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ABC's Jonathan Karl And The Proof The White House Memo Wasn't Just About Benghazi | Blog | Media Matters for America
Hmmm...another TemplarKormac LIE. WHAT AN IGNORANT TROLL
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Hmmm...another TemplarKormac LIE. WHAT AN IGNORANT TROLL
ABC's Jonathan Karl, who was previously burned when he pushed falsehoods about CIA talking points generated in the wake of the 2012 Benghazi attacks, is now adopting the conservative distortion of a separate set of talking points authored by the White House*for media appearances by then U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.
On September 16, 2012, Rice appeared on the Sunday political talk shows and suggested that the Benghazi terror attacks had grown out of spontaneous protests like those that were occurring worldwide in response to an anti-Muslim video. Conservatives*have claimed that Rice's comments on the Sunday shows were part of a deliberate effort to deceive the American people about the cause of the terror attacks, to bolster President Obama's re-election campaign. This effort has often involved distorting the CIA-approved talking points that Rice used to prepare for the interviews.
Karl*came under fire*in May 2013 after reporting that the network had "reviewed" emails from administration officials regarding the creation and editing of those CIA-generated talking points. While nothing Karl reported undermined assertions from the CIA that the intelligence community had approved those talking points, Karl suggested that the emails bolstered the conservative critique of the administration's response.
In fact, Karl had never seen the emails in question -- his story was*based*on "summaries" of the emails and "detailed notes" from a source who, it turned out, had*misrepresented*what the documents actually said. After media observers*slammed*Karl's "sloppy" reporting, ABC News*issued a statement*saying that the network "should have been more precise in its sourcing of those quotes, attributing them to handwritten copies of the emails taken by a Congressional source. We regret that error." Karl himself*apologized*in a statement to CNN.
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