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Lies, damned lies, and journalists: who's telling the biggest whoppers?(Campaign 2004)

National Review

| November 08, 2004 | Ponnuru, Ramesh | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MARK HALPERIN, the political director of ABC News, became the center of a minor tempest when an internal memo of his leaked to the Drudge Report. The memo, dated October 8, said that the Bush campaign was telling more, and bigger, lies than the Kerry campaign:

 
   The New York Times (Nagourney/Stevenson) and Howard Fineman 
   on the web both make the same point today: the current Bush attacks 
   on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a 
   way that goes beyond what Kerry has done. Kerry distorts, takes out 
   of context, and [makes] mistakes all the time, but these are not 
   central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold ...
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