”
NickOdemus @ 149
By all means, write the letters (I spent years writing letters to the Post before finally cancelling my subscription). But they’ve undertaken this Pelosi smear with the full understanding that it is journalistic malpractice approaching libel. This one is too important to them to bother listening to the complaints of conscientious viewers, and even if they respond in some way the horse is out of the barn. This requires some kind of forensic analysis to determine who placed the calls to CNN and the Post (credit to Knut at #158 for this inference).
My comments to CNN. Feel free to plagiarize
Dear CNN Bigwigs,
During the past week, treading on a treadmill at my local gym, I’ve been sweating and watching Suzanne Malveaux dis Nancy Pelosi for doing what the Bush administration should have been doing lo, these past 4 years: talking to our enemies. I’ve been fuming and sweating watching Lou Dobbs doing the same thing (BTW, Lou is mostly right making a stink about immigration policy)
How about giving the Speaker credit for being states-person-like and far wiser than the cypher in the oval office. Personally, I prefer her representation. It’s smarter and less encumbered with attempts at lethal reputation salvaging coming from the tiny Texan and his malevolent entourage.
Pelosi is attempting to find a way out of the train wreck created by those anti-bermensches, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, etc.
Can’t CNN report another side of Pelosi’s endeavor: the possibility that she may be right? God knows you did that for Bush leading up to this catastrophe. Make amends, please.
Jim Culleny
DONE! Thanks for making me aware since I stopped watching Cackling Neocons Network a long time ago.
She deserves an appropiate title: Malveaux the Malevolent
Here is what I said:
During the past week, several correspondents and newscasters have presented slanted information and have overtly withheld details regarding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria. White House correspondent Susan Malveaux has engaged in pejorative rhetoric labeling the visit as a “political stunt” and stated that Speaker Pelosi was not acting in official capacity. Lou Dobbs ran a segment entitled “Pelosi’s Bad Trip,” while Anderson Cooper featured a segment entitled “Talking with Terrorists.”
Aside from countless oversights of media fairness and equality, the instances listed above ignore the fact that a delegation led by Rep. Frank Wolf, Republican of Virgina, preceded her visit. Also, Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Damascus was followed by a visit from Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California. Why was this information not included in the off-hand defamatory commentary?
While journalistic integrity may not be an objective of CNN, allowing such partisan reporting and juvenile remarks (Malveaux’s “big wet kiss to President Al-Assad” comment) reduce the network to accurate Fox News comparisons.
In the future, CNN should consider the growing hand of the Internet and blogosphere and the availability of information to the general public. The news media market was once dominated by a select few networks and print ventures, but this share has been decreased by competition. It is a shame that in order to return to its previous market capitalization, CNN engages in destructive slander at the expense of truth and the stability of geopolitics. If it is merely bottom line revenue and industry dominance CNN is after, try a differentiation method. The market is saturated with yellow journalism, while the blogs have achieved growing traffic rates and publicity. Instead of being another mudslinging outlet, why not try actual journalism and reporting? After all, America has been exhausted and stunted by the movement of categorical nonsense.
-Joshua Grgas
It continues to boggle my mind why CNN blatantly continues to back the Rethug LOSERS. Don’t they want more viewers? Just. Plain. Stupid.