Kyra Phillips - "Obviously a smear campaign going on" (re: Rove)

[kerry-is-my-prez]

Let her have it!

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?5

[helderheid]

1. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Richardo]

2. How about a link to her comment?

[kayleybeth]

3. She just said it on the air about 5 minutes ago

n/t

[lancdem]

7. Who is she?

A GOP consultant? She better not be an anchorwoman.

[Richard Steele]

12. She's really not, but she plays one on CNN. Bio HERE:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/phillips.kyra.html

[Lannes]

26. She has some impressive credentials

To be honest Ive been watching her on CNN for a few years now and this is the first time Ive heard her say something so biased.There may have been other incidents but this one really stands out.Hope it isnt the start of a trend for her.

[Tommymac]

36. Where were you in the Fall?

She was busted many many times for spinning the Kerry Campaign negatively....

[Lannes]

40. Cant watch her 24/7

Like I said there may have been other incidents but this is the worst Ive seen to date.

[Tommymac]

45. There WERE other incidents

but I agree this one is the worst.

CNN=C(O)NN

[mitchtv]

47. you didn't here her spin

some Fundie lies about gays 'as a "good debate". Even sell out Carol Lin looked askance, and made a comment. Kyra is a sneak

[kittenpants]

50. yeah, if Carol Lin is shocked

you know it's getting bad!

[K8-EEE]

55. USC. I Figure Her Ex "Young Repub" Spoiled Rich Kid

I'll bet you anything she's from Orange County.

Sorry any OC DUers but you gotta admit, it's the SoCA Bush Country, blech!!

[Im with Rosey]

65. Hey! You take that back

There are 6 or 7 of us in OC.B-)

[K8-EEE]

69. How You Likin' Those Los Angeles Angels?

That is the stupidest name change EVER!!

[Im with Rosey]

74. No kidding!

Born and raised in New England... need I say more? Love those Red Sox! I still morn for Yaz

[kerry-is-my-prez]

14. She has her own show now..... 2pm-3pm

n/t

[Metta]

6. link to complain

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form6a.html?2

I watched her say, "There's a major smear going on here." Approx. 2;10 p.m.

[NewJeffCT]

17. A smear of Joe Wilson you mean?

He's been getting smeared all over the place since his NY Times article 2 years ago.

[Metta]

31. No, a smear of Rove by Democrats.

Her remark caught me off guard; I was casually listening to her report while doing something else. One of their senior reporters immediately followed up, reiterating "a smear by the Dems of KR."

[NewJeffCT]

42. I know, I was being sarcastic

Sorry for not being clear...

[maveric]

4. Isnt Kyra "doing" Rush?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I think it's Daryn Kagan who's doing Rush.

But I guess you don't have to be getting porked by a right-wing nutjob to be a right-wing nutjob. CNN's "news anchors" are mostly disgusting -- Carol Lin is another one.

[tenshi816]

16. Anyone doing Rush - ewwwww!

My brain, my brain, please make the pictures go away from inside my head!

[blm]

5. How did Kyra (R-Bushmoonie) characterize what Rove was doing to Wilson?

.

[insane_cratic_gal]

15. He might be doing the whole CNN

crew.

But Rush is offically doing Daryl Kagan from Cnn.

I've given up on Cnn being unbiased.

[Gothmog]

8. I heard it also

It was clear that she was accusing the Democrats of smearing Rove

[Rick Myers]

9. Done

I just BLASTED her. She is a complete HACK...

[indepat]

11. Kyra is right: telling the truth on most neocons is smearing itself IMHO

[tenshi816]

13. Done - paraphrasing, I said that it

wasn't a smear campaign, it was simply the truth coming out about Rove.

Oh, and I also asked for the old CNN back, the way it used to be when Ted Turner was around, because the one there is now is broken and needs to be fixed.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

20. We need to help Ted Turner take back CNN. Where's Al Gore & Soros?

n/t

[kittenpants]

18. ooooh, I am fuming!

I sent an email-
I was outraged today to hear anchor Kyra Phillips label the investigation into Karl Rove's leak a "smear campaign." The "smear campaign" was Rove's attempt to discred Wilson for exposing the false intelligence Bush used in his State of the Union (referring to Iraq's attempts to buy yellow cake). You should be ashamed of yourselves for echoing the talking points of Rove's lawyer. On a positive note, I am happy to see this story getting some coverage, but it is beyond discouraging to see your anchor propogating disinformation.

[Moochy]

38. grumble

Here's my message to them:

CNN,

I'm concerned with your lack of credibility, CNN. I thought you were going to be reporting the news, and not conjecture or worse right wing lies.

if the president's press secretary wont say that Bush strongly supports and believes Rove, then your anchor person's comments were entirely off base. this isnt a SMEAR campaign. Its an ONGOING GRAND JURY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION you two-bit hacks.

Please mark such comments as editorial as you do for Lou Dobbs. We are savvy viewers, and can see the difference, but labels ARE important, and her comments are not news, they are opinion, and worse yet, uninformed biased and non-reality based opinion.

[KittyWampus]

19. Yes, There Is. Right Wingers Attempting To Smear Wilson &Plame

and the press conference made it clear the WH issued RNC talking points urging mediawhores & faces on tv to smear them.

[dogday]

21. done and done n/t

[Lannes]

22. Beat me to it

I would also encourage all of you to contact "Media Matters"

[Booster]

23. Answered the idiot and kick for others to do the same.

[Richard Steele]

24. Just sent this:

Kyra Phillips' comment that
"there is obviously a smear campaign going on"
against Karl Rove was an entirely unprofessional statement.
I expect better than such biased rhetoric from CNN.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. I am starting to think these anchor people say things like that

to see how many emails they can get from angry watchers. If she said that, she is pathetic.

[NancyG]

27. Done

Thanks. The link made it easy.

[Pithy Cherub]

28. IRONY ALERT: Can you send CNN its own free video of Kyra Phillips

making an ass of herself and CNN? :freak: hmmmmm,

[kittenpants]

32. they certainly are proud of their free video now, aren't they?

I have to admit though, the shot of the darted bear bouncing off the trampoline is truly sublime (as long as I can convince myself the poor thing didn't get hurt).

[KT2000]

29. She made the comment after Kerry

was shown saying that national security is more important than politics. CNN and Phillips owe Kerry an apology!!

[proiowadem]

30. Done

"I'm tired of your conservative bias. Reporters trying to get the truth about Rove is not a smear campaign. Its what reporters do. The real smear campaign is yours against democrats like Howard Dean."

[Lowell]

33. Done & Kick!

Sent them a scorcher. Tired of CNN and Kyra Phillips. But then what can you expect from a network that carries Novack's column every day.

[Cleita]

34. If she said that while in her capacity as a news anchor, she

definitely blew her cover as a newsperson. Time to send her some black net stockings in her role as a media whore. If she was a guest on a political show or even Oprah, then she is entitled to voice her opinion.

[Disturbed]

44. CNN is part of the Liberal Media.

Yes, the Liberal Media is defintely part of the problem for Amerika being seen as Imperialistic and Immoral by most of the world's population. It is time that Amerikan Media get rid of these Liberals and install objective anchors and reporters, like they have on Fox, in their place.

[Stinky The Clown]

35. I could give two shits what she says or thinks

She is one stupid woman. Just plain stupid. Teevee Barbie. Empty headed.

Her opinion and a buck still won't cover your morning Starbucks.

[kittenpants]

39. I care that a CNN anchor is spouting untrue RW talking points

on a major scandal that could bring down Rove & show the true nature of the Bush administration. But maybe that's just me.

[Just Me]

37. More accurately, a truth campaign against a smear campaigner.

If the truth smears him, he deserves it. For years, Rove has intentionally smeared so many people with lie after fib after fabrication.

[Goldeneye]

41. done.

[Goldeneye]

77. vvv

[Tommymac]

43. Letter sent. Kicked and Recommended.

:grr:

[frictionlessO]

46. This is why so much of the MSM is suspect. They lie and spin in the name

of liars and spinner in this government.

If they lied us into an illegal war, what on earth won't they lie about??? Everything that comes from the MSM or CM needs to be treated with the same scrutiny as if it were coming from FR, or LGB or Sludge.... They have earned no less.

[dogday]

53. I ask that question too.

what is supposed to be acceptable media with us when all the MSM is suspect and we know it.

[ProgressiveFool]

48. my feedback:

Your anchorwoman, Kyra Philips, took the liberty today of deciding that the scandal surrounding the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame by someone in the White House, likely the President's advisor Karl Rove, was nothing more than a smear campaign being perpetrated by Democrats.

Please inform Ms. Philips, that, as a journalist, making such decisions is not her job, and that to do so is in fact not at all desirable, even if she says it cutely.

CNN has given up on journalism, though, it would seem.

[TheUnspeakable]

49. Done ! here's my letter....

In regards to Kyra Phillips,please tell her to refrain from making UNTRUE and biased comments. The slant is bad enough, but saying "it was an obvious SMEAR" is patently false. If the person reading this has any children and cares at all about the future of this country, PLEASE START REPORTING THE NEWS!! The facts as you find them-not stupid opinions! "

[Citizen Jane]

51. FWIW, Here's my letter

Dear CNN,

I waited an hour to write because I was so astonished to hear Kyra Phillips reporting about the Karl Rove situation (about 40 minutes after the daily White House Press Briefing ended) and make a comment (paraphrasing from memory) that, "obviously there's a smear campaign going on here."

It this type of "reporting" that leads me to avoid CNN for months at a time. Just when I thought you guys were getting back to reporting the news, one of your employees makes an ill-informed editorializing comment like this.

As far as the inquiry into the exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame, I have watched the briefings yesterday and today on CSPAN and have read and observed the various reporting (or lack thereof) for the past 21 months or so and I can not see how any reasonably intelligent person could conclude that Karl Rove is the subject of a smear campaign. Indeed, given what has been reported about Rove in the past it is ironic since he is supposedly a master of the smear campaign.

Please leave the political opinions to the shows where people are tuning in for just that and put a muzzle on your "anchors" or "hosts" who are just shooting off their mouths based on their own political biases at best or echoing talking points of the various parties at worst.

At the very least I think Ms. Phillips or whomever wrote that bit of spin onto the teleprompter owes your viewers an apology. She may have won two Edward R. Murrow awards, but I'd be willing to bet he is spinning in the grave over that type of comment.

Sincerely yours,

[jsamuel]

52. sent this

Is this what people on your network say about real news?

This is ridiculous. The facts are coming from an investigation, not from the Democrats. Whoever did this committed treason at worst and at best is incompetent. Either way they endangered every American citizen by destroying our ability to find WMD's in terrorists' hands. The whole point of the Iraq war was supposedly about that, but whoever did this was more concerned with going to war with Iraq than they were about finding WMD's in terrorists’ hands.
Outrageous!

[LittleClarkie]

54. Oh heavens, a smear did she say?

Horror of horrors, who would ever stoop to such a thing (meaningful stare).

[senseandsensibility]

56. Kyra is the worst

This I know about, because I watched her when I was addicted to cable news. I have watched her since she arrived at CNN shortly after * stole it. She was armed and ready in 2001, long before 9-11 even, with her "I want to have *'s baby" sighing and cooing, and her steely gaze whenever Dems failed to worship the chimp. She would snap out things like "getting back to the FACTS" to any Dem who tried to criticize *, and ooh and ahh at the repukes. And this was in 2001. She didn't even have the excuse of 9-11. Then she cheerled with the worst of them up to the Iraq invasion, became "embedded" and filed puff piece after puff piece. She is worse that woofwoof and candy butterqueen. She is really, really bad. :puke: I just want to make it clear that this is nothing new.

[progressivebydesign]

57. I think outing Plame was the ULTIMATE smear campaign!

What an idiot she is!!!

[Helga Scow Stern]

58. Outraged.

I am outraged at Kyra Phillip's misstatement today that there is a "smear campaign" going on against Karl Rove. How that really reads is that she is one of those so-called journalists hoping to avoid the wrath or curry the favor of the Bush administration, and most likely, Rove himself.

Get a spine and some integrity, Ms. Phillips, or get off the air. Our country is sick of being bled to death by lies such as this.

[HughBeaumont]

59. Smear campaign?

So Kyra the Hack believes that the Bush-pire should answer to NO ONE and be held accountable for NOTHING? Does she know that the prosecutor is a moderate Republican?

Kyra, go live in a totalitarian dictatorshit if you want that sort of thing. This is America . . . at least a facsimile of what it USED to be before the Dumbpire took over.

[cestpaspossible]

60. Why would anyone pay TimeWarner to have this delivered to their home?

I don't get it.

WHY ARE YOU SUBSIDIZING THE RIGHT WING?

[SoCalDem]

61. The only smear is in Rover's panties, Kyra

:)

[mandyky]

62. I refuse to watch CNN anymore

MSNBC gives mostly real news in the post-michael jackson era. I have cut way back on TV in general, and rarely watch the punditry shows like Hardball.

[kittenpants]

64. yeah, after that exclusive they landed with Ronald McDonald

promoting his new workout clothes, they are clearly the beacon of journalistic integrity!

[mandyky]

76. Who did that, CNN?

half the crap on the news channels is hardly what i consider news.

[kittenpants]

78. no, that was msnbc...

I saw a clip of it on the Daily Show. but I agree, cable news is pretty much all equally crap. KO's a bright spot, but I don't get msnbc.

[stanwyck]

63. Email sent to the "cooperative media"

personality. Great name.
These people are so clearly reading from the provided script.

[shelley806]

66. Thanks so much for posting this; I heard it too and was aghast! Thanks

to your link, I responded as below: Kicking and nominating.

Re: Kyra Phillips

Kyra Phillips made the remark "obviously there's a smear campaign going on." I was barely listening until I realized she was talking about a smear AGAINST Rove, not, as is the usual case, BY Rove. Carl Rove is the Machiavellian Prince of political smear campaigns, dirty tricks and evil political machinations.

I am appalled at such a blatantly incorrect and politically slanted remark by someone who is to report the news in an unbiased fashion. I will no longer be watching ANY MORE CNN 'NON' NEWS COVERAGE, and I will urge friends and family to do the same. Lou Dobbs (and perhaps Anderson Cooper)will be my only exception, as he is the only one remaining at CNN with an ounce of integrity.

Kyra Phillips owes her viewers an apology, but I will no longer be viewing.

[ProgressiveFool]

67. CNN scrubbed it from the transcript

Compare:

Mediamatters

BOB FRANKEN (national correspondent): And just a nod from the president, but no answer, Kyra, when he was asked about Karl Rove today at a photo op. Kyra?

PHILIPS: Bob, definitely a major smear campaign going on. I mean, what's the chances of hearing from Karl Rove? Could he speak? Could he come forward? A lot of people said that could just clear the air if he just came forward and gave the facts.

FRANKEN: Well, the White House would respond that the Democrats are involved in something akin to a smear campaign. The Democrats would only say that they're only interested in good government. And the White House says that in the context of an investigation that's ongoing Karl Rove should not speak.


CNN transcript

(END VIDEO CLIP)

FRANKEN: Senator Clinton is nodding and everybody is waiting to see if the White House, Kyra, blinks on the Karl Rove matter.

PHILLIPS: So what's the talk, Bob, and what are you hearing from your sources? Will Karl Rove come forward and talk, like a lot of people are asking him to do?

FRANKEN: Well, the White House is making it clear that right now it is going to still to the confidentiality of the investigation. The lawyer for Karl Rove says he has talked to the grand jury but assured that Rove is not suspected of a crime.

Everybody is parsing his words very carefully. I think the thing to watch for is how the political winds blow.

Emphasis mine - oh the irony!

My latest missive to CNN:

Earlier today I sent you some feedback re: Kyra Philips comment on Live From... about Rove being the subject of a "smear campaign" being run by Democrats.

Looking at your transcript of the show, I am so glad to see that it never happened, that she never issued such a statement.

That was sarcasm, obviously. Were you planning on issuing a retraction, or perhaps even an apology, or were you just hoping it would be lost down the memory hole?

Seriously, CNN should either find a new motto, as the "Most Trusted Name in News" is now only defensible relative to the dishonesty of such other Corporate Media outlets such as Fox.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

70. self-deleted

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[shelley806]

72. This is unbelievable!!! How can they do it? PLEASE POST THIS

ON A SEPARATE THREAD. WE NEED TO GET PHILLIPS FIRED. LET'S GIVE CNN HELL. FIRE PHILLIPS AND NOVAK.

[Cookie wookie]

75. Good Grief!

Great catch.

[Cocoa]

68. my email

Dear CNN,

Kyra Phillips needs to retract her comment that "there is definitely a major smear going on" regarding very measured and responsible comments that John Kerry made about Karl Rove.

I'm sure Phillips must have misspoke, but she needs to retract that comment.

She needs to retract the comment TOMORROW, and she needs to do it repeatedly.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

71. I'm actually having trouble believing she said this.

Kyra Philips has always seemed like one of their better pretty faces. I can't recall ever hearing something as dramatically biased as this coming from her. Has she been spending time with Daryn Kagan?

[Twillig]

80. better pretty faces?

She's stupider than a bag of hammers.

Kyra Phillips asked Ali's physician, "Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning? Does he understand it?"

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/16/lt.11.html

[DawgHouse]

73. I rarely watch CNN

but today on my lunch break, I happened to turn on the tv just as she was making her ridiculous editorial comment. I didn't even know who she was until today. I had to double check the channel because I thought I must have been watching Faux.

[neohippie]

79. here was my comment

Your anchorwoman, Kyra Philips, stepped out of her objective role of reporting the news to provide editorial commentary about her opinion on the scandal surrounding the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame by someone inside the White House.

She suggested that today that the whole affair is nothing more than a smear campaign being perpetrated by Democrats.

Please inform Ms. Philips, that, as a journalist, making such decisions is not her job.

Has CNN given up on journalism?

If I wanted spin and bias with my news I would be tuning into Faux.