tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post6845084030064892773..comments2024-03-28T21:15:32.883-04:00Comments on the daily howler: LAND OF SCRIPT: Once again, the text of what Susan Rice said!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70107649139066555372014-01-02T03:06:22.841-05:002014-01-02T03:06:22.841-05:00I'm in mind now of Perry Miller (Harvard prof,...I'm in mind now of Perry Miller (Harvard prof, btw) on the Jeremiad and its participation on that which it decries.mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89513031963151571522014-01-02T02:05:48.857-05:002014-01-02T02:05:48.857-05:00"At one point, he even flatly misquotes her! ..."At one point, he even <strong>flatly</strong> misquotes her! "<br /><br />We, for one, look forward to Part 3!<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32566636543636652032014-01-02T00:38:46.361-05:002014-01-02T00:38:46.361-05:00Would add that journalism as script is exactly wha...Would add that journalism as script is exactly what makes journalism so interesting to a historian....mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91279167094549318952014-01-02T00:31:44.045-05:002014-01-02T00:31:44.045-05:00I, too, agree that this stinks. But I wish we woul...I, too, agree that this stinks. But I wish we would all stop talking as if only the NYT, MSNBC, and a few influential others follow scripts. You might say that script = journalism, always has. <br /><br />More in response to bob's earlier post on scripts, but.... I have had reason lately to be reading NYT 1884 stories about a murder of someone who happens to have been one of my great-great-grandfathers (I had no idea he'd been murdered -- barely was aware he existed -- till a few weeks ago!). Anyway, the four stories in the NYT (haven't tried to track the many other NYC papers of the day -- the murder created, apparently, quite a sensation, if briefly) read like a George Raft or James Cagney movie -- really, down to the scrappy NY immigrant kid who first thinks he sees some guys rolling a drunk and then later discovers the body in the hallway (well, with the help of his mother and her friend in the building -- colorful immigrant details there), or the teenager who follows the Irish (sorry, they were) miscreants on the streetcar, or the saloon keeper (yeah, they were called saloons even in NYC in those days).<br /><br />Bob needs to theorize his critiques more thoroughly. mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29602285995988634542014-01-01T13:43:27.057-05:002014-01-01T13:43:27.057-05:00Here is what Kirkpatrick's article says:
“Wha...Here is what Kirkpatrick's article says:<br /><br />“What happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, prompted by the video.”<br /><br />Republicans, pouncing on the misstatement, have argued that the Obama administration was trying to cover up Al Qaeda’s role."<br /><br />So, he truncates Rice's statement, leaving out the part that made it consistent with the facts and distorting her meaning, then calls what she said a "misstatement," presumably justifying the right's uproar about it. It is unclear why he would do that unless he was working from sources that similarly truncated her remarks and not from the original transcript. I agree that this stinks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com