Saturday, September 04, 2004
The crowd that didn't Boo II
Josh Marshall had this tidbit up...no word who the culprit AP writers she confronted was, there is still more than one possibility...
However, he does have a source he trusts there at the scene, and says he is now convinced that there was no booing.
UPDATE: Ace of Spades links to a similar confession by Kevin Drum, of all people.
Nothing but dishonesty can explain the reporter's remark that the "crowd of thousands" booed our ill former president. It's simply incompatible with any other report or documentary evidence, it's impossible for it to have been a mistaken impression.
There was no booing according to eyewitnesses, none on the audio tapes or video. If there was any bad behaviour it was de minimis, and one would hardly expect President Bush to notice it over the crowd cheering for Clinton's recovery, since nobody else can. If someone booed at the mention of Clinton's name, they sure shut up when they were told he was in the hospital. And Bush then LED the crowd in requesting well wishes and sympathy and prayers for President Clinton and his family.
Karen gets results! A little more on the boo-a-rama, from a reporter on the scene ...Josh appears to lament that Hughes would confront the reporter in such a manner.
Karen Hughes went totally apesh-t at the AP when that dispatch hit the wire.
She stormed up the bleachers and starting screaming at the AP writer (who took it in stride). "They didn't boo! Were you and I in the same rally! What is this crap?" or something along those lines (it was loud in there). The AP writer then canvassed his colleagues, who all said they hadn't heard any boos. [emphasis mine ]
However, he does have a source he trusts there at the scene, and says he is now convinced that there was no booing.
UPDATE: Ace of Spades links to a similar confession by Kevin Drum, of all people.
Nothing but dishonesty can explain the reporter's remark that the "crowd of thousands" booed our ill former president. It's simply incompatible with any other report or documentary evidence, it's impossible for it to have been a mistaken impression.
There was no booing according to eyewitnesses, none on the audio tapes or video. If there was any bad behaviour it was de minimis, and one would hardly expect President Bush to notice it over the crowd cheering for Clinton's recovery, since nobody else can. If someone booed at the mention of Clinton's name, they sure shut up when they were told he was in the hospital. And Bush then LED the crowd in requesting well wishes and sympathy and prayers for President Clinton and his family.
