Source: White House letter to NBC News (5-19-08)Steve Capus President, NBC News 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, N.Y. 10112 Mr. Capus: This e-mail is to formally request that NBC Nightly News and The Today Show air for their viewers President Bush's actual answer to correspondent Richard Engel's...
Monday night on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann responded to the White House allegations that NBC engaged in "deceitful editing" in airing excerpts of Richard Engel's interview with President Bush. Olbermann aired the full excerpt and blasted the White House saying, "The White House apparently...
The White House blames NBC for the "appeasement" crap: In a letter to NBC News President Steve Capus, presidential counselor Ed Gillespie complained that a report on the "Today" show distorted Bush's remarks last week to the Israeli Knesset and did not include the president's objections to...
We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." As a part of this effort, White House Counsel Ed Gillespie has lapsed into apoplexy over an interview Bush did with NBC's Richard Engel, and, because NBC News did...
Media Research Center Director of Research and NewsBusters Senior Editor Rich Noyes appeared on Fox News's "America's Election HQ" program shortly before 6 p.m. EDT today. The topic: The Bush White House's complaint about NBC's misleading editing of President Bush's interview with correspondent...
Mr. Gillespie, I'm in receipt of your email and want to assure you we take this matter very seriously. We appreciated President Bush's decision to do the interview with NBC News, and believe Mr. Engel's reporting accurately reflects the discussion with the President. Let me assure you, there was...
Monday's letter from the White House aide Ed Gillespie to the NBC News president Steve Capus was a high-profile complaint about NBC News and MSNBC -- but it was far from the first. Critics are increasingly citing MSNBC for what they say is left-leaning partisan political coverage and...
Yesterday, Bush counselor Ed Gillespie sent an angry letter to NBC president Steve Capus demanding that the network run a correction for what he called the network’s “selective editing” of an interview with President Bush. NBC pointed out that the full interview “has been available, unedited, in...
You know, I haven't seen this level of courage and challenge since Ari Fleischer:The network rattled the White House in November 2006 when it called the conflict in Iraq a “civil war.” On Monday, White House Counselor Ed Gillespie wrote a letter to NBC News President Steve Capus, looking in part...
If anybody watched the interview, Bush’s thoughts did seem truncated at times. The White House on Monday called on NBC News to set the record straight on “deceitful” editing of an interview with President Bush, in which correspondent Richard Engel asks whether comments about the president of Iran...