Thursday, June 5, 2014

Why Did the AP Edit Out a Passage From a Bergdahl Story That Was Potentially Embarrassing for the Obama Administration?


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In its initial reporting on the weekend release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity, the Associated Press quoted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel telling a hangar full of soldiers what a happy day it was because, “We got one of our own back.”
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The soldiers’ reaction, according to the AP: crickets.
The AP has since nixed that passage, cutting Hagel and the silent soldiers out of its final version, and while the AP is defending the move as standard practice, Tom Blumer at the conservative media watchdog NewsBusters contends that the retroactive content-scrubbing is revisionist history — and could be aimed at helping reduce embarrassment for the Obama administration.

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5 comments:

  1. too late - that one went viral, dumbbutts at the AP

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  2. Hey, remember this post?

    http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/10/obama-leaves-american-pow-sgt-bowe-robert-bergdahl-to-rot-in-afghanistan-provides-only-excuses-2738812.html

    What say you now?

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  3. at that point, the Military knew Bergdahl was not a POW but a willing collaborator with the enemy - what Obama believed is not relevant...as he is a collaborator as well.

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