I did. But a stop by Talking Points Memo tonight reminded me why I usually don't watch that show. You see while channel surfing I landed on a round table discussion about Obama's prayer at the Western Wall. The ladies were opining about how disingenuous it was for Obama to give the prayer to the press. Surprised? I was.
Well I couldn't stomach listening to Hasselbeck gloat so I changed the channel again. Interesting enough MSNBC, CNN not even FOX had this news in their politics talk of the day. Oh well...this must not be news.
Or it just wasn't true.
It happened about 11:15-11:18 am, EST July 30, 2008.
Goldberg said Obama released his Wailing wall prayer message to the press.
This is wrong. Charlie Gibson must be doing their news gathering.
The Israeli paper that claimed he did admitted they lied yesterday.
Whoopi Goldberg, take a look at this.
"Yesterday, I posted an item about an accusation from Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv that the Obama campaign had leaked a copy of his Western Wall note to the foreign press (rather than Ma'ariv having bought it from some yeshiva kid who stole it out of the wall). After some additional reporting last night, I noted that the story sounded a bit fishy--not only has Ma'ariv not offered any tangible evidence to support this claim, but they also have only made the claim via a spokesman to various Israeli papers rather than printing the accusation in their own paper."
--Zvika Krieger
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com...
I am so grateful for the blogosphere. Sites like TPM, Daily Kos, Huffington Post have become my source for this election cycle. I have watched if someone got it wrong, the members of this site and some others immediately make it right. Sadly, uninformed voters are trapped by the auspices of the coporate MSM. I know as I'm constantly feeding my Mom news from DKos or Hufington Post, et. al. I used to relish the Washington Post or the NY Times.
The View has not been and never will be my source for news. But today once again I watched along with millions of others as these ladies perpetuated another lie.