Here is a great example of media bias from tonight. Charlie Gibson was interviewing Sarah Palin on ABC ...
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words.
But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side.
That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.
GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln’s words, but you went on and said, "There is a plan and it is God’s plan."
I have a link to the video in question down below. What she said at 5:49 in the video was:
"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also, for this country. That our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan."
Allahpundit points out that Sarah Palin was not asserting as Gibson claimed that the US is doing God's will, but instead praying that we are. That is quite a different thing.
Gibson started by picking up the quote in a middle of a sentence, and doing so in a way that totally distorted the meaning.
When challenged by Palin he responded "Exact words" (which it almost was) but by chopping up her sentence he was lying by omission.
He then went on to compound his lie by once again chopping what she had said in half in a way that completely inverted her meaning.
Do you think either Gibson or ABC will apologize for the egregious way they treated Sarah Palin. Do you think they will admit they lied about her to her face on national television?
Liberals wonder why conservatives get so worked up about the lying media ...
9/15/08 Update: Today James Taranto posted what I think is the perfect footnote:
Obligatory Palin-style joke: What's the difference between a journalist and a watchdog? Rabies.