Audio: Captain Ed spars with NPR over Jamilgate
posted at 12:56 pm on January 15, 2007 by Allahpundit
Not so much an interview as a cross-examination. Ed was on the defensive the whole time but did a nice job parrying. Sample question: “How do you feel that conservative bloggers, or just conservatives in general, got burned?”
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At the risk of repeating myself, fake but accurate is the new standard for the liberal media. If you want to believe it-it’s true. Remember why this matters folks, the burning six & mosque stories were the impetus for MSM to officially declare Iraq a civil war.
Buck Turgidson on January 15, 2007 at 1:10 PM
That is the problem with most journalists today. They are all about the feeling. Feel does NOT equal think or believe.
KelliD on January 15, 2007 at 1:19 PM
Also, Capt. Ed ROCKS!!
KelliD on January 15, 2007 at 1:20 PM
Worthless and pointless. Captain Ed’s response to the question was misguided; the question was a farce. Who would you trust for the truth on a given story, “the blogosphere” or the AP?
Stupid question; AP is a 100 year old news organization that employs paid, expensed staff all over the world to cover news, while any twit with a computer can set up a blog. That AP so frequently fucks up their reporting should be a huge, worldwide industry scandal. That some blogger spews an opinion and gets it wrong is almost a given.
But compare the best/most responsible of the blogs to the AP, and I think Ed has it wrong, and I suspect he would say so. He should’ve made that clear instead of playing “ooh, I’m on NPR!”
Jaibones on January 15, 2007 at 1:41 PM
When will NPR interview a representative of the AP and ask them the pointed questions about their, one source using a psuedonym without disclosure, reporting. You know, putting one of their own on the hotseat.
d1carter on January 15, 2007 at 1:48 PM
You reckon their beginning to get it Mr. Pundit?
THeDRiFTeR on January 15, 2007 at 2:05 PM
“Get” what?
Allahpundit on January 15, 2007 at 2:08 PM
Me thinks drifter is suggesting that the AP News and other MSM are flawless and incapible of making mistakes because they are anti bush.
So its what they say that matters not the truth.
William Amos on January 15, 2007 at 2:20 PM
No, he’s not saying their flawless. He’s suggesting that we’re all charlatans because Jamil Hussein exists, notwithstanding the various problems with the AP using him as a source (a few of which Ed mentions in the clip).
Allahpundit on January 15, 2007 at 2:23 PM
You’re better than me; I don’t understand the post. All I was saying is that Ed let the NPR person (playing rep for the “leftosphere”, no less) define the terms for an analysis of Blogs v MSM on a patently unfair basis.
Given the choice between the MSM and DU or DKos, which would you choose? Duh. But given the choice of PowerLine, CaptEd, the Divine Mrs. M and/or HotAir, Rush Limbaugh (sorry!) v NY Times, LA Times and the Strib? No contest.
I found it annoying that he rolled over with a smile. (And I’m not feeding any trolls today).
Jaibones on January 15, 2007 at 2:46 PM
And another thing: I still don’t get how, exactly, Jamilgate has become Waterloo for the right. Because AP says Jamil Hussein exists? Puh.
Jaibones on January 15, 2007 at 2:48 PM
But “Jamil Hussein” DOESN’T exist.
BTW, great Chris Muir cartoon on Captain’s Quarters.
mikeyboss on January 15, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Indeed. However, were this in Saudi, there’d be no ‘X’ to sign on…
Entelechy on January 15, 2007 at 3:36 PM
Can we all agree that the REPORTERS in the field are DIFFERENT THAN “JOURNALISTS” and FUNDAMENTAL to the blogosphere?
Short of being ON THE GROUND, we all get our RAW NEWS from the wires…fed to us by REPORTERS. I am big enoughto say that.
BUT BUT BUT
Cross checking helmet guy IS something ANY of us can do with a computer.AND SHOULD.
And the LSM better get used to the idea that they will be MERCILESSLY FACT CHECKED and second guesed by the NEW MEDIA…
seejanemom on January 15, 2007 at 3:37 PM
The only reason they chose Captain Ed to come on their program is because they felt comfortable that he would say AP’s fake news source really did exist and he wouldn’t be too adversarial towards the Democrat Media — even as they will proudly claim that it’s the media’s duty to be adversarial when they are critcized for being heavy-handed towards anything conservative.
Perchant on January 15, 2007 at 4:17 PM
Can anyone explain to me the difference between a phony Iraqi policeman as the source for phony AP news stories and a real Iraqi policeman as the source for phony AP news stories?
Spiny Norman on January 15, 2007 at 4:45 PM
Trick question. Both will get you the Pulitzer.
Buck Turgidson on January 15, 2007 at 6:40 PM
THeDRiFTeR called you a twit Allah. He’s got some gumballs calling a deity a twit!
Troy Rasmussen on January 15, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Uh, burned?
Burned by what, exactly?
Is it now the AP line to inform everyone that they “won?” Won, what? Where’s the AP source for the bum report? 60 articles, easy to find when they needed propaganda, then couldn’t find him anywhere, then he’s at the wrong police station, no…some guy is fingered, he denies it, then we’re told, well, it’s a pseudonym, then no, no, no, it’s a mistake in the name …well, WHAT is IT??? How about the TRUTH!
It’s the journalistic equivalent of a five year old waving a tennis ball in front of his older brother, saying, “See? See? Can’t catch this!”
AP, where’s the crap source you used for your crap report on a mosque that didn’t get destroyed and people who didn’t get torched? And where’s that assinine “scientist” you used to announce that NASA years ago, MIGHT have killed off a HYPOTHETICAL life form, of no known precendent in nature. I’d love to write a letter to his supervisors to ask them who was the twit who hired that AP-connected fool. But one suspects the “scientist” part may be as flimsy as the “science” that was claimed to have been used. There sure wasn’t any “scientific method ” on display. Then, write lots of letters to local papers to ask them why they are subscribing to a has-been media dinosaur that writes fiction instead of news!
naliaka on January 15, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Uh, Troy? That was me, not the Drifter, and I wasn’t referring to Allah, and I think he knows that. There are lots of blogs, most of them run by twits.
For the record: I certainly don’t think this is one of them.
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Uh, Troy? Never mind. You got it; I didn’t.
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 1:33 PM