Al Gore soundbite rebutted
Reported by Chrish - June 25, 2004 -
Instead of showing the viewers a clip of Al Gore's speech today on Bush's mishandling of the war on terror, at 3:23 Shepard Smith condenses it to Al said that Bush said Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Queda, but "of course what they said was there were connections, discussions".
Oooh, not ties, but connections and discussions. How foolish of us to confuse the issue. Could this be why even today, 56% of Fox viewers think there is a connection between SH and the 9/11 attacks? (See June 24 blog entry, What's this about George Soros? )
We got 18 seconds of Gore video, almost 2 minutes of Arnold Schwarzenegger lobbying for a prominent role at the RNConvention, and then had to break away to a live film of a minor bus crash in Chicago.
Comment: This kind of topic-hopping causes viewers to lose interest. It sends the message that none of it is important - a policy speech by the man who got more votes than the current occupant of the White House can be easily replaced with, of all things, a bus crash in a distant city. Much of the rest of the show was dedicated to the Laci Peterson murder case, which must be very very important.
