Media Whores

At last Thursday's debate, John Kerry said "I'll never give a veto to any country over our security" and then told Jim Lehrer that he would never involve the country in a pre-emptive war without first making sure that Americans "understand fully why you're doing what you're doing" and without passing "the global test" of being able to "prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

Didn't take El Presidente 24 hours to begin distorting "the global test" into a "We'll ask France's permission" caricature of what Kerry said.

Campaign Desk (of the Columbia Journalism Review) has a report card on how the TV networks have done in reporting Bush's distortions. Mainly, they haven't done any contextualizing at all, just repeating Bush's charge without bothering to point out the distortion. (All together again: WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA!)